Sounds interesting and...unnecessary | |
Will be watching this space, it looks quite good. | |
Could be like King's Bounty where your avatar moves around the world map, but it switches to a hex grid battlefield when you go into battle. :) | |
If it's anything like HoMM V it deserves nothing but the garbage can. | |
Aaand this doesn't interest me in the slightest.
Care to elaborate? | |
Hey. The made the Puzzle/RPG DS game work. DO IT! | |
Great, now I can suck online as well.
I too want to hear about this, as I loved HoMM V | |
Then you get the griefers who will wait as long as possible before taking their turn in a battle. | |
What's there to elaborate it was a pile of garbage compared to the other games in the series. How any fan of the original series can love it is beyond me, but whatever floats your boat, because HoMM V sank mine. | |
well heroes V kicked ass so Ill be keeping an eye on this | |
Hope they bring back the soundtrack from Heroes of Might and Magic 4. | |
Are you sure you aren't thinking about Heroes of Might and Magic IV? HoMM V = HoMM III + graphics + slight modifications. And since HoMM III = awesome to square. | |
I must agree with Hashbrick. HoMM 3 was brilliant, HoMM 4 was... lacking in several things. HoMM 5 was abysmal. But Dark Messiah was pretty decent. | |
iam not getting it.. how can it work as a mmorpg? and on the whole heroes V thing... i loved heroes 2 3 and 5 the most , #4 was my least fav | |
Wow. I'm a bit skeptical about this, but color me interested!
I saw 5 as a return to form after 4. I certainly don't think 5 is the best, but it was a huge step in the right direction since 4 had made some very bad decisions. 5 was just a graphically updated but otherwise slightly worse version of 3, which was the best in the series. | |
hopefully the implementation will be something along the lines of Shattered Galaxy, only turn based | |
Yeah, just feels like something some did in the psare time because there were bored... But, another MMO? /sigh | |
So... basically they are making another WoW? Whyyyyyyy? I mean: Nothing against HOMM, i like the games. But that is becasue of WHAT they are. If you make it a MMORPG it will be: Humans, Elves, Dwarves and Orcs vs. Undead and Demons with some Dragons as raidbosses. So basically: The world itself is pretty generic fantasy (Yeah i know the demons are aliens and there was high-tech in the past blabla). This is wasted labour which could go into something innovative. | |
the first turn based MMO? Perhaps Ubisoft thinks they're trying something Heroic here. Something that will make people say: "WoW" | |
I'd love to try that. A pity it probably wouldn't run on my pc :( | |
TQ digital lol. I've played their games so no doubt this game will have the most overpowered cash shop in existence. | |
It is probally going to be like evony, but 3D, and twice as annoying since it will have been a once respected franchise. | |
I see what you did there. | |
Woo! I should try this. The last one I played exhaustively was III, so some new HoMM might be a good thing. | |
They'll probably have a time limit, like no more that 30 seconds to make a move. Well I want to see how this turns out, because I don't think I've seen anything done like it before. | |
If we're on the subject of HoMM, 2 and 3 were the best. | |
Damn, and people think that WoW servers have long queues during peak hours? I can see it now, people playing the Heroes MMO will finish their turn only to have to wait for their next turn while the next 500 people on the server all do something. x_x | |
Here they lie. Most likely, this will be a game where you enter a lobby and wait for other gamers to enter. | |
Here at the Escapist we like to give our opinions some backing, for instance describing why you feel that way would help make your post into more of a discussion. | |
So anyone checked this out? im kinda curious. | |
I just reignited my love for Heroes of Might and Magic III last week so I am indeed intrigued. I've never played the fifth one but IV killed it for me in a few ways. | |
I purchased Heroes III again the other week - it's as fun as I remember. I'm cautiously optimistic about this project. | |
It could be an instance-based game, where you have a persistent MMO-type world, but the missions are on randomly generated maps. | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic Goes MMORPG
One of the most well regarded strategy games of all time has been converted into an MMORPG.
Ubisoft and Chinese-based developer TQ Digital have announced the closed beta for upcoming MMORPG Heroes of Might and Magic Online, based on the classic turn-based strategy/RPG series of the same name. In contrast to World of Warcraft, which disposed of Warcraft's strategy-based play, Heroes of Might and Magic Online aims to remain faithful to the series' classic gameplay, with a 2.5D graphical style lifted from Heroes of Might and Magic V, but also with a splash of new elements.
Quite honestly, I'm a little confused as to how Heroes of Might and Magic Online will play out despite its descriptions. Heroes of Might and Magic Online will be a turn-based game and will still use a tactical grid for battles, but TQ Digital is calling it the "first persistent world turn-based strategy MMO." The game will offer "in excess of hundreds of unique campaigns, each with epic storylines and goals including 10 chapters of battlefield missions" and also "randomly generated combat maps."
Just like in other MMOGs, players can form guilds to strengthen their factions, and TQ is implementing a PK (player-killing) system that will include "Team PK and Extreme PK." From being a fan of the Heroes and Might and Magic strategy games, I'm unsure how a PK system would work for Heroes of Might and Magic Online, but I'm definitely intrigued.
Other aspects, from the spell-upgrading system to the Town Prestige system, where towns can be built up but also attacked and bought out, sound interesting too. Will players have a town that they hold for as long as they can in a persistent world, or are they held like they were in the series' past for only a one-map game?
Heroes of Might and Magic Online's closed beta will begin in May, and those interested can sign up on the game's official website. I know I'm going to try to get in just to see how the game works.
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