Heroes of Might and Magic V

[Andres]

Well, I read a lot of good things about this one. Anybody of you had some experience with it? I really enjoyed number III of the series and this part is supposed to be similar, so I read.

And would I be able to put all the eye candy on with my good old:
2.4 Ghz
1.5 Gig Ram
ATI Radeon 9600 (256Mb)

[Ser Clegane]

I actually like HOMM V quite a lot - nothing tremendously innovative in terms of gameplay compared to HOMM 3 (which played endlessly, and which I still play from time to time, especially when) I have to settle for using my wife's laptop for gaming), but certainly lots of fun if you loved HOMM 3
And considering HOMM 4 (although I also liked that one) I would not say that innovation is necessarily is an improvement.

I assume that it will run fine on your machine (I have a 3.2 Ghz with 1 Gig RAM and a card that is comparable to yours - I did not haver any problems with it).

Any specific questions regarding the game?

An expansion will come up quite soon, BTW

[frogbeastegg]

We had a big thread back when HOMM5's demo appeared, and it continued on after release. It's a bit old to merge into this thread, I suppose, so I'll leave it at a link.

I enjoyed it, despite possible appearances at the end of that old thread. The inferno campaign was my least favourite, and unfortunately it took me a long time to get past it at the couple of hours I was managing to play per week. Computer problems prevented me from finishing it; windows died and my savegames were lost. I couldn't face spending another month slogging my way back through the inferno campaign to get back to where I was, so I never did reinstall. If the expansion is good I shall likely pick it up, and that will be a good time to reinstall and begin over.

[Andres]

Thnx for the link froggy . Got a lot to read this evening Poor eyes...

Thnx for the offer Ser Clegane . I was already decided for about 80 % to get the game. Maybe I'll come back to you if I would encounter any problems during gameplay.

Back to work now, have to earn my money, otherwise: angry boss , fired , no money , no HOMMV, no new pc , no M2TW... =



Damn capitalistic system.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Me and My Brother used to Love doing HOMM3 (he still does :-) )
So I'm going to pick it up for him for chirstmass, since I been getting good reviews In Magainzes and here :-)

[econ21]

I would recommend you try the demo - it gives quite a good flavour of the game, IMO.

I bought two copies - one for my son and one for me, as we both really liked Homm3. However, neither of us have progressed beyond the first campaign. Unlike Homm3, I think HommV is more oriented around the campaigns, which is a shame as I think these were a drag even in Homm3.

HommV is ok, I guess. It's just the gameplay seems to crawl - with Homm3, you could make a lot of progress even on extra large maps within a couple of hours. In HommV, it takes so long to do anything. (HommIV was painfully slow to play too.)

I also find the graphics annoyingly computer intensive - I guess I am an old stick in the mud, but the campaign map does not look any prettier than Homm3 to me and is just slow n fiddly to control.

The writing and acting is a big step backwards from HommIVs - it's absolutely awful.

Maybe I should give it more time, but that is what it seems to really need - a lot of time - and there are so many better games I would rather be playing.