Help ma, the Chinese stole my hommo.

Lol same for my HOMM4 was my favorite thing growing up. Also later learned that community despise it, however nostalgia is still makes it the best by far. Also adored Age of Mythology. Edit: Går ut fra du er norsk fra aksangen?

Hey King, AMAZING analysis! I think you managed to beat TacticalBaconProductions at God of War thorough analysis XD. Was meaning to find a good summary/analysis of the older games in order to provide context for the Norse Era. So in that lieu i got a favor to ask: can you please make a version WITHOUT Norse Era spoilers? And if not, can i have permission to edit and upload this video (with full credits to you) without the new game spoilers? Either way, thank you very much for the amazing content and keep the quality videos coming, King!

He will forever be salty

Best ps3 game talking about dmc3 wtf bruh

27:40 this is just too good of story telling, it made me tear up the conclusion of the fight and the editing are god like

28:05 wish someone could edit this into the game so we’d have this in the cutscene and go back to normal cutscenes when Nero stops them. It’s so perfect that it should be in the game

It's so heartbreaking to realize that Vergil was hurt and didn't want to be hurt any more afterwards, so he strived for something that would protect him, to only hurt him more. The fact he only changed because his son established himself and showed Vergil what he could truly be if he was to accept both sides of himself, really says something about how the demon raid by Mundus dug a deep trench for him mentally.

If the music is not made by The Maestro Paul Anthony Romero - massive L!!!

Wow, after finishing the game, my playthough went similer to the one here, except with lady boyle since I was going for the professional killer gameplay. Aslo with lord hamlock I restart the game level becuse i wanted to get the unique death becuse it goes hard.

I did the boyle party without killing anyone and in the duel i used a tranq shot and still counted as a killing

Hope it meets your expectations!

brother you are actually hilarious I subbed

Holy shit, it's so surreal to see so many of my own thoughts and experiences expressed by you. I got into Heroes with Heroes 1, played a lot of Heroes 3, and also played a TON of Heroes IV, and a little of Heroes V. Like you, I fell in love with the AMAZING writing of the Heroes IV campaigns, and I have a big soft heart for IV's weirdness, lol. I'm also happy to see others express the aesthetic concerns. As you note, I also love Warcraft's chunky, cartoony, exaggerated style, but I don't want EVERYTHING to look like that, you know? I've come to realize that a lot of Heroes 1-4's designs were pretty rooted in 70s and 80s fantasy art, especially from DnD, with artists like Parkinson, Elmore, Brothers Hildebrandt and others clearly being a huge influence. A lot of the designs are pretty rooted in classic depictions, where the Elf looks like Errol Flynn playing Robin Hood, or the Dwarf looks like he's out of the Hobbit or even Snow White. I hope things will be toned A LITTLE BIT down, although I understand that some degree of chunkiness is good for readability and distinct silhouettes, and I also understand that exaggerated detailing and decorations are just kinda the current artistic trend in fantasy. Also: we have HEXES back! :D

Maps looks really nice. Battlefield is to wide, you can bearly see units. And units themself looks completly terrible, like japanese Cartoon characters. Why cant they just make them look cool...

Yea, that bit about balancing for the competitive scene worries me as well. Though I will say, calling old Might and Magic "grounded" gave me a laugh, especially when you know just how bonkers that series could get.

It is Ubisoft tho 😞

Most importen thing DONT make it for "modern audience" and it should be fine or the chance is high then.

Heroes 4 are the best!

Same UI style can be found in most modern strategy games like Humankind, Civilization 7 etc

cringe

Where are my Titans? they been my go to team since Heroes 2.

I love what they doing graphic wise but I agree with you some units should go more in direction of classic heroes. Not everything cartoon has to be exaggerated. In my opinion they should settle down a lot of units design and go more in homm2 direction than homm5 also why I see more female units? I know we live in times where equality is the thing but we need male units as knights and elves too. I looked at some gameplays and it seems the ice town will be some new fraction with creatures like squid and octopus and magical creatures with blue print( a lot of them on adventure maps)

Specifically the fourth, I don't care, I adore that thing." Same 😭 The best music in the series.

Wouldn't mind the wait but i also hope they rework the effects audio. What i saw reminded me of a slot machine and it would totally break the atmosphere

Wondering if Capcom will ever make a dmc3 remake,not that it need one but will be nice to have one

i wish they make homm4 like game. the choice to make army full of diferent heroes or units.

this video never gets old 😅

not fan of graphics. heroes 3 looked more realistic. i want dread knights to look real.

i just want a HoMM game that actually lets us have huge battles with all the models showing

There were quite a few cool characters apart from Crag Hack and Sandro, especially in the OG M&M series. Archibald for example really should get a proper ending to his arc. Perhaps some kind of revenge against Kastore!

The thing about HoMM's(and M&M's) graphic style is that it is inconsistent between all games. The graphics of the new game are inspired more by the graphics of HoMM 1 and 2 than by 3 and 4.

The writing is amateruish. They did Krauser dirty by just making him a Vergil ripoff because they know Vergil is popular.

I really really hope. Fractions will be not Black Girl gaming /Kotaku /IGN/ Sweet Baby Inc /Ghost Baby and so on. I really want to buy this game. At this point I can just hope it's not made for the modern audience. I don't want to see a she/they/them/he 1000 pounds angel. Or demon.

no map editor is a BIG red flag but otherwise it looks good

What is that outro song? Its driving me nuts that I cant find it!

HOMM4 is dear to me because it actually tried something new. The fact that every HOMM after was just trying to copy HOMM3 made it rather stale to me.

I really hope they change chaining or give an option to change it

the homm is from ubisoft oh hell no

Lets fuckin gooooooooooooo! I started with 4 as well and I still love going back to the core campaigns. Guldoths and Waerjacks stories were so damn good 😁 Edit: Also the HOMM4 music in the background was a nice blast of member berries 😂

There are 9 major areas on Jadame in Might and Magic 8. Daggerwound Islands - mostly lizardmen live here, so they can make a Fortress faction based here. Ravenshore - big trading port, the dark elf merchant guild is based here, but it has people from every race. Alvar - a city where every race lives there. Garrote Gorge - dragons live here but human dragon hunters have come to fight for control of this area. Could be the base for the Castle/Haven faction. Ironsands Desert - trolls and cyclops live here. Could be the base for the Stronghold/Barbarian faction. Murmurwoods - lots of nature spirits and unicorns here. There's also a sun temple with humans who are at war with necromancers. This could be the base for the Rampart/Druid faction. Shadowspire - necromancers and undead live here. Obviously will be base for Necropolis. Ravage Roaming - lots of beasts above ground but there's a minotaur city underground. Could be the base for Dungeon/Warlocks. Island of Regna - home of the Regnan Pirate Empire. The Cove faction from the fan expansion Horn of the Abyss are based on them. Although Might and Magic 8 didn't show the entire continent of Jadame. So there could be other areas we don't know anything about.

We just need a new command and conquer game, and i'm set....

Speaking of style and themes. I fully agree with you that it's an odd choice to use the ubisoft style over the original style. But it's the safe and more creative choice as it's safe to assume that this is what a majority of players think about when they think about heroes now. But i wanted to mention, my favorite style from the original is easily HoMM 2, what an amazing looking game. It's a shame they didn't go in that style. And as much as i love 4, it's artstyle is easily the worst aspect, it's so dirty and comedic. Personally though, i really dislike high fantasy. I'm a human player in every game i touch and i just hate the high fantasy modern warcraft style (Earlier style was fine). The angels is always a perfect test for me to see if the style and theming is something i will enjoy. Are they humble and simply designed or do they make the angels from Diablo 3 blush? It's clearly the second camp this time around. Still, i love that they heavily leaned into using this style and are going the full nine yards, the map looks amazing, the factions look incredibly unique and have personality. This is something that ubisoft Heroes did not have. If you're going high fantasy, go HIGHER fantasy, use all that creative juice to truly make something unique.

Cel-shaded graphics style looks really cheap, mobile-like.

I used to love HoMM4 so much, it was by far my most favorite of the bunch. But not to long ago i went on a journey to experience all of them, and i mean all of them. Somehow, HoMM4 landed somewhere at the bottom, it's a great game, but it fails to achieve a well put together vision as some of the others, like HoMM 2/3/5. It was strange for me to play it again, even with the Equilibrium mod that bug fixes and balances the game out. It just is a bit of a chaotic mess. Something i personally didn't mind when i was younger, but it's so hard to justify it over the solid experience that is HoMM3 or 5 depending on if you want a dated or modern feel to the game.

Man, I have to say HOMMOE is really looking good. Wait...

Amazing video

I think the game will be moddable too so it will be a game that can be fixed by the players too. Most games are successful because of the moddability. Heroes is also a series what I like a lot and spent thousands of hours in the first 4 (for the one less) but the 2 was my go to after heroes 3 then heroes 4 because of the beautiful musics and the new mechanics. I like when a series try to invent new things but all the heroes games are good in some point even the least liked ones.

so many videos recently I LOVE IT! Keep up the great work Grimy boi! Also never played any of the HoMM games but I'm happy you and the rest of the fans are finally getting a new game :D

Imagine if they then announce a Dark Messiah sequel next.