The Original Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Demo Map! DEAD AND BURIED

Dead and Buried was the featured map in the demo for Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, which required you to play as the Castle faction with a limit of 28 turns.
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[@Norovo]

More standalone HoMM3 playthroughs: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nni6kIOfqJmVZqs&pp=gAQBiAQB

[@Maverick734]

Any news on Day of Reckoning or new Homm3 expansions/updates?

[@sonofEU]

Thank you very much for your videos! I enjoy them a lot! Keep it up! Happy holidays! :)

[@PatrickMurray-patmur2010]

@norova would love to see you showcase the new hota 1.7 update and playthrough the new campaign!

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

You reminded me of a childhood memory playing this as a demo before I bought it. I completely spaced the fact I played that demo into the ground

[@L0FAGaming]

Thank you for continuing to make content and I wish you continued success. You are honestly my favorite youtuber currently. Media is way too flashy for me these days and I appreciate how raw your videos are: minimal editing, original game soundtrack and soothing commentary. Much love❤

[@wesleyrussell8386]

I appreciate youtubers that don't give a shit about the algorithm and just make videos they want to make. Norovo is one, Warlockracy is another one off the top of my head. He does craft stuff for tabletop RPGs and just puts the video in the video and doesn't have half of it be ads or leading into ads

[@L0FAGaming]

@@wesleyrussell8386 Totally agree. I also just want him to be very successful doing this kind of content/gameplay so I always just wish somehow the algorithm adapts to his niche style of video creation so he can just go viral without changing anything about what he does.

[@wesleyrussell8386]

@@L0FAGaming Me too. That's why I do things like comment on videos and give them likes because that helps it show up on people's dashes, as far as I know. I do it especially for smaller creators I follow

[@L0FAGaming]

@@wesleyrussell8386 I respect it.

[@prolitus]

I second this sentiment! Really appreciate your content, norovo 👌

[@junningen]

"Verdish comes with the first aid tent, which is very TENTING."

[@Comathan]

Please make more town overviews/strategy guides!! 🙏🙏😭

[@xensoblu059]

I second this!

[@HowlingOwls]

Me too 😊

[@fikujez]

Omg this brings back so many memories. The demo only let you play as Castle too, I remember playing it again and again and dying to try out other factions.

[@YurisSayuri]

i think there was only castle available....and only 7 days? I remember i had to buy like 8 heroes right from the start and sail to undead to win the game. Cant remember 2 enemies neither... only 1

[@fikujez]

​@@YurisSayuri I also feel like there was less time, I also remember not being able to develop the town much. I'm not sure if Dungeon was there or not, what I do remember was that you couldn't see inside other towns... Perhaps the winning condition was to capture one of the towns and Necropolis was way easier, idk

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

I think there was different demos, I remember playing the one month demo.

[@themouselessdev8655]

My demo was for sure with both enemies, and the time limit was one month. Only castle was available, and interestingly it had the music of the stronghold. I love this music so much, still my favorite from the whole game. I was so confused by the change of music in the final game, I exchanged the music of stronghold with castle by renaming the MP3 files.

[@MrLaptopus]

@@YurisSayuri It was 4 weeks

[@Juan_Manuel_1988]

Oh, man. I had that demo on a lended CD from a friend of that time, i was 11 or 12yo... i got in love at first sight by it's whole charm and mistery. Now i am 35yo and keep playing once in a while. But, if i am not mistaken, you only had the chance to play with Castle, and started with Sorsha.

[@Kastratore]

yes! And i always rushed to the undead, because i thought it was much cooler faction

[@Juan_Manuel_1988]

@@Kastratore Yeeeah, Undead looked so cool. Plus, they rushed you with their boats every time you left the island. I liked going to the snow island and reclaim the mines... how nice memories :`)

[@Summersong2262]

God, I played this SO MANY TIMES as a kid. Loved it to bits, even if I had no idea how some of the mechanics worked. Took me a while to realise that populations reset one day 1 rather than semi-randomly as 10 year old me thought at first. Although the Mac Demo didn't have the time limit, oddly enough.

[@idanboadana3611]

Every time Norovo posts a vid, an angel get's it's wings

[@JohnJohn-ek3vh]

I missed your homm3 content

[@AnActualDinosaur]

I'd love to see more time-limited maps, cause it's great to see you being forced to take more risks. Also, I was so bad back then, as a kid, that I didn't even manage to finish this demo map lol.

[@abcrazy9]

Glad to see you back friend.

[@rasros4055]

Early Christmas present, thxx Noro 😊

[@randmuller1267]

Great to see more of you playing heroes 3, still my favorite content by far

[@codeinject]

He has returned!!!

[@Dramatiker666]

Oh man, thx for a great playthrough of a fun short map. Have a great new year and keep the spirits up!

[@solitudecain]

Words cant describe how happy i was to see a new homm vid by you, hoping to see more!

[@robertschatz7781]

Another enjoyable video. Please do more of them.

[@MrSaebo]

Thank you for the upload. Merry Christmas!

[@jayk557]

I love, love your HOMM3 playthrough videos, I think I've watched all of them and I'm so happy to see that you're making more HOMM3 content! Your videos are my absolute favourite, I especially enjoy large maps playthroughs as they keep me occupied for few hours 😂 I would love to see you make a playthrough video with the updated HotA 1.7.0 mod and factory town. Keep up the good work, your videos are amazing. ❤

[@GDPanda69]

What a blast from the past. I myself have been having a lot of fun playing Songs of Conquest recently!

[@TheSeriousSamurai]

Thanks for the Upload. I really enjoy your content with that awesome analytic and calm voice of yours . Keep up the great work!

[@user-ve1jy2bc4v]

What a fun playthrough! small but intense. Congratulations on winning the map on time ;)

[@cousinpac]

This game is classic. There was a times when I spended many hours playing it, good memories and its always nice to remember I watch good videos like this one, thanks for the content and happy New Years!

[@adept5500]

Great to see new content! Been chewing through your catalog this season. 😅

[@Shorrey]

I like that you comment your every move. It is educational + it is safe to not to look at the screen for some time when needed.

[@SedgeSedgicus]

Really enjoy your videos! 🙂

[@buzby6712]

Glad you're back! Hope life is treating you well!

[@Raziel_J]

Good to see more HOMM3 content!

[@biajitaru3533]

I really enjoy watching you're videos keep up the good work and Merry Christmas Norovo

[@muhammedenestopcu2406]

ah yes the good old demo... If I remember correctly, it was actually Castle as town (fixed) and it finished in either 1 or 2 months

[@ericjustehernandez]

1 month... I only managed to do it once on my life

[@jakewilson5418]

SNATCHED! From the jaws of defeat! I love watching your vids because I absolutely suck at this game and only play on Easy :P ggwp

[@wesleyrussell8386]

I've been playing for 25 years and I also play on easy whenever possible :p I just want to build a castle and have huge stacks I don't want to memorize enemy AI and spawn rates and resource locations

[@yellowstonegaming]

Its good to see that your back..

[@bms7k]

Thank you for uploading!

[@rado78231]

Noro! Welcome back!😊

[@Grottgreta]

Man I remember this demo, I was a wee lad then and I didn't understand the whole "end your turn" bit so I just made new heroes until my money ran out and then I just kinda sat there until I got bored 😅 Merry Christmas everyone

[@HuntShowdownWL]

This is the Heroes 3 video I needed, one that reminds me the first map I spend so much time trying to win a kid.

[@Cloud-dq1mr]

Thanks for the vid and curing a first aid tent made me chuckle.

[@WhatopiaHololiveClipper]

I like watching your videos! Keep it up 🎉

[@JayMannStuff]

Finally doing the Demo challenge! Nice! :)

[@wesleyrussell8386]

oh wow now this is something! I'm excited to watch!

[@Deru0602]

Love your heroes 3 content bro ❤

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Three heroes on that tiny island on day one or two is profoundly pricey!

[@HigakiRinne]

More dramatic twists and turns than an average tournament game of JC, great watch.

[@randmuller1267]

Can't wait on your take on the new factory faction in hota❤ i read the campagne on impossible difficulty is quite the challenge:)

[@YuriLoti]

Best christmas gift! 😎🌲✨

[@guidokosse6648]

Please make more Homm3 content. I think these are your best videos

[@somethingsomething2541]

My god, u played that so well

[@vilinix]

Hey @Norovo big fan of the channel, this episode was so nostalgic to me. First map i ever played of the demo and still playing today! I was wondering what happened to that winter hymns map? All the links are down and im desperate to replay it. Did you have any other maps by that creator, they were mad intricate! Big ups looking forward to more

[@JoLiKMC]

You know… I'd love to see you play the demo / tutorial maps for _Heroes_ and _Heroes II._ I even made a recreation of the _Heroes I_ map for _Heroes II,_ as well as a "playable from start" version of the _Heroes II_ map. (I think I uploaded one of them, but not both.) Feel free to reach out if you have any interest! The _Heroes I_ map, in particular, is pretty wild.

[@Norovo]

I'm not sure if/when I'd get round to trying them but feel free to email them to me using the address on the channel about page if you like :)

[@Offsettttt]

Hey man, love your HoMM3 videos. You know that updated version of HoTA with new home town is out, right? Hoping to see gameplay soon!

[@AbundantlyLimbed]

I really love these videos! I love seeing these playthroughs and I would love more content even if that came at the expense of being less polished! have you considered streaming, or just putting up unedited, stream of consciousness style plays? Also, I see you tend to neglect re-claiming mines (such as the goldmine in this video) is there a tactical element to that, or just an oversight? (it's impossible to keep track of everything, but I think you do a great job!)

[@Norovo]

I think I'm too perfectionistic to stream/post unedited gameplay, like it would bother me if I can't cut out a stutter, but never say never. I often will skip over objects with my main hero to save movement points (a less important hero can then claim them) but sometimes it's an oversight

[@denkigama5331]

Could you please make a video about other town like you did with dungeon? That was my favourite video type. Wih you the best on Christmas and New Year!

[@tweenytodds]

Love all of your HoMM3 content, its simply amazing! Takes me back to when i was a kid!

[@johncouzens5321]

4 weeks was only in the demo, prevented players from getting to things like angels etc to leave us with some mysteries for the full game.

[@Isteak80]

Very interesting to see a tiny map and the need to go quite aggressive from the get go.

[@jgmweston]

Happy Holidays to everyone, great to see a new video

[@TeodorMusic]

Hi! Thanks for yet another awesome playthrough. How come you didn't prioritize killing Straker on M1W1D7? His boat was on shore I think you could have attacked from land?

[@timmon971]

First of all great video as always, love it. Second, if the AI knew you would “loose” because its a timed mission, before it runs out of time to get a town back, would it try and avoid you or still go aggressive to try and get a town back, i wonder.

[@Norovo]

I don't think it's smart enough to change its behaviour

[@Kastratore]

My god! Nostalgia overload!

[@kunka592]

Glad we got some more HoMM3 playthroughs. As much as I like HoMM2, 3 is just the bees knees.

[@anonnymouse2402]

The only times I won this map in the demo, was when I had expert water magic with Loynis or expert air with Cyra. I thought that the player fraction was fixed to Castle in the demo, at least that was the only fraction I played. I don't think I have played this map since they released the full game.

[@justdracir8197]

I would never come up with the idea to cast HEAL on THE HEALING TENT o.o

[@VishyKc]

Thank you very much, so enjoyable to watch all those single player maps. Ascension was great too, I can only win those maps if lucky to get a grail or using Conflux on HD edition. Also, I love that you're playing fair, not using some crazy Luna firewall strategies or broken magic patterns to exploit AI's way of playing. Explanations are gold here What are your thoughts on playing those old SOD, ROE and other maps using HOTA mod? Is it more balanced and fair? I was always wondering would you do something different if you played this map using HOTA? AI is cheating a lot in SOD (grail, knows where you are on the map without exploring etc.)

[@Norovo]

I usually play pre-hota maps on SoD as they aren't designed for HotA but there are exceptions (Darwin's Prize was one if I remember correctly). In most cases I doubt it would make a major difference though

[@zbyszanna]

Finally! :)

[@Marder7]

Very good Content, keep going! I have one question, i bought the complete edition from gog and use the HD mod. Iam a bit confused which settings are the best for the mod ? Also does anybody know at which framerate it runs because in my AMD Adrenalin the game is not listed. And maybe should i get the HD Version from Steam? Because the Steam Version i could play in German since my English is not the best. Do i miss anything important if i Play the Steam Version with the mods listed in your discription, compared to the complete Version?

[@CaulayMaculkin]

I played the demo A LOT before I bought the actual game. I'm pretty certain the demo version of the map was a lot tougher than the "real" version.

[@Erintii]

I love this map

[@gazooy45]

Thanks for the video! Sorry to be a bit of backseat KZbinr, but it seems that people watch more HoMM3 rather than HoMM2 videos (I don’t watch HoMM2), and was wondering if you could do a impossible campaign play-through for HoMM3 or something like that… Either way good luck on all your ventures :)

[@OoZeD]

This is a nostalgia trip, i played the shit out of this and made me buy the game originally.

[@DeJayHank]

Learning a lot of neat strategy and decision making from your videos... buuut, this is just a too stressful way to play HoMM3 for me :D Great to watch though!

[@hansamandusriddervold3836]

are you planning to do a playthrough of the new HotA town?

[@mandurrudnam7632]

why didnt you put the elfes in front of the first aid tent though, you can switch the starting positions in the hero menu iirc

[@zbyszanna]

You might not remember, but didn't finish the previous map you were playing, i think it was HoMM2.

[@CummyPancakes]

Yooooo holy shit! I've been trying to find this Demo Map for ages. I remember playing hot seat with my father before he passed. Such a surreal sense of relief to find it again.

[@fernandolino5930]

What is the vantage to “Wait” in battle? im allways put on Defense

[@SuzanneMonster]

Ahh this brings back memories. Demo also only allowed you the Castle faction. Wasn't it 7 days, not 28 tough?

[@Norovo]

I've seen comments mentioning both, I'm not really sure tbh!

[@Valdore1000]

Norovo is playing evil HD edition!

[@Norovo]

😆

[@gerardwiktorowicz5003]

Will you do some homm4 playthroughs?

[@Norovo]

I need to learn to play it first 😅

[@TheAzorg]

Any words on Hero's Hour? Will it be a rightfull successor to HoMM 3 or there is no comparison? What do you think!

[@Norovo]

I don't really think of it as a successor as it has quite a different feel (more casual). It's definitely inspired by Heroes 3. I have another Hero's Hour vid coming out shortly :)

[@HowlingOwls]

Ahhh the memorys, remeber i got my ass kicked all the time 😂

[@limszysiang3698]

what do you click for split instantly

[@martinlisitsata]

to change the subject a little does anybody know whats happening hota 1.7 ?

[@fyrestorme]

early 1990s ? nah bruh. late 1990s

[@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714]

Yes that is blasphemy the HD eddition Rampart is curesed and uglyer than the normal one.

[@astronemir]

You only have 28 days so just take the scholar and the hut and go go go

[@JudoMagic]

Please

[@ZealotOfSteal]

Why ignore scholars?

[@key1792]

Really? I thought All for One was Demo map. In Homm2 the most common map was in the demo.

[@Norovo]

All for One is probably more well known but I think that's because it's the first map in the game listed alphabetically so more people played it

[@dlzott]

As someone who listens to you tube and rarely watches it is very annoying that you say "let's go for this" I would be so much better if eliminated the word this from your vocabulary and just said "let's go for the obelisk" or "let's attack the hailbirds"

[@pwnagenuss]

Stop saying impossible difficulty. The difficulty is “hard, 200%”

[@foodymann7309]

no offense but the HD edition is simply repellent to look at just disgusting

[@ibbi2206]

I really wanna play this game again, but i have a MAC, and im a total idiot when it comes to MAC. could someone guide on how to get this game going on MAC?