Revealing the first Temple heroes - Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

[@mihailyanchev1905]

I am a bit disappointed by all the complaints I see everywhere about this game, and for something that took a tremendous effort. I personally am looking forward to it and think the art style is a welcome change.

[@Vindold]

I agree. Artstyle looks pretty. My only complaint is abscense of Paul Anthony Romero, towns and how some of them look...I prefer H3 factions, especially Tower, units..gonna miss some of them, but everything else looks and sounds great, can't wait.

[@tuffnus1]

If amount of effort paralleled how good a game is Concord would be the best game of all time. I am excited by this game, I like the art and we will see how it'll do after release. HoMM fanbase is very hard to please for the standard old games set for the franchise (all of which plays just perfectly even today, aged like wine). So its understandable people are skeptical, its easy to point out things you dont like when you are skeptical about something. Ubisoft and these devs should be prepared to fight such prejudices by example. This is one of the few series where you cant milk up the playerbase because they are actually content with what they have, so they HAVE TO make something BETTER or EQUAL to old games... Else its just a dead project. Thats when the doubt comes in because when was the last time Ubisoft produced something good?

[@Morkftw]

Art Style is great (tbh, I liked the art style on all heroes except for 4, and even though I've a strong preference for 3, I didn't mind the others at all). I think that the battle seems also great, and units seem to incorporate some of the (few) good stuff that homm6 added (abilities that made for unique gameplay). But I do feel like we need to see what they do with the magic system, as that is a big part of what makes the series work. Also allowing for user created maps, unit and building costs and scarcity of resources, these are things that can be updated throughout the game, but require great care so that the game feels good, but so far, I'm really happy with both the art style, the combat system and what we've seen so far.

[@Morkftw]

Ah, to make a quick addition: I'm very skeptical about whether Ubisoft will allow a dev team to actually make a good game, as homm7 seemed to be turning out super great, but they forced them to go live at least 1 year too soon and the game turned out shitty, even though the dev team seemed to be on the way to do some great stuff with the franchise. So, yeah, it does seem promising, the devs seem to be willing and able to make a great game, but I'm a bit worried the publisher will interfere negatively.

[@mihailyanchev1905]

Everyone has a right to an opinion but I don’t want to pass judgement before I see it come out. For now, I see something that took a great effort and I would like to be supportive of the people behind it. The fact that the purely economic considerations of the game industry can ruin this effort is undeniable, but I would still like to wait and see.

[@ASHFAR578]

speed AND initiative? theres hope

[@FilmGamerHUN]

Yes just like in H5-6-7. But more similar may be to H6-7 system i liked it better. In H5 for example Sprites can move almost 3-4 times in a 'turn'. IN H6-7 H3 like 1 turn for everybody and Iniative alter who will act first in that turn and movement was speed there

[@ASHFAR578]

@@FilmGamerHUN Thats only under very specific cirumstances. Belive my i played with builds like those and against them.

[@magicka789]

YES I HOPE ATB IS WITH US

[@randomyoshi]

-0:38- I like how not every hero has a tragic backstory or past.

[@briandaniels2408]

Great video, art style looks great! Im really looking forward to this game. Seems it will be a true succesor to the great HOMM games that came before it.

[@ionut.dragoiu]

Ister, i see in him a great hero already...

[@-RedWitch-]

Imagine actual Jadame homm, with dragonfighting knights with enslaved dragons, merchantguild ssethaapproved dark elves with trolls and minotaurs, adorable coatl lizardmen pyramids and regnan faction with cannons and submarine instead of ships. Now that would have been great. There were also dark dwarves there, could think up an underground dungeon faction for them.

[@assassyn5270]

Not a single OP one? What will happen to Heroes traditions?

[@couragedog1361]

Hope they don't forget Tower and Stronghold fractions. By "elementals" as a separate race not sure, but that classic.

[@allanpinheiro6]

Ister concept is very cool

[@nakenmil]

So "Temple" is the Castle/Haven faction?

[@attilanagy2625]

Yup

[@murlocaggrob2192]

It's based on the Temple of the Sun, one of the factions from Might and Magic VIII.

[@LuckystrikeNQ]

I hope they go with the HoMM 3 and 4 music. OK by me.

[@LiquidValor]

I don't know, feeling mixed about the design choices here. The positive side is that they are really trying to instill a unique personality on each hero. Yet they all remain somewhat generic, and I'm echoing a similar opinion other commenters here already made that without a context, they could be heroes from some new mobile game. The unique art style of Larry Elmoresque dark fantasy was already somewhat lost from HoMM5 to this day. This could have been a wonderful excuse to bring some of it back and fully embrace the testosterone-soaked gothic lewd grim-goofiness of the old times, something that is IMO missing from the market of new games. Ister is the only one that comes close to that esthetic, but falls just short. The wow-effect I was anticipating just isn't there. Somehow they just don't have that commanding presence that would inspire to delve into their background and lore. After all, these individuals are supposed to command whole armies, and thus have a matching charisma and poise.

[@murlocaggrob2192]

I much prefer storybook over grimdark. The old Heroes games were also definitely WAY more cartoony than realistic.

[@kuutonen666]

I don't know if it's just me but everything looks like AI these days.

[@paweczyryca1643]

I like it

[@EB-bl6cc]

I think **Silence of the Siren** is going to be the better HoMM-type game. But I hope this is good also

[@Rimirel]

Ok, first lie from devs detected, they told about interesting heroes spec

[@napevno]

Increased max mana doesn't sound interesting to you? 😁

[@Rimirel]

@@napevno its raw stat. Its absolutely not interesting.

[@xenosophont]

Those fluff texts should be a bit less long-winded/rambling/word salad-y and more *succinct* (while being as evocative as possible to tickle the ol' imagination) - just like the hero descriptions from HoMM III, IV and V.

[@argyrispouggouras3378]

Not a fan of the art style nor the general look of most of these Temple heroes. I also feel that some have very meh abilities compared to others. For example, you have a hero with increased movement and one with increased vision, where these two could have been the same hero and give room for a more unique ability for the other one. Which was also a thing with older Heroes games and I thought this time around they'd took care of it. That all being said, I feel very optimistic for this game as the developers seemed they really get what a good Heroes game should be and they already have shared some really cool new gameplay mechanics. Looking forward to it!

[@MrVladiebaddie]

This looks awful. I don't want tumbler style art.

[@paladin1633]

Keandra's helmet is awful. If you would have showed me her picture without any context i would have belived that it's related to something like Overwatch. Never i would have imagined it to be a human faction knight, it's too overdesigned and it does not resemble a knight or any other type of medieval soldier. This is only made worst by the fact that this game is tied to the older Heroes titles which had (not completly realistic but more) down to earth armor. These knights look like they are wearing protoss armor.

[@Quitarstudent]

that asian style portraits are a let down tbh... i hope the gameplay will be good

[@raynortownly7098]

That's the entire game art style. Wanna guess why.??

[@WW-1995]

Lmao this has nothing "asian", it's basic modern western artists style of fantasy video game. Asian style characters would be designed more attractive and fat wouldn't even be allowed to exist. I understand you are disappointed because the art is boring, but that's not "asian style" at all

[@Quitarstudent]

@@WW-1995 the hero on 1:05 for me was instant anime like feel to me

[@raynortownly7098]

@@WW-1995 Considering where the series had lived the last decade, I call BS on your statement. I's obvious, what market the are trying to appeal too. Some of the last mobile titles literally look like this.

[@andrzejkulakowski]

Art style is repulsive for a game like this...

[@IncognitoUnknown-fc2tu]

indeed

[@triadasoul435]

Knight castle and no knight'ish looking male hero. The woke shit game is coming.

[@yvainstonelion8364]

can you explain me what is woke in this video ?

[@dusanblagojevic5113]

He explained it in his first sentence.​@@yvainstonelion8364

[@dusanblagojevic5113]

​@@yvainstonelion8364It is explained in the first sentence.

[@murlocaggrob2192]

Literally the third portrait is a guy in a suit of armor, what the hell are you talking about? Man, you really can just say a bunch of nonsense followed by the word "woke" and have people agree with you. Conservative snowflakes so easily offended by everything.

[@douglasfuciji2002]

True man.....i hope they dont put more of this crap on another faction that are not even human based

[@alidenizuzun4972]

f u ubisoft. I was excited for this. yet you ruin it with woke mindset again. removed from wishlist

[@dimitrijedragic3652]

Whats woke? (I didn't bother reading through all the hero flavor text, i assume its some of that?

[@Kananzael]

@@dimitrijedragic3652 Absolutly nothing, even in the description, it's just hate for the hapiness to hate... The only complain I can hear is the lack of a male (true) knight hero (and we don't know if there will be more heroes so I don't want to complain yet). But even then, it's exagerated...

[@robincervenka6923]

Yes but the speed witch they use to releasing content is so bad that everyone else than hardcore fans canot be even close to exitement 🫣 omg give us some live ..... creatures abylities of the creature, ubragdes of creatures, gameplay, gameplay mechanics :( it look like this game is death even before release 🫣🤯 omg few bad portraits of the heroes ....... what will be next.... will you tell us story about Little Red Riding Hood

[@murlocaggrob2192]

It's been three fucking weeks. The game won't even be in early access for another six months. Chill.

[@robincervenka6923]

@@murlocaggrob2192 no hype what so ever, its death allready :(

[@magicka789]

Sorry, but hype early before release is in sight kills the possibility of hype before release, meaning you are talking nonsense. If they hype it month before release, results will be better.