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Can't wait for the new Necromancer class and The Darkening of Tristram in D3! Lost days in D2! Hormones didn't let me play D1 too much!
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Have you played Heroes of Might and Magic IV? Out of the dozens of games I have played, only four have reached favorite status, and Heroes IV is one of them.* I have played through all the built-in campaings as well as both of its official expansions (The Gathering Storm and Winds of War). My estimate for my total Heroes IV play hours is about 800.smaragdus wrote: My game culture is very limited- I have mainly played all-time classics like Diablo, Heroes of Might and Magic, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam... Can you recommend a valuable alternative to Heroes of Might and Magic?
Similarly, Heroes IV attracted me with its atmosphere. Its art is very beautiful and attractive. Its background music is one of the best game soundtracks I have heard. And Heroes IV uses a mechanism where it continues a music track from where it left off instead of always starting from the beginning, which averts the "you hear the beginning of track X so many times that you get sick of it" problem. Even after ~800 play hours, I still love the Heroes IV soundtrack.smaragdus wrote: About HMM- it enchants me because of the fantasy atmosphere and because of the monsters- I love monsters and there are many, I also love to accumulate scores of dragons of all kinds (I am in love with dragons).
Neither did I. The number I gave is an estimate, and may well be way off.smaragdus wrote:Looking back I am sorry I didn't track the time I fascinatingly wasted playing Heroes.
I never allowed that to happen. If a hero died, I always loaded the previous save. (And if I found myself in a situation where I couldn't prevent it, I restarted the entire scenario.)smaragdus wrote:I also like version IV with the exception of one thing- that the army may survive and the commander may die and in such cases one should start developing a commander from the beginning.
No, I haven't.smaragdus wrote:I have never played VI and VII and I don't know whether they are good or not. Have you played V, VI and VII?