Most broken by far, ghost+slow to defeat any number of melee and both vampires and bone dragons can attack without retaliation while you spam mass confusion.
same :), dont get me wrong heroes 3 is great, but heroes 4 has that special charm, also the way heroes fought with the creatures on a battlefield was way more immersive :D
and the heroes man, dont forget the heroes, u could have multiple heroes in an army and they would fight just like a normal creature, this is where the true power was.
I gotta admit... I must NOT agree with your opinion. True, the map editor thing is great. But the music is still better in HoMM3. Right here I just... can't feel what I felt listening to Necropolis soundtrack from HoMM3.
not to mention that heroes could participate in actual combat. you could even have multiple of them in the same army. a high lvl hero is a force to be reckoned with.
I felt the same way after playing through some campaigns in HOMM IV. I was thinking why would people hate this game and I came to the conclusion that it's because in HOMM IV you have to actually think a little of what you are doing when in HOMM III you usually survive on creature strength alone.
listen to this song with best sound system or headphones at highest volume with your eyes closed (espacially the last part ! ) , and you will automatically imagine that the whole world is getting under your evil domination! and then you will find yourself making a silent evil laughter...
Šimon K. in fan mod Equilibris they are nerfed. attack/defence 30>27, also they became slower. Now crusaders are good counters against them, with their bigger town grow and with their new permament passive Death Ward.
@@maximmuromov6073 crusaders has permanent death ward always. I am happy that vampires got nerfed. I think if games is not as rushed as it was they realised this ( not only ) mistake.
ahh the death town...all about the 3rd level. either pick vamps, one of the best units in the game, and gimp yourself of having any ranged. OR pick the slimies, who destroyed things, but pass up on the amazingness of the vampires...choices choices
Fog of war, moving creatures on the adventure map, overpowered ranged units that were weakened by having allied melee units in front of them. Those were my impressions of the game. It didn't feel like it belonged in the same series to me gameplay wise. Also the art style of units and buildings seemed uglier to me, somewhat deformed. 3 had been developed much better IMO. Compared with it's level of depth and art, 4 had a lot to compete with.
you are right.i apologize for creating any disturbances,but hear me out.if this is a Necro town,where is the big masive graveyard,the sinister castle on a black mountain?this town is as grassy as any rampart or castle,and the buildings are far from sinister.if the title wouldn't have said Necropolis theme,i wouldn't have known what this town is this
I agree. Although HOMAM3 was my 'first' homam, I can say that HOMAM4 leads a tiny bit before HOMAM3 in my chart. I think 4 has the most suitable graphic for this kind of game. Sometimes I wish to take good things from 3 and 4 and combine them together.
@spiritronin the heroes 3 campaigns were good,but they were kinda dull and vague. the journal entries in HOMM IV are so great,they kept me playing! i truly enjoyed gauldoth's campaign
every units are good, if i know my enemies, that determines what do i choose. however, here is my favourite random-match teams: death: cerberi, vampire, dragon life: ballista, crusader, champion might: nomad, cyclops, thunderbhird nature: archer, griff, faire dragon chaos: medusa, nightmare, hydra order: mage, genie, titan
There's also a choice of buildings. You can go into pure undead or pure demon. So if you don't like em mixed you don't have to build em. The argument that demons don't have order is false. How else do the Devils govern hell? :/ Anyway, loved both Heroes 3 and Heroes 4. Played a bit more of Heroes 3 cause I enjoyed the style a bit more (More similar to my favorite Heroes 2.). But the strategic gameplay side is much better in Heroes 4, more to think about.
@DonF72 problem is not the game but the system, XP Home edition is only good for working on MS-Office and a few other programs, it can't work good with graphics and internet
@Northorseman well Im really looking forward to Horn Of The Abyss. which have been a project now for over two years.. and they are expecting to be finished this year. But Wake Of Gods was an amazing expansion, which changed the fun of the game a lot, but made playing against some other players quite harder as well.
@h0vding Problem with HOMM III is that it's extremely unstable and I'm running it on XP Home edition. I wonder if I need some kind of patch to make it more stable.
This is the first HOMM game I ever played, and at the time of writing, the only one. I was probably about 9 or 10 I reckon, and back then my dad still had the time to indulge in some Might and Magic, and the icon was on the desktop of the family computer, double-clicked it and never left the computer for WEEKS! I'm told it was terrible compared to other HOMM's, but I suppose the lack of knowledge of 'better' games made it better for me. Is this one really as bad as people say? Or just fanboys?
if you wanna have a good team in heroes then choose these death: cerberi, venom spawn, devil life: ballista, crusader , angel might: nomads , cyclops, behemoth nature: tiger, griffin, farie dragon chaos: medusa/minotaur,nightmare, dragons order: golem, genie, titan
wait a second man.that blue portal in the right looks like an Altar of Thought(conflux lvl 6)and this town has GRASS!!!grass in necropolis?what the hell?
@Maidenofiron27 It's a great game! The problem people have with HOMM4 is that it's the sequel to one of the best games EVER created (and for me who's been a gamer since NES times and played over 800 games it IS the best one). HOMM3 is just perfect and a lot of players just wanted more of the same. I personally enjoy innovation in games so I appreciated HOMM4 and judged it by it's own standards not as a sequel to HOMM3. And by the way you just have to try HOMM3 - it will blow you away
Not a particularly good Necropolis song. However, that being said, I think it fits perfectly for the character of Gauldoth Half-dead. It has its evil brass motifs, but also hints of heroic motifs; sort of encapsulating the character's duality.
just cant compare heroes 3 with 4. theyre both great. 3 you can build alot more creatures and i liked the towns more, but 4 you can pimp your hero wayyyy better, spells are far more usefull and powerful and overall I thought the campaign were alot better in 4 alswell. with 4 i really wanted to know what happened next, in 3 it was just ... meh lets beat these guys and hope the story gets better
for some reason I never really liked IV, and V just made me sad to see how much it have all changed as Im a player from back to the first version HOMM I. and I am now stuck at playing HOMM III. which was the best version if you ask me. and with all the developers around HOMM III. there are now some unofficial versions which made the game even better.
Can it be? It doesn't feel like the other HoMM games, which is EXACTLY right! But if it was released separately, not compared to HoMMIII, I'm sure this game would have gotten excellent marks.
@Nefus2 Thats the HOMM 3 fanboy talking. HOMM 4 has great gameplay of its own, it's just not the same game as its predecessor. Also this castle(the death castle) might look a little incoherent and ugly but there are other great ones.
I really enjoyed 4, but I still felt like 2, 3, and 5's necromancers were more intimidating. They didn't need to mix with demonic troops, for one thing, and their undead warriors just had a more menacing look to them. I missed my dread knights, wraiths, and liches, dammit. D= Still. This theme was smashing, even if 3 and 5 were a titch more 'fitting'.
i had this game but my brother took a chew in the disc and not playable anymore. so now i only play heroes of might and magic III restoration of erathia+ armageddon's blade what is the last part shadow something the necro theme in III is better
>Picking Devils Unless you did it in hopes of instakilling enemy wizards who were stupid enough to not level up their physique, I see fail. Yes, I am aware that this publication is 11 years old.
3 was better than 1,2,4 and 5. Because the towns where balanced and the gameplay were good and it wouldn't stop being fun and you couldn't predict it as much as you could predict the others. Still I have made up a foolproof plan to beat every map with any castle. And the easiest to grasp was actually the weakest town of all but it's even the town that is most unbalanced. Necropolis infact.
I cant believe so many nay-sayers in here. As its been discussed countless times, H4 differs alot from the original setup of the others games, its a like-dislike situation, based on opinion. H4 has in my opinion one of the greatest game soundtrack ever created.
III HoMM is good old type of HoMM. They tried to make something else with HoMM IV and tehy did vell too. Dont compare HoMM IV with HoMM III becouse these are two different games.
I actually think it's better that they took it from oriental and trditional places. I assume 3DO wants to give the gamer the ultimate experience and enjoy the game as much as possible. So you get the feeling as being there. I personally don't think it would even have got half as good if they produced their music themselves. The game becomes a whole with this incredible music :)
I suspect the series peaked at HOMM3 (although I far prefer the 2D sprites and operatic solos of HOMM2). The next HOMM game needs to be a touch more inventive, but not in a way which dilutes or dumbs the current formula. I still preferred the 2D sprites.
Doesn't suck. If it came out on it's own- i.e. it was called Heroes of Might and Magic, and didn't have the awesomeness of II and III behind it, it would be an amazing game. Otherwise, it is compared unfavorably to the previous games.
you are saying that because heroes Iv u cannot envolve your town completly. i guess it is, and u are right. but there are other aspects heroes iv is good, for example, music. The music of death alighnment is perfect. the music from heroes 3 and heroes 5 are completly diferent.
If Heroes IV didn't came as one of Might and Magic games, it would be a pretty good game. Comparing to previous games, it's not so good. Pretty music either.
I have never played HOMM 4, only 2 and 3. But if this screen in the video is an actual town from the game, then damn. The art direction has gone downhill like crazy since Heroes 3.
Hello from 2022. Still playing this game and enjoy its unique and brilliant soundtracks.See you in 2032 when i am 45 years old.
I will be 44
Надеюсь еще увидимся в 2042
You can tell this is a mix of Inferno and Necropolis. The dreary nature of The Dead but the upbeat flourish of Demons.
Homm4 music just hits differently.
Well said.
Yeah, that's why I just searched for "heroes 4 inferno" when trying to find this, even though I knew there was no inferno town.
HoMM IV has the most beautiful soundtrack of all games I've been playing!
especially since this was the last game 3DO was going to produce before it went bankrupt, and I heard that they were on a terrible budget.
h3 better music
@@spspiano468 Nah, don't think so
@@IAmebAdger but i think so
Play the Talos Principle, maybe you will change your idea of a good soundtrack.
Almost every night before I go to sleep I gotta listen to all the themes in heroes 3 and 4 cuz they are freaking awesome
That's a good habit. :)
Literally doing this right now lol
5 is also god tier songs to be honest
I love this music
Around 1:45 it just so epic it elevates the whole mood you're in at once it's insane.
THE TURNOVER IS SOOOooo EVIL AND GREAT!
2016 and I am still playing this game
2017, still :D
Querschläger_WoT multiplayer or singleplayer?
Arkadiusz Siepiela singleplayer
Auf welchem PC funktioniert das bei dir??? Muss das unbedingt wieder spielen!
same
Most of the other themes sound very authentic to the race but this one is probably top match :D Well done, Sir Paul :D
OMG, i used to pay Heroes of might and magic all the time back in the days, Salute for 2024
what the hell this is this is the best homm ever!
16 people were drained by vampires and then raised as skeletons
19 XD
tier 1 and 2 creatures are raised as skeletons, go figure what those people were...
12 more got trampled by a bone dragon :D
Most broken by far, ghost+slow to defeat any number of melee and both vampires and bone dragons can attack without retaliation while you spam mass confusion.
agree! i played 4 before 3 so maybe thats why my mind wasnt corrupted in knowing that HOMM 4 was actually a really great game!!
same :), dont get me wrong heroes 3 is great, but heroes 4 has that special charm, also the way heroes fought with the creatures on a battlefield was way more immersive :D
a genius: Paul Romero
The heroes 4's superiority compared to 3 is the map editor and music.
and the heroes man, dont forget the heroes, u could have multiple heroes in an army and they would fight just like a normal creature, this is where the true power was.
It's been 8 years and heroes 3 music still sounds better then all other parts)
I gotta admit... I must NOT agree with your opinion.
True, the map editor thing is great. But the music is still better in HoMM3. Right here I just... can't feel what I felt listening to Necropolis soundtrack from HoMM3.
not to mention that heroes could participate in actual combat. you could even have multiple of them in the same army. a high lvl hero is a force to be reckoned with.
Anyone in 2019?
yeah but i am for homm 3 ^^
As 2020 draws near, we are still here.
2020
even 2020!
2020
I felt the same way after playing through some campaigns in HOMM IV. I was thinking why would people hate this game and I came to the conclusion that it's because in HOMM IV you have to actually think a little of what you are doing when in HOMM III you usually survive on creature strength alone.
listen to this song with best sound system or headphones at highest volume with your eyes closed (espacially the last part ! ) , and you will automatically imagine that the whole world is getting under your evil domination! and then you will find yourself making a silent evil laughter...
Pretty dark
Those vampires need a big nerf ffs
Šimon K. in fan mod Equilibris they are nerfed. attack/defence 30>27, also they became slower. Now crusaders are good counters against them, with their bigger town grow and with their new permament passive Death Ward.
@@maximmuromov6073 crusaders has permanent death ward always. I am happy that vampires got nerfed. I think if games is not as rushed as it was they realised this ( not only ) mistake.
Best city theme from HoMM IV
This music exemplifies the word 'sinister'
At the long last, death is always prevails. The ending is epic - 2:27
thats a classic. thatsBethoven after us.
ahh the death town...all about the 3rd level. either pick vamps, one of the best units in the game, and gimp yourself of having any ranged. OR pick the slimies, who destroyed things, but pass up on the amazingness of the vampires...choices choices
OOOOOOMGGG OLD MEMORIEES
I love HOMM IV, and I can't understand either why people hate it. Maybe they're just jealous X'D
Fog of war, moving creatures on the adventure map, overpowered ranged units that were weakened by having allied melee units in front of them.
Those were my impressions of the game. It didn't feel like it belonged in the same series to me gameplay wise. Also the art style of units and buildings seemed uglier to me, somewhat deformed.
3 had been developed much better IMO. Compared with it's level of depth and art, 4 had a lot to compete with.
This one is way more epic that it should be
Turn on this song and put it together with a video volcano explosion when a lot of lava flows out from the earth's depth. It's even more epic.
Саунды в 4ке шедевральны
Glory and pride of the undead. Still playing the game
2020 and I am still play
Reminds me of cathedral project from heroes 3 that was never finished
you are right.i apologize for creating any disturbances,but hear me out.if this is a Necro town,where is the big masive graveyard,the sinister castle on a black mountain?this town is as grassy as any rampart or castle,and the buildings are far from sinister.if the title wouldn't have said Necropolis theme,i wouldn't have known what this town is this
I was surprised my vamps would revive their own fallen ones with the lifedrain. Awesome.
Homm4 ost's are legend,my opinion
I agree. Although HOMAM3 was my 'first' homam, I can say that HOMAM4 leads a tiny bit before HOMAM3 in my chart. I think 4 has the most suitable graphic for this kind of game.
Sometimes I wish to take good things from 3 and 4 and combine them together.
hah...10 years later and I still would want that...well I would mainly want homm4 with random map generator
@spiritronin the heroes 3 campaigns were good,but they were kinda dull and vague.
the journal entries in HOMM IV are so great,they kept me playing!
i truly enjoyed gauldoth's campaign
@ShabobaX this strategy. there is no nerfed or overpowered. all is by ur mind!
This piece is the best town theme in HoMM4, and the second is shared by Order and Might.
every units are good, if i know my enemies, that determines what do i choose. however, here is my favourite random-match teams:
death: cerberi, vampire, dragon
life: ballista, crusader, champion
might: nomad, cyclops, thunderbhird
nature: archer, griff, faire dragon
chaos: medusa, nightmare, hydra
order: mage, genie, titan
NWCcityoftroy :D
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Nwcathena
There's also a choice of buildings. You can go into pure undead or pure demon. So if you don't like em mixed you don't have to build em.
The argument that demons don't have order is false. How else do the Devils govern hell? :/
Anyway, loved both Heroes 3 and Heroes 4. Played a bit more of Heroes 3 cause I enjoyed the style a bit more (More similar to my favorite Heroes 2.). But the strategic gameplay side is much better in Heroes 4, more to think about.
@DonF72 problem is not the game but the system, XP Home edition is only good for working on MS-Office and a few other programs, it can't work good with graphics and internet
@Northorseman well Im really looking forward to Horn Of The Abyss.
which have been a project now for over two years..
and they are expecting to be finished this year.
But Wake Of Gods was an amazing expansion, which changed the fun of the game a lot, but made playing against some other players quite harder as well.
all town themes from homm3 are the best in the series for me
Heroes IV really vamped up the vampires on this game; i wonder if my vampire only strategy would work as it did in the last one
I think they should not merge necropolis and inferno into one fashion
HoMM IV had Bello Lugosi Vampires. Your Argument is Invalid :D
Everything but everything goes into the SkeletonTransformer!!!
Now beat that Moeahahahahaha.!!!!!
@h0vding Problem with HOMM III is that it's extremely unstable and I'm running it on XP Home edition. I wonder if I need some kind of patch to make it more stable.
This is the first HOMM game I ever played, and at the time of writing, the only one. I was probably about 9 or 10 I reckon, and back then my dad still had the time to indulge in some Might and Magic, and the icon was on the desktop of the family computer, double-clicked it and never left the computer for WEEKS!
I'm told it was terrible compared to other HOMM's, but I suppose the lack of knowledge of 'better' games made it better for me. Is this one really as bad as people say? Or just fanboys?
I'm not sure what you mean by "external source". Don't most studios outsource the sound production?
if you wanna have a good team in heroes
then choose these
death: cerberi, venom spawn, devil
life: ballista, crusader , angel
might: nomads , cyclops, behemoth
nature: tiger, griffin, farie dragon
chaos: medusa/minotaur,nightmare, dragons
order: golem, genie, titan
In death, better ghost,vamp and devil
I got homm3&4 complete. Its awesome.
@DonF72 I never had a problem with that :O
Im now running Windows 7 ultimate, but I run it as XP.
wait a second man.that blue portal in the right looks like an Altar of Thought(conflux lvl 6)and this town has GRASS!!!grass in necropolis?what the hell?
@Maidenofiron27
It's a great game! The problem people have with HOMM4 is that it's the sequel to one of the best games EVER created (and for me who's been a gamer since NES times and played over 800 games it IS the best one). HOMM3 is just perfect and a lot of players just wanted more of the same.
I personally enjoy innovation in games so I appreciated HOMM4 and judged it by it's own standards not as a sequel to HOMM3. And by the way you just have to try HOMM3 - it will blow you away
Not a particularly good Necropolis song. However, that being said, I think it fits perfectly for the character of Gauldoth Half-dead. It has its evil brass motifs, but also hints of heroic motifs; sort of encapsulating the character's duality.
My favourite race
Didn't think the Dead were particularly concerned with Cellos.
raaaaaaanged creatures and every debuff you can come up with! XD
just cant compare heroes 3 with 4.
theyre both great.
3 you can build alot more creatures and i liked the towns more, but 4 you can pimp your hero wayyyy better, spells are far more usefull and powerful and overall I thought the campaign were alot better in 4 alswell.
with 4 i really wanted to know what happened next, in 3 it was just ... meh lets beat these guys and hope the story gets better
I never built any of the demon dwellings... ok, I got the occasional devils in there but really?
for some reason I never really liked IV, and V just made me sad to see how much it have all changed as Im a player from back to the first version HOMM I.
and I am now stuck at playing HOMM III. which was the best version if you ask me.
and with all the developers around HOMM III. there are now some unofficial versions which made the game even better.
Can it be?
It doesn't feel like the other HoMM games, which is EXACTLY right! But if it was released separately, not compared to HoMMIII, I'm sure this game would have gotten excellent marks.
too much grass I see there for this to be Necropolis... im sorry H4 :]
Best ❤️
@Nefus2 Thats the HOMM 3 fanboy talking. HOMM 4 has great gameplay of its own, it's just not the same game as its predecessor. Also this castle(the death castle) might look a little incoherent and ugly but there are other great ones.
I really enjoyed 4, but I still felt like 2, 3, and 5's necromancers were more intimidating. They didn't need to mix with demonic troops, for one thing, and their undead warriors just had a more menacing look to them. I missed my dread knights, wraiths, and liches, dammit. D= Still. This theme was smashing, even if 3 and 5 were a titch more 'fitting'.
FOR NEKROSS!
I wonder why they didn't make that in the fifth. Like fortress in HOMM V, It's always snowy terrain! No matter the terrain outside
you havent heard the music from "the dig"?
This is a Necropolis/Inferno = DEATH
No, HOMM III has the BEST soundtrack :D
make it move like it was before
Need Heroes 4 HD Edition:3
i had this game but my brother took a chew in the disc and not playable anymore. so now i only play heroes of might and magic III restoration of erathia+ armageddon's blade what is the last part shadow something the necro theme in III is better
where i can get this mod?
>Picking Devils
Unless you did it in hopes of instakilling enemy wizards who were stupid enough to not level up their physique, I see fail.
Yes, I am aware that this publication is 11 years old.
3 was better than 1,2,4 and 5. Because the towns where balanced and the gameplay were good and it wouldn't stop being fun and you couldn't predict it as much as you could predict the others.
Still I have made up a foolproof plan to beat every map with any castle. And the easiest to grasp was actually the weakest town of all but it's even the town that is most unbalanced. Necropolis infact.
the vampires are too good xD you can dominate the map with they and master necromancy -_- xD
I cant believe so many nay-sayers in here.
As its been discussed countless times, H4 differs alot from the original setup of the others games, its a like-dislike situation, based on opinion. H4 has in my opinion one of the greatest game soundtrack ever created.
Demons are perfectly fit in the atmosphere of this necropolis.
III HoMM is good old type of HoMM. They tried to make something else with HoMM IV and tehy did vell too. Dont compare HoMM IV with HoMM III becouse these are two different games.
@RedSHARK6 AGREE!!!!!!!
well this is necropolis/inferno, some parts here remind me of homm3 inferno actually
I actually think it's better that they took it from oriental and trditional places. I assume 3DO wants to give the gamer the ultimate experience and enjoy the game as much as possible. So you get the feeling as being there. I personally don't think it would even have got half as good if they produced their music themselves. The game becomes a whole with this incredible music :)
I beg to differ.
HoMM III was the best, hands down.
I still don't understood why they mix daemons and undeads in HOMM IV
I suspect the series peaked at HOMM3 (although I far prefer the 2D sprites and operatic solos of HOMM2).
The next HOMM game needs to be a touch more inventive, but not in a way which dilutes or dumbs the current formula.
I still preferred the 2D sprites.
chaos is not evil... chaos is chaos... or chaos is ugbhui4povkm-45 mg-sa0fg
Doesn't suck. If it came out on it's own- i.e. it was called Heroes of Might and Magic, and didn't have the awesomeness of II and III behind it, it would be an amazing game.
Otherwise, it is compared unfavorably to the previous games.
you are saying that because heroes Iv u cannot envolve your town completly. i guess it is, and u are right. but there are other aspects heroes iv is good, for example, music. The music of death alighnment is perfect. the music from heroes 3 and heroes 5 are completly diferent.
10,000.
If Heroes IV didn't came as one of Might and Magic games, it would be a pretty good game. Comparing to previous games, it's not so good.
Pretty music either.
my favorite castle!!!! necropolis is the best!
I have never played HOMM 4, only 2 and 3. But if this screen in the video is an actual town from the game, then damn. The art direction has gone downhill like crazy since Heroes 3.
Man, the Necropolis got nerfed in HOMM IV. =\
compared to the other games in the series it was rushed and, i mean, no multiplayer in vanilla?!?
Yeah they should have made Dungeon an under ground lizard race or something.... still a great game though