Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era - Обсуждение

I always liked the first version, but starting with the 4th installment, they began to experiment, and as a result, we got puddles, little breezes, and other nonsense.

But in the 5th installment, they refined it; the water creatures, for example, look like a real, powerful stream of water, not some strange fish 😎

Necromancers without zombies and vampires, but with a vampire hero, bulky ghosts, and dead hounds?

The female ghosts look moderately creepy, and the gravediggers are original; it's a decent roster. They threw all the zombies into a skeleton converter for uniformity 💀
I'm not sure I agree with the bone dragons: it's cool that a tree grows through its skull, but they seem like sloppy Necromancers. Couldn't they have properly cleaned their (expensive) pet from the debris? And I doubt they would aesthetically like trees, so why leave them there?
Overall, I like the Necromancers much more than the confusing sea and swarm factions; I can't really find fault with them.
And

Why turn the Incas into women?

The fauns of the nature faction are also normal, in my opinion; they're just women. The real Incas also had women; somehow, they survived that terrible crisis.
The male druids (like some other Sylvan creatures) don't look very good; they look like they crawled out of Lenin memes. Too complex, inconsistent designs in the style of the swarm factions.

The elves(?) look a little better.

Yes, if they really made thieves, the idea sounds cool, although the artistic implementation doesn't inspire much optimism.

and there's not much desire to play as them.

And this, in my opinion, is a very accurate observation. You can, of course, fantasize about a lot of things within the game, but people clearly regularly make a mistake by empathizing with what they have come up with. Practice shows that even ordinary demons are played less willingly, possibly partly because of the design, and partly because it's not very interesting to identify with such uncompromising villains.

If you create something completely incomprehensible, viciously chaotic, and disgusting, then no one will bother to figure it out and play as it, just as people don't decorate their own homes with all sorts of rotting rags that are fished out of the sea; it's the same thing.