Which Might and Magic universe are you referring to?

The old universe isn't limited to just the Heroes games (just like Auchan isn't), even though I'm tired of repeating that. And I wouldn't agree that the previous installments (before the fifth) had a poor storyline. The main difference is that the story was presented through text, and with that kind of presentation, you either follow the plot and read the texts, or you don't.

The storyline in Heroes 1 isn't great, but there's not much of it there anyway. Although, on the other hand, the letters from Morglin Ironfist in the manual are written very well.