Posts from Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era - Обсуждение

Intriguing art + a burnt-out warrior, but in the end, the guy just brings gems 😐
The portrait seems okay, but the helmet... it looks like they first thought of Japan, then Thor, and in the end, it turned out to be some kind of absurdity. Why try to come up with something when you can just draw ordinary gear/armor?

You don't understand; this guy has a neutral fighting spirit, and he can't keep it to himself.

Intriguing art + a burnt-out warrior, but in the end, the guy just brings gems 😐
The portrait seems okay, but the helmet... it looks like they first thought of Japan, then Thor, and in the end, it turned out to be some kind of absurdity. Why try to come up with something when you can just draw ordinary gear/armor?

No, that's not how we do things here) Only pathos, only hardcore!

Leon, by the way, is a favorite hero of one of the key developers, Leonid. According to other developers, Leon was NOT drawn to resemble Leonid; it just happened to coincide.

In that same tier list, it's all just a matter of personal preference when it comes to the heroes and their skills 🤣 But here, I haven't seen a single hero yet that I could say, "Oh, I'll always pick him."

What is this? It's... a sawmill!



I only started to really like the hero icons in the fifth installment. My favorite in this regard is the sixth game, and the seventh inherited its icon style. Keliandra-Ashbet, yes. The third and fourth games had many awkward icons, and the third wasn't afraid to use slightly modified repeats to increase the number. Of course, my beloved Astral came from the third game... and the fourth too... but I have relatively few favorites from those games. Most of them are from HotA, which is fan-made.

In Olden Era, I only consider one of the shown icons to be awkward. It's the very first one shown: Aeos. This is already a favorable statistic, even considering that the game has over a hundred heroes across six factions, according to the developers.

Maybe it's just my bias talking, but I like the portraits from the third game, and the fourth game's portraits are decent too (although there are too many of them, and half of them are frankly boring). The first two games have absolutely amazing portraits, especially the second one. The fifth game is also great. But the sixth and seventh games... well, they're just okay. Maybe it's because of the generic graphics that have become tiresome, or maybe it's because I haven't played these games enough to get used to the heroes. In the seventh game, they even stole half of the heroes from the classic games and just reused them.

In the third game, the portraits were decent. Among the female characters, I remember liking the ones for Mephala, Shiva, and Tyris. Among the male characters, Christian with his mustache was a normal-looking guy, and Alamar looked serious. Of course, there were also many ugly characters, like Tazar. In the fourth game, I can't name them individually. In the fifth game, it's good that no one looks particularly awful; everyone meets a minimum standard. Except for some puffed-up guy like Orson. Among the ones I remember, Anwen was good, and... that's it. The rest of the faces are just faces, meaning there's nothing to criticize or praise. Perhaps in later installments, some of the characters from the fifth game were made even more attractive, which I can imagine, but it's no longer relevant. And since we're talking about this, the current portraits... they might be okay. The style is a bit bland, but the faces aren't ugly, and some of them even have a certain charm, so it's acceptable.

I never understood why everyone likes Anwen so much. And yes, I've seen her full art. In my opinion, there's nothing particularly cringe-worthy about her in Heroes 5, but for some reason, I've always liked the elf heroes the least. However, ironically, my favorite hero is one of them: Ilfina.

In Heroes of Might and Magic III, the character portraits are decent; some are similar (especially for Barbarians and Swamp creatures), and the imperfections even add to their charm. In Heroes of Might and Magic IV, I don't like the portraits very much, especially the 3D ones. In general, the visual aspect of the game isn't great. In Heroes of Might and Magic V, there were also some poorly designed portraits, like Klaus and others. I don't know how they managed to make some look quite good while others seem like parodies. I'm curious to see the portraits from Heroes of Might and Magic VI and VII.

I never understood why everyone likes Anwen so much.

I also used to like her, but then I found out she's a woman. Actually, it's a good portrait, but Dungeon has an even better candidate 😏

There were also some poorly designed ones in Heroes 5, like Klaus and some others.

Does Nicholas look bad, or are you talking about someone else?

Actually, it's a decent portrait, but Dungeon has an even better candidate 😏

Who? Could it be the minotaur specialist?

I remember when I was a kid, the hero-troglodytes in the Dungeon faction seemed very scary, and I was sometimes afraid to play, so I wouldn't run into them. Anwen is okay, but I like Ilfina more; I even created fan art of her. The heroes from Heroes of Might and Magic V remained in that game. I think someone was ported to Heroes of Might and Magic VI, but I don't remember exactly. In any case, the portraits from the fifth game are better. Here, we also need to see how they will look in miniature. Because the portraits from the third and fifth games were instantly recognizable in the mini-format. The fourth game's portraits are worse, especially for heroes like those from the Haven faction, where 95% of the heroes are just ordinary people. And in the sixth game and Heroes of Might and Magic VII, they all look somewhat the same, except for the obvious freaks like lemmings and minotaurs.

Ilfina is a beauty.

Meanwhile, the troglodyte heroes: weak even by troglodyte standards; controls ballistae while being blind, etc. Troglodytes are the lowest race in Nighon.

They don't see any problems with this.

Nastya, offering prayers to Arina. A specialist in Prayer. Technically, it's the strongest buff among the three, but in practice, it's still not as effective as Haste or Slow. However, it's the Prayer skill that the Angel Alliance set grants to everyone.

Oh, I'll definitely pick her from now on. She's my namesake. And the bird is cool. And her bio is relatable.