Kings Bounty = HOMM? o.O

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Originally Posted by NatashaQuick

I absolutely love Heroes, I have all of the Heroes games, and I even like HOMMV. HOMMIV is the disappointment for me, but I still bought the expansions and played it for the better part of a year. It's not a bad game, it just doesn't fit with the series in my opinion. I did like the way the Heroes themselves were individual units and could be built to fight on their own or even band together in the same party. Really if the creature spawning in castles was fixed to once a week like in the other HOMM games, and some other smaller things were fixed such as the castle battle arena setup, it would live up to the rest of the series. I do have to say that while HOMM3 is great, HOMM2 is and will always be my favorite. I'd like to challenge anyone to an online game of HOMM2 anytime!

I also bought HOMMIV, but I didn't like it and reverted back to playing HOMMIII, which first brought me into the franchise, until HOMMV came out at which point I converted to that. With Tribes of the East, especially, it is a very good game.

Anyway enough about HOMM, this is the King's Bounty forum! I started off the HOMM series with the original that came out in 1995, and since then had heard of King's Bounty, but by that time, the original HOMM had lost its playability due to age in the way some games do. (I used to play Dune II a lot on the Genesis as well, but after C&C it was just too hard to play anymore!) I kind of felt that I'd missed out on KB, but my friend gave this game to me as a gift last week, and told me that "They remade King's Bounty with the Heroes 5 engine." That description wasn't really accurate, but I installed the game immediately and started playing as soon as the company went home. I have barely stopped playing it since! I really love adventure games, and games of all genres have just been getting easier and easier as time has gone by, so I've had a really hard time finding games that I like. I've pretty much resigned to playing ATLUS's JRPGs and HOMM. One of my other favorite series, King's Field, probably is never going to continue, but after all this time I've already logged on KB:L, it doesn't look like I'm anywhere near even the midway point in it. I will gladly go back and replay this as the other characters and try to do some of the quests I messed up right this time!

OK sorry for the first post Wall of Text, if you don't want to read all of that, I'd just like to say that I love King's Bounty because it is old-school style and difficulty, but with nice visuals and extras. I haven't found an adventure game that was done well in a LONG time, most Zeldas excluded.

I also missed out on the original King's Bounty for the same reasons you mention (plus in 1990 I was too young and my family did not yet have a computer). I have actually first heard of King's Bounty: The Legend purely by chance on a HOMMV-oriented forum and it got glowing praise, so I quickly downloaded the demo and it's great. I hope to buy the full version.