Re: To Jonah Falcon - HOMM4

On Jun 1, 8:09 pm, Mike S. <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:04:41 -0700 (PDT), Wolfing <wolfi...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

HOMM4 is the single worst possible game anyone could have ever made
out of the HOMM franchise. I believe they could have released it a few
weeks earlier, but they took those extra weeks to try and make it even
worse, and they succeeded!

Would you or someone else please tell me what it is about HOMM 4 that
makes it so bad please? HOMM 3 is my favorite strategy game of all
time so I am really curious now.

1- AI is non-existant. To capture any city, just flag any mine
nearby... the AI will send everything to reflag the mine, leaving the
city unprotected for you. Also, it likes to ignore your unprotected
cities, just walk past them. It's total garbage.
2- Heroes are too powerful. Mid-late game you could just grab your
lone hero and destroy any opposition, without raising any armies.
Totally destroying the whole strategic concept of the game.
.

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