I honestly liked homm4. The only problem i had was with the towns/creatures: Just 4 tiers. And they changed a lot of the castles creatures we all liked and enjoyed. Really enjoyed the active hero part, even messed around with custom maps to assemble a 7-hero army, with tanks, archers, mages, summoners, like in an MMO ^_^ At the time i felt it was the most awesome thing to do in the game, since you could endlessly summon creatures to the field, and the AI kinda focused more on the front-line troops. Remember feeling really powerful at the time. Usually the tower was my favorite, but here the green castle was, since it had the summoning portal which gave you access to more creatures, interesting creature, my fav being the mantis. I do have a question, if the company that made homm 1-4 no longer exists, who profits from these sales ? Do the original developers still get a cut when a copy sales, or everything goes to Noobiesoft?