Heroes of Might and Magic® 4: Complete

I've played every version of HOMM up until this game. I have been absolutely addicted and in love with all three of the previous titles. HOMM4, however, is an absolute disaster right from the beginning and is down right unplayable. The first quest was actually fun and I thought that it was going to be just as fun as 3, if not even better. But the second quest which involves seeking an oracle almost made me quit playing the game altogether. I must have loaded my game 40 times trying to defeat the monsters guarding the Sword of the Gods and every time I was handily spanked. Tried waiting around for more monks and crusaders and the monsters guarding the Sword just grew in numbers right along with me. THERE WAS NO WAY TO WIN. I eventually just cheated in 20 black dragons and hurried through the terrible quests. The next couple of quests were more of the same, it was basically just 5 heroes running around together with no armies... And any time you get in a fight with long range monsters they would just target your hero that wasn't allowed to die (or you lose) and then it would be over. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY THIS GAME IS NOTHING LIKE HOMM 1-3. If you want to learn an entirely new system and game play then this is the one for you.

Heroes 1-3 are the best games ever. Heroes 4 is the WORST. The rest are below avg Avoid this like the plague. 3DO made 1-3 then ubisoft took over & ruined the series. 5-7 aren't crap but they're not good either. Get heroes 3 complete then search TOHEROES heroes 3 maps. Download the maps that look good to you. Here were some of the more popular : Desert war - Battle for honor - bound by strength - Hourglass - ETC The toheroes maps are a million times better than the maps the game comes with. Most important thing in game is getting capital or lvl 7 creature dwelling first week and those maps give you a chance to.

Game is coded to give you only female heroes on the start. I don't remember having these issues (or it being so clearly coded) when I was playing this game back then, when it was new. I am extremely distated by this game, after spending of hours (not a lie), clicking on the restart button - to really test - if it's true. I tested it on many maps to see, if it's not a bug just on one map. It's very clearly coded into most of the maps and almost impossible (if not clearly impossible) to start with a male hero, unless he is part of the story. Sometimes, you can only see swapping between those all most lesbiotic looking ones. Or, how it happens, that in 100 clicks on restart (map) button, you get 100 women and 3-4 of the most ugly-designed faces, are most of the results. It really bothers me, since there is always just one portrait per section, matching model of the hero itself. All other heroes are completely off and it's just cringy experience (a small old overweight black female dwarf on the portrait is modeled as a blonde, tall and beautiful unit in-game). And I want to play with my favourite hero, that happened to be a male and he looks same as his model. I don't know, if they just post-coded this or what is that. I feel, like I should get my money back. Game is barely working, no support, no update.. but stil making money (?).. and this is THE ONLY concern, that someone had. It's starting to be standart in attack on gaming industry and I'm really bothered by that. When I was younger, I was most likely picking female characters. Well, not anymore, because I can't stand today, how developers are sneakily forcing and creating codes in favor of female characters. It's false advertisement, cheat and it shoudln't be legal to lie about product you sell. There are many other games with the same issue and I will not be supporting this. Society is forcing others to swallow their misbelieves with the most of toxicity and obviously, this game is not the normal one, as well.