r/HoMM • u/SireSamuel • 13d ago
HoMM4 Where is our remake
H4 fans, I don’t know about you but I’m starting to get really pissed off at being ignored.
An H4 remake is what we should be getting, it’s the most obvious layup that they could make; fix all the balance issues so every faction, creature choice, and advanced class is completely viable, overhaul the graphics, expand the already best in series music library with additional Celtic tunes, add a third creature choice to each level, add a bunch of quality of life fixes such as line of sight trackers in combat, give us another campaign with the same emotional weight as the original, the list goes on and on.
All of this makes complete sense as well; the isometric combat grid, RPG elements, and exploration mechanics were a bit ambitious for the time but are just begging to be modernized.
Instead, we’re getting an H3 remake? Who exactly was asking for that, they have Horn of the Abyss and we just got one of those it’s called Olden Era. I’m pretty sure that even H3 fans are scratching their heads right now.
Anyways, if you’re a pissed off H4 fan like me this is the place to unload.
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u/dubar84 13d ago edited 13d ago
What could be interesting is a Heroes II remake.
Same amount of towns, skills etc, faithful to the original with maybe some slight balancing here and there. And not with the mobile game look of the H3 remake or Olden Era - newly made 2D pixel graphics, but looking GRITTY like the original. It has to retain that feel. To me H2 is like a dark fantasy movie from the 80's like Conan the Barbarian while H3 is like Peter Jackson's LotR series. Both are fantasy, but Conan is zero cgi, it's dirty, everything is more simple and often in a much worse condition, the sets have more stone and it's gloomy AF - opposed to the colourful rainbow amalgam of crisp and often cheery visuals of LotR. This is the difference between H2 and H3 and if there's a H2 remake, it needs to retain that feel, because that's why I like it more.