Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: Purple Library GuyY'know, so many of these non-modern city builder things are vaguely medieval that it had never even occurred to me--architecture wise, Rome was so much cooler for this kind of thing.

Well, there is Caesar I-III (and Pharaoh/Cleopatra, Zeus/Poseidon) or more recently Nebuchadnezzar… also Builders of Egypt/Greece/China. Lastly the Pharaoh remake “New Era”.
Frankly, I can’t say anything to which is architecturally the most appealing as that is highly subjective.

Don't forget Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, quoting Wikipedia:

Emperor is the last of the series to use the same 2D-sprite game engine as seen in the earlier titles, and the first to introduce a multiplayer option.

It's only available on GOG!
Thought I played a lot Zeus and Pharaoh, but not this one even though I have it in my collection.

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From the GOL homepage, I though it was an engine reimplementation of Zeus: Master of Olympus, but no. :cry:

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Quoting: CyrilWith this behavior some have "don't care about native, just want to play games", I'm really surprised some people don't say the same thing about other software (non-gaming) too, or won't be surprised if that happen one day actually. Why making a big difference between software and games? Surely I don't want this...

Games by their very nature are closed source proprietary pieces of bad code that should have no interaction with the rest of the system so that is among the reasons why e.g I see games as being differently. Aka I would never ever use a closed source application on any of my systems, but for games that battle was over before it started.

About the close vs open source apps installed on your system I surely agree, but that was not the subject of what I said.
I was thinking about native apps vs just run all Windows apps through Wine for example.

Plus, no, I don't think games are closed source by nature, it's mostly an economic issue, it could be different.

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Looks really nice!

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This is also on GOG, but no Linux version there, too bad...

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With this behavior some have "don't care about native, just want to play games", I'm really surprised some people don't say the same thing about other software (non-gaming) too, or won't be surprised if that happen one day actually. Why making a big difference between software and games? Surely I don't want this...

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I don't like Ubuntu and I don't like their Snap at all.
So I couldn't care less...

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Make me think... I don't know a lot about System76 or Pop!_OS but from what I can read here and there it seems I respect a lot what they're doing.

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Am I the only one who thinks the guy at the end of the trailer is Robotnik? :grin:

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Quoting: freeheroes2Heroes 2 has a gorgeous pixel art made by professional artists for NWC. Pixel art ages not so noticeably, comparing to 3d pre-rendered art of Heroes 3. It has its charm and animations are detailed and nice. Anyway, all Heroes 1-5 games look awesome.
Speaking of gameplay, Heroes 2 is not really different from later series. It has a few less skills, factions, artifacts but even experienced players of later series are enjoying HoMM2. The lack of content is going to be fixed in the upcoming fheroes2 expansion, which is planned to bring a bunch of new objects, creatures and game mechanics.

I don't think we can call it pixel art, strictly, for Heroes II, it's just older than Heroes III but the reason is not the style itself. I think Heroes III ages much better, I think mainly because of colors choices.
But just to not be misunderstood, I like the graphics of Heroes II too, it's just different, we can like both. :wink:

Anyway thanks again for this great project! :heart:

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