Quoting: F.Ultra

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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Quoting: Jahimself

Quoting: pb

Quoting: hardpenguinHeck yes. Probably my favorite HoMM game.

Is it better than HoMM3? It looks better, but what about gameplay?

It's very similar, except units and factions are a bit different. Not as deep, no as balanced, but it has very good soundtrack and it's own rythm and design. Story is deliberatly cliché in a good way (voice acting pretty good in my language: french) I quite like it. I'm doing the backward way. Went from 3 to 2, and next I'm gonna purchase the first episode, and maybe 4 & 5 after :)

I played 3, 4 and 5, a lot, but at different times. I played only a little bit of the 2. I tried a bit the 6th, it was pretty bad though, but maybe I will give it another chance in the future. The 3 is still my favorite by far.
The 5 is pretty like the 3 but with "3D" graphics for me, so at the time I discovered it I though it was the perfect game for a time, but you know what it's like to try something new... :happy:
As for the 4... be prepared, as the gameplay have tons of changes compared to the 3... some hate it, some love it. :tongue:

But I disagree on "It looks better", the 3 looks gorgeous to me. ^^ For me the 2 has nice graphics but it tell its age.

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Grim Dawn is clearly one of my favorites (if only, it had a native Linux version uh)!
DevilutionX is a gem, I keep hope for something similar for Diablo II, that would be huge!

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