King's Bounty II

the original King's Bounty was awesome, but primitive by today's standards. However, it was followed by the Heroes of Might and Magic series, which is fantastic, and the third game in the series is still the best.

The reboot series is much closer to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 than the original King's Bounty OR the other HoMM games, which is a good thing.

In some ways HoMM3 is better than any other game in any version of either series - while it plays just like the modern King's Bounty games, it's got a better campaign structure, better levels, etc, but it still is a 20 year old game, with all the issues that come with older games. If you're into classic gaming or a series enthusiast, it's a must-play game (far more than the original King's Bounty)

4 years ago

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GauRocks

So where do we have to dig to win this one in 10 seconds?

4 years ago

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Masafor

Their bot "played" it....
very lame and boring

4 years ago

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helevorn23

awesome games indeed!!

4 years ago

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Shad0WeN

Nice! Hope they don't fuck up the series like with what Ubisoft has done with Heroes of Might & Magic.....

4 years ago

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BrunoTheLizard

To the wishlist it goes...

4 years ago

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Zlia

Well... if it's more King's Bounty: Armored Princess / Crossworlds and less King's Bounty: Warriors of the North / Dark Side I'm totally on board.

4 years ago

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Zarddin

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Cruse

Thank you for the highlight, I've yet got onto the 1st series but I am a big fan of HoMM III. Cheers, Cruse~

4 years ago

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Zarddin

It is not HoMM III but I think all the games in the series are great in their own way but you have to change how you think about army and losses in battles if you have HoMM III mindset :)

4 years ago

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Cruse

I read that it was King's Bounty that inspired the HoMM series. How different are the army losses about? :)

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Zarddin

You need to be more careful as most of the times you recruit your army on the road so you want most of them to survive till the end of the level. But yes this game inspired HoMM.

For me all the Kings Bounty games are better than HoMM games while I still loved to play HoMM III when I was young. HoMM VI was bad and boring.

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Cruse

Interesting so what does your castle do mainly if any and what are the structures that allow you to recruit units. Does the same race matter in the game like in HoMM for morale? :D

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Zarddin

There are units in castles but also in inns, houses and many different places on the map and if I remember correctly morale is more important than in HoMM as it gives you +xx% attack and defence and crit chance but I don't remember anything about mixing races

Don't play King's Bounty: Legions as that one was more of a multiplayer and bad things than any good and fun.

Strenght of Kings Bounty lies in its campaings and different ways you can build your heroes (much more unique than HoMM).

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Cruse

I see, i read the comments for King's Bounty: Dark Side and its pretty bad too? Thank you for the great insight. I'll refer back to this when I play the series. Much appreciated. :D

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Zarddin

Nah!

King's Bounty: The Legend
King's Bounty: Crossworlds ( it is King's Bounty: Armored Princess with some DLCs)
King's Bounty: Dark Side
King's Bounty: Warriors of the North

Are all great! I think people didn't liked Dark Side because you play as demons or orcs not as human heroes and most people can't roleplay not 100% good heroes ;) For me it was ton of fun :)

EDIT:

Damn! Writing about all this made me nostalgic so now I have to get these games on Steam and play them again :D

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Cruse

Hahaha, thanks for all the information! Yeah i can understand that feeling was so happy to see HoMM III on steam till realising it was just the base game. I still have a CD-Rom of the series tho so I'm good. :D

GLHF! :D

4 years ago

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Zarddin

I know I will want it but price from 50-85 Euro looks like a bit too much.

So I will have to wait for 2023 and some -80% sale :)

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Dohi64

don't like the serious tone.

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gandalfnho

Great news, wishlisted.

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MaxBedlam

That's good news. King's Bounty is pretty good franchise.

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bucdafuc

Russian game dev is back from the dead!*

*hardly so

4 years ago

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NB264

I liked the Legend, finished it twice, but Armored Princess already made me bored with the rehashed story/world/ideas so I gave up on it quickly, and I've never played other expansions. Katauri is dead btw, so... who knows what will this look like in the end. Not really optimistic from my perspective.

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diehard

16GB Ram for turn base tactical games.

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Mully

it looks good, but i didn't like the first game. tried it for 3-4 hours and it was too different from heroes 3-4-5.

4 years ago

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