Heroes of Might and Magic 1 - Review 

goddammit it set this to release at 10PM not 10AM, i'm not gonna be streaming until then 10PM Gmt, that is. twitch.tv/gibbontake

I really cant believe anybody would discover HoMM in 2018, but im really happy to see it happen

I would LOVE to see someone who didn't grow up with Heroes talk about the progression from game to game. So yea a review of each game before you play the next would be amazing :)

My god, HoMM 3 is such an integral part of my life, the hours I put into that game without even knowing how to actually play it. Such a great game, I hope you do on that one as well.

It speak volume about my age, where at 30, all of my generation was rised on Heroes, it is unheard of anyone, basically anyone who played games to not only know it, but most likely clocked hundreds of hours into it. But now a new generation of players have matured, and they discover those titles for the first time. Makes me feel old dude : P but also happy that younger people also aprecieate them.

every Slav in age 35-15, especially Poles, love Heroes 3, it's the best one, it's like "meet with your friends and play together" kind of game, it's like... part of culture, small, not important, but it is here, it's great game, i have played all heroes, i love this old school aesthetics of first 3 games :3

These games were amazing to me as a child. The colorful pixel graphics looked amazing for its time. They were warm, vibrant and inviting. The world seemed large and complex for me as a child. With many game options. So many types of units! And all so beautifully detailed. Looking at the screen with all of your heroes and such was like a wheres waldo painting. And the series definitely does get better as you go. Frankly I don't understand why anyone would play the first except for it's nostalgia value. It was a product of it's times. And I think that's it's charm. If they tried to pull this off now I think it would turn out more like the Total War series and I'm already over that concept. This game was popular around the same time as Masters of Orion 2 and Age Of Empires 2. Rollercoaster Tycoon. Those kinds of games. If you picture this game in the middle of that era, you can see how much charm and gameplay it packed. I loved it. Glad to see you do too.

"technical limitations were the best thing ever invented, i miss them so much" best line in the whole video

More might and magic pls

You have no idea how happy and surprised I am to see this game reviewed here, and you did the game justice for those just discovering it. I'd be very happy to see more reviews of this series, and I'd be very surprised if you didn't enjoy at least the next 2 sequels as well. Heroes 2 aesthetics are wonderful even now in that old 90s way, with an enjoyable campy campaign (especially the evil side, enjoy those cutscenes!), and a wonderful community where some of the best fan maps live on in the single player itself.

Please review the rest! I've been waiting for years to see proper YT videos on these great games. I grew up with Heroes II, since it was my dad's favorite. In fact, it might be the first game I ever played. It was funny to see you describe the gameplay when it's something so ingrained inside me. Can't wait for Heroes III. That's my favorite one.

Yes, yes, yes! More of this please. I played a ton of heroes III back when I didn't understand English at all. So I usually lost but I still had fun for some reason.

"Technical limitations are probably my favorite thing ever invented" Well said! I agree

3 is my favorite

definetly one of my favourite frachises and homm 2 and 3 are still one of my fav games of all time

Ya forgot to mention that each hero type has it's own unique skill and their stat specialty: Barbarians have no penalty on moving around the rough terrains (Concentrates on Attack mostly) Warlocks can see further (Concentrates on Spell Power mostly) Knights have a higher morale (Concentrates on Defense mostly) Sorceress' can travel further on sea (Concentrates on Knowledge mostly)

It's a very lovely game to relax with. No time pressure. Atmospheric and imagitive music. Unique enchanting graphical style. Even after 20 years, my sister and I still occasionaly play this together (hotseat multiplayer taking turns against ai). It's that perfect rainy sunday game to play with someone you love. Huddle up together at the pc with a warm cup of tea and some cookies. Like the dude said...it's like a boardgame. An awesome one at that! Play HoMM 3 (+expansions) !!! They pretty much evolved this game to perfection at that point.

This game exists as a boardgame or atleast "Heroes of might and magic , the board game" is a thing

The HoMM strategy series is based on the Might and Magic RPG series which may also interest you. III is the first one with overhead mapping.

"Technical limitations are my favorite thing invented. I'm so sad they're gone." Deep!

I hope you look at HoMM3 too, at least, cuz that’s gooood

It's super exciting to see you doing a realtime and 2018 review of such a classic game that we all love!

When I was a child I watched my parents play this game and I would eventually play against my parents in Heroes II. I did not quite understand the idea of building troops. All I would do was to recruit heroes and walk around when it was my turn, I went to the sphinx (in Heroes 2) to solve the riddle given by the sphinx. Since my English was rather poor at the time I could not understand the question and I would just smash the buttons on the keyboard, in hope of getting it right. I didn't get the correct answer. When it finally was the endgame either of my parents could easily win against me, since all I had was level 1 heroes with the standard troops that accompanied the heroes, whereas they could have black dragons and/or titans. I was essentially very much like an easy A.I of today's games, with the exception that the A.I does not throw a tantrum at you after suffering a stuning defeat.

MOAR! I'm legit just about to load this up for a nostalgia trip.

HoMM1 and HoMM2 are only 1 year away, but there's a world between them. You really start enjoying it at the second one. Now Like you said brilliantly, technical limitation is the best thing ever invented, and once they overcomed it, HoMM lost something irreplaceable, its simplicity and its beauty.

My first Heroes game was 5 but I didn't really play it much. My PC at that time was very potato. A decade later, I got Heroes 3 and while I didn't grow up with it, it impressed me. It's a really unique game.

I would love to see more HoMM videos in the future, hell I wouldn't mind seeing videos about the Might & Magic games, since HoMM is a spinoff of those and there are several connections between the two franchises.

3:23 this pretty much sums up my opinion on everything ever

3 is the Best

"And thank god for that" cracked me. That was the best laugh I've had in a month

What a WONDERFULL review! PLEASE REVIEW THE REST OF THEM ALL!

Heroes 1, 2, and 3 are my favorite turn based strategy game, right up with the recent Fire Emblems.

Armageddon in a nutshell: I have one dragon and 15 spell power. I win.

I found this video while browsing the good old music of the series after the Heroes Orchestra gave another two live concerts last weekend (you should absolutely listen to it!) and since there's so little footage on HoMM 1, I kinda had to watch it. So awesome you found this series of gems so late and got hooked! My first contact was finding the demo of HoMM 2 on a random game magazine CD back in the 90s after having binged Might and Magic 3, 4 and 5 (the latter combined to World of Xeen, but initially I had 5 only which basically was hard mode making Dark Souls look like kindergarten) up and down. And I got sucked in, starting with the Knights on the Broken Alliance map (one of just 3 available in the demo) which IMHO still is one of the best and most balanced maps ever made in the whole series, listening to that utterly great soundtrack that plays when you're in the grasslands... I kinda wanted to get the full version, but didn't have the cash. Never really told my parents though that I wanted to have it and I got it for Hearth's Warming Eve in 1996, totally unexpected. I ended up binging the game from like that evening on until school started again two weeks later. When Heroes 3 was released, I went to the stores even two days earlier just to see if I could get it ahead of launch and was successful. That was my first day one buy ever, well actually day one -2 :D 9:26 HoMM 2 (which you already reviewed I reckon) basically is HoMM 1 in good with a lot of improvements. HoMM 3 did the same and made it all better and it got a ton of expansions and extra campaigns... HoMM 4 then was the one off with a totally changed combat system featuring the heroes actually participating, but also a rather hard to plan on combat grid and HoMM 5 tried to bring the HoMM 3 success back with some new features like having to choose one of 2 branches when upgrading troops and everything in 3D (which makes it harder to pinpoint how far enemy heroes could possibly go per round which was much easier on the grids of the older games). Never touched the later ones (6 removed all the secondary resources...).

Hope you do try the others. Heroes 2 adds the Wizard and Necromancer castles as well as your first taste of artifact combining. Heroes 3 is typically regarded as the fan-favorite of the series and adds a ton of combo artifacts(cloak of the undead king in the hands of a necromancer being a death sentence for enemies usually). Heroes 4 is interesting because you actually have your hero on the battlefield and it gets to actively engage in combat, eventually with your hero become strong enough to single-handedly slay mighty foes like black dragons. Heroes 5 goes back to your hero being on the sidelines, but the skill gaining system is fantastic, with your hero having the ability to potentially learn the Ultimate ability related to their faction if you learned all pre-requisite skills to unlock it. Heroes 5 also takes the game into 3d, including combat(though your first taste of this could be Heroes of Might and Magic Quest for the Dragonbone staff on ps2).

2 is a VAST improvement over 1 and 3 is a lot like 2, but even better (most people think 3 is the best). 4 is a little odd as they took it in a slightly different approach before the studio went bust, most people don't like it. 5 is a huge improvement, arguably the second best after 3 (and it's in 3D) I'd definitely recommend playing through them all.

"If you start on the wrong foot, you're fucked" Truer words about the game I've never heard

Great to see someone start with the original! If you felt this positively about the first one, I'd love to see your feelings going forward. Heroes II review, please!

6:15 - Funny that a board game of Heroes 3 is coming out.

This popped up in my feed, its always a pleasure to see. I remember getting it as part of a different Interplay compilation set in the early 2000s and absolutely loving it and its sequels. The art style is very charming and the music is great. And as of right fuggin now, it IS a board game!

Heroes 3 best heroes.

I would love it if you review the other ones! It's interesting to hear someone previously unfamiliar with the series talk about it

YES!!!! But of course not streaming by the time the video was uploaded :(

Absolutely would love a review of the entire series, the first one still somewhat holds up visually, but gameplay wise the third and fifth game really nail it. Also if you aren't scared off by old graphics I could recommend checking out Masters of Magic and Masters of Orion 2, the former is kind of a similar game but allows for some crazy stuff and the latter is really great too, but not a fantasy game.

Heroes of Might and Magic 5 is bae. Even more so with the Tribes of the East expansion.

That collection is super rad considering how much it costs to get each of those games individually nowadays. It's not a whole lot, but it can start to add up when you have 5 games and the 2 expacs for 5 that you still need to buy individually.

Heroes Of Might & Magic III is legit one of the best games ever made. Sweet purchase.

Awesome video and I would LOVE for you to do the Might and Magic games up untill the 5th one (especially the 3rd and the 5th), the rest I don't think you should bother. You're the best.

These games are my childhood. I never stopped playing them when I was a kid. Now I must buy that collection set... You know... For nostalgia reasons.

This is actually one of the first games I ever played. I was 6-7 years old (had to do the math just now). MMO's were always my favorite, but outside of those, I remember 3 games that my mom had that I could play: Diablo- I attempted to play this game once, but it was too scary for me. I never knew this was Diablo til probably 10 years later when I recognized the box art. Warcraft- I liked this game, I was very bad at it though. Still the only WC I've ever played. Heroes of Might and Magic- This was by far my favorite of the 3. I could not figure out how to play the campaign. However there was a quick play mode that I could play just fine, and I absolutely loved the graphics and theme. I could never remember the name of this game, and have always wondered what it was. I was reading a review for Heroes of Might and Magic V in Game Informer and the name sounded familiar and I thought, "could it be from the same series from that game I played when I was a kid?", then forgot about it.. Until I just stumbled upon the thumbnail to this video, and saw something I haven't seen in 22 years giving me one of the biggest blasts of nostalgia I've ever experienced. I have a terrible memory, so remembering all of this is very awesome for me, thanks.

There's a fan patch/expansion thing for IV that is necessary for balance called equillibris, if you get that far. There are also similar things for the other games, but none of the rest are necessarily improvements, just interesting.

I remember playing this when I was a kid, this gem got me into turn-based strategy games.

The way you talk about Heroes series like something new to the audience is just hilarious i like it.

The funniest thing to me: the line "can you imagine how cool this would be if this was a f***ing physical board game?" The reason: I discovered this review while looking for information about the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 board game that is on kickstarter right now.

Yes! YES! We DEFINITELY will like you to reveiw the rest of the series!

Yeeeeessss more please

I've been playing Heroes 3 on and off for almost 17 years now. It's my perfect game.

you should have mentioned that knight heroes have +1 moral, sorceress move further on water, warlocks scout +1, and barbarians arent effected/reduced effect of terrain disandvantages

Heroes 3 is actually still semi popular in Russia, surprisingly enough. Definitely worth the look Hippo (almost wrote gibbon, had to check myself), and heroes 4 is my personal favourite, if only because you can fight with the hero on the field, while heroes 3 doesn't sadly. Both are still great, looking forward to the full review of them all.

As a huge fan of the HOMM series, I can assure that you will love the rest of the series. I have been playing it since HOMM 2 came out, and have been loving each instance since. Happy adventuring an I hope you will reveiw the other HOMM games as you try them...

These games were essentially my whole childhood. You should definitely at least play 3.

If you really want the best of the best of Heroes of Might and Magic experience, install the third one, complete edition (Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete), install the fan continuation of the game called Horn Of The Abyss freely available online and add the Heroes3HD launcher as well to play at better resolution. The third heroes is by far the best, it's cult, and the fan continuation adds the Cove, a castle for pirates and brings further balance to the game. To this day, it is still maintained and regularly updated. Hopefully you try it out next and see what i am talking about!

'Technical limitations are probably my favorite thing ever invented. I'm so sad they're gone!"

the cool hippboy back for more and on my birthday no less, what a sight, what a thing to've 'appened!

Of course we want to see you review the other ones! Great video!

I fucking love that people are still discovering these games and enjoying them. Please keep making these reviews, your channel is very amusing, it'll grow quickly don't worry, finish the HOMM series, that way HOMM lovers will associate the game with your channel, it's an easy way to grab a small audience by the balls.

You are the beginning of a great journey, my friend.

Heroes II is DA BOMB. Then the series peaks at 3! 4 is too experimental and weird, and 5 is actually pretty damn good!

> *if* those sequels are massive improvements OH B A B Y OH MY SWEET SUMMER CHILD

Now now, I know 2 and 3 were better, but DAMN... this artstyle, everything from background to units to animations, it's so cohesive, it really hits a string.

Awesome that you discovered the HOMM series! The third one is known as the best one , with a small community still playing after all these years.

You know, I LOVE 90s PC game reviews! So please, make more.

I think there is mobility bar, the yellow one next to character on your right side of screen

5:14 unless you're parading around the world with a couple dragons... :D

Homm1 was fun. The canon end set the stage for Homm2. The end of Homm2 set the stage for Might and Magic 6. The end of MM6 set the stage for Homm3, which setup MM7, and so on. I think H3 is the most popular, though of course everyone has their tastes. If you enjoy H1, take your time and savor the gameplay. H2 and H3 are definite improvements, so you can look forward to even more fun. : )

Review the rest mate. One of my all time favorite series. I've wasted countless hours playing HoMM3 and 4 and have their soundtracks throatily cemented in my mind.

Moar plez, my nigga. More Hippo equals more utter joy in my life.

New favorite RPG stat: "Potential Attackery".

3:23 Best line ever... I completely agree!

If you liked the cd case artwork I recommend you check out the artist Olivier Ledroit, he's done BD/comics of outstanding quality over the years.

and now guys get your head blown: THERE EXISTS SOME RPGS WHICH PLAY DURING HoMM III they are called... Might and Magic VI Mandate of Heaven, Might and Magic VII for BLood and Honor and Might and Magic VIII Day of the destroyer. you play in the 6th game in Enroth (during HoMM III) visit the son of King Ironfist, and realease Archibald Ironfist (the one who is the bad guy in HoMM II)

before hmv cloes down i bought a pickle rick t shirt. worst mistake of my life.

Seeing new generation of players pick up games I played when I was a kid is a very warm feeling :).

Parents randomly got me this when it was origionally released. Best decision of their life! On a side note we actually made a board game version for an art project :D

I owned the first installment of this game when it came out. On 3.5" floppy!

That moment when you attack a ship and find you are fighting ghosts with peasants.

This was interesting. I'd like to see more.

Oh damn, if you make the reviews of Heroes 2 and Heroes 3, that would be awesome.

It's not abandonware if it's still being sold lol.

They can make Heroes might & magic I, II and(maybe) de three to can be played on phone/tablet.

Loved number 3 such a classic game. Unrivaled for its genre for sure.

I used to play the 3rd one as a kid and I loved it. I would love to see you talk more about this series. 4 and 5 are really a step down and 6 was a mess. But I was happy to see this game talked about.

This game is bullshit at times but I still like it. It's just so simplistic and colorful. I also love the goofy animations and the oversized troops. Glad the reviewer mentioned that. I played it when it came out and it encapsulated PC gaming in the 90s so well. Heroes II was better in everyway but there is still a certain charm to this game after all these years.

Man... It's been so long that I've played this game... It was a good setup for the series.

Heroes 3 and 4 are my godamn childhood pls MOAR

Yeah, I'd definitely love to see vids on the sequels, I'm invested in this franchise now.

We definitely need to see some more of this

Yeah wait.... what happened to HMV? I thought they were shut down?

The 2nd was my whole childhood, and the 3d definitely the most advanced compared to his time! However, i f**ing love the 7th so far :-) you guys should try it! (it's not bugged anymore)

I would love to see more HOMM videos from you. Also Heroes IV is clearly the best one.