Heroes of Might and Magic V Review by SsethTzeentach | The Chill Zone Reacts 

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic came out like 5 years before Skyrim. And it's more like a Half-Life clone than a Skyrim clone.

"or the middle east" zooms in on Germany God damn it, Sseth. As a German that hurts me on a deep emotional level. I'll talk to my Imam about it tomorrow.

The cut joke was amazing, i was fortunate enough to see it before it got taken down.

3:03 the last bit, is "God bless Russia"

Seconds in and I already see a "Spades owned" tattoo, G@d damnit😭

I remember playing this game for the first time and having ogres with me. I was attacking an enemy hero when suddenly I noticed that the ogres have a ranged attack and I'm like sure that sounds awesome. Then the ogre picks a goblin next to it and throws it at the enemy target!

My brother in Christ, I commend your bravery for calling Dark Messiah a Skyrim clone, but it's going to rustle so many jimmies.

12:19-12:48 I knew that joke was coming and wondered how you'd react to it. I was not disappointed with your response.

21:59 "I recognize one of the artists." lol

A battle may be won with steel, but a war is won with gold.

Soon as someone mentions Al'Akir, brain go WINDS! OBEY MY COMMAND!

Does that mean we'll get the reactions to the other parts soon as well ?

Dark Messiah's not a Skyrim clone. It has very little to do with Skyrim, or even Oblivion. It's not even a traditional RPG, it's an immersive sim with a combat focus. More of a game about its combat and experimentation within those systems, with stealth being pretty bad and unfinished. Good reaction as always but that throwaway comment did strike a chord. Or a nerve. I understand it was probably a joke, but still.

I miss playing HMMV, used to play it all the time and create so many maps to play. Need to see if I can get it on some online store and OD on some nostalgia

The original joke that got scrapped Seth used the intro to the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, that's why that happened

immediately... like immediately bought Songs of Conquest after you referenced it!. Got a little too excited. Off to play it, I hope its decent

Jeff Spock then moved to help create the Endless Universe. To this day the only communications we recieve from him are from there.

Looking forward to your reaction to the Heroes 3 and 2 reviews by Sseth! :D

V is the one I've actually played, when I was younger and I'd play it on my brother's computer. NGL, I think a modern version could be really good and fun.

I was one of the few people who were lucky to watch the original song in the video. It was a Yugioh joke with the whole opening.

Time for the other M&M review x3

Command and Conquer Remastered (of Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1) released in 2020 on Steam. Also tbf, while C&C4 TT sucks, the games released for most of their time on EA was really good. TS, RA2, Generals, Zero:Hour, CNC3, RA3, and recently the Remaster.

I didn't dislike five, three and five are the ones I played with friends the most. But six...six was a god damn war crime imo.

Black spades tattoo means it's an even darker elf

I live in Germany and I can say without a doubt that there aren't that many Arabs around. And many of them haven't even stolen my wallets yet.

Well I guess the most alive Heroes is heroes 3 what with the fanmade horn of the abyss expansion and 2k players online in multiplayer and ranking system for competitive players. Probably just as alive or even more so than when it released and that's amazing

MY CHILDHOOD

Please notice how Sseth consistently says 'Ubuysoft', gotta love it, with or without the blocked clip. You can still find the original on other video sites btw, instant classic !

You missed the last minutes of the video with animated 3d town screens that have BEAUUUUUUUTIFUL music and majestic vibe and architectural design Rewatch them, please, i'm sure you'd like them (especially Haven one, yeaaaah) Since you watched faction prologue videos from Endless Space 2, you'd get a similar experience

I dunno if this is relevant at all, but i gotta start fire emblem three houses again pretty soon. The only strategy game, that got me hooked. Maybe it leads me to others

Have you ever been to Dortmund?

Queen of Spades? perhaps that is their sect of warriors! fukin lel

Yessss.....another masterpiece for you to expierence

Oh shit, i didnt know you know how to read russian, thats pretty cool!

Skyrim wishes it had battle system like in dark messiah. And I like Skyrim.

ah yes only good heroes might and magic where ez mode isnt that simple to find, if you dont count wood elves

Hero of might & magic III is the best

Homm is a dead series. Because Ubersoft just can't put enough seasonal battlepasses, cosmeticts and lootboxes into a single-player turn-based game. Trey tried, but they failed.

😢😅

Heroes is dead as long as Ubisoft holds the rights. They are unwilling to make anything but a cashgrab and there isn't much cash left to grab after Heroes 6 and 7. I am a massive fan of Heroes 3 and 5 and wouldn't even buy Heroes 8 if it somehow turned out good, because I sure as shit ain't gonna touch Ubisoft Connect. If your game isn't on Steam/GoG or requires a 3rd party launcher, don't count on getting my money unless it's a 10/10 indie title like Starsector.

5:03 The original joke here was that he took the Yugioh opening and pasted on faces from the expansion of Heroes IV. The reason it got taken down was that he used the entire opening with only part of the visuals covered up by his edits, so it pinged the copyright system.

Funnily enough, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 still have a pretty solid fanbase in Slavic countries with local active servers, youtube channels, new game mods, and rebalance overhauls made by the community - I especially love the full randomizer gamemode where you get a random hero with all random units and artifacts, quickly upgrade them in 10 minutes, and then fight another player - quick and fun chaos :D

Seeing my dude turn from shock to laughter was great.

The Heroes series will forever be one of my top games, right up there with Starcraft, Majesty, and Escape Velocity.

Only true men of culture will understand that "Queen of Spades tattoo" joke

He still has the uncut versions of all his videos on his website in case you are interested

Sseth's Starsector key still works people!

I would recommend you to react to his wizardry 8 review, you might see some familiar faces there.

As a Pole who's early childhood took place in late 90's early 2000's, which makes me severely overqualified in all things related to HOMM as I *probably* spent several tens of thousands of hours playing all of these games, Heroes V is my second favorite game in the HOMM multiverse... right behind M&M VIII Day of the Destroyer. HOMM3 is on the third place.

You saying that Dark messiah is a clone of Skyrim is very, very, very TRIGGERING. And, WOW, you (kinda) know russian? I know that you know french, but wow, that was a peleasant surprise.

Our boi Jack knows this queen of spades symbol well it seems ;3

Dailymotion has the uncensored version.

If you have graphic issues like Seth limit your fps to 30.

The best thing about Heroes V? It directly leads to Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. The human queen? Her kidnapping by demons in a roundabout somewhat confusing that to put it simply leads to her getting knocked up and birthing Sereth, the main character of Dark Messiah. This games awful plot led to one of the most celebrated cult classics of the 21st century.

Wow wow wow... Hold your horses. First of all, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic came out 5 years before Skyrim. And it's more of an early immersive sim than a typical action rpg. This game is closer to dishonored than skyrim. But bigger diffrence between skyrim(or oblivion) and dark messiah are Skyrims has open world but DM has combat mechanics and choices that matter.

Heros 5 Where the most stupid strategy made me lose almost 3 friends. Play dungeon. Play Lethos. Lvl up. Have at least 3 stacks of assassins of 3K Start a fight. Lethos decays almost all enemies before the battle. Assassins taking care of the rest.

9:50 ACTUALLY, the normal goblin is a pathway to The Most Balanced exploit one can possibly ever do, which will allow you to win literally any fight. Technically any hero can do it, but the safest way is to do it as a knight who has the guardian angel ability.

There's a HRTA mod for heroes V that has a live online with active players. Although it's quite different from a regular game. You and your opponent both draft factions, fraft heroes and then you have limited amount of money to build your hero and army instantly (you basically level up for money), buy some artifacts and then fight. Basically a final battle simulator. Saves a lot of time and gives a lot of flexibility in building your hero.

Ironically settlers V does NOT contain ANY of the expansions on gog,as much as i share seth's love for gog sometimes the game is incomplete BUT that isnt thr case for homm 3,4 and 5 i got them all cpmplete on gog so just keep that in the back of your mind.

I wish that heroes VII would have the same graphics+units but the depth of HOMM3

0:59 That may be true...but Tempest Rising may change that.

Thats a nice feeling when a youtuber reacts to something you recommend

Actually his og video on the game had a yu gi oh dubstep parody

Soooooo what characters have you gotten on nikke?

I loved HoMM 2 and 3. Played them so much with my little sister

I didn't know 4Kids still existed

Seeing the Q♠️ tattoo almost made me Rage, but this is Seth so it made me laugh. The Q♠️culture disgusts me with a passion.

Content Sterling at yt peak. Do your own stuff