Wow. When I read the headline I thought it had to be an exaggeration or complaint about poor game quality. Nope, literally forgot to add it.

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What on Earth is with the system requirements for this game? It requires a gigabyte of space? Heroes of Might and Magic 3? How's that possible? Judging from the pictures it is not updated or remastered or anything.

Well thanks for that. I had no idea it existed and I love HOMM.

their first HoMM game, H5 from 2006

They also buried the M&M sci-fi storyline there.

Heroes 5 was actually a really solid entry, so I appreciate you 2006 fans!

*Activision taking notes*

Yeah exactly, this means not a single person that wasn't already fired and replaced with exec-level managed talking to Claude existed that could try the game out before setting it to public.

With a QA? Surely download and install a game is the first basic test case?

This may be DLC taken to its logical conclusion. Paying for the game gets you a .exe, the game and everything else, is a paid for download.

Stop! My shareholder can only get so erect!

When do they start charging us per download?

I've not played Song of Silence, but from what I've heard it's closer to Total War then HoMM.

You should try Songs of Conquest, which is heavily inspired by HoMM, with some more modern mechanics and QoL. I find it simpler than HoMM in general - might be a good intro into the genre.

Also vanilla HoMM 3 is not really a great way to play the game these days. I'd say Horn of the Abyss is a must, and there are a ton of mods to improve the game. Have a look at the VCMI project if you want to dig deeper.

My favorite is HoMM 5.5, which improves 5 a lot.

There's obviously also Olden Era, which is not bad and a very approachable intro into the series. I've not played much, so my experience is too limited to comment on it.

This version has all the content and isn't remastered.