Kings Bounty: The legend or HOMM5

I Just played the Kb demo and fell in love with it, it the first turnbase game ive ever played. But when ever I read about kb i always a see a comment about homm5. Is it better? What are the differences.

The reference to Heroes of Might and Magic is apt because the original King's Bounty was developed by New World Computing which was basically a template for Heroes of Might and Magic developed several years later. However, regarding King's Bounty: The Legend and Heroes V, the only thing these two games share is the battle system. Everything else is pretty different. King's Bounty is structured like an old-school RPG with a long, story-driven single-player campaign with loads of exploration and sidequests. Heroes V is a straight-up turn-based strategy game with a single-player objective-based campaign, skirmish mode and multiplayer. In King's Bounty you move around the world in real-time with your character which is the only thing you control outside the battles. In Heroes V, you are in control of your entire empire, you siege and capture cities, construct buildings, build huge armies, control multiple heroes etc. I liked King's Bounty a bit more, but both are great games very much worth playing.

I liked King's Bounty a bit more, but both are great games very much worth playing.

UpInFlames

I second this statement.

also, I played through with the mage and now im doing it with a warrior, but I feel like Im not doing anything its just my guys. Like there arent any abilities or spells. Does he get stuff later?

HoM&M games are always decent, but KB:TL to me is the best game of 2008, and the best CRPG in recent years, up there with NWN2->MotB and The Witcher.

Both are great games although I prefer KB.

Batllesare similar but the map system is different. In HoMMthe world map is a sucession of closed levels and your movement on the map is turn-based also. In KB you can freely roam the entire world in real-time. This opens up a lot more possibilities.

King's Bounty is da bomb! LOL * s h i z n i t * is a censored word!

I definitely agree with everyone who responded so far to this thread. I have both games, and they're both great. I prefer King's Bounty more because I like its battle system more than I do Heroes V. And I think it has a lot more varied creatures than Heroes does. I am not trying to say Heroes V sucks, but I think KB is better since it's a nice refresh of an old, classic game Heroes was founded upon.

Another option to those games, it's Disciples 2. It's a great game and I really like the art style.

Another option to those games, it's Disciples 2. It's a great game and really like the art style.

Sordidus

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Another option to those games, it's Disciples 2. It's a great game and really like the art style.

stike22

Yeah but isn't the same developer, but I'm waiting for it.

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Another option to those games, it's Disciples 2. It's a great game and really like the art style.

Sordidus

Yeah but isn't the same developer, but I'm waiting for it.

Well I prefer HoMM V as I find it much more strategic than King's Bounty both in battle map and adventure map and having more interesting options for Heroes Level up and power. That said King's Bounty has it's own charm and I would recommend going for it since you are new to Turn based games (although hero games are pretty simple too). After that if you like the concept you can go for HoMM V where the adventure is also Turn Basednaval

This.

King's Bounty has a great art style, the story is pretty good and the fights are entertaining too. After you master it get Heroes of Might and Magic V,it has a lot of strategy and it's pretty different compared to KB. Imo Tribes of the East is the best (even tho it got bad reviews because it's hard and the "AI cheats" but definitely get all 3 and maybe, if you have enough money or you consider it worthwhile, get Heroes of Might and Magic Complete Edition, it's art book alone is worth half of the price :P.

P.S. XIntoTheBlue, it doesn't have nearly as many units as Heroes but it does have it's own charm.

Both are good enough, i would lean more towards HOMM5 however and the reason is because of the design of Kings Bounty.

Don't get me wrong Kings bounty is a fun game but it suffers from some of the worst design flaws i ever saw. There is powerful monsters wandering in starting areas, some battle are downright impossible at the beginning of the game but they can be avoided once you actually know what the units do, there is a LOT of backtracking, too much in fact, going back in 3 different places across the map to hire units for your army gets annoying really fast. I was not a fan of the story of Kings bounty, the humor attempt was really not in matching my interests as i found the dialogue simply silly (that's an opinion).

If you still want it tho, make sure you save a lot, the cherry on top for me was when i lost 30 minutes of gameplay because i entered some tower within one of the zone around my level, started talking to some guy which lead to a linear dialogue (no way to avoid it) only to start a battle against impossible odds which seriously made me go ''wtf is up with this game''. Literally, about 50 units vs 5000... in a zone with encounters around my level, wtf? If this is not horrible design, i don't know what it is, in any case it's a good game assuming you save a LOT and by that i really mean it.

HOMM5 is pretty traditional, i see it as the real basic gameplay of most turn based games around the genre. Fun and balanced enough, overall good game.

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I liked King's Bounty a bit more, but both are great games very much worth playing.

XaosII

I second this statement.

Definitely agree. KB was my surprise of the year.

[QUOTE="naval"]Well I prefer HoMM V as I find it much more strategic than King's Bounty both in battle map and adventure map and having more interesting options for Heroes Level up and power. That said King's Bounty has it's own charm and I would recommend going for it since you are new to Turn based games (although hero games are pretty simple too). After that if you like the concept you can go for HoMM V where the adventure is also Turn BasedDanielDust

This.

King's Bounty has a great art style, the story is pretty good and the fights are entertaining too. After you master it get Heroes of Might and Magic V,it has a lot of strategy and it's pretty different compared to KB. Imo Tribes of the East is the best (even tho it got bad reviews because it's hard and the "AI cheats" but definitely get all 3 and maybe, if you have enough money or you consider it worthwhile, get Heroes of Might and Magic Complete Edition, it's art book alone is worth half of the price :P.

P.S. XIntoTheBlue, it doesn't have nearly as many units as Heroes but it does have it's own charm.