I just wanted to play a custom game and I have one thing available from the 'training' campaign I did to chose from? There's a weird system with dynasty items that looks like a grindy online thing that just doesn't jive with me.- Town UI was terrible, and in general what is going on in a town was confusing, I suppose it would get better with use (like most UI issues) but I feel like a lot of it was just poorly designed/implemented.until trying to start the game and it was like 'YOU CAN'T DO THAT TILL YOU HAVE A HERO' - UI, While trying to start a map there was no obvious section to customise hero/town etc.So sometimes while trying to find out what an ability does I can't get any details. It isn't obvious when one of the three outcomes is available. - UI, for, not obvious reasons, certain objects you hover over and a tooltip appears, others you have to right click, and others just don't tell you anything.- UI, things aren't put in helpful locations there's just like a pile of visual objects stacked in a square row for almost every screen.The UI is an unintuitive clusterfuck, I'll make a few ui points.Visually it felt like a Heroes 5 expansion but with slightly worse graphics somehow.But I've played 1-5 a LOT (4 the least, for obvious reasons) and I picked it up for $5 over xmas.ДЇor me there were a few immediate things that made it frustrating/disappointing. I'm not sure I've played it enough to hate it. I also recall the English writing being execrable, although this may have been a localisation issue.

Regarding the actual game: although I enjoyed what I managed to play of it, I felt strongly that HOMM III was the tighter, better designed game, HOMM IV was the most satisfying power fantasy (as your heroes can absolutely kick ass), and I don't remember enough of HOMM V to comment. To be fair, many people unfairly conflated the horrible DRM solution and poor functionality of uPlay with the incredibly buggy game - but when the end result was that very few people were able to play the game they paid 30-odd quid for without running into game-breaking bugs, there's not much to rave about. I remember a perception at the time that Ubisoft hadn't really put its weight behind the game and was just trying to extract money from fans, largely inspired by how broken the game was for many people. One of the issues was these pointer errors that kept cropping up - now I expect that from no-name games like Eador: Masters of the Broken Game, but given that this was HOMM VI I was expecting a basic level of competence. It's never worked on any machine I've had, across various different hardware combinations. But I have never been able to make it work longer than an hour, no matter what I did, and only after a lot of work could I get it working longer than a half hour. I probably would have enjoyed it well enough, if I could play it. Maybe there's a great game hidden under the black screens, BSODs, crashes to desktop, and inexplicably poor performance, but I'm unlikely to ever find it.

Even once I fought past uPlay etc., it's literally broken.

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