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I started playing Heroes in 2004; before that, I hadn't even heard of the game, which I might even be a little ashamed of, but on the other hand, I didn't even have a computer back then, let alone talk about games (well, I did have a computer back in 1987 :p, but those who remember that time will understand that it's not comparable to a modern computer... and I didn't have many games back then either)... And I wasn't really interested in games back then either...:smile39: So, that's when I visited my future husband and saw two games on his computer: Blitzkrieg and Heroes 4. My husband was enthusiastically playing Heroes and showed it to me, but I didn't understand anything at all at first. I saw the beautiful graphics, the amazing music, but I didn't know what to do. I thought it was incredibly complicated and switched to Blitzkrieg. In the evening, my husband went to work (to manage the fans :D, I hadn't managed to infect him with football yet :p, well, rather, not to manage, but to maintain order at the stadium), I played Blitzkrieg, won once, and then got stuck: I couldn't liberate the bridge from the Germans. So, I decided to take a look at what Heroes 4 was all about. I launched it, turned on the tutorial, and started carefully examining and reading everything, and tried to play. It was funny because, as long as I was just running around, everything was fine, but as soon as it came to battles, I didn't know what to do at all. How I managed to win something there remains a mystery:rolleyes:. Of course, it immediately impressed me; I just fell in love with it, played and played, my husband came home and started helping me. That's when I played my first game, and when it came to choosing a race, I looked at each one for a long time, and then I suddenly saw the Nature race: wolves, tigers, unicorns, griffins, mantises, dragons, phoenixes. Since I simply adore nature and animals, the choice was obvious. Of course, I chose Nature, and it's still my favorite race (and not just in 4, I play as Sylvan in 5), and I'm glad that I was able to prove to the skeptics that you CAN play as Nature! That it's a pretty strong race! Later, I played a little with all the races; I also liked Order, Chaos, and Life. I'll say that all the races are good in their own way, and it's very interesting to play as them, with different tactics and different development... BUT that's another topic, another conversation.
P.S. And finally, I'll say that Heroes struck me right in the heart back then; I fell in love with this magic, this world, this fairy tale that they offer. And I still love them even more tenderly and strongly...:smile23:
Well, that was just a lyrical digression :smile43: