I started playing HoMM3 a year or two ago (zero nostalgia factor) and I've put in hundreds of hours since then, one of my favorites ever. It really scratches a

I started playing HoMM3 a year or two ago (zero nostalgia factor) and I've put in hundreds of hours since then, one of my favorites ever. It really scratches a lot of the itch of Master of Magic, with the tactical combat and spells, but much simplified city management and more variety in user-made maps. It's actually been pretty threatening to my career how much I want to play this game. For years programming killed my desire to play video games, but now I can't make myself learn stuff on the weekends like I need to because I want to play HoMM3.