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Could only imagine designing them for real...
Do you refer to Defense of the Ancients or a sub-genre of games in general? Because you seem to refer to that very often, like you want to talk about your experiences with gaming. Just curious.
"Do you refer to Defense of the Ancients or a sub-genre of games in general? Because you seem to refer to that very often, like you want to talk about your experiences with gaming. Just curious.
Heh, I didn't realize it was that obvious but then again nothing slips by you. I love Defense of the Ancients and all sub-genres in that line. It was the first of its kind, but I really enjoyed everything that followed it. Well, everything but LOL (league of Legends), bleh. But Dota, Dota 2, Heroes of Newerth, etc, are probably some of my favorite games. I was actually working on my own mode for a while. Did you every play Dota by chance or any of the others. Honestly it would be a pretty boring thing to talk about unless this were something you enjoyed as well. But thanks for asking!
Admittedly, I had to search up on Wikipedia to clarify what you meant, never heard of DOTA before then.
Oh god, I heard about League of Legends... Let me guess, it was the community for you too? They're right horrible little pricks, all of them.
Honestly, I used to play Runescape for quite a while before I ended up quitting, since I accomplished a lot of goals and the game turned to utter crap (Not being able to log on also pissed me off to a degree). My experience online does stretch back to Battle.net and in particular Warcraft III, especially with all the creative defense modes and everything people created. So much fun back in the days!
It's my pleasure really. Take care.
...what I mean by that is this, Dota is NOT just a game that you can pick up and play, you will probably get slaughtered the first 100 games, (if not the first 1k) and through that process you'll be really letting your teammates down because of feeding, (dying and giving up gold and xp to the other team) is crucial even in small amounts. And since it's a team game 5 v 5, 1 person can make all the difference. Beyond that the game's usually last 30 minutes to over an hour. So that's a lot of time investment that people just become very impatient with the newbies on.
Where it not a battlenet game and there were some way to filter players into groups based on experience this probably wouldn't be this way. But as it the communities that built up around it were pretty antagonistic to newcomers. I was exceptional at the game and played for YEARS but even then I was still learning it. It's the only game I've every played where you are constantly learning like this, as well it's continually being updated with new/changed content characters and gear.
It's the only gear based game I know of that doesn't take the skill factor out of it. No two Dota games have EVER been played the same. It requires a ton of skill and a completely new way of playing that not many people can adjust too. It looks like an RTS with the story elements of an RPG but if you play it like either of those you're going to get royally fucked, lol.
I'm a fast learner and I continually got my ass handed to me for awhile. But if you can make it past all the verbal abuse into the upper echelons of dotariety (just made that up) it's extremely reward and has provided some of the best gaming experiences I've ever enjoyed. Anyways, that's my little gaming rant on that, haha. But I don't play anymore, all just memories now.
Eh, probably leaves no surprise to me actually... The internet is more or less a world without consequences, where you can say or do anything you like and nobody can stop you (unless say you were looking up bomb recipes or something...
Heh, I'm kinda wondering whether win-loss records are available for public record on DOTA... Could so imagine this scenario: "Right, we need a great team member, somebody with chutzpah, a mean streak, and excellent skills... Let's see, how bout this guy? A 1-1001 win-loss record? That dude's like fucking Glass Joe, forget it!
Meh, that's probably an issue right there. Still, continuous learning never hurt anybody... even with all the verbal lashings you may receive from time to time. Kinda reminds me of some kind of boot camp, really. Still, if it constantly challenges you, then what's the problem in that?
Constantly being able to adapt to new situations is perhaps an extremely important skill to have in the workplace, to talk about such relevance. Heh, if you're gonna get royally fucked by playing DOTA as one style only, you may as well by yourself some Vaseline to make it easier for you.
And awesome, nice to know you accomplished goals and finally got to enjoy yourself after years of training and practice. That actually reminded me of the South Park episode where the four boys playing World of Warcraft are constantly getting killed by a griefer, so they train endlessly against computer-generated boars, over and over and over again and getting fatter and uglier in the process, and then they finally destroy the person who's caused them such grief. Some of the final lines were:
"I can't believe it's finally over... What do we do now?"
"What do you mean? Now we can finally play the game."
I'm sure, based on your DOTA experiences, you could relate to that.
Anyway, that's that from me, hope to speak again. Sayonara, Auf Wiedersehen and Goodbye!