~Beyond the Border~ > Akyu's Arcade
Defense of the Ancients
Ghaleon:
--- Quote from: Carthrat on June 26, 2009, 01:12:06 AM ---When you cite the following reasons for not liking a game-
1) Lousy community
2) High learning curve
-then the obvious counterpoints are going to be 'I like it because I play with friends instead of jerks, and I don't mind having to learn.' Flip your complaints around and you answer your own question, and you might understand why people are going to take your comments in a poor light.
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I don't play dota at all except with friends.. and I don't mind learning. As I said I've already learned it better than most of them (who have been playing for years).
I still feel like it's not my cup of tea. I can respect if other people like it.. It's just.. well. It's VERY popular.. I'm not asking about some random game with a fairly niche crowd that likes it. It's...well... BIG.
So while I have some enjoyment playing the game with my friends when I do. I still feel to myself that we would be having much more fun playing something else. Especially when one of them gets frusterated with the game or something. So for a map mod, I can respect it's excellently done. But the truth is, I just don't see what about it really stands out that makes it irreplaceable to other games.
Schpwette had a pretty good response though. It requires a little bit of everything in a way (which is probably why I learned to be competative with my friends so easily, cuz I'm pretty much the only one that really plays pretty much any genre of game).
trancehime:
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Now I'm just confused.
Now you're saying the game is bad because... it's... popular? It's certainly not irreplaceable to other games, but you're still not really... I don't know how to put this. I haven't seen any valid reasons for the game sucking >_>
Ghaleon:
--- Quote from: BougaPrincess on June 26, 2009, 08:36:58 AM ---...
Now I'm just confused.
Now you're saying the game is bad because... it's... popular? It's certainly not irreplaceable to other games, but you're still not really... I don't know how to put this. I haven't seen any valid reasons for the game sucking >_>
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I never said the game was bad. I simply said I don't enjoy it. nor did I say I don't enjoy it because it's popular...
You need to stop assuming I have hidden innuendo with what I'm saying, or whatever it is that you're doing that's causing you to rebute things I've never said >=P.
I'm a very *VERY* literal person, and I wonder about all sorts of useless things that other people would just say "sucks" and walk away from.
I don't enjoy dota, I respect that it's a successful game. As a gamer who doesn't enjoy it, I wonder (read.. wonder, I'm truly interested) what DOTA has that attracts so many people successfully...
For example, I'll try and say why "wow" is so good to the people that enjoy it imo.
Wow is probably the very first MMORPG where any player can start the game with little to no mmorpg experience, and level from 1 all the way to the level cap, easily and smoothly. There was no "zomg priests can't quest past level 30", nor was there zomgwtfpwnt mobs in certain zones that were apparently equal in difficulty as the mob next door (like other mmorpgs had).
Now even if you hate wow, you can't dispute that, that's what makes it special (among other things). It's probably the first mmorpg to cater so much to "casuals" ever.
THAT is what I'm hoping for with this topic regarding dota. I hope you get what I'm getting at this time >='(.
trancehime:
I'm sorry, but this is the internet. It's impossible to get away with being too literal.
There are so many subtexts with the things you've been saying that it's rather hard to take your posts at face value without going "there is clearly something wrong with what this person has posted"
>_>
Prody:
Don't play DotA when you don't have at least 4 friends, or else it can get really unfun.