Edit 4: I know that most of the people who would get this edit wouldn't see it, but it'd make me feel better anyway if I just said it. If we're being charitable, I'm sort of a dick. If not, I'm the kind that Republicans distance themselves from. That's why I've been having a lot of difficulty in swallowing my pride, but by this point I don't think I even have any left.
I didn't give the game a fair go. There, I said it.
Now that I think about it, this is going kind of like how I started watching the new My Little Pony series. After wondering what the fuss was about and rather hating it (I thought that Twilight was completely unlikable and the others were stereotypes) I made a thread about it which I didn't expect to get inflammatory within the first ten posts, but it did. So I swore off the whole thing, except one time when I had nothing else to do and realised I didn't give it much of a chance. Now I've seen pretty much the whole show, and I'll admit that it's not perfect, but I do enjoy it on the whole.
Now, if it's at all possible, can we drop the subject of My Little Pony, especially since this is GD and not OTD? (Particularly if we're going to start talking about the show's fandom and not just the show itself.) But trying to judge the game solely on its interface, since I didn't play it long enough to judge anything else, is kind of unfair. Especially now that I know that right clicking buys items at base and so I don't have to spend five minutes trying to work it out.
For what it's worth, and I know that that usually means that I know and you know it's not worth anything at all, I'm sorry I was a dick to all of you in an attempt to judge something I didn't actually know properly. I do already know League, and it's easier to just stick to what you already know, but...I don't know. Maybe I still feel like I have something to prove, or maybe I'm just a complete masochist.
Bottom line is, I have nothing better to do right now (at least until Torchlight 2 comes out) than try to lose my existing bias (writing this is actually helping a lot) and actually play the game.
Again, sorry it took me this long to realise that this sort of thing never gets anywhere. And that I tend to be a dick to people.
Wonder if I'll manage to remember what happens when I do this sort of thing longer than two weeks before I make another mortal enemy over the Internet.
Fingers crossed, right?
If anyone still feels like making good on their previous offers of helping, my Steam username is 'NerfedFalcon' and that's currently my screen name as well. Not expecting anything, but it can't hurt to ask. Right? Please don't prove me wrong on that.
I didn't give the game a fair go. There, I said it.
Now that I think about it, this is going kind of like how I started watching the new My Little Pony series. After wondering what the fuss was about and rather hating it (I thought that Twilight was completely unlikable and the others were stereotypes) I made a thread about it which I didn't expect to get inflammatory within the first ten posts, but it did. So I swore off the whole thing, except one time when I had nothing else to do and realised I didn't give it much of a chance. Now I've seen pretty much the whole show, and I'll admit that it's not perfect, but I do enjoy it on the whole.
Now, if it's at all possible, can we drop the subject of My Little Pony, especially since this is GD and not OTD? (Particularly if we're going to start talking about the show's fandom and not just the show itself.) But trying to judge the game solely on its interface, since I didn't play it long enough to judge anything else, is kind of unfair. Especially now that I know that right clicking buys items at base and so I don't have to spend five minutes trying to work it out.
For what it's worth, and I know that that usually means that I know and you know it's not worth anything at all, I'm sorry I was a dick to all of you in an attempt to judge something I didn't actually know properly. I do already know League, and it's easier to just stick to what you already know, but...I don't know. Maybe I still feel like I have something to prove, or maybe I'm just a complete masochist.
Bottom line is, I have nothing better to do right now (at least until Torchlight 2 comes out) than try to lose my existing bias (writing this is actually helping a lot) and actually play the game.
Again, sorry it took me this long to realise that this sort of thing never gets anywhere. And that I tend to be a dick to people.
Wonder if I'll manage to remember what happens when I do this sort of thing longer than two weeks before I make another mortal enemy over the Internet.
Fingers crossed, right?
A friend of mine got me a beta key for the game because he thinks that I'm a casual cancer for still playing LoL, even though Dota 2 still isn't out of 'open' beta. So I eventually managed to get a game (seriously, the accept/decline thing is something that should be erased from existence in every universe) and from what I could tell, it was basically LoL except much, much more obtuse. It doesn't have a learning curve so much as a learning brick wall that starts from the instant you boot up the game - especially since the difficulty options outright lie. It should be more along the lines of 'Normal mode: I have played DotA: Allstars.'
Nobody thinks that I Wanna Be The Guy is a well-designed game for anything except making LP'ers cry. Why does Dota 2 get away with stuff like only having one way to do everything and no hints as to what that way is? That was everything I gleaned from one game, and based solely on that, I don't think it's worth my time to try again. First impressions last, after all.
But in the interest of being fair to a game that's still in 'beta', please give me one good reason (no, 'it's better than LoL because I say so' is not a good reason) to give it a second chance.
Nobody thinks that I Wanna Be The Guy is a well-designed game for anything except making LP'ers cry. Why does Dota 2 get away with stuff like only having one way to do everything and no hints as to what that way is? That was everything I gleaned from one game, and based solely on that, I don't think it's worth my time to try again. First impressions last, after all.
But in the interest of being fair to a game that's still in 'beta', please give me one good reason (no, 'it's better than LoL because I say so' is not a good reason) to give it a second chance.
If anyone still feels like making good on their previous offers of helping, my Steam username is 'NerfedFalcon' and that's currently my screen name as well. Not expecting anything, but it can't hurt to ask. Right? Please don't prove me wrong on that.
