[HoN/DotA] Let's Play~!! - Page 1196

On March 14 2011 05:51 anka wrote:
When I read the line "Let's Play" I always think of something accessible, easy to get into.
But HoN/DotA is far from that, lets do an anology/story. It will be devided into parts.

Part 1

Imagine yourself swimming in an ocean of piss, and from time to time you dive down to the bottom of the ocean to scoure the seabed for something usefull, thats about how pleasnt and thats how much you will understand of your first games. Then after you have done quite many dives down to the bottom of the ocean you finally find something, you pick it up, it has an ovalshaped top and a stick connected to the oval shape, you wonder what this is, you think of it for a while, and then suddenly you find land!
At this point you'v been swimming in an ocean of piss that is the start of playing HoN/dota and the Racquet you'v found on the bottom of the ocean will represent the understanding of the gameplay.

Part 2

You'v got ahold of it, but you dont really know what to do with it, its frustrating, you have this awesome thing and you really dont know what to do.
While you wander arround on the piece of dirt your on, and suddenly you find something red and round, you start to wonder, wonder if I can hit it with my raquet? You try, the red round thing gets smashed and falls to the ground as a red gooey thing, you find more red rounds things, lets call them tomates. After a while when you'v been hitting these tomates, you notice that the sun is gone and the clouds in the sky is gettin darker.
Now you'v have had some experiance with the gameplay (raquet) but you
dont really know what you'r doin, it might feel pointless, but atleast you'r gettin better at hittin those tomates and damn hard to.

Part 3

BEWARE - Shitstorm incoming.
The sky is gettin darker, and suddenly small pieces of something brown, gooey and smelly drops down from the sky, you wonder what this is. But you continue to wander arround and hittin tomates, while the shit if flying all over the place, hitting you in the face and beeing generally unpleasant, your starting to get angry, screaming at the shit, but you figure out its pointless, for obvious reasons, because it only replys variations of "noob". While you wander/run arround trying to find cover for the shit droppin from the sky, you stumble upon something yellow, round and bouncy, for a while you wonder, "what is this? And what do I do with it?", but then you try to hit it with you'r raquet, its amazing! What a discovery, you'r having such a fun time the shit droppin from the sky dont disturb you as much as before. After a while you'r really good at having the ball under controll, bouncin on the raquet as if this is nobodys bznz. Suddenly you hear a voice.

This part is focusing on the whine that will occur on lower levels, often without a purpose and often very harsh for someone whos learning the game, but since you'v found the missing half of you'r raquet, you'r gettin better at this thing, whatever it is.

Part 4

The voice is calling on you, you turn arround wondering where it came from, and there ins the distance you see a shadowy figure, you rush towards it, your totally coverd in shit when you get to this person, he greets you and notices you have a raquet and a ball, he picks up his own equipment, you both smile and whoner what whill happen. You get an awesome idea, that if you hit the ball in his direction he might be able to hit it back, and he does, but because of the severe shitstorm arround you, your having problems seeing the ball and hitting it back. You start to wonder if you might be able to build some kind of shelter. After a while the two of you find another person with the same equipment as you, and your plan gets in the work, a big area shelter is starting to arise, fianlly some cover from the shitstorm, adn during all this some more people come and go to play with you, your finally starting to enjoy this! This is fun!

This part is focusing on improving you'r gameplay and teamplay, your starting to improve, enjoying the game with some buddies, eventually you might be able to play on a real tenniscourt at the tip top level. This is where it shines, this is where HoN/DotA is!

I hope this wont discourage people from starting to play, but I promise you, in 99% of cases you'r story will be somewhat like this.

Also to lazy to look for typos and whatnot.