Heroes of Newerth.

I recently have been obsessively playing a game called: Heroes of Newerth. Here's a short description from wikipedia they sum it up rather nicely;

"Heroes of Newerth is a Real-time Strategy game made by S2 Games based on the Warcraft III scenario Defense of the Ancients otherwise known as (DotA)."

The game plays exactly like Dota but in a more refined, clean and unrestricted way. The coding is not restricted to the Warcraft 3 engine, so many spells/ powers/ abilities have incredibly unique and cool animations, and the creativity is quite refreshing. Although much of the core characters are still there are new ones and the cores get tweaked in one way or another. Its the same game on the same board but with different chess pieces.

I've played roughly ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY matches in the last few days. From 2nd of April to today 11th of April. Its a fun game, but again the community reeks. Its just as bad as dota, maybe worst with all the elitist garbage. Playing this game has given me practice to cuss many phrases and insults have been made with my time playing it and its not because I was trolling, no no no no. As much as I love trolling, I was the one being unreasonably crucified with noob stakes and feeder spears. Just so you know, I was rather far from noob my KDR is 1.0 over all my games and I have a rating of 1600, a bad player would normally have a psr <1500>

After a week of playing this game, almost incessantly and obsessively, I've recently (yesterday) have toned the playing hours down significantly. To be frank, I played it because I needed something to fill the void that is starcraft. Nothing can, I bought Bad Company 2, KOTOR, redownloaded Counter strike source and Modern Warfare 2. Nothing, lasted. HON lasted the longest if we're counting hours played which I have easily managed to get over 100 hours in HON, BC2 was around sixty i think. My recent obsession with HON is because of my previous history with DOTA or maybe its because of how awesome the rating system is, its quite addictive to rack up those points and improve one's KDR (kill death ratio). Although the community really kills this game, the fact is that HON like dota is a very team oriented game. Something that may be fun once in a while for example: playing starcraft with friends is ludicrously entertaining. But, playing with a bunch of strangers takes a toll especially when most of them are unforgiving douchebags that can only help one by calling others noob, feeder, or [insert cuss word here]. The key word is friends. But still, I would not recommend this to any of my friends, word of advice; stay away. I will, glad I could try it out and now call bull fuck on it.

Also thanks to HON I have a new inclination to hate people from the Philippines, not to be racist but; their such DICKS IN HON.

Now, tomorrow I think I'll check out the closest game store to look for Starcraft Brood war.