Monday, November 14, 2011

Defense of the Ancient - A game of Minds and Tactics!

 Funny, how i describe this game. I describe it as a social terarium. Many people says that this is a game for geeks and freekos! But hey! As they always say, don't judge the book by it's cover. This is a game of minds. How you balance your weakness and enhance your strenght! The game deals with two opposing sides, The Scourge and The Sentinel.

 GAMEPLAY:

 Players on the Sentinel team are based at the southwest corner of the map, and those on the Scourge team are based at the northeast corner. Each base is defended by towers and waves of units which guard the main paths leading to their base. In the center of each base is the "Ancient", a building that must be destroyed to win the game. Each human player controls one Hero, a powerful unit with unique abilities. In DoTA each hero has a unique abilities and tactical advantages over other hero. The scenario is highly team-oriented; it is difficult for one player to carry the team to victory alone the team should work together.The Team is composed of five members.

Unlike of those real-time online strategy games, this games does not fucos on strenghten the unit buildings but rather on the heroes and so as taking down the unit buildings of the enemy. Killing the wave of creeps gives you gold, but killing hostile heroes gives you "MORE" gold. Also by these, you gain "experience", by gaining these your hero level up! The damage infict; the hp/mp; and the abilities increaseas. Using gold, players buy items to strengthen their hero and gain abilities; certain items can be combined with recipes to create more powerful items. Buying items that suit one's hero is an important tactical element of the scenario. Item choice also affects play style, as any given item may increase one statistic (for example, attack per minute) while leaving another (damage per attack) unchanged.

INTERPRETATION:

 By exposing to these, we enhance our rational capability to think harder and use our minds to create tactical moves which we can imply in our certain lives. For an example, at bussiness: We have some competetors that competes againts us for a high profit. As it is, we should know what our weakness on some point, so as the opposing side. In this, we can create a tactical move to compete with them using our strenght.

 In life, most people's motives is to win over others. This fact is unchangable, rather than just be fooled around, be wise! :D Always use your abilities to kill the wave of creeps and defeat the Scourge!

 MESSAGE:

 Too much is bad, as they say. So we also must have limits. DoTA is a knowledge gaver, but also, in some cases of abuse, this might be the Scourge that will ruin us. Be responsible, and enjoy always! :D

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