I vaguely remember that my first attempt to cyber cafe was when I was about 13 years old (no presents for anyone guessing my current age). It was a cyber cafe near my house and back then online games weren't a hit yet. What I did was join in chat rooms and get into useless conversations with those whom I'm not even sure whether they exist. Another thing I did was create an email account to which I still stick to my nickname till now (povege).
Not long after, cyber cafes began to sprout like mushrooms everywhere. Online games were introduced and soon people are all crazy over LAN games like Red Alert etc. I didn't really try playing those games back then only because I was busy with some other stuff. But sis and I did try Dota: Frozen Throne, at home and we ended up playing with cheat where we killed the enemy with just a single peasant because we were eager to know the story line -___-
When I started A-Levels, I met a bunch of friends and eventually we went to the cyber cafe together, once. If my memory doesn't fail me, we did played Dota but that was the end of it. My best friend didn't like the game and thought it was boring and the guys never invited us for any gaming sessions.
Recently, I was given an opportunity to once again re-visit my curiosity in Dota-ing (as they put it). It was Al's 22nd birthday. After the supposingly-dinner-but-turn-out-to-be-supper pizza session, we decided to go for Dota-ing. It was exciting for me because I'm a beginner and therefore get to pair up with the best player-Ben (who is my sifu)!
We sat on our tables, arranging seats to make sure that Ben is right beside me (haha!) and the game kicked off. My hero was Lina. I chose her because in my opinion, she's the prettiest. (-__- from Ben when I told him why Lina =p)
Playing the game is not easy because it requires some finger-stance. Just picture your little finger on the number '1', middle finger on 'd' and occasionally on 'e' and second finger on 't' (I may be wrong in some of the controls but you get what I mean). Just the description itself is frustrating enough. After a few rounds, my finger was stiff and cramping (I always pride myself in finger flexibility due to years of playing the piano but that day I realised I was so wrong).
Aside all that, it was a fun game. Ben asked me to try my 'ultimate' during the second round on one of our opponents and I 'accidentally' killed him! O_o (Too happy too soon) Apparently, I killed one of the good players among the guys and he started hunting me after that. All the guys knew I slaughtered him and they came after me since then. I could hear them shouting: "Where's Lina?" all the time. -_______________-
That night, I came home really late.
A few days later (Saturday), a few of us went to Ben's house for mahjong. After loosing RM10 (which was my budget for the day), I hooked his computer instead. What is the best thing to do non other than training my skills in Dota? So, I played another 3 rounds. I'm still not good at it though. My setting was 2 opponents (easy) and my team was 2 insane players plus me (I know it's cheating but who cares). It was fun! I tried playing with Zeus, female-hero-with-hood, 'chinese bear bear' and decided that Lina is still the best. (I have trouble remembering their names)
It's really fun but not for long hours or it'll get bored. Time flies when you're playing. I think playing two or three rounds will be good enough. Anything more than that would be too tiring and boring after awhile. I'm looking forward to more Dota sessions soon! :D
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