This is a game I previously had very little experience with despite owning it for a long long time. Although the whole thing seemed a bit impenetrable at first and because of that I ended up shelving it for a long long time.
Recently though, I decided to give it another spin with a few buddies. After a few games of being absolutely destroyed and struggling to figure out whats what, things started to go a lot smoother. Once you get round all the differences from something like, League of Legends, and you begin to get a feel for how to play, everything becomes a lot clearer.
When you first fire it up you are SWAMPED with literally hundreds of things that you have to take in all at once. Of course, not all of these things will sink in over the course of one game, so you will need to take a little while to find your feet. That said, once you have found your feet DotA2 is a much more satisfying game to play than League.
I'm not saying League is bad with that, but League feels very bare bones. One of the reasons I think it appeals to so many people is that you don't really have to learn all that much stuff before you can play it with some degree of proficiency. With League you can switch your brain off and just make things die, which is fine for having fun with, but the depth found it DotA makes it a much more satisfying after a match is finished.
Right now it's still in beta and you need an invite to play it, but if you can get your hands on one, give it a go. But whatever you do don't give up just because you get destroyed the first few times, it WILL happen, I promise it, but once you do master it a little bit you'll be playing one of the most fun games available at the moment.
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