Defense of the Ancients 2 is my favorite video game. It is a free-to-play game created and maintained by the Valve Corporation, which is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and ruled by the legendary Gabe Logan Newell. Defense of the Ancients 2 (DotA2) is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) in which each of ten players (two teams of five players each) take control of ten heroes to do battle and fulfill objectives on a roughly-symmetrical playing field. The game is routinely praised for being unforgivingly strategic and nearly impossible to master. Players seeking any level of success must be nimble of hand, cunning of mind, and, perhaps most importantly, completely void of human emotion: when two warriors lock eyes on the battlefield, be they the armorclad Dragon Knight, the enigmatic Juggernaut, the unrelenting Bloodseeker, or the mischievous faerie-dragon Puck, all mercy must be put aside. The best teams do not only destroy their opponents, though that is an important part: the best teams humiliate their enemies, casting them down like broken-winged birds into the loser???s pit of shame amidst an unceasing stream of ridicule and scorn. In a sense it is not a battle of heroes: it is a battle of egos where the most resilient emerges the victor.
I, having accrued nearly two thousand matchmaking points, am unusually good, and with my signature hero, the Sniper, I have sown violence and death across thousands of battlefields. Regarding items, I start with a Butterfly. Providing massive bonuses to agility, attack speed, and evasion, it is, by a wide margin, the best item in the game. I usually stay mid lane and farm gold until I finish it, typically around minute 40, at which point I will start roaming and ganking. After netting a few kills I will purchase Mask of Madness to improve my attack speed and mobility. Some people prefer Boots of Speed as their mobility item, but in my opinion, only the dimmest of dimwits rely on passive effects: a truly skilled player (like me) can utilize active effects to greater result. Not to mention the Boots of Speed have no offensive capabilities whatsoever???neither attack damage, attack speed, or agility. One could argue that the upgraded Boots of Speed (called Power Treads) remedies this problem, but I would counter-argue that the passive 30 increased attack speed granted by the Power Treads pales in comparison to the Mask of Madness???s active attack speed bonus of 100. It is painfully obvious which is better???yet still I am routinely disappointed by just how many players refuse to buy the Mask of Madness. Passive effects are the bane of my online existence.
Boulder Dash was the only good roller coaster.
"or if you're when the hydraulic fluid was dumped out of the motor is goes 200ft up the tower and is like "LOL nope"" - CKMWM 2016