As some people would already know, I watch competitive Heroes of Newerth games via Honcast. Usually people who watches these games are professional gamers. But I’m slightly different. When you actually play with me, you will simply find me irritating or nice to play with. If I’m in your team, then you’ll most likely find me irritating. If I’m you’re opponent, then well, congratulations because you just got yourself a good game of free killings. I have the power to balance Nerf characters. I’m that bad. But I still have the interest to waste several hours of my life playing the game, watching others play and dream about the game. You can say that I eat, sleep and play Heroes of Neweth. But then people ask me,
Why are you not good at the game?
Some people would just put this rather too directly,
Shit, Richard! You’re a noob!
I take this quite well because I heard this phrase too many times already. Well, as much as I would love to improve in this game which I’m truly compassionate in, I somehow ‘suck’ at it. At this present moment, I have been playing HoN for about a year now, but I can safely say that I didn’t improve that much. Well, at least I’m better than my DotA days. =)
But still! I should be owning right?
So I decided to do a case study about this. There are several reasons which I can conclude why I fail in Heroes of Newerth.
- HoN is not my cup of tea.
- I always prefer an easier game than playing a harder on and learn from it.
- I never went for HoN tuition.
- I watch competitive games without taking down notes.
- I talk about HoN twenty-four hours a day.
As you can see, these are the reasons which pretty much limits me. And that’s not good. Well, do I interest to counter these limits. Not really… for I do not believe that HoN is not my cup or tea or that I should not enjoy every HoN game or pay so much money to attend classes or take out a piece of paper and jotting down tons of notes instead of enjoying a Hon replay.
It’s truly amazing to see professional gamers do their thing. Some of my friends can give me answers like,
There’s two sides of life. You can be smart and hardworking while sacrificing your social life and gaming life.
Put this in a simpler way, I can never play a good game since I am hardworking. *Not to praise myself of course*
Speaking of hardworking, I think THE RICHARD Facebook fan page just went too over board. Seriously. It’s like they keep saying,
OOo! Richard just did something! Update! Update!
These kinds of things should happen to stars and not some random Malaysian boy who’s trying his best to find a life. Haha. I just finished school. Yeah, kind of late right. It’s because our school have this policy that all Pre-University One students have to stay back till 4:45pm to do their Extended Essays. However, today was special for me. I opened Honcast.com and watch TEAM versus PYRO. Not to mention, I watched PYRO loss to TSoG yesterday in a match which I find it really good.
Yeah, I know… I’m suppose to do Extended Essay instead of wasting time right? Well, to protect myself, I pretty much done everything for extended essay except the fact that I have to quickly start the experiment. Problem is that I cannot find a Chromatic Meter to measure the chromatic of the flower. Who ever can find it please contact me. I’ll belanja (treat) you. =D *Parents included*
Moving on, Chen Hui joined me in watching the casting. Well, I actually thought that he would not watch the cast at all since he is an awful loyal player of DotA. But I just asked him since I believe that there’s always a chance for everything. Little did I know, he accepted it and grabbed a chair and watched the 44 minutes game with me. Mark was quietly doing his Extended Essay beside me, but I’m very sure that his watching the game beside me. *Right Mark? =D*
Chen Hui being like other guys asked me why am I still a noob even though I watch HoN replay…
Though I did learn a lot of things from him. About team fights, wards and some other stuffs which I presume he brings from DotA. It’s sad to see PYRO loose this game since they already loss yesterday. I must that my internet failed me today. Everytime when we are watching team fights, it lags… That is very disturbing Mr iPhone… or shall I say, Mr. SingTel. All the best bit of the game is lag and I always have to press pause to let the com buffer it for a bit.
Well, that lasted for a good 40 minutes until Mrs. Chew asked us why are we watching this when we should be doing EE. Which reminds me that I had a bad start this morning. Well, it’s not because it affect me in any way, but my form teacher had a fight with a boy in my class. *I shall not any names here for pride purposes*
This student said that he had a very sore back because of training. But then the teacher just wants him/her to sit up straight and read a book. The student refuse because it was painful. The teacher insist with his/her stand and said that he/she should produce a letter if the pain is very bad. Or go see a doctor. The student then rebut by saying that he/she is not seeing a doctor just because of a sore back. Then the teacher continued that if the pain is not so bad then he/she should just sit upright. The real bitch fight began when the student said rubbish.
In the end, both the teacher and student got caught out. Needless to say, the results are always the game in school.
Oh well, time for me to eat dinner before studying for business. =D
Not to mention, I got cereals and fresh milk to make my boarding like a whole lot more colourful! =D
