I just finished an arena match and I'm beginning to wonder why I thought it was going to be possible to play this game without buying the ultimate god pack. I got blamed for the entire match at the end by a hades player, saying that I was a noob idiot because my turret (I was playing Vulcan, because I can only carry my team with him, I'm on a losing streak) was facing the wrong way. Why are people this stupid? You place your turret to bodyblock when they are chasing so if they continue to chase they die. I told him this, and then he looked for another reason to blame me, saying that I wasn't in every teamfight. What he neglected then was that I was the ONLY ONE WHO GAVE A **** ABOUT THE MINIONS. I'm on a losing streak of like 10 matches because I get idiots who only want to do nonstop fights, rushing in to try and kill 3 people 4 levels over them. I just don't understand it, why is it that this never happened while I was level 1-10 but now that I'm in the meatier chunk everyone is an *…
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Last week I started playing Smite, the 3rd person action MOBA developed by Hirez Studios. Of course you know that, you're on this website! I play LOADS of Dota 2, and have been playing it for quite a while, and play a tad bit of Dawngate and decided to play even more MOBAs. Why not feed the addiction, right? (not that its really addiction, honestly i hate that term, gaming is entertainment, same as TV.) I learned one thing about Smite. I LOVE IT. Not more than Dota in terms of how well its made and how deep its metagame goes, but I'm having SO MUCH FUN learning all the new things. I plan to be posting lots of these, simply detailing my reactions to learning new things in this totally cool game.

Okay, lets start with what I thought about the game BEFORE I started playing it. I was looking at it, and a few things stood out. As a MOBA player, I was SUPER intrigued by how the third person view would affect the gameplay. I saw good things in it, and bad things. I thought maybe the third pe…
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