Another “bored with the WoD Beta” statement. A few days ago, I decided to try out Hearthstone. Mainly because it’s a free to play game.
When I first started, I had an issue trying to connect to battle.net. “Playful sprites” were messing things up and told me to wait “a few” minutes. I ended up waiting 10, and was able to finally get in.
There’s no ingame tutorials for this game. You have to look online and also know what the fuck you’re reading. I find it funny how it says that it’s made for “everyone to play”. What they don’t add onto this is “everyone that didn’t fail in school and Math to play”. Aka, not me.
I have tried my damnest to learn how to play this game. I know about the whole Mana Crystal mechanic, what are Minion cards and what are Spell cards, the different rarities of cards, who can attack and who can’t. Things like this.
But my biggest problem, is… ok. So I got Thrall, and I wanted to do the ultimate battle and go against Garrosh, to say “this is what happened during the climatic that they don’t show you. They played Hearthstone!”
Yet, I keep on running out of Minion cards. And my only cards are useless spell cards(like Totems) to buff minions that I don’t even have on the board, allowing Garrosh to outnumber me every fucking time and pwn me.
I tried doing my own deck. Yet again, I keep getting bad cards. Or if I get a good card, Garrosh’s minions will easily destroy it. I don’t even know what fucking cards I need to win!
They say to learn the game, just keep playing. I have tried. I have failed. I have ragequitted. I have asked for help. I’ve watched dozens of tutorial videos. And I went WTF trying to understand what I’m looking at!
This is why I fail at playing any class in WoW, correctly; because I fail at Math. This game proves it. I just pick a spell and keep attacking until they die. That’s it. Yet this game, you really have to know what the fuck you’re doing at all times, and also know ahead of time, what the enemy will do; be them a real player or an AI player. And also know what to do with the next card.
I do not have this intelligence. And it punishes me for it. This game is too much like those Japanese-themed games like Yu-gi-o and others. Never liked trading card games. Guess you have to be a special breed to understand them.