To fully explain my experience playing this game, I will have to paint you a picture and tell you a story. Around 4-6 years ago, a friend introduced me to this game. This was before I had even owned a computer and was still playing on a console. Back then, I was still ignorant of the nature of this sickening environment that disguises itself as a "game," so I played hour after hour, day after day. Driven by stubborn pride and ego that would not allow me to be anything less than utterly skilled in every aspect of the game, mechanically and otherwise, this was a devastating blunder that set me on a trajectory that was harrowing and damaging to the mind. I had moments of complete joy, moments of intense anger, and moments of drowning despair. All of these moments accumulated into an overall journey that I can only describe as detrimental.
Eventually I accumulated a lot of skill, but this was not enough. I wanted to become so definitively skilled as to be able to best others easily. To be indisputably dominant in terms of gameplay. This led me to start playing 1v1 duels mainly; I believe this is where I had reached the peak of my playing strength. By this time, I had wasted around 1000 hours on this atrocious game, and I stopped playing for about a year.
Enter the present:
I built a computer and started playing again. Returning like a desperate abuse victim, like an opioid addict that cannot get the same feeling anywhere else. Only now, with all the knowledge I have now, can I say that I regret starting in the first place, that I detest the people that play this game, feel disgusted at balancing decisions, and am constantly shocked at how inconsistently the mechanics perform as they are designed to. In conclusion, this is the most horrid, mentally straining, rage-inducing, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥-friendly video game that invites the most vile individuals and most corrupted mindsets unique to any community I've seen from anything. If I were in a room with Adolf Hitler, a For Honor developer, and a For Honor player, I would rape the player, kill the dev, and then kill myself. Allow me to be very clear: playing this video game is equivalent to enduring the worst, most inhumane torture methods known to man while at the same time other tormented people that are in the same scenario as you try to actively keep you inside this prison of suffering and anguish. I would not wish the experience this game provides upon even the most wicked of humans. We are here because we are not free, and I only understand that after all this time. If you think you want to purchase this game, you do not. If you have started playing and you think you enjoy it, that sweet taste will turn sour, and your mind will be plunged into darkness very soon. The only advice I can give is get out while you still can. So in short, what I will say is this game is the most egregious one I have ever had the misfortune of playing. If I had the chance to go back, I would never have started to begin with.
