fudgey_lumpkins said:You couldn't be bothered to write what DOTA means in either the Thread title or the OP?
fudgey_lumpkins said:You couldn't be bothered to write what DOTA means in either the Thread title or the OP?
At intermediate and higher levels of play, having a poor player on your team who dies frequently is worse than fighting with a man down, as the opposite team gets gobs of gold for picking off the newbie. This has fostered a legendarily newbie-hostile attitude within large swaths of the DotA community. As fun and rewarding as the game is when you're in a match of appropriate skill level and it can be one of the very best experiences in gaming, without exaggeration finding those matches has always been a nightmare. It doesn't help that the game is so intense that Valve had to institute a "no talking about the match for an hour afterwards" rule for its internal playtests. The recent commercial titles that more or less cloned DotA have ameliorated this to some extent, but it is still often a huge problem.
ShallNoiseUpon said:The game isn't Defense of the Ancients 2. It is Dota2.
CommieCaptorS said:Was this meant to be surprise #2? Each to their own I suppose,
EmCeeGramr said:Well that's cute, but tell me about the hats that these heroes obtain and wear.
Pinko Marx said:Slightly disappointing. Was hoping for something new. Hopefully more will be announced closer to the game's release. I want new heroes, new maps, different game types, shit that will make it different.
I don't see why. It's not like TF2 dominated the FPS scene to the detriment of other FPS games.Xater said:The death of LoL and HoN?
fudgey_lumpkins said:So Dota doesn't mean anything? I just assumed it was an acronym. My mistake.
fudgey_lumpkins said:So Dota doesn't mean anything? I just assumed it was an acronym. My mistake.
mr_nothin said:What the hell is Dota?
Xater said:This is Valve, it will happen in the future of the title. Remember what TF2 looked like at launch?
Pinko Marx said:I was an acronym, but its become like KFC now, to where the acronym has more recognition than what it stands for, so the acronym becomes the name.
Draft said:I don't see why. It's not like TF2 dominated the FPS scene to the detriment of other FPS games.
Draft said:I don't see why. It's not like TF2 dominated the FPS scene to the detriment of other FPS games.
BobsRevenge said:I want to know more specifics about any anti-douche implements being put in place.
Yeah but it killed Fortress Forever and any other attempt to replicate Team Fortress Classic in a modern form, which is essentially what LoL and HoN were trying to do with the original DOTA.Draft said:I don't see why. It's not like TF2 dominated the FPS scene to the detriment of other FPS games.
DirtRiver said:Hope it's free. Or really really cheap.
Any ingame screens released?
Archie said:It will probably not be free. I foresee it as a fully fledged $50 game.
Archie said:It will probably not be free. I foresee it as a fully fledged $50 game.
And only CG art was revealed.
JaseC said:Valve isn't Activision.
Archie said:It will probably not be free. I foresee it as a fully fledged $50 game.
And only CG art was revealed.
Yeah, I guess that is true.Pinko Marx said:The analogy doesn't carry over. FPS is a wide and varied genre, to story-driven games like Half-Life, to competitive arena games like Quake. HoN, LoL, and DotA, on the other hand are all direct competitors in the same genre.
dark_inferno said:50$?
League of Legends is free*.
Aye, a sad day it was.EmCeeGramr said:Yeah but it killed Fortress Forever and any other attempt to replicate Team Fortress Classic in a modern form