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Crimson
United States311 Posts
anyways- http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=320461 | ||
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Ack1027
United States7873 Posts
For people outside our community they just think its a harmless genre word but it was proliferated by a guy who is scummy as shit and very possibly a pedophile. He didn't pay out money to players and set up dxd scams. He has a username at TL and he tried making some projects that are, surprise surprise, completely abandoned. This dude appears and disappears like herpes. He is bad news and if people use the term moba they are saying that its ok for some guy like this to put a label on a pretty popular and competitive type of game with high e sport potential [ is it even potential anymore? ] This would be akin to someone making a shitty rts that steals from starcraft and then when a bunch of other people copy him he decides to name the genre ' asdf '. The difference is there wasn't a unified genre term because it wasn't necessary. However it is exactly because of this that we shouldn't use moba and use something more like TRPS or just ' dota '. | ||
rabidch
United States20289 Posts
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r33k
Italy3402 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On August 17 2011 17:22 rabidch wrote: its starting. to lag $2 :D | ||
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
LAN plx and fix that bad pausing animations | ||
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canikizu
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[TYG]Transcend
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Ganfei2
473 Posts
It's just DOTA with new graphics, that's not particularly exciting at all, and I don't even like a lot of the artwork. I like the models/portraits and the way the map looks when things are still, but I don't like the fight animations or the spell animations. They seem very clunky to me. The interface at bottom with items/skills seems enormous and Valve has some preoccupation with squares and right angles because everything is a square or rectangle. To be perfectly honest I think HON looks better in every single aspect save the actual map itself and the hero models/portraits. Also it's kind of embarrassing that the stream has gone down twice and the teams are complaining about lag in the first ever public exposure of DOTA 2. I'm going to sleep now, this has been a very underwhelming and rather disappointing experience and it's not really worth staying up to see normal DOTA games play out with better graphics (not that there was any reason to expect anything otherwise). | ||
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myIRE
Belgium229 Posts
All that being said, I haven't played it yet so I can't judge the gameplay and the overall feel of the game so I can't really dismiss dota2 just yet but the aesthetics are not appealing to me atm. | ||
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
 they better fix this connection shit before day 2. dont really care about interface it can be refined, but the spells are just as confusing as HoN at times | ||
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bhp255
United States600 Posts
Honestly, I wasn't very pumped for DotA 2, in hopes that I would not have great expectations for it and then be surprised by the final product... but so far, even with low expectations, DotA2 failed to deliver. I'd have to admit, when they were picking it looked amazing. Clean presentation, amazing portraits, interesting designs yet faithful to their essence from DotA1. However, as soon as the game started and I got to see laning/creeps/ganks, it just.... looked like LoL or maybe worse. At least LoL goes for the cartoon art style, DotA2 seems to go for a "realistic" LoL style but way worse graphics than HoN. Observer stats and such are obviously not as comfortable as HoN, but even HoN didn't get it right the first time, so those things aren't worth discussing. However, one thing I do think is a definite strength for HoN (except for their servers' downtime) is connectivity. When I lived in the US, I never lagged considerably. It was always playable. I played some in Korea, and while it may have been a problem with my ISP, half of my games were playable with minimum lag (other half were bad/unplayable... but still, Korea -> USE). DotA2 failed in probably the biggest and most important aspect of an online game, or any game for that matter.... playability | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
"drag items here to use quick buy" wtf is that | ||
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
just cause everybodys not a mutant with giant fryingpans like in HoN doesnt mean its LoL im actually annoyed that a lot of the spell effects look like too much like HoN, spectre and clockwerk make the teamfights hard to watch, the only spell animations that look right to me are AA's | ||
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semantics
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
On August 17 2011 18:32 semantics wrote: I think dota 2 the heroes and creeps look like they are made form clay and i dont care for it, love the water and trees though. yea looks a lot like tf2, too much so | ||
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Looky
United States1608 Posts
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stanley_
United States816 Posts
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rabidch
United States20289 Posts
On August 17 2011 18:49 Looky wrote: are you serious ehome. you got a farmed sw go freaken kill them their lineup limits them. iGs lineup has a really strong opportunistic lineup and if EHOME goes in wrong = gg basically weaver + clock + aa + pugna is really hard to break | ||
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Invictus
Singapore2697 Posts
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