League of DEMACIAAAA!!!!!: Riot is writing a fanfic and calling it canon

Naphtali

I had some guy flipping his shit yesterday that I was going to play Kayle. Like, he spent 80 seconds trying to convince me that all Kayle players are bad, the character is bad, don't use her, etc etc etc. I went to go switch to Swain just to shut him up and it switched me to Kassadin right after I clicked on Swain, and then of course it locked me in.

I had never played Kassadin before. Fuck.

We thankfully had a good team to cover my shortcomings while I figured Kass out and I didn't feed at least, but it wasn't even a ranked game so wtf. So much damn rage from that guy over nothing.

Zen Vulgarity

Which is why LoL is better since you can win even if your teammates are fuckups

Naphtali

He was a shitty Twisted Fate too, died the most out of all of us.

Erics

I was really hoping Valve's DotA game was going to be neat, but instead it's just a port of DotA to the source engine. Talk about disappointed!

Isoldae

What I gather from this article is that this will be Dota-Allstars with the Source Engine and improved community doodads.

How many of my dollars is that going to cost?

Zen Vulgarity

More than TFT so I don't care all that much

And much more than LoL

Drool

Klyka wrote: »

In Dota you basically always invest at least 25 minutes into a game and usually if just ONE of your teammates screws up,you are fucked. Hence people being super anal about doing EVERYTHING right.

Okay so you would think Valve, the masters of polish and usability would look at the basic rules of the game that make it impossible to win if you have a moron on your team and tweak them to be more forgiving rather then port the same mechanics that make for a caustic player base.

Kinda sad really.

Isoldae

If it costs more than 20 bucks I will not be buying it.

Since LoL is free.

Drool

If it looks really cool I'll at least try a demo. The source engine can make a very pretty top down view game, see Alien Swarm.

Naphtali

Drool wrote: »

Klyka wrote: »

In Dota you basically always invest at least 25 minutes into a game and usually if just ONE of your teammates screws up,you are fucked. Hence people being super anal about doing EVERYTHING right.

Okay so you would think Valve, the masters of polish and usability would look at the basic rules of the game that make it impossible to win if you have a moron on your team and tweak them to be more forgiving rather then port the same mechanics that make for a caustic player base.

Kinda sad really.

maybe the plan is to release one close as possible to the old dota to draw over the player base, then release a valve-ized one down the road?

Zen Vulgarity

Kinda like Starcraft 2 right

When a playerbase has that rabid of a fanbase you don't need to release a "new" one down the line

Just tweak it and make it prettier

It's what Madden's been doing for years now

unintentional

I hope it doesn't fracture the base so that multiple games end up dead
like l4d 1 and 2 kinda did (at least according to my l4d crazy friend)

Zen Vulgarity

Too bad L4D sucks in general

FirmSkater

L4D is pretty fun if you have friends to play it with.

I was pretty skeptical about L4D2 but once I played it I realized they made almost everything better. Its obvious now that they didn't think L4D was complete enough, so they started again from the ground up.

They have even introduced the old characters to the new game and one of the old campaigns as well, which is sweet.

If there is one thing you can say about Valve its that they are absolutely community oriented. They might be one of the best developers around because of that.

ack

i like the idea of interactive user made guides

u know

cant expect valve to make an all encompassing tutorial for a constantly shifting metagame what what

Wimble

oh wow yeah valve dota is disappointing

I am not up for going back to a dota game where strength and intelligence don't scale compared to agility heroes

this is so unnecessary too since HoN is there. I mean I guess they might port all the heroes quicker than the HoN guys or something? Blergh

bbbblergh!