I know it's wrong to judge a game based on gameplay alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCgsAufniXM&feature=player_embedded but judging from the vids posted up I can assume two things:
1. This game is not gonna run on my PC
2. This game looks less fun than League of Legends, and more serious (especially the announcer's voice)
LOL is free to play and only needs to patch in whatever features DOTA2 introduces. I think it will have a strong initial following, then people will go back to LOL.
RTS don't interest me. I want direct control character action. Even Overlord was too RTS for me.
I watched the gameplay and it looked like an RTS, so I'm out. The only RTS I've enjoyed is Halo Wars, and that was more social than appreciative of the mechanics.
Okay. First of all, it is totally okay to judge a game based on gameplay alone. Especially when that game is a game about gameplay. Which DOTA2 is. DOTA doesn't have a narrative or a message; it's closer to a sport, so it's all about gameplay.
The game is on Source so it will probably run on your PC. If you can run TF2, you can probably run DOTA2.
I may be wrong, but I believe DOTA2 will be free to play. Since the original game was a mod, I imagine the developers will release the game on Steam for free and use it to boost Steam's library of F2P games and thus increase membership and Steam saturation. But I look forward to being corrected.
Also, LOL is a DOTA clone. It would be like saying "I think CS: Global Offensive will have a strong initial following, then people will go back to Modern Warfare". The people that play Counter-strike or DOTA are totally different groups of people than those that play CoD or LOL.
Faye, if you don't like the look of the RTS stuff, try Savage 2. It's the same concept but you play in first-person on the ground. It's F2P, although I haven't played it in a long time so it might be barren by now.
Dammit! I meant video footage, not gameplay. Why did I say gameplay?
And I do remember reading how much DOTA 2 will cost, just can't remember where. Also, they may have changed it to free to play in which case, yay!
And yeah I remember the original DOTA, it was ok. I didn't get into it since my internet connection and PC weren't great.
I'll be tentatively excited about DOTA2 until it annoys me with the inevitable server errors and poor communities that free to play games harbour.
How did I miss this thread? I started watching the International at 4am the day it started and was like *boner*
I'll be tentatively excited about DOTA2 until it annoys me with the inevitable server errors and poor communities that free to play games harbour.
>LoL doesn't have these problems as well.
Thanks to LOL I hate the Brazilians and the French. Stupid game, making me prejudiced!
I'm hoping DOTA 2 has local servers and is pay-to-play, so there is less name-calling and bickering.
How did you not hate the Brazillians and the french before LoL? I guess you didn't play on my WoW server.
My beta invite hasn't served me so well. It's really difficult for me to last-hit due to the low framerate I'm getting (on low graphics settings). Barring technical difficulties on my end, I've had a couple of OK matches. I haven't played DotA in literally 4 years, so it's going to take me some time to relearn all of the heroes, but I'm hopefully and I really want to get into it more.
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