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[Skux]

League of Legends character archetype comparison part 2 - with pics

Not accusing anyone of being a ripoff, LoL is just as guilty of using these tropes and takes huge influence from pop culture and mythology as well. But it's interesting to see such similar archetypes.

Outlaw/Cowboy archetype
Unnamed character from wallpaper / Graves

Angel-like healer
Mercy / Kayle

Sexy female sniper
Widowmaker / Caitlin

Asian-inspired mystic fighter who talks like he's quoting Confucius
Zenyatta / Lee Sin + Master Yi's multi-eye helmet

Stoic Japanese samurai character with hair tied back
Hanzo / Yasuo

Agile scout with attitude and short range teleport
Tracer / Ezreal

South Asian inspired female character
Symmetra / Karma
(note the similarity of Symmetra to "Sumatra", an Indonesian island)

Mechanised winged anime-inspired female trooper
Pharah (no near match in LoL)

Badass darkness-themed dual pistol wielder
Reaper / Lucian + Nocturne + Sith lord

Intelligent simian with a rage mode
Winston / (no match in LoL, he's closer to Beast from X-Men. But Volibear comes close, he's just a bear, not an ape)

Pint-sized engineer
Torbjorn / Heimerdinger
(not a great match, Torbjorn obviously draws more from the Dwarves in WoW)

Fully robot character
Bastion / Blitzcrank

Giant armoured mace/hammer wielder
Reinhardt / Mordekaiser

Skin matches
Fat but strong dude
Unnamed dude from wallpaper / Vandal skin for Gragas

Cyborg ninja
Unnamed cyborg from wallpaper / Project Yasuo skin

 

[JayEH]

^ huh. Interesting.

So they haven't said anything about consoles yet have they?

 

[Maffis]

I don't even know what to say to this.



The one that nerfed stickies? That was reverted, unlike the other nerfs.

You don't have to say anything. This latest "Halloween" patch introduced 50 new cosmetics and a gamemode that is getting glitched back and forth with exploiters and they are still not fixing it. The only good thing from it is the bumper cars, which is cool I guess. But 50 new comestics and they gave you 6 items randomly from that pool for "free" with the explanation that last year people were hoarding them because people simply teamed up to get the items the community made. So what do they do? Remove the way for people to obtain these items (which are all made by the community btw) and give everyone 1 single use item that gives you 3 random items. The rest are locked behind a paywall of 2.5 dollars each. With the amount of money this game gives Valve people are astonished that they are slacking of so much with the bug fixes and updates to the game. They even "promised" new comics every 3'rd month and now they updated after like a year and they didn't even explain it.
Sure, they're just cosmetics. You don't actually have to buy them. But then again, there are items that are breaking the fundamental balance of the game like the Short Circuit which requires engineers to simply hold down m1 to counter every single class that can hurt their buildings. That's just 1 item. They still haven't balanced it after all the complaints they've gotten. So what do they do, even though they have these beta servers to test new things on? They suddenly, from nowhere, fundamentally change a class by simply destroying a class's main weapon after 7 years, with no real feedback to why; simply doing whatever the hell they want. Luckily, it was reverted because the backlash was so huge.

I could go on forever. This is a f2p game sure, but the way this team has handled this game over the years with it's ridiculous new weapons that break the game without using their beta servers or even listening to their community is just hilarious really. They need to step up their game and I'm glad Blizzard is here to at least show them some competition.

 

[Jakeh111]

They're making this an FPS Hearthstone, looking at the tidbits from developers.

As someone who has played a bit oh Hearthstone how are they making this like that game?

 

[Barack Lesnar]

A good chunk of those comparisons above are a stretch.

 

[Some Nobody]

Loved the trailer, but not the gameplay. Now I wish it was a movie instead of a game.

Bam. F2P (possibly), PVP, FPS. It's like Blizzard went down a checklist of all the things I dislike in games and ticked each one, lol.

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

Don't see any real point in these LoL comparisons. First of all those are common archetypes and they don't even look that similar on top of that, so yeh. But at least you aren't insinuating anything.

 

[Entropia]

one neat thing I noticed when i played - when I was on offense, I started out in an arcade. Some of the arcade machines were like "Lost Vikings 3", "Seige [something] 2", etc. neat little nods to other Blizz games.

 

[B.O.O.M]

Isn't Sumatra in Indonesia? Not India?

 

[Entropia]

^ huh. Interesting.

So they haven't said anything about consoles yet have they?

Someone asked during the Q&A, basically they said PC is the only thing they're doing it for, for now.

 

[Valus]

Lol at the cowboy having BAMF on this belt.

 

[Kintaro]

Holy cow! This looks so cool! Keeping an eye on this one!

 

[KKRT00]

Someone asked during the Q&A, basically they said PC is the only thing they're doing it for, for now.

So not true Game's hud and fov couldnt be designed with 'PC only' mentality.

 

[Entropia]

So not true Game's hud and fov couldnt be designed with 'PC only' mentality.

Well, it's not 'officially' going to consoles but it's pretty obvious that it probably will be.

 

[KingJolly]

Looks like barrels of fun. Count me in

 

[Skux]

Why is a robot wearing pants?

 

[FourMyle]

League of Legends character archetype comparison part 2 - with pics

This really has more to do with the fact that all of League's champions are simply Riot's take on popular archetypes.

 

[Raven Prime]

Isn't Sumatra in Indonesia? Not India?

Indeed, I was about to point out the same thing.

 

[Chuck]

A good chunk of those comparisons above are a stretch.

you're telling me fat-but-strong-guy isn't legit!???!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

also lol cyborg ninja. sorry they're stealin', LOL. you're so original.

 

[Robot Pants]

But let's be honest, they deserved it. They had so many years to do it. It was a mod for THEIR game.


But nope. Nothing.

Hey I agree. And only after valve announced dota2 did blizzard start to give a shit

 

[Daingurse]

Just watched both trailers and I like what I see. It has an almost Pixar aesthetic, and the character types seem to be quite varied. CGI trailer did feel a bit cheesy, but the actual gameplay really won me over. Looks like an even more chaotic Team Fortress, especially with the added vertically of flying/floating characters. This has some potential.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

League of Legends character archetype comparison part 2 - with pics

Not accusing anyone of being a ripoff, LoL is just as guilty of using these tropes and takes huge influence from pop culture and mythology as well. But it's interesting to see such similar archetypes.

You're really reaching in these comparisons.

 

[Yoda]

Love the art style.

 

[CountAntonius]

A good chunk of those comparisons above are a stretch.

Weren't a lot of LoL characters based of Dota character which were Blizzard characters?

Kinda going around in circles.

 

[Ceebs]

I think it looks super cool. Lots of crazy special abilities.

 

[bangbang i'm a timpani]

League of Legends character archetype comparison part 2 - with pics

Not accusing anyone of being a ripoff, LoL is just as guilty of using these tropes and takes huge influence from pop culture and mythology as well. But it's interesting to see such similar archetypes.

Agile scout with attitude and short range teleport
Tracer / Ezreal


Outlaw/Cowboy archetype
Unnamed character from wallpaper / Graves


Indian inspired female character
Symmetra / Karma
(note the similarity of Symmetra to "Sumatra", an Indian island)


Stoic Japanese samurai character with hair tied back
Hanzo / Yasuo


Mechanised winged anime-inspired female trooper
Pharah (no near match in LoL)

Badass darkness-themed dual pistol wielder
Reaper / Lucian + Nocturne + Sith lord


Intelligent simian with a rage mode
Winston / (no match in LoL, he's closer to Beast from X-Men. But Volibear comes close, he's just a bear, not an ape)

lol @ riot's designs being original

 

[StayDead]

A good chunk of those comparisons above are a stretch.

Not only that but most of the LoL characters somewhat rip off of DOTA1 Warcraft 3 characters anyway. Which them themselves are linked somewhere to something else.

Companies make very little creatively new anymore. Even in novels and stuff. Our species are creatively bankrupt.

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

Looks much more interesting than Heroes of the Storm.

 

[Fuz]

I had the exact opposite reaction.

I do agree. It's technically excellent, but everything is just an homogenized vision of a clichè.

Got a monkey on my back for this game tho. And I'm not a fan of the recent Blizzard.

 

[SteveO409]

Nice, blizzard ahead of the game and hired some cosplayers. Widowmaker Kreygasm

Con-goers, prepare a new wave of cosplay for years to come

 

[Skux]

Isn't Sumatra in Indonesia? Not India?

Oops, fixed. Guess the name isn't that "Indian" after all.

 

[ryanthelion123]

I think the game looks pretty good. But seeing this only make me more disappointed of what Titan could've been. This creative gameplay inhabiting a world with the scope and scale of WoW would've been amazing.

 

[Lime]

Looks like a modern Blizzard game all right. Not particularly appealing to me, but I'm happy that other people are into it. I could imagine the art style definitely makes an impression to the young/adult crowds (teens and adolescents), akin to Pixar and other CGI animations/cartoons.

 

[Woo-Fu]

I can't... I just...
So you admit valve stole Dota.. Yet make a comment about Blizzard being salty.. Like they should have been ok with that?

I don't see those as mutually exclusive.

Thing is, Valve didn't steal Dota. Blizzard had Dota and then left it out at the curb with the trash instead of doing something with it. Valve saw an opportunity being foolishly ignored---taken for granted---and capitalized on it.

Interestingly enough I think it has worked out for the best for everybody, including Blizzard. I don't think Blizzard was interested in putting in the effort required for a DOTA2. After they canceled their DOTA and/or transitioned it to the far more accessible Heroes of the Storm I'd say they've realized they can't produce a better dota than Valve already has.

 

[KumaJG]

I am mildly intrigue in the game...

 

[mreddie]

"PC first."

Suuuurrrrrreeeeeeeeee.

 

[Nokterian]

Nice, blizzard ahead of the game and hired some cosplayers. Widowmaker Kreygasm

Con-goers, prepare a new wave of cosplay for years to come

Damn this looks awesome! Widowmaker oh lawd <3

 

[StayDead]

"PC first."

Suuuurrrrrreeeeeeeeee.

It's a Blizzard game of course it'll be PC first. Blizzard themselves didn't even work on the Diablo port did they?

 

[Goldenhen]

It's a Blizzard game of course it'll be PC first. Blizzard themselves didn't even work on the Diablo port did they?

Yes they did with separate console development team.

 

[Ganhyun]

I think I'd rather watch a movie based off this right now.

 

[Uncle AJ]

Yes.

 

[-MD-]

"PC first."

Suuuurrrrrreeeeeeeeee.

Is there any reason not to believe that?

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Preview

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/07/overwatch-i-played-2-matches-and-12-characters

 

[Skux]

If all heroes are unlocked are microtransactions going to be cosmetic?

Hope it doesn't turn into a TF2 carnival of hats...

 

[Vade]

So now that Valve took Dota 2 and Blizzard took TF3 does this mean Valve gets to make Warcraft 4?

 

[Usobuko]

This looks so good.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Hope it doesn't turn into a TF2 carnival of hats...

It's going to.

There's no way it doesn't. Players love character customization and there is a lot of money to make selling it to them.

 

[MThanded]

Looks godlike. I'm excited.

 

[Mupod]

Bastion is totally my kind of character. Also looks like a RAcast.

 

[BrokenEchelon]

Called it.

Characters lack cohesion.

Tech-Fairy, Talking Gorilla, and Grim Reaper Pistol Grimdark Dude.

I'm sure it'll be fun, but the universe seems like such a mish-mosh of nonsense. No soul to it.