Introduction to MOBAs

Gez said:
You could of played hundreds of other games in that time. Even my 350 hrs in Dota 2 I consider a waste of my time.
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You mean he could have wasted hundreds or thousands of euros hopping between other inferior games that are designed to be consumed at launch then discarded and even the 60 euros you spend on the last EA game you consider a waste of money.

When the hell did a game offering years of gameplay become a bad thing?

all the greatest mp games offered years of gameplay: team fortress bf1942, ut, cs, quake, tribes, starcraft, rtcw etc etc
 
Imperfected said:
Wait, it didn't? They've been at every PAX event for a good clip now.

Then again, PAX East in general seems to have had a weird rotation of attendees this year. Maybe there's some sort of scheduling problem?
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I was there all 3 days and I couldn't find it, nor did I see anything on their facebook page.
Wonder if the scheduling problem is true, Pax was earlier last year and I assume they have a bunch of promotional things going on now that it is released.
 
Einbroch said:
You turned it off before they got into the "I'm ashamed of my gamer son" section, I guess.

I was just kidding, anyway.
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ah i thought you meant indie game the movie

i think i got to watch a bit of mom time in free to play but i can't remember

Luap said:
One thing I really appreciate about Dota 2 is that it doesn't objectify every female character in the game. The only overtly sexual character is Queen of Pain, and that's fine because it's part of her lore.

I don't play LoL but I've seen plenty of anime-esque "fanservice" in their female character models.

And Smite is super guilty of this too. A common excuse for it is: "Hey, they are goddesses, so they're supposed to be physically perfect!" But c'mon now. Most of the female gods look like porn stars.

I'm not some crazy feminist or anything
I totes got an A in my women's studies class in college tho
but it just cheapens the game's overall design when you do that.
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yeah, league should really tone it down with the broken spines

i mean still keep making all the champions super hot (both male and female) but just don't twist them into some crazy mannequins from hell

different body sizes would also be cool as jinx's universal approval has demonstrated
 
Clearos said:
I was there all 3 days and I couldn't find it, nor did I see anything on their facebook page.
Wonder if the scheduling problem is true, Pax was earlier last year and I assume they have a bunch of promotional things going on now that it is released.
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They've had problems in the past with scheduling around the Boston Marathon and one of the major East coast anime conventions, but I suppose it might be a little too close to E3 now? They might have chosen to not run a PAX East event to budget for a big E3 release event instead, I guess.

That's unfortunate, either way. They seemed like cool guys and always had a good show presence out on the floor. The matches at least gave something to watch while waiting in some of the stupid long lines in the expo hall.
 
I got access to The International 3 after I opened all of those presents/gifts/whatever that you get from leveling in dota. Anything delicious in there worth watching?
 
SteveWinwood said:
she has universal approval?

she looks pretty sexualized to me

not to mention shes pretty anorexic
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well universal as in the league community :P

can't really bother to argue this right now since i'm pretty tired but i do think she's an example of a sexy non-exploitative character, specially by league standards

edit: this is an stylized game, people are gonna have big boobs and hard rock abs and big beautiful blue eyes. jinx to me gives a totally different vibe than some of the worst offenders like say syndra or elise. her figure is appropriate to her personality and she wears little clothes but it's covering all the right places. i find this a lot better than say syndra who actually has more shit on her than jinx but it's made by design to be a lot more grossly titillating.
 
Lost 8 out of my last 9 dota 2 games. I don't understand the though process behind picking a hero when it completely screws your team over. You got to pick your favorite hero, congratulations! Now you get to have a negative KDA and waste 40 mins of you and your teams time losing. I swear to god these are paid accounts.
 
zkylon said:
do any doto players would rather have like league skins?

i find that the pretty drawing + full change sounds a lot more satisfactory as like a purchase. like microtransactions tend to not feel rewarding, but since skins are pretty expensive and look pretty cool it almost always feels great when you get a new skin
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How about no?
 
I like the visual cohesion of DOTA2 more, not that I disagree with your logic, but over the years I realized League looks really garish and all the different skins don't help either.
 
Luap said:
One thing I really appreciate about Dota 2 is that it doesn't objectify every female character in the game. The only overtly sexual character is Queen of Pain, and that's fine because it's part of her lore.

I don't play LoL but I've seen plenty of anime-esque "fanservice" in their female character models.

And Smite is super guilty of this too. A common excuse for it is: "Hey, they are goddesses, so they're supposed to be physically perfect!" But c'mon now. Most of the female gods look like porn stars.

I'm not some crazy feminist or anything
I totes got an A in my women's studies class in college tho
but it just cheapens the game's overall design when you do that.
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The amount of high heels on the goddesses in smite always gave me a laugh
 
Clearos said:
I was there all 3 days and I couldn't find it, nor did I see anything on their facebook page.
Wonder if the scheduling problem is true, Pax was earlier last year and I assume they have a bunch of promotional things going on now that it is released.
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I think it's because just two weeks before they were doing their own Launch Tournament in Atlanta, in some expo.
 
Einbroch said:
http://i.imgur.com/xkXprup.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]

:(

[quote="zkylon, post: 108259830"][IMG]http://www.mobafire.com/images/champion/skins/landscape/akali-blood-moon.jpg[IMG]

the superior blood moon akali is on sale today if you'd like that one better[/QUOTE]

That one is pretty good.
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Einbroch said:
Thanks for the heads up, just bought all the pieces for under a buck.
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I only wear the cat ears and the cat paws.

Everything else is kind of lame.

The marketplace is awesome. Just a giant store you can pick up anything you want for like 10 cents. Or just unload all the free stuff they give you while playing for a free game.
 
SteveWinwood said:
I only wear the cat ears and the cat paws.

Everything else is kind of lame.

The marketplace is awesome. Just a giant store you can pick up anything you want for like 10 cents. Or just unload all the free stuff they give you while playing for a free game.
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Any other steals? I'm always looking to deck out my waifus.
 
It seems like all the duo/triple queues I encounter in ranked have similar mmr to both teams. You're actually playing at a disadvantage if you don't duo queue in ranked. Lets be real, the difference in MMR when it comes to 3 digits within a couple hundred range isn't significant.

whoops this complaint was meant for dota2 thread :(.
 
zkylon said:
so some good league plays
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I can't even tell what's going on it's just a mash of colors and effects. I think one of the reasons why I gave up on League but manage to enjoy Dawngate is because the art is more clear and the effects and fights have been more readable. The only game I find more frustrating to look at is HoN
 
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