I can't believe people are even questioning whether this will be a success or not. It will be cheap as shit to make and people will flock to it. Blizzard will make an even more accessible version of LoL and Dota and boom success. I'm not talking success like LoL or Dota but I definitely think it will have at least 1 million unique players within the first few months.
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Just to fuel the D3-engine fire some more, they already ported it to consoles, so maybe Heroes will be a next gen console game
Name changes don't mean anything, especially since the last two names were basically placeholder names to begin with. They're already going to have a showmatch at BlizzCon according to the schedule. The SC2 developers wouldn't be put on a Diablo 3 related project. It's been shown off multiple times already. It's just not happening, bro. Please stop filling the thread with your tin foil hat conspiracy bullshit.
To be fair, it's still pre-alpha. They could just be messing around and what not. I think they've already stated they want games to be 15-30 minutes long. StarCraft 2 in general has shorter games than StarCraft: Brood War as intended.
The "engine" isn't in charge of supporting LANHow far apart are the engines anyway ? Both are inhouse, share the same perspective on the world and similar amount of moving stuff on screen. I have no clue how programming works but I would be surprised if they didn't have at least something in common. SC2 is great for prototyping stuff, but the map system seems a bit clumsy for full blown release. D3 was obviously made with consoles in mind, but it still took them a year to make the console port.
And neither supports LAN
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Insanely high skill cap, plus the added punishment of having to play as a team with 4 people you will most likely hate by the time the game ends (starts??). Constantly changing meta game due to patches and balancing as well, so the game doesnt get as stale as you would think (hero pool of 50+ helps with this as well, hopefully its closer to 100+ like dota).
Oblio
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Bro this was me 4 months ago after Infinite Crisis Beta ...
This is me now ...
With LoL I think there are 116 Champions, I bought the 2 bundles so I have over 40. Each Champ has a unique gameplay and that can even change depending on their role of Top, Mid, Bot ADC , Bot Support or Jungle.
Even when I get my ass kicked (which is pretty often) I still enjoy it because i learn something new every game about Champ mechanics.
Also, I highly recommend watching Voyboy on twitch to learn this game. Voyboy does a really good job of explaining shit while he is in the middle of a battle.
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same, except I think I've played even less than you aka never even a tutorial for DOTA
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If I know Blizzard , and their catering to casuals... It'll be more like LoL than Dota2... They'll want to appeal to the masses and promote it as an e-sport HARD, and throw money at sponsors to do so (just like Riot did with LoL).
That being said, you'd benefit a lot by learning the more difficult and "deep" Moba games if you want to really learn the genre.
That being said, you'd benefit a lot by learning the more difficult and "deep" Moba games if you want to really learn the genre.