Paragon, Epic Games(Unreal) MOBA, PC/PS4

Last thread for today's PSX reveals.

They've been teasing about it for a week or so, but we finally get some actual meat. From the website:

"Paragon is the MOBA from Epic Games that puts you in the fight with explosive action, direct third-person control, and deep strategic choice.
Paragon is coming to PC and PlayStation 4, with paid Early Access in Spring 2016 and Open Beta in Summer 2016.
5v5. Three lanes. Jungles. Minions. Towers. Cores. Experience the classic elements of a MOBA from a whole new perspective in Paragon."

It's a 3rd person MOBA with a lot of typical elements, instead of say Overwatch which is more of a FPS or a lot of the other MOBAs that have a lot of variations(Gigantic, Paladins). Basically, think Smite, but with crazy realistic graphics. You can register for beta which starts early 2016 atPlay Paragon

Reveal Trailer:

Gameplay Trailer(which looks the same as the reveal one which looked like CGI but is just in engine stuff:

jooka_sl said:

find it odd they say PC and PS4 but nothing about X Box 1.

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Probably Sony bought the exclusivity for consoles but it wasn't worth buying a full exclusivity or whatever.

Game looks good, but will need to see the gameplay and stuff.

Getting in early alpha on a moba kinda sucks though, low hero count and stuff like matchmaking not working properly/not having ratings means the games are complete garbage, so not in a hurry to get in the game.

Tuco_sl said:

Dumb question: What's the difference between a third person MOBA and a third person shooter?

The gameplay here looks a lot like ME'3s multiplayer which was awesome.

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Kinda depends on the game mechanics really, but like if you compare Smite to ME, it's slower, aiming is massively assisted(as in you only really kinda target stuff to target them), in most cases the skills are more important than the basic attacks which are generic and boring with no reloading or any fancy stuff(it's moba autoattacks basically), the level/items/character stats define the power levels a lot more than any sort of aiming skill(there's still skill involved, but a lot is teamwork skill, how to play as a team, target focusing, positionning, this kind of shit). Not gonna account for the fact Smite has no verticality since Paragon does and it's not super relevant.

This game looks a LOT better than most mobas so the fact it's a moba might not be super apparent at first view, but I assume it plays a lot differently than what you'd expect. Haven't played it yet though so might be wrong but assuming it's what I'd expect, your comparison is kinda like comparing Diablo and Dota. They're both top down(kinda), you control one char with skills and items, but ultimately, they're insanely different games.