Or OMG what if we made DOTA but Hearthstone.

Damn we would be some serious innovators in the video game space. Nobody could ever think to do that.

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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

it makes me sad. the people yearn for a new arena shooter but esports ready slop is what we're getting. it doesn't look fun at all and in terms of stuff like movement mechanics it's a clear devolution from team fortress and dumbing down of those things ala overwatch.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I HATE ESPORTS

    I HATE ESPORTS

    spoilerI'd hate the concept less if it wasn't forced into so many franchises and genres in ways that take away from those genres in attempts to cash in. There was a cool Heavy Gear mecha game concept that seemed promising until it tripped over itself trying to be esports trash some years back, for example, and Planetside 2 wasted years of development time trying to pander to esports shit that went nowhere and wasted an entire map of developer time that no one else could use or even see.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just bring back GunZ: The Duel tbh

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I have never fully understood the appeal of a convoluted and bloated metagame within a game (that basically killed off the RTS genre that spawned it) that has its own specific and rigid rules and expected way for each match to play out in a way that causes excruciatingly long death spirals for the losing team that have to be played through each and every time and the consequent rage and toxicity that encourages in its playerbase... and why I'd voluntarily want to play or even watch that. nyet

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On literally my first game of this someone kept calling everyone the r slur for being bad at the game. It's not even released yet. How can anyone be good yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You need a decently high ELO for there to be a guaranteed death spiral rather than execution mistakes big enough that you can seize the momentum back.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I suppose I'll just take your word from it. I'm an outside observer that had associates that more or less horrified me with how "fun" the toxic hate vomit they were swimming around during ranked matches was to them.

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    Predecessor is pretty much continuing paragon, with adjustments, of cours

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Overprime died and predecessor is not long for this world. Interestingly, neither major reboot had the content of the final state of Paragon Global, and started from about six months of updates before closure of original paragon. They both reworked decks in a way I didn't really enjoy personally anyway

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Honestly I think this game feels closer to Smite than Overwatch.

    It's Smite but with more involved fps aiming and guns.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    From a company that already has an fps moba series

    Just make team fortress 3 if you really want to do that again

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    icefrog can do no wrong

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    real game exec boardroom minutes

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What if it had loot boxes and a battle pass

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I really like the game. Valve are doing some interesting things (rail system, movement in general) and I think it's generally just fun. There are some aesthetic things that need attention with the map and UI, but otherwise I'm optimistic

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It reminds me of what Paladins used to be and I already dig it for that alone

    Plus Infernus. That man became my IMMEDIATE main fuck what ya heard

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Infernous does sooo much damage so quickly kril-at-sea

    I've been playing Abrams and Dynamo and he was awful to lane against as Dynamo lol

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I just saw Infernus's whole design, and the fact that his hat is definitely the same unusual my Pyro wears, and it was like I could hear the voice of the divine telling me "him, he's the one. That is Himothy." I've just gotta figure out how his everything links together to stack up is all

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Overwatch is already TF2 but with MOBA skillset

    So now we have dota2 but distilled TF2

    I don't dislike the idea, moba third person is cool but Smite's company kinda sucks. What I didn't like about the game is how much I feel like I'm playing dota 2 and I really don't like dota 2, my little brain can only comprehend league of legends.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    DOTA but Hearthstone

    Artifact? Not sure what DOTA but Overwatch would be

    To be honest, I think Dota Souls would be kinda cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The joke is that Valve are currently doing closed testing for a "DOTA but it's Overwatch" game.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How are y’all already in? I thought this was closed lol.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I actually enjoyed Artifact, even made ~10 bux in steam wallet net from selling the included pack pulls on market day 0 and playing pauper exclusively until f2p.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Battleborn: "Am I a joke to you?"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Why are there so many of these all of the sudden? Why in 2024?

    There’s this one, Overwatch 2, Smite 2, the Marvel one, the but we have Marvel at home one, the anime girl one.

    What gives?

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