Just updating to tell everyone that I've received a beta key and have been playing a lot and it's super fun imho! Capturing the spirit of Dota 1 and refreshing it. It's of course still in beta so a few quirks here and there and not that many heroes are ported yet. If anyone has the beta and wanna go for a game hit me up!
Gonna bring this up again to post about the new dota 2 survey they've started. So basically they upgraded the infrastructure to allow for more players in the beta and now they are looking to invite. To sign up you have to go through a quick survey asking about your computer setup and Dota 1 experience. This is to get a wide arrange of players and to better match you up against equally skilled people :).
On topic, however, I watched a couple games of Dota 2 on the live stream. I can't say I really liked what I saw. The graphics are quite lifeless and without a style of their own. The original Dota was styled around Warcraft and while Dota wants to make it look "Like it", they didn't really succeed. Animations are quite weird too. I won't talk about balance cause it's very tough to do it right without releasing the game and checking the suggestions from the players.
I can't say I agree with you. I think the graphics looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of the TF2-ish (happens to be one of my favorite games :P) cel-shaded style and I think they did a great job in Dota 2. While I like HoN and its graphics I think what they have going is a good mix between "realistic" and "distinctive", if you get what I mean.
About how popular it will be.. It's hard to say how much of an impact it will have, but it will be popular I bet you. LoL has a huge fanbase and will likely stay huge, but I think the majority of HoN players are just waiting for Dota 2 to get into beta/release. Unfortunately, for S2 games :P.
So, anyone else excited about this game? Don't know how many of you are familiar with the previous one, but as we finally get to see some stuff from this game I gotta say it looks awesome!
They've got a $1million price pool tournament with the major teams from Dota competing over at Gamescon. This will also be the first official public viewing of the game with commented streams broadcasted for the whole event.
They seem to have borrowed a bit of the visual style from Team Fortress 2 and mixed it up with original dota along with other graphical improvements. I've played a lot of HoN and I like that game, but it just feels like Dota 2 is going to get the genre back to its roots, along with all the classic heroes that we all know and love from the original.
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http://blog.dota2.com/ for more info.
Also if you get invited you get 2 more keys for your friends!
I can't say I agree with you. I think the graphics looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of the TF2-ish (happens to be one of my favorite games :P) cel-shaded style and I think they did a great job in Dota 2. While I like HoN and its graphics I think what they have going is a good mix between "realistic" and "distinctive", if you get what I mean.
About how popular it will be.. It's hard to say how much of an impact it will have, but it will be popular I bet you. LoL has a huge fanbase and will likely stay huge, but I think the majority of HoN players are just waiting for Dota 2 to get into beta/release. Unfortunately, for S2 games :P.
They've got a $1million price pool tournament with the major teams from Dota competing over at Gamescon. This will also be the first official public viewing of the game with commented streams broadcasted for the whole event.
The trailer is out at:
www.dota2.com/trailer
Some leaked sreenshots:
http://www.rakaka.se/images/7666-dota2screenshot2.jpg
http://www.rakaka.se/images/2658-DotA2_005.jpg
http://www.rakaka.se/images/5818-dota2_screen2.jpg
http://www.rakaka.se/images/2658-DotA2_003.jpg
They seem to have borrowed a bit of the visual style from Team Fortress 2 and mixed it up with original dota along with other graphical improvements. I've played a lot of HoN and I like that game, but it just feels like Dota 2 is going to get the genre back to its roots, along with all the classic heroes that we all know and love from the original.