Dota 2's Gameplay Amazes Announcers

[MitchyD]

Dota 2's Gameplay Amazes Announcers


The first footage of Valve's next game features Europeans yelling about monster murder.

Valve is hosting a Dota 2 tournament at GamesCom this week, and you can drool over some fancy footage of the ongoing event right here. The video captured from a competitor's screen shows off a handful of heroes before the commentators start flipping their lids over the multiplayer action.

It's hardly detailed or explained clearly through the announcers' excitement, but it gives the general idea of what Dota 2, Valve's sequel to the Defense of the Ancients mod for Warcraft III, is all about. Namely, that a bunch of cool creatures are clobbering each other with fireballs. The video should also give the unfamiliar a clearer understanding of the action/RPG/real-time strategy combo that is the "multiplayer online battle arena" genre.

If you like what you see, you can register for the DOTA 2 beta from the official website [http://dota2.com/tournaments/international/], where the tournament live stream starts up again around at 10 AM CET. That's about 3 AM EST on our side of the pond, so enjoy that while the rest of us are sound asleep.

Dota 2 is set to release on PC this year.

Source: RockPaperShotgun [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/17/first-dota-2-footage-escapes-gamescom/]

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[neonsword13-ops]

We need some football announcers for this.

That would make the game atleast 20% cooler.

 

[Innegativeion]

Wow... the redesigns for these classic characters look freaking amazing.

Props, Valve, props.

Also would like to smack every youtube commenter who put something like "not quitting LoL/HoN for this herp derp" out, as if it's impossible to play a little of both.

I'm well invested in LoL, but Dota looks amazing so far and is a goddamn Valve title. Besides that, it's rumored to be F2P as well. I see no problem in playing both games. I mean, different pool of characters, play both and add a little variety; it's not that hard.

 

[somonels]

"Paused by the Referee", sometimes interrupted by mostly bad games with a couple of good moments.
Gorgeous graphics.

 

[TitsMcGee1804]

i was watching the replays on the dota website, I fell asleep, but thats because there was no commentary, it was 50 mins long and i was really tired

I really hate the way it took nearly 12 minutes for everyone to pick/ban their characters in the start before the game, i really hope this was just an esports initiative because they were probably figuring out their strategy on what they wanted to ban and chose but I imagine when I start playing it, im gonna get bored and quit if every game starts off with 12 minutes of faffing about

I get frustrated enough when someone takes ages picking the unit on SC2 team monobattles, even the 1 min breaks between COD matches hack me off

Call me impatient but i just want to play the game! staring at menu's isnt my idea of fun...

 

[Innegativeion]

i was watching the replays on the dota website, I fell asleep, but thats because there was no commentary, it was 50 mins long and i was really tired

I really hate the way it took nearly 12 minutes for everyone to pick/ban their characters in the start before the game, i really hope this was just an esports initiative because they were probably figuring out their strategy on what they wanted to ban and chose but I imagine when I start playing it, im gonna get bored and quit if every game starts off with 12 minutes of faffing about

I get frustrated enough when someone takes ages picking the unit on SC2 team monobattles, even the 1 min breaks between COD matches hack me off

Call me impatient but i just want to play the game! staring at menu's isnt my idea of fun...

I'm sure they'll have a free pick mode as well as ban/draft pick. LoL does. Draft pick is usually reserved for ranked games.

 

[Reveras]

i was watching the replays on the dota website, I fell asleep, but thats because there was no commentary, it was 50 mins long and i was really tired

I really hate the way it took nearly 12 minutes for everyone to pick/ban their characters in the start before the game, i really hope this was just an esports initiative because they were probably figuring out their strategy on what they wanted to ban and chose but I imagine when I start playing it, im gonna get bored and quit if every game starts off with 12 minutes of faffing about

I get frustrated enough when someone takes ages picking the unit on SC2 team monobattles, even the 1 min breaks between COD matches hack me off

Call me impatient but i just want to play the game! staring at menu's isnt my idea of fun...

There are game modes: you will be able to play faster ones. The one you are seeing there is Captain's Mode. The faster modes such as Single Draft, All Random etc will surely be added if they aren't already.

 

[TitsMcGee1804]

I'm sure they'll have a free pick mode as well as ban/draft pick. LoL does. Draft pick is usually reserved for ranked games.

There are game modes: you will be able to play faster ones. The one you are seeing there is Captain's Mode. The faster modes such as Single Draft, All Random etc will surely be added if they aren't already.

I see, I have never played a dota style game before so im new to the mechanics

At the very least i would have loved to hear the team discussing their strategy on like picking and banning, a little bit like the F1 drivers and their teams in the pits communicating, and it lets you listen in now and again. It would make DOTA 2 shoutcasts much more fun

 

[castlewise]

Jeazy Creazy, I didn't understand a word they were talking about.

 

[NicoDK]

Pretty disappointing overall.

I think i'm sticking with HoN.

 

[Beryl77]

i was watching the replays on the dota website, I fell asleep, but thats because there was no commentary, it was 50 mins long and i was really tired

I really hate the way it took nearly 12 minutes for everyone to pick/ban their characters in the start before the game, i really hope this was just an esports initiative because they were probably figuring out their strategy on what they wanted to ban and chose but I imagine when I start playing it, im gonna get bored and quit if every game starts off with 12 minutes of faffing about

I get frustrated enough when someone takes ages picking the unit on SC2 team monobattles, even the 1 min breaks between COD matches hack me off

Call me impatient but i just want to play the game! staring at menu's isnt my idea of fun...

I think the main reason why it took them this long to choose their heros was because there is a lot of money involved, $1'000'000 for the first place I think. So they plan everything really carefully and don't want to rush things. I guess that's why the first streamed match took over one and a half hour.

 

[elcher]

Why are the commentators yelling so much and even more important, why is the sound quality so bad?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well I'm not all that much into these Dota games but it didn't look like they brought something new to the table.

 

[Supp]

I'm sure they'll have a free pick mode as well as ban/draft pick. LoL does. Draft pick is usually reserved for ranked games.

There are game modes: you will be able to play faster ones. The one you are seeing there is Captain's Mode. The faster modes such as Single Draft, All Random etc will surely be added if they aren't already.

I see, I have never played a dota style game before so im new to the mechanics

At the very least i would have loved to hear the team discussing their strategy on like picking and banning, a little bit like the F1 drivers and their teams in the pits communicating, and it lets you listen in now and again. It would make DOTA 2 shoutcasts much more fun

The problem with this is that the only team that speaks English is MyM because they have an American player and possibly some of the other teams with international players. But for the most part, English is not spoken.

i was watching the replays on the dota website, I fell asleep, but thats because there was no commentary, it was 50 mins long and i was really tired

I really hate the way it took nearly 12 minutes for everyone to pick/ban their characters in the start before the game, i really hope this was just an esports initiative because they were probably figuring out their strategy on what they wanted to ban and chose but I imagine when I start playing it, im gonna get bored and quit if every game starts off with 12 minutes of faffing about

I get frustrated enough when someone takes ages picking the unit on SC2 team monobattles, even the 1 min breaks between COD matches hack me off

Call me impatient but i just want to play the game! staring at menu's isnt my idea of fun...

I think the main reason why it took them this long to choose their heros was because there is a lot of money involved, $1'000'000 for the first place I think. So they plan everything really carefully and don't want to rush things. I guess that's why the first streamed match took over one and a half hour.

Nope, that's just -CM mode. IceFrog changed it to make it longer a few versions ago, and now it averages 12 minutes to pick. Luckily, its pretty much only used for serious games.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

We need some football announcers for this.

That would make the game atleast 13% cooler.

Fixed it, bra.

It's all water under the bridge now.

 

[RabbidKuriboh]

is it just me or are the hero names awful? i mean anti-mage?, beastmaster? seems pretty lazy

 

[Apollo45]

Meh, looks like League of Legends with more 'realistic' graphics and crappy character names.

Think I'll be sticking to LoL.

 

[Actual]

I missed DOTA but enjoyed LOL. I was hoping this would be an improvement over LOL but it actually looks identical gameplay wise and with more realistic but less pretty graphics.

Also agreeing with everyone else who's said the character names are lol wtf awful. Ancient Apparation isn't even a name more an over-dramatic description.