DustyDrB said:
What kind of game is this going to be? I've never heard of Defense of the Ancients until early this year. I wasn't impressed when I looked up gameplay, but that also doesn't look like the kind of game Valve would make. I'm really impressed with the art direction so far for this, though.
Defense of the Ancients started as a modification for Blizzard's Warcraft 3, played online.
The goal of the game was to team up with other people in a group of 5, and destroy the enemy 5 players' base.
Although many other versions of Dota existed, the most popular and well known one is the one currently headed by Icefrog, Defense of the Ancients: Allstars.
Valve hired Icefrog after seeing how well he handled Dota Allstars, and decided to free him from the limitations of Warcraft 3's very dated engine, to make a separate, completely independent game, as well as Valve's first fantasy game ever.
The artstyle is a nice mixture of Blizzard's fantasy and Valve's Team Fortress, and I like it very much.
Sordak said:
and its amazing, am i the only one who DotA 2s artstyle reminds of Teamfortress?
The only complain i got so far with DotA 2 is that they made slardar look kind of shitty.
Apart from that the Game and its Artstyle look kind of neat. Cant wait for Wednesday!
Slardar looks like an anglerfish now. Personally, I dig it.