I also doubt that your judgment would constrain anyone from making his own opinion. It’s not as if there ever was a game without some guy who thinks it’s crap.

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Is that clear?

Here comes my opinion:
This game is pure crap.

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MOST gamers have never heard of DOTA, these people will look at this game and say “cool, stardock and Gas powered games made this, I liked other games they made and I NEVER Seen anything like this AND it’s cheep, I buy it now!” Brand grammer indeeded ;P They’ll sell tons of copies of the game, probably mostly through digital downloads. They’ll make back the money they spent on the game and then some, success! This is how they made money on Sins and GalCIV

They don’t care of DOTA hardcore players like the game, that’s like a very SMALL amount of dollars there they can make and they also know they won’t be able to make you happy no matter what they do unless they copy DOTA exactly. For what it was worth I enjoyed DOTA as long as I was playing with other n00bs who just wanted to have fun.

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Future Cop LAPD was an awesome game. I played on the PS1 for many hours and loved its singleplayer + multiplayer.
It seems to be one of those hidden gems that many people liked but never realised other people even knew what the hell it was.

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i’ll at least give the demo of Demigod a spin to see if the community has some pleasant folks in it. if i have to deal with the “l33t gamer” jerks that populated DotA i definitely won’t bother with Demigod either.

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DOUBLE SMITE

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Impulse, however, has special offers too sometimes – I got titan quest and space rangers 2 for 3 Euro each a while ago ;).

Impulse also has a very nice advantage over steam: all prices are in USD, so in europe you have a 26% discount on every game that impulse has to offer (hint: “braid”).

demigod’s price at release is 40$, which is less than 30 EUR. Which I think is a good price for a new released title.

That said, buying a game a year after it was released it probably always a good idea.

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Basically the idea of these kind of mods is, that there are two armies fighting a war, and you play the hero that will lead your army to victory. So you play the equivalent of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings movies. Except that there are usually 5 or 6 heroes on each side, and every player controls one. And you play only the hero: You don’t control any units.
So it’s not an RTS at all. The armies that are doing the RTS part are computer controlled. I guess you can imagine it best, if you think of something like a team deathmatch RPG on a very dynamic playing field.
DotA is the most succesful of these mods, but there are probably hundreds. It all started way back in Starcraft, but has only really evolved when Warcraft III allowed proper heroes with level ups and stuff. The power and ease of use of the Warcraft III editor meant, that there are constantly new mods, or variations of old ones.

The genre went through lots of evolutions over time. There were more strategic mods, more casual or more complex mods, and lots of very gimmicky mods. But in the end it was DotA that dominated, with a very pure version, which is mainly about team deathmatch. The game does lots of things right, mainly that the armies are only there to provide a dynamic team deathmatch experience. They aren’t important enough to get in the way of the experience, but they are strong enough that it hurts when you don’t consider the current situation on the battlefield before acting. It allows for a lot of great moments, like hiding in the forest while the enemy army marches past you, then ambushing someone behind enemy lines, and finally barely escaping before his team chases you down.
So DotA is all about those great moments known from great team deathmatch games, and then lots more which are only made possible by the addition of the dynamic playing field.

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Wasn’t it? I remember playing it years ago on the PS1; could never a PC copy working on a modern PC. Multiplayer was very different to single player, and quite unique.

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