Comments on: Menus Of Legend: League Of Interfaces

By: bobakasteve

bobakasteve — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:40:07 +0000

my sentiments exactly marvin.

I like LoL alot since it has the original creator of dota (guinsoo who then let icefrog mess around with dota when he was done) who has a more original take on the game.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:06:39 +0000

I’m on the beta of both LOL and HON. In summary — HON is shiney, but LOL is one of the best games I’ve ever played.

LOL takes me back to how much fun I had when I first played Diablo 2 with my college roomates. They’ve really gone above and beyond DOTA in just making the basic stuff FUN. And there’s a ton of really cool innovative ideas and features. Plus, the community is really welcoming and helped me get up to speed on the game fast.

HON on the other hand looks really shiney, but the game balance is totally jacked, and the community is even worse than the DOTA community. It’s that level of elitism x 10. Plus, the geniuses at s2 added a bunch of features like public kill/d/a tracking and leaver logging without AFK detection and it just results in pro players sitting around making games to newb stomp… as if they didn’t need incentive to do that in the first place. I hold my own OK in HON, but it’s not worth the BS to put up with a game that is a 90% dota clone, where the only innovative parts totally jack the play balance or make the community even worse than before.

By: Basil

Basil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:39:44 +0000

Looks like a “PC game”, indeeed.

By: Hyudra

Hyudra — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:54:15 +0000

I’m keeping my eye on Bloodline Champions as far as MOBA games go. Just seems to pack more atmosphere.

Since this is F2P, though, I figure I’ll give it a shot.

By: Sparvy

Sparvy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:38:34 +0000

@DK

I dont think its fair to talk about “greed” when it comes to the people who created the most popular mod since Counter-Strike, for free, wanting to expand on their concept beyond the WC3 engine and get paid, after several years of free work (even though the LoL team aren’t the ones currently working on DotA).

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:42:58 +0000

DK:

WC3 has terrible netcode, no standardised keybinding, rubbish online interface, and supposedly a very limiting item/damage model.

Plus, it’s pretty basic and the kind of thing you can slap together with a week’s work (as the LoL team have done here) as opposed to paying a hefty license fee.

By: DK

DK — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:28:06 +0000

“The old engine was property of blizzard entertainment.”
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot about greed. That’s a valid reason of course.

By: MrBejeebus

MrBejeebus — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:04:59 +0000

oop my bad, satirical i meant to say

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:44:18 +0000

Heroes of Newerth has the DotA fanbase sewn up already, and nobody in that community seems to be talking about LoL anymore. They might well be comparable games (I haven’t played LoL) but the userbase is on HoN already, with friends lists and clans and what have you. That’s going to be a tough nut to crack.

What makes it impossible to crack however is how embarrassingly shit LoL looks next to HoN. I mean, seriously, S2 went and made a proper modern looking game. I’m sure I’m not breaking the NDA by just saying it really does look brilliant in both the artistic and technical senses.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:42:06 +0000

Lol nda? Bbq ftw?

By: S

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:35:37 +0000

I am in the LoL beta. I can’t wait until NDAs get lifted.

By: bookwormat

bookwormat — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:43:50 +0000

“what was the point in making a new engine/using a different engine?”

The old engine was property of blizzard entertainment.

“League of Legends has some of the worst art and design of all time”

I think it looks great.