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League of Legends Review: Free, Addictive, Worthy - Kotaku
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:13 amKotaku has reviewed League of Legends!
http://kotaku.com/5396770/league-of-legends-review-free-addictive-worthy
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and both get beaten by DotA imo.
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LoL > DotA > HoN
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Ghost wrote:
LoL > DotA > HoN
LoL > DotA > HoN
Negative.
May i remind you.. we dont want to advertise on Dotastrategy. or Promote..
Why dont you write your own Review.
Edit just found a conversation which is good.
mangakaiser wrote:
To everyone saying, "Omg HoN is way better ahjdhjahjhda", I have to say, this game isn't for you.
Before you go nuts and flame, I agree with you, to an extent. I was in betas for both, played both a lot, and still play HoN a lot. HoN is much closer to the source material, has much more depth, and much less weird things like runes/unlockable heroes.
LoL isn't for the hardcore DotA community, it's for people who want a F2P game that's probably pretty good if you're into this sort of game but are afraid of the even steeper learning curve and initial cost of HoN or War3/etc...
So, good review. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Crecente has a strong history of DotA. If this is true, the game serves its purpose wonderfully. It is a more acessable DotA-lite game where people can more easily jump into and enjoy themselves. The game will probably do well for it's targeted audience. HoN will probably do well to a more hardcore/crazy competitive/ex-DotA audence.
To everyone saying, "Omg HoN is way better ahjdhjahjhda", I have to say, this game isn't for you.
Before you go nuts and flame, I agree with you, to an extent. I was in betas for both, played both a lot, and still play HoN a lot. HoN is much closer to the source material, has much more depth, and much less weird things like runes/unlockable heroes.
LoL isn't for the hardcore DotA community, it's for people who want a F2P game that's probably pretty good if you're into this sort of game but are afraid of the even steeper learning curve and initial cost of HoN or War3/etc...
So, good review. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Crecente has a strong history of DotA. If this is true, the game serves its purpose wonderfully. It is a more acessable DotA-lite game where people can more easily jump into and enjoy themselves. The game will probably do well for it's targeted audience. HoN will probably do well to a more hardcore/crazy competitive/ex-DotA audence.
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@magnakaiser: Really? I don't think HON has a steeper learning curve at all. It's basically just a direct copy + paste of DOTA with a new graphics engine. I was a big fan of Savage but I'm dissapointed in HON.
League of Legends actually improved upon DOTA by making casters more useful (Spell power allows them to scale, where as in HON they just become crowd control or support characters at best late game). They've also simplified the store and item upgrade system while HON is still a bit of a mess in this regard.
The community for HON is also seriously lame - it hasn't improved from DOTA it's gotten worse - if your team isn't dominating within the first 10 minutes everyone wants to leave. magnakaiser promoted this comment Edited by Roland25 at 11/04/09 2:35 PM
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@magnakaiser: Really? I don't think HON has a steeper learning curve at all. It's basically just a direct copy + paste of DOTA with a new graphics engine. I was a big fan of Savage but I'm dissapointed in HON.
League of Legends actually improved upon DOTA by making casters more useful (Spell power allows them to scale, where as in HON they just become crowd control or support characters at best late game). They've also simplified the store and item upgrade system while HON is still a bit of a mess in this regard.
The community for HON is also seriously lame - it hasn't improved from DOTA it's gotten worse - if your team isn't dominating within the first 10 minutes everyone wants to leave. magnakaiser promoted this comment Edited by Roland25 at 11/04/09 2:35 PM
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@Roland25: If you play DotA at all HoN has nearly no learning curve. Coming to both without any history of DotA, and LoL will probably be easier to pick up. It lacks a lot of crazy mechanics that DotA had and HoN has that made gameplay a bit more deep. (Denies, active items, etc...)
As far as casters not scaling in DotA/HoN, I agree it's a neat concept with LoL... but DotA was balanced around this fact. In DotA/HoN a caster like Zeus/TB or Lina/Pyro will be phenoms early-mid game. They do much more damage than their LoL counterparts at this point. They do taper off late game, but any well balanced team will try to have a couple nukers because the early game benefits are so huge. They can get more support-based items, like Shivas/Sheepstick to which LoL has nothing close to.
And I played plenty of LoL games with leavers in the first 15-20 minutes too, if the game was going bad. It wasn't the majority of the time, but it happened. I have to say it actually happens LESS in HoN, but I have a pretty high PSR and it's probably skewed due to that. From my experience LoL's community is no better than HoN's, which in turn is no better than DotA's... they're all pretty terrible.
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@Roland25: If you play DotA at all HoN has nearly no learning curve. Coming to both without any history of DotA, and LoL will probably be easier to pick up. It lacks a lot of crazy mechanics that DotA had and HoN has that made gameplay a bit more deep. (Denies, active items, etc...)
As far as casters not scaling in DotA/HoN, I agree it's a neat concept with LoL... but DotA was balanced around this fact. In DotA/HoN a caster like Zeus/TB or Lina/Pyro will be phenoms early-mid game. They do much more damage than their LoL counterparts at this point. They do taper off late game, but any well balanced team will try to have a couple nukers because the early game benefits are so huge. They can get more support-based items, like Shivas/Sheepstick to which LoL has nothing close to.
And I played plenty of LoL games with leavers in the first 15-20 minutes too, if the game was going bad. It wasn't the majority of the time, but it happened. I have to say it actually happens LESS in HoN, but I have a pretty high PSR and it's probably skewed due to that. From my experience LoL's community is no better than HoN's, which in turn is no better than DotA's... they're all pretty terrible.
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GaNkStA wrote:
Negative.
May i remind you.. we dont want to advertise on Dotastrategy. or Promote..
Why dont you write your own Review.
Ghost wrote:
LoL > DotA > HoN
LoL > DotA > HoN
Negative.
May i remind you.. we dont want to advertise on Dotastrategy. or Promote..
Why dont you write your own Review.
exactly.
DS is starting to turn from a dota strategy site to a LoL advertising site from what i've seen.
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Probably because dota is dieing out?
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parkguy wrote:
Probably because dota is dieing out?
Probably because dota is dieing out?
Mmmmm when Valve and the frog come back with something new.. we will see. Until then i play the next best thing.. or the closest thing to DotA. HoN
@ice Yeah i know right.. i mean this is in the other games forums.. but still.. we want to talk about dota mechanics. and what helps and what makes dota.
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so clearly we have chosen where we want to be in this, it is impossible for LoL to flop being F2P ergo it is the logical choice if you want to establish youself before the game reaches it's peak.
also honstrategy was taken.
interestingly enough by HunteR_
who is a bit of a dick.
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LoL and HoN are both enjoyable games, Dota will never be outclassed by either of them. Everytime you log onto garena you see over two hundred thousand individual people playing dota, i dont think HoN or LoL will reach one hundred thousand players each but if they do well done.
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LoL is actually a different kind of play compared to Dota
HoN is heroes of Dota and there own with better graphics
DoTa is the orginal and valve+icefrog will make better DotA
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