From: The Real Truth | #016
I feel bad for people who got crushed in one game, then moved on to an easier one and called it the best.
Pretty sure red and I are the boards best players at both DotA and LoL. Not trying to be arrogant here.
And I'm pretty sure we were BOTH extremely disappointed when we found out that "DotA 2" is a glorified port. All it is doing is moving the game from the Wc3 engine to it's own engine.
Which granted is something that needed to happen for the game to improve BUT they haven't tried to improve it, merely replicate.
I don't dislike DotA by any means. I've played thousands of games of it and it prepared me to be a very strong LoL player, I just think they could do more with it. Although if DotA 2 is free with micro transactions or at least not HORRIBLY expensive I'll probably still play it once it goes live.
From: Lopen | #026
And I actually prefer the cartoonish look of LoL because it's easier to see what's going on on the screen...
So much this. Granted I don't think it's the cartoony style that makes it easy to tell what is going on, but there is a LOT of emphasis on graphical aspects that make LoL very crisp. Things getting highlighted when they start to target you. The aggro lines from towers and things like that make a difference. That doesn't mean it was impossible to tell what was going on in DotA, because it wasn't, but if you can do things to make it more clear then why not?
Just because something isn't broke doesn't mean it can't be improved upon. And DotA was by no means "broke", but LoL still took the genre forward in a variety of ways, this being one of them.
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