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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:26 am
by Leisher
Apparently, Turbine and DC Comics are working together on a DOTA-style game.
If Valve can't knock Riot off the mountain, I highly doubt Turbine and DC will be able to with a game where every single match is going to be infighting about who gets to be Batman.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:04 am
by Malcolm
every single match is going to be infighting about who gets to be Batman
How many different incarnations of Batman has the comics world seen? Like they couldn't just dupe him.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:12 am
by Leisher
Well, in DOTA style games, you typically only see one of each character in a game. (Two at the most...one on each team.)
Duping him would be pointless unless his abilities drastically changed. What would be more likely is different skins for his different incarnations.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:29 am
by Malcolm
You could have one be the Bruce Wayne Batman. Another be the Jean-Paul Valley Batman. Another can be the Dick Grayson Batman. The list goes on.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:42 am
by Leisher
No, I get what you're saying, but unless the abilities change dramatically, there's no point.
DOTA has 5 (or 3) guys per team, and each fits a different role.
For example, in LoL the typical team comp is an ADC (Attack Damage Carry), APC (Ability Power Carry), Support, Top (usually a bruising damage dealer), and a Jungler.
5 Batmen with the same kits would get rolled by a balanced team who could take advantage of the Batmen team's limited options.
That's why I think skins are FAR more likely. A skin allows the person who plays Batman (or any character) to pick one of numerous looks "Skins" for the game he's playing. So one game he could play as Dick Grayson's Batman, the next Adam West's, the next the Red Son Batman, etc. All would have the same kit, but each would have different graphics, sometimes even animations and voices.
So again, every game is going to reduce to see who gets to be Batman.
By the way, I think Batman is a jungler.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:29 am
by GORDON
"I'm Batman."
"Reported."
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:15 pm
by Malcolm
every game is going to reduce to see who gets to be Batman.
Everyone is. All Batman, all the time.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:48 pm
by TPRJones
I can see having multiple different Batmans. Don't just have each skin be a different skin, but have a different loadout to the utility belt and different level of training, resulting in the different Batmen being able to fill different roles on the field. One Batman is best tuned for DPS, one for support, one for jungling, etc, with the utility belt and character story being the excuse for the differences. Then you can all have Batman but still fulfill different team roles.
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 1:25 pm
by Malcolm
Or you could just make Batman the nerfiest of all characters, then no one will want to play him.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:56 am
by Stranger
http://www.infinitecrisis.com/en
Whelp, they made a DC comics MOBA! I knew it was only a matter of time before it would happen.
I signed up for BETA access, prolly wont get one but worth a shot.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:27 am
by GORDON
Geez, wont this cut into the massive amount of time you are in League?
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:55 am
by Leisher
GORDON wrote:Geez, wont this cut into the massive amount of time you are in League?
Zing!
I'm sure I setup a thread on this very topic a while back.
Also, I signed up as well, but I don't think this will pull me away from LoL. After all, I was in the DOTA2 beta...
You just know every pre-game chat is going to be a fight over who gets to be Batman.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:05 pm
by Stranger
Hey, this has nothing to do with my availability in League!
Looking at the champ roster they have two Batmen right now, Batman and Nightmare Batman. Both have different sets of abilities. Also there is a Joker and a Gaslight Joker.
And we all know that no game lasts forever. I'm sure someday LOL will be a thing of the past and something else will be the current hit.
Correction.. there are 3 Batmen, Gaslight is the third.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:26 pm
by GORDON
And we all know that no game lasts forever. I'm sure someday LOL will be a thing of the past and something else will be the current hit.
I still miss UO. I still think about setting up a server.
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Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:42 pm
by Leisher
I miss UO a lot too, but none of the player run servers were the same.
And while I'm certain someday LoL will become a thing of the past, I don't think that day is going to be anytime soon.
I also don't think a MOBA based on DC characters is going to be the one to knock it off.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:48 pm
by Leisher
Hey look, I found the original thread!
Merged.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:57 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:I miss UO a lot too, but none of the player run servers were the same.
Over the years we found a couple servers that were close to what they should be, and played them long enough to anger most of the player base and administration staff until they made such radical changes to the server to counter us that it ruined it all.
Good times.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:08 pm
by Malcolm
Good times.
Point is you need the base of idiots from which to harvest enjoyment.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:30 pm
by GORDON
Malcolm wrote:Good times.
Point is you need the base of idiots from which to harvest enjoyment.
Problem is that my reflexes haven't gotten any faster over the years, and I have a harder time crushing the idiots. I keep getting older, but the universe keeps producing new, younger idiots with faster reflexes than me and poor parents who let them hone their video game skillz 7 hours a day.
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:36 pm
by Malcolm
Then retire and step up your game, old man.