MOBA General Thread

[BBmolla]

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena General

(You can call the genre whatever you want idc)

This is a thread for talking about new MOBAs you've tried and possibly finding other people to try different MOBAs with.

Please don't discuss MOBAs that have their own thread (League, Dota 2, etc.)

If the game becomes popular enough to have its own thread, go ahead and split it off.

Moba To Try

Infinite Crisis is an upcoming free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game based on the fictional universe of DC Comics (DC Universe). Developed by Turbine and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, the game is set to launch in late 2014. It will be Turbine's first original title since the company's purchase by Warner Brothers in 2010, and the first non-MMORPG game produced by the studio. Infinite Crisis began closed beta testing in May 8, 2013. The game went into Open beta on March 14, 2014.

List of MOBAs:
Defense of the Ancients -

Currently free to play with purchase of Warcraft 3

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Custom Warcraft 3 map that popularized the genre.

League of Legends -

Currently free to play, purchasable runes and champions via in game currency/out of game currency with hero rotation

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Brought the MOBA genre to more mainstream gamers.

Heroes of Newerth -

Currently free to play, purchasable skins via in game currency/out of game currency

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Dota 1.5, brought the original Dota onto its own engine. Once it began to create its own content it fell apart and most of its players left for Dota 2.

Super Monday Night Combat -

Currently free to play, unsure of specifics.

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One of the first attempts at a first/third person MOBA.

Awesomenauts -

$9.99, unsure of specifics

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Side scroller MOBA, three versus three.

Guardians of Middle-earth -

$19.99, unsure of specifics

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Lord of the Rings MOBA.

Arena of Heroes -

Free to play, unsure of specifics

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Described as a turn based MOBA.

Chaos Online -

Free to play, unsure of specifics

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Based off of the Korean map Dota Chaos from Warcraft 3. While people everywhere else played Allstars, Chaos was the more popular map in Korea and was turned into its own standalone game.

Dota 2 -

Currently free to play, can recieve non gameplay affecting items after games end to equip character with as well as buy those items with real money.

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The successor to the original Dota.

Solstice Arena -

Free to play, unsure of specifics

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3v3 gameplay.

Dragons and Titans -

Free to play, unsure of specifics

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Dragons.

Smite -

Free to play, purchasable heroes and a hero rotation.

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Third person MOBA.

Finishing list later I need to go.

[xRECKONERx]

doesn't infinite crisis have its own thread

[BBmolla]

Does it really need its own thread

[CupcakePanda]

Why does DOTA not have its own thread.

[quadz08]

DOTA does have it's own thread, I believe.

[AGar]

It's a DOTA2 thread, fwiw.

[quadz08]

ah yeah that


Also I am trying Infinite Crisis now. Wooo!

[AGar]

I downloaded and installed it as well. Hopefully giving it a whirl tonight?

The1AndOnlyAGar (dunno if there's a friend function or whatnot in it).

[quadz08]

so my thoughts-

Camera is bad, responsiveness feels bad, no functional training mode that I can find. Interface is generally unclear, both in and out of game. I keep getting a bug where I'll die and the game will stop taking my button inputs. I can see everything that's happening but cannot move, use abilities, purchase items, or upgrade skills.

Concept is good, but the game is barely playable right now.

[AGar]

so my thoughts-

Camera is bad, responsiveness feels bad, no functional training mode that I can find. Interface is generally unclear, both in and out of game. I keep getting a bug where I'll die and the game will stop taking my button inputs. I can see everything that's happening but cannot move, use abilities, purchase items, or upgrade skills.

Concept is good, but the game is barely playable right now.

That's not promising. :/

[BBmolla]

On my first glance my biggest issue was it literally looked like a LoL clone

Does it do anything interesting?

[BBmolla]

Oh god

I don't know if it's me or some shit but I have like a 1 second delay in that game what the hell

Pass

[Lincolm]

I like Nightmare Batman and Superman.

[quadz08]

On my first glance my biggest issue was it literally looked like a LoL clone

Does it do anything interesting?

I mean, MOBAs are all pretty much clones of one another to my knowledge, so that's not a big surprise?

Destructible / manipulable terrain seems to be their big uniqueness selling point (apart from the branding, obviously), but I had a really hard time determining how/when/why/what I should destroying and manipulating.

[BBmolla]

I mean, MOBAs are all pretty much clones of one another to my knowledge, so that's not a big surprise?

Well most have big differences they try to play on to get people to play.

[animorpherv1]

I've "eh'd" at Dawngate.I don't think it brings enough to the table.

[Katsuki]

Naruto vs Bleach was the best game I ever played. Sadly it slowly died out so I had to transition to dota.

[PJ.]

I've had Infinite Crisis installed for quite a while but never played it because I had no one to play it with

[pickemgenius]

anyone here have Strife beta access?

from my game it's kinda neat. certain aspects seem cool and decently incorporated but shit like having a fixed hero pool(iirc) and other things will probably bug me too much from playing it all that much.

[Jahudo]

I just got into the Strife beta and will check it out sometime this weekend.

Here are some extra keys I don't need:

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[pickemgenius]

It's actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

I've really not had a bad experience even in losses.

The game feels pretty good as a whole.

[AGar]

I used the 3rd key, just so that's publicly out there. I'm off from work tomorrow, definitely going to give it some lovin'.

[BBmolla]

It's actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

I've really not had a bad experience even in losses.

The game feels pretty good as a whole.

That was how I felt about it.

[BROseidon]

I want a Marvel MOBA. I would switch to that in a heartbeat.

With the meteoric rise of Marvel franchising on the back of Disney, this also seems like a real possibility if they decide to go that way. Biggest issue I see right now is that the MOBA market is fairly over-saturated.

Maybe a Marvel: Agents of Shield single-player game with an interesting coop mode would do...

[BROseidon]

It's a DOTA2 thread, fwiw.

As if those are different games lol