MOBA'S

[FluffehFoxEM]

Does anyone enjoy these types of games as much as I do? I'd currently have to say Dota 2 and League of Legends are my two favourite MOBA games, I have literally played the living heck out of these two games, I absolutely enjoy these types of games to no extent. I've been playing League since it first came out too! Back in good old 2009, I'll probably continue to keep playing this game until it dies out which I hope isn't really any time soon. I've also been playing Dota 2 since it's Beta and I really have to say they did a fine job on both games over time.

What's everyone?s favourite MOBA? What?s your favourite champion? Item? Ability?

 

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

It makes me to hate living, transforming me in to the very thing I've despised.
The corruption. it IS REAL.

So the short answer is - No, not anymore.

 

[tm96]

I haven't played any of the top MOBAS like DOTA and League of Legend. My favourite is Awesomenauts. My favourite champion or in this case naut is between three Admiral Swiggins with his hook launcher and anchoring move, Skree with his saw blade and defence totem, finally Raelynn with her time rift and snipe.

 

[Pr0]

I've given the genre a spin or two as I do enjoy competitive gaming but more often than not the general feeling I get with MOBA's and their communities is that you're apparently supposed to be born knowing how to play them and if you're learning, you might as well go die in a fire rather than play at all.

Its kinda craptastic cause I did play the original Defense of the Ancients way back during the WC3 competitive era, but I never got super into it because I prefered the RTS based competitive play as compared to the stranger (at the time) hero only focus play which had no multi-hero synergy without working with other players....it was a very different style of game compared to WC3/FT and, at the time, as it was only a mod and not really an official deal, I never paid it enough attention to turn around a decade later and be like super l33t old school MOBA man or anything.

Biggest problem with MOBA's is they penalize their entry level curve so hard that its almost impossible to learn at all, you're either playing with abusive asshats that will criticize your every move simply because you're doing what you think is right but apparently it isn't, or you end up playing with people that are even more clueless than you are and you never learn anything.

Overall I think the genre is a good and I do enjoy watching high level play from good stacks and players but I've given up on ever trying to be competitive in the genre because I really don't have the patience for trying to teach myself all the nuances of the game.

Its kind of like Hearthstone, I really love the game, but I get really tired of constantly having to adjust to the new meta, deck building is probably my least favorite part of the game...so I stopped playing and mostly just watch other people that have the patience for building decks around the constantly evolving meta rather than frustrate myself.

 

[mooncalf]

I logged about 4000 hours in DotA 2 since I started playing and what I do most of these days is playing ability draft where you build your own hero out of a random base hero/stats and any skill you can grab from a pool. It's broken/imba/hilarious and easier to take less seriously - which makes my regular matches zestier.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

It makes me hate living, transforming me in to the very thing I've despised.
The corruption, it IS REAL.

So the short answer is - No, not anymore.

I feel like this most days. I played the first DOTA quite a bit when it was a mere Warcraft 3 map, and over 500 games with the sequel but now whenever I decide to try and play again I'm almost immediately reminded of why I quit. More toxic than an MMO. Too much time commitment for something that is essentially won or lost at the roll of the dice. If you have just one person leave or feed, or if the enemy team has a Rikimaru, it's over and all of your efforts are for naught. Despite all the great hero variety, everyone just sticks with the powerful ones all the time. There's always a Sniper, a Pudge, an Axe, etc. Boring.

My favourite non-overused hero though would probably be Lifestealer or Outworld Devourer, and my favourite item Phase Boots for chasing and getaways.

I might have tried LoL but I don't like the idea of some heroes being purchased DLC, that sounds like those ones would likely be the strongest or the most fun to play because they want to encourage you to buy them. Also I'd have to go through the entire learning curve again, likely every bit as painful as DOTA.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Its kind of like Hearthstone, I really love the game, but I get really tired of constantly having to adjust to the new meta, deck building is probably my least favorite part of the game...so I stopped playing and mostly just watch other people that have the patience for building decks around the constantly evolving meta rather than frustrate myself.

I actually gave up on Hearthstone because I love deck building and it just didnt allow me to build the decks I wanted (big thing with most online TCGS/CCGs/whatever the hell you wanna call them now) so I was stuck playing shitty decks I knew were crap because I did not have the cards I wanted to make better ones and the grind without paying real money is horrendous. Secondly there were just not enough interesting mechanics to build decks around im the kinda guy who loved making extremely impractical wacky combo decks in magic as well as more focused tourny style decks and Hearthstone just did not allow enough wiggle room.

I like playing almost as much but again I found the game to simple and lacking in complexity to be interesting long term for me.

As for MOBAS I have never really tried them I mean I have downloaded LOL and DOTA2 in the past probably totalled about 30 min playtime between them never even went into a proper match it just didnt click with me I do still find the idea interesting and may give Smite a go but I think the problem is I dont like relying on others and them relying on me (you can read that last bit in Wrexs voice if you want even if it is paraphrased)

 

[laggyteabag]

Im not that big on MOBAs, but I do enjoy a game of Heroes of the Storm from time to time. I used to play League, but I had a falling out with it after I started to take issue with a lot of the game's mechanics, and I haven't looked back.

On HotS, I tend to play ranged characters most of the time, and even then, I mostly like to play damage roles. I am certainly not opposed to playing melee characters (Like HotS' Diablo), but I often find myself running too far ahead and getting myself killed like an idiot. I think my favourite heroes in that game might be the assassin Valla and the specialist Sylvanas, as well as the warrior Diablo if I fancy throwing enemy heroes all over the place.

 

[Benpasko]

I might have tried LoL but I don't like the idea of some heroes being purchased DLC, that sounds like those ones would likely be the strongest or the most fun to play because they want to encourage you to buy them. Also I'd have to go through the entire learning curve again, likely every bit as painful as DOTA.

No no, it's not 'some' heroes. It's all of them. You have to farm (Usually, though some old champs are much cheaper) 6300 ip at 50-100 (Maybe 200 for your first win of the day) per-match to unlock a single new champ, or pay like 8 dollars apiece (With a roster of 100+ champions, a few years back it would have been over 700$ to own every character, but that's gone up). They used to release cheaper ones, but they got bought by a chinese company and stopped doing that forever. And yes, they do release expensive (Before I stoped playing, they were adding new, higher, price points!) champs OP and then nerf them next-patch after everyone has paid their money. Don't play League of Legends, that game has been soulless since they got bought out a few years back.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Does anyone enjoy these types of games as much as I do? I'd currently have to say Dota 2 ... favourite MOBA games

*shivers*

Friendly tip: probably shouldn't call DOTA2 a MOBA. Calling it as such tends to wind up DOTA players, and a lot of people think its a damn stupid term anyway. MOBA is a term invented by the guy who screwed over DOTA by deleting the main DOTA community site and replaced it with a LoL advert because he became part of Riot.

I might have tried LoL but I don't like the idea of some heroes being purchased DLC, that sounds like those ones would likely be the strongest or the most fun to play because they want to encourage you to buy them. Also I'd have to go through the entire learning curve again, likely every bit as painful as DOTA.

No no, it's not 'some' heroes. It's all of them. You have to farm (Usually, though some old champs are much cheaper) 6300 ip at 50-100 (Maybe 200 for your first win of the day) per-match to unlock a single new champ, or pay like 8 dollars apiece (With a roster of 100+ champions, a few years back it would have been over 700$ to own every character, but that's gone up). They used to release cheaper ones, but they got bought by a chinese company and stopped doing that forever. And yes, they do release expensive (Before I stoped playing, they were adding new, higher, price points!) champs OP and then nerf them next-patch after everyone has paid their money. Don't play League of Legends, that game has been soulless since they got bought out a few years back.

To be honest it absolutely does my head in that THAT has become a common business model. Its absolutely disgusting and horribly exploitative and makes the games inherently anti-competitive. I just cannot take a game seriously if its pretends to be "competitive" whilst locking off options from people making them unable to actually compete. It'd be like only being able to build Marines when you start playing Starcraft until you get enough points to buy Siege Tanks.

 

[Evil Moo]

I will never play these games because being anything less than perfect will result in abuse from team mates. As a beginner there's no incentive to even bother seeing if I would like the games. There's nowhere to safely learn the mechanics and gradually ramp up skill. With anything that competitive, you either don't play or you have to aspire to be pro-tier from the start. I find this effect to be bad enough in other team based multiplayer games, but everything I've heard about MOBAs points to this being far worse there. Frankly I've given up on competitive multiplayer games in general. Maybe things would be better with a group of friends to play with, but even then things have been more hostile than I'd like when I did briefly play with some people I knew...

 

[Rayce Archer]

I played LoL for a while, but I quit because the same map again and again was wearing me down and the whole gearing minigame just felt like a tacked-on distraction. I had the same problems with DOTA2, plus I found it sort of needlessly complicated. I haven't played any others.

Heroes of the Storm looks to address both of those problems so I'll be giving that a shot when it lands.

 

[SweetShark]

The only MOBA I played are two:
Infinite Crisis and SmashMuck Champions.

Infinite Crisis was meh, ok I guess, but for me it was not so exciting.
SmashMuck Champions on the other hand was radical!! Easy to learn and I liked the humor you see from the tutorial and the original setting.
I have plans to play LoL and DOTA2, but I want to take it slow.

 

[mrjoe94]

My friends got me hooked on LoL a year ago, I've not stopped playing since. Favorite champion is probably Vi, so much I play her top lane as well as jungle.

 

[Odbarc]

I got bored of DOTA long since WC3: Frozen Throne. DOTA 2 offered nothing new except graphics and a means to pay for crappy skins pieces at huge prices.

LoL is fun because at least they tweek, update and add new stuff every once in a while.

I much more prefer hero defense style maps but good ones are pretty hard to find.
Enfos Team Survival was a personal favorite of mine and I played it to death.