League of Legends

So, this one is for Jim.

The creators/developers of DotA are making their own full-fledged game.

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Are your pants back on Jim? Ok good.

So, the game is called League of Legends (wonderfully abbreviated by LoL... best part of the game imo) and is basically its own standalone DotA game. The developers said they wanted to make their own game so they did not have to be constrained by the Warcraft III framework, which at its core is still an RTS game. I suspect that this will either be every DotA fanboy's dream come true, or seen as a horrible travesty. My guess is there will be a split camp of people who switch to LoL and snobs who want to stay DotA purists.

I am pretty excited about this actually. I never played DotA, mostly because of my dislike for Warcraft 3 (and my want for a social life...), but I can see this game being a good entry point for people who avoided DotA for fear of being massively confused and then raped in their first bunch of games. We will see when it is released how it is received by DotA vets and new players.

Anyway, here is the incredibly lengthy Kotaku report, and the gameplay video is below.




Fiddlesticks ftw.