"Professional" StarCraft Brood War- The Once and Future E-sport

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Retro Games > "Professional" StarCraft Brood War- The Once and Future E-sport

Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Zillions magazine posted:

Have you played Dota? Dota 2 is literally a game where they intentionally replicated every single stupid janky interaction that was a limitation of the original engine the game was on. You can STILL a-click the ground to drop turret aggro on you. Sure, BW has some quirks, but they add to the ceiling of the game.

DOTA was balanced around these janky interactions, they're part of the game

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Spunky Psycho Ho: Jan 26, 2007; by zen death robot

Suspicious posted:

You need encyclopedic knowledge of all the esoteric interactions between hundreds of heroes, items and abilities to even begin to play. I mean, you can play anyway, nothing physically stops you. Hope you like getting raged at and reported every game.

The game's called Dota "2" as in, it's a sequel. They could have tried to, you know, lighten the load a little.

I have thousands of hours in Dota 2. I'm coming back to SC2 after going down that road

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