Look at more besides dota!

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So we all know you devs have seen dota, but just to make sure your using other ideas look at other AoS style maps.

HoSK: is more about combos

AotZ: Is more about skill with the hero (this is most closly related to demigod)

DoE: Is more about team and status effect combos.

Also those of you who dislike dota, some great maps there to give a try!
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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top
I happen to be a fan of Tides of Blood or ToB. (though I still play dota more this topic is listing other good Aos Style maps and this happens to be my 2nd fav)

The concept id say is fairly close to demigod aswell. you not only can improve your hero. but build additional towers that produce additional units per lane *like a side objective* each other cost alot more then an individual hero item. so you must make a decision to gimp your hero. to make your units stronger, or gimp your units to make your heros stronger.
Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top
It's already been said many times that dota is only one of several inspirations for demigod.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

Yes but when they said that the metioned other style of games, not other version of the AoS style map.

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

Yeah I hope they just say DotA because it's simply more widely recognizable than saying AoS..

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

I wish they compiled a list of everygame the go inspiration from. So lets write down nearly every title ever produced. Ohh and i hope they mention Battlefield 1942 because there is a capture system and i hope they mention streetfighter because guys will shoot fireballs and don't forget Spy vs Spy because some demigods might be able to plant boobytraps or cover people in acid buckets.

 

 

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

No, guys. We need to be talking about BATTLETANKS!

Actually, in all seriousness, give Battleboats and SMoTA a try. Good luck hunting them down, though. I know I have the latest SMoTA, but there are so many different versions of Battleboats that it's hard to find a good one. Battletanks is hilarious, but can take up to 1.5 hours to finish.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

The thing is, DotA is truly the best AoS out there. There aren't any others that nearly match it in terms of quality, balanced, hero count, and just overall fun. I've played a lot of the AoS's out there and a lot of them are just horrid. Most of them have pointless new features that only clutter gameplay, or have overly complex and pointless spells that seem to be made to be flashy more than functional.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

That good sir is BS it all depends on personal prefrence, DotA may be the most popular, but there are plenty of well balanced, fun, and diffrent AoS's out there.

Reply #9 from Demigod Forums Top

I think Demigod should focus on not being DotA as much as possible; so far it feels almost identical besides having less features and more issues. Hopefully as Beta grows, it will become more and more unique and develop it's own feel.

...key word hopefully.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

less features and more issues
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What do you expect from a stripped down engine test beta? It has less features to reduce the number of variables and that screws with gameplay, and more issues because it's the first full test of the engine on a variety of computers, and it's not based off a game that's been tested to death, and there's a bunch of people trying it out in short succession, so the number of bug reports is magnified considerably by that.

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Sayi

Quoting MetDragon, reply 7
The thing is, DotA is truly the best AoS out there. There aren't any others that nearly match it in terms of quality, balanced, hero count, and just overall fun. I've played a lot of the AoS's out there and a lot of them are just horrid. Most of them have pointless new features that only clutter gameplay, or have overly complex and pointless spells that seem to be made to be flashy more than functional.
End of MetDragon's quote

Saying that DoTA is the best out there is just ignorance of the better ones! DoTA's like angel arena more than it is like an aos imo. Couple of things DOTA fails on where other AOS's are better:

  • customizable base / spawns / upgrades
  • 6 inventory slots, this is just pure lazyness from the creators of dota... Give every hero a slot for everything ex)helm slot, 2 ring slots, neck, head , gloves , boots etc.
  • Heros are OP in comparison to the creep spawns, I guess this is just a personal opinion, I hate feeling like a god one-hitting all the creeps... or being able to withstand dmg from them indefinitly.
  • Better hero variety and skill variety, true tho I have seen those AOS' where the skills are just eyecandy more than useful... but there are alot where the skills are very unique and have good purpose...
Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

AOM, Age of Myths. Its incredibly balanced. And contray to popular belief, the ninja is easily killed. All the heros have individual tasks and purposes, and them items are easily combined. Aswell as nooby-help such as pre-devided item sections.

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

Dota sucks their I said it. almost everyone who plays Dota will curse at u and boot u from game if your nub because its your first time playing it. I agree trip being a god is not fun. I want creeps to actually be able to fight.

 

edit: go tides of blood. I personally think its more like demigod than Dota cause it has unique people with almost all very unique moves unlike Dota which has a million repeats. Even though in ToB u can become godlike u can buy creeps like generals which cant be killed so easily and it will never come to one hit k o to creeps.

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Triptrippen, reply 11

 
1: customizable base / spawns / upgrades
2: 6 inventory slots, this is just pure lazyness from the creators of dota... Give every hero a slot for everything ex)helm slot, 2 ring slots, neck, head , gloves , boots etc.
3:Heros are OP in comparison to the creep spawns, I guess this is just a personal opinion, I hate feeling like a god one-hitting all the creeps... or being able to withstand dmg from them indefinitly.
4:Better hero variety and skill variety, true tho I have seen those AOS' where the skills are just eyecandy more than useful... but there are alot where the skills are very unique and have good purpose...
End of Triptrippen's quote

1:DotA is about heroes, not bases/spawns/upgrades.

2:This is pointless, items are fine as is.

3:Stop playing easy mode games as agility heroes with lifesteal.

4: DotA has over 90 heroes, all of which play differently. How many more do you want?

Quoting Soccer194, reply 13
Dota sucks their I said it. almost everyone who plays Dota will curse at u and boot u from game if your nub because its your first time playing it. I agree trip being a god is not fun. I want creeps to actually be able to fight.
End of Soccer194's quote

Stop playing so bad..