It was also October a year ago when Ice Frog, the father of DotA announced his partnership with Valve to execute the making of DotA 2. Defense of the Ancients or DotA’s continues popularity had become inevitable, DotA-like games was even published by different game developers such as Heroes of Newerth (HoN) and League of Legends (LoL) both this DotA-like games even hosts its own respective tournaments with a decent prices.
DotA was founded and developed by several people, not just the mysterious Ice Frog but there are quite few people behind it and one of them is Steve “Guinsoo” Feak who is now working for Riot Games-League of Legends as a designer.
Valve is know for publishing renowned FPS Games or First Person Shooting Games like Counter Strike, Half-Life, Left For Dead and Left For Dead 2, a question may bother your minds if they can really handle a game like DotA if they have been focusing on shooting games, i believe the answer is “Yes, then can”, as i said earlier in the topic, Ice Frog is leading the developer team for DotA 2.
DotA 2 Changes
Same game-play, Heroes and Items from DotA will all be included in DotA 2, the major change will be graphic-related things, this will also release them from the limited war3 engine to its own new Valve DotA 2 Engine which will give them unlimited opportunities to develop the game further and unbound to limitations, a graphic effect called Cloth Effects will also be added and a whole new better lighting effect.
Coach System – this is a feature to expect from DotA 2, the mechanics of this feature allows a player to see its desired pupil’s screen and activates a private chat for both of them, this will allow the other player to teach his desired player. The released date of DotA is said to be early to mid 2011.
We can expect a huge changes in 2011 E-Sports, World Cyber Games with Starcraft 2 and DotA 2 will surely shake the cyber gaming scene.
I have never heard of DOTA, nor am I an RTS player. However, I have confidence in Valve for a few reasons.
A) Hiring one of the DOTA mod developers (Yes, I know he’s not an ORIGINAL creator)
B) Valve has never made a “bad” game in the company’s history
C) Gameinformer said they loved what they got to play
D) Valve has been toying with different genres with Portal and the top-down alien swarm
I have to agree dude, Valve never made a bad game.
so we got a lot to expect from Valve’s DotA 2
I started with DOTA in 2002, and continued with it through many evolutions. I played a few months of LOL, and since it was no good, came back to DOTA. I went to HON, and since it absolutely destroyed DOTA, I have found a HOME. There is no debate, HON got it right and continues to improve. The only people that complain or bad mouth it, are the weak that can’t handle a challenge, and want the game to be friendly and easy. I am sure DoTa II will come out in a couple of years, and it will be great, however I just don’t see myself leaving the Mecca of the RTS world.
If you have not tried it, and you love DOTA, you are really missing out.
HON 4 LIFE
Good to hear that, every game has its own “taste” for a game.
whether we are playing DotA, LoL or HoN it’s all thanks to the community who helped build it.
Icefrog is a cuntcicle – he should diaf
Well concidering Dota has always been for long without a doubt the most played game in the world. I myself am a 5 year Dota Veteran and think Icefrog and guinsoo made an excellent game.
Hon was just a immitation of dota, nothing spectacular. Its just dota with an Aero skin. Only nice thing about hon was the reconecting if ur con drops.
Dota 2 will be spectacular and i will definatly support it. I think a lot of people in the world owe their gratitude to Icefrog for making such a nice evolving game that just keeps getting better and better, and onc emore now it is going to be stand alone.