1 . Both are MOBAs, both have teams of 5 that fight down (usually) 3 lane maps destroying two sets of buildings before destroying a core at the far end of the map. The core gameplay loop is identical and are thus comparable. What made this one a notable exception is that instead of a bunch of made up heroes that have no history anyone cares about and look like the sort of thing old people think teenagers think is cool or edgy is that this is made up of a large group of characters from well known and established franchises. Going this route makes the game even more similar to LoL and DOTA by now making original creations that looks like the sort of thing old people think teenagers think is cool. It doesn’t turn one into the other but it does make things considerably more similar and does remove a unique selling point of this game.
4 . It would seem weird to me to advertise your game using something you don’t believe. I’m not arguing HotS isn’t a blizzard game that’s idiotic. I’m arguing nobody involved in this game would qualify as “fabled”. A handful of comics most people dont read doesn’t cut it.
5 . It would’ve been easy enough to fit that into the warcraft lore/theme without creating a whole lore for those parts of the game.
I don’t see focusing on the lore and comics as a problem. Programmers, coders etc. have their job and the lore masters have theirs. Don’t all blizzard games have their lore masters that work on stories and stuff? Considering HOTS mainly uses established characters from their other franchises, the HOTS story creating team actually has more free time compared to others. They worked on orphea a lot, but IMO it’s nothing compared to what WoW team is doing with Battle for Azeroth.
And having 1 or 2 originals in a sea of established characters is not bad, especially when you can design their kit from the ground up to be completely original. I say go for it occasionally. Not too often of course. But i would love to see Raven Lord next. Or Grave Keeper.
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The Nexus is a part of Heroes of the Storm. Heroes of the Storm is a Blizzard game. Characters from the Nexus, therefore are Blizzard characters. Blizzard characters are added to Heroes as playable heroes. Therefore, a hero from the Nexus is not out of place in the slightest.
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Pretty much. They’re all different departments and different teams.
These people think that the hamburger won’t be made cause the cashier is busy counting money.
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Good.
Now release Imperius already.
We need more tanks, not more waifus…
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At least we ain’t getting Destiny or COD heroes in here…
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Please not the Archangel of Blandness.
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Oh god. If they release CoD or Destiny heroes that would have been it.
I described what a straw man was in my original comment, but let me do it for you again. He has taken people’s criticisms and worries, then turned them into the idea that they’re merely whining like children. He’s not attacking their actual point, he’s attacking a straw man instead.
Also, you’re wrong. Pointing out what is wrong with a game, what you like, and what you dislike is how game developers and companies improve their games. The “Haha first world” argument is actual garbage, and here you also make a straw man. The point isn’t that its one original hero, its that the original intent of the game was to provide a battleground for the established characters to fight, and that the addition of original nexus heroes undermines why many fans got into the game to begin with.
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But you’re wrong, blizzard has described this game as a hero brawler, specifically their existing heroes from all their franchises. This game is also be an experiment, I’ll cede that to you, but it is, at heart, a hero brawl game.
I’ll agree that it has got to be difficult to make completely unique skill sets for all the heroes they add, but as so many have pointed out, there are existing people in the lore that could have received her kit. While I don’t personally care if blizzard ends up “evolving” the game as you put it, since I never cared about the lore to begin with, a lot of people pick this game up to play heroes they like from the lore, not random people that exist only within the nexus. At the end of the day, Blizzard will do whatever makes shareholders happy, so its really a moot point.
Finally, the fact you call people “less intelligent simpletons” is absolutely abhorrent. The idea that you put yourself on such a superior pedestal is the very reason I have problems with this community, and why I made my original comment.
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