NeoShocker
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Interstellar eXodus
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Posted - 2011.04.07 03:06:00 -
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Edited by: NeoShocker on 07/04/2011 03:11:01
Former DoTA player here for years. I play LOL quite often nowadays. I did experience playing HoN through a friend invitation.
As the earlier post mentioned between HoN and DoTA, they're almost (if not, exactly) the same game play and mechanics and map layout and shop locations. All of the DoTA items and heros are renamed, so those that played DoTA, will already know how to play HoN, just need to know the new names. But of course there are new added contents for HoN. But that's all I can say after playing 2 games (4-6 games limit if I recall before buying, which I didn't)
For LoL, gameplay is similar between HoN and LOL, but think DoTA + WOW for levels (30 lvl cap and that WILL give you great edge once at 30) and 2 "summoner spells" that everybody gets. Also LOL game mechanics are quite different and some of the gameplay is little changed.
I want to play HoN over LoL, but you can't really beat free version, and I did put some cash into LOL (vroom vroom blitz skin) :O
DidIevermentionthatIextremelyhatesummonerspellsandIHATEtheirforums?
Sometimes LOL irks me. I was | | close to buy digital (until I found out steam have it, but its EURO only, still eagerly waiting for US version for steam), but server problems do occur and prevents me from considering to buy the package. Sometimes (or rather usually) weekends server is borked. But that's fine and dandy since its ... free ... *eye twitching, feeling rage*
Riot put up new heroes almost weekly, so server problems don't really bug me and you "Grind" to buy new heroes. So you can technically own all heroes and upcoming new ones easily if you play it quite often. Any new player that starts LoL gets 8 free champions, and those champions changes weekly, almost every monday for new lineup.
So final verdict. For more "skilled" based game, go HoN, but prepare to shell out $$ to play it, or play the "casual" and free game, LOL. I still recommend LOL, but make sure you have friends, you will need them.
I was told this:
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A good game, but a bad community? Pick HoN. Decent game, but great community? Pick LoL
And I do question the "great" community, especially that their forums suck ass. I thought eve-o is bad, but it isn't. Decent I must say, but LoL forums are terrible.
And BTW, its ShockerX, US version of LOL if you want to add me, just let me know in eve mail when you're on to play so we can add. In fact I'm on right now. :O
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