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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

No pressure on their next game or anything.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I've been over the hero shooter fad for almost a decade. Where are the actually new ideas for the genre?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I think Deadlock is pretty up there. That said, it's closer to Smite than it is a hero shooter. The community-driven character builds mean meta is pretty fluid and it has what I would describe as a very accessible MOBA-centered design. I don't care for MOBAs much, but to say Valve isn't innovating here would be disingenuous. I think my only problem with it is that it's lacking something that makes the gameplay loop feel satisfying, but that may just be my bias against MOBAs talking.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    That said, it's closer to Smite than it is a hero shooter.

    I haven't played Smite since it came out, but has it really changed that much that it's no longer a hero shooter? 🤨 It was like Overwatch, 2 years before Overwatch came out.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Smite was not that much of hero shooter, Paladins from the same company was a hero shooter.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hm... Maybe that's what I am thinking of. I know for sure that Smite is the reason Tribes: Ascend was left for dead, though, and that's reason enough to hate it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I miss Tribes: Ascend, great game. Hi-rez love to kill their games.

    Paladins always was better than overwatch and they killed it too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's been hilarious watching Overwatch take notes from Paladins, the "Overwatch clone", more and more lately. 5v5, hero builds, more of a brawly playstyle... OW2 at times feels like a blend between OW1 and Paladins.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not only they copied the way Paladins works but some heroes too. Kiriko is just Io, even the fox theme is the same. Maui is Raum. Freja looks a lot like Cassie but at least the playstyle is different, the other two have the same playstyle

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