Total War: Arena

[Wirdschowerdn]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-free-to-play-moba-style-total-war-arena-game

Free2Play MOBA.

Like, I totally didn't see that coming.

 

[Kem0sabe]

That's is seriously how i felt when i read the eurogamer article, as if the moba bandwagon needed another wheel.

 

[Borelli]

Not exactly TOTAL WAR when you control only 1 unit. But wait!

In it you "pitch history's greatest commanders and their armies against each other in massive team-based battles", announced the announcement.

If you control those armies then it sounds like standard Total War multiplayer, if you do not... then there is no emoticon to express this.
Although it says team-based... Hannibal tag-teaming with Genghis Khan to defeat Napoleon-Rome alliance?

 

[Excidium]

Blizzard MOBA
LOTR MOBA
Magicka MOBA
DC comics MOBA
Total War MOBA

 

[Turisas]

Blizzard MOBA
LOTR MOBA
Magicka MOBA
DC comics MOBA
Total War MOBA

The sooner the industry runs this shit to the ground, the better. Then they can start looking for the next fad and repeat the cycle, but maybe it'll be better than those shitty MOBAs.

 

[Average Manatee]

Blizzard MOBA
LOTR MOBA
Magicka MOBA
DC comics MOBA
Total War MOBA

Are these all actually being made? *Googles*. Jesus christ companies are jumping to emulate a shitty UMS map by the dozens.

 

[kris]

I am happy that I have no idea what "MOBA" is. and has no real interest in checking it out.

 

[Whisky]

Am I the only one that has never played a single MOBA and barely even knows what it is?

 

[Mraston]

Am I the only one that has never played a single MOBA and barely even knows what it is?

While I can admit to playing a single session of League of Legends, I cannot comprehend the genres popularity outside of a niche core audience of hypercompetitive lunatics.

 

[J_C]

What is the meaning of MOBA anyway? (I could google it, but I'm too lazy)

 

[laclongquan]

What is the meaning of MOBA anyway? (I could google it, but I'm too lazy)

 

[Cyberarmy]

Monsters of Black Armageddon?
Museum of Bad Art?
Mind Over Brain Allocation?

Im dissapoint Creative Assembly but also happy that they are not using Warhammer IP for such thing...

 

[ohWOW]

And yet every each one of them will be shit. mobas are just shit games to begin with.
No wonder they're so popular.

 

[dehimos]

Time for a visit

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

AHAHAHAHAHA

WHAT THE FUCK, ARE THESE DUDES SERIOUS?

Christ, this is like that Deadliest Warrior bullshit.

 

[tuluse]

What is the meaning of MOBA anyway? (I could google it, but I'm too lazy)

Mulitplayer -something- battle arena, or something like that. They should be called Dotalikes because that's what they are.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Mutiplayer Online Battle Arena. Tides of Blood in WC3 started the popularity of the fad far as I can remember.

 

[Hellraiser]

Well the WOW bandwagon is pretty much dead, with the spectacular success of the TORtanic. So everyone is jumping on the MOBA bandwagon because after all League of Legends is now bigger than WOW ever was and not nearly as expensive.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Mutiplayer Online Battle Arena. Tides of Blood in WC3 started the popularity of the fad far as I can remember.

It was a Starcraft map, Aoen of Strife which opened the Box of Pandora. How would have we know things will get this ugly back then

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Oh yeah, totally forgot about that.

But Dota really exploded for some reason, every casual out there was playing it and raging over it. The manboons were too dumb to play footmen wars I guess.

 

[Cyberarmy]

I blame LoL and HoN,
Aoen of Strife and WC3 DoTA was popular but not this much.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

WC3 DoTA built an internet cafe/LAN center in every street in my country. It was as popular in most of the Balkans and eastern europe I hear.

LoL just took it, made it free, more popamole and gave it to a horde of kids with access to their parents' credit cards. DotA was a piece of shit too until Icefrog fixed and balanced the whole thing and the better it got the more it was played. I was just surprised it took people so long to start making money with the genre.

 

[Borelli]

I don't hate Dota or any of it's clones. In fact i had fun with it while playing Warcraft 3 custom maps. What i do hate is when someone "switches" from War3/Starcraft to focus exclusively on playing MOBA. That's like saying "i don't want base and army management i will just go and play a game where you only control 1 unit", now MOBAs are strictly team vs team so they have somewhat different skillsets but still to me that feels like a personal decline.

Off topic: in the 90s i played a demo of a game where you are a police robot and you go around and shoot bad guys, the multiplayer map vs AI had MOBA-ish gameplay where you need to manually build units (this was a 3rd person game) and they would automatically march to enemy base. The enemy robot was a plane with an evil voice who would taunt you. Anybody knows the name of this game?

 

[JohnTheRevelator]

Off topic: in the 90s i played a demo of a game where you are a police robot and you go around and shoot bad guys, the multiplayer map vs AI had MOBA-ish gameplay where you need to manually build units (this was a 3rd person game) and they would automatically march to enemy base. The enemy robot was a plane with an evil voice who would taunt you. Anybody knows the name of this game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akup9CMW5ec

 

[Borelli]

Thanks bro.