• Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      2 days ago

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

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            2 days ago

            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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              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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                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