With Blizzard trying
to milk everything out their franchises as possible, it was only a matter of
time before they throw their lot with the other MOBA in the world. It must be a
strange feeling for Blizzard to be the underdog in a gaming genre, with their over
aged monster WoW still going, and their dungeon crawler that once held the pole
position of the genre, but now has to pole dance for money. But Heroes of the
Storm was their answer to “Who would win in a fight Diablo or Arthas?” and
brings all our favourite characters from all their games into one arena to beat
the every living shit of each other. Now
although Dota did start out as a mod for Warcraft 3, it wasn’t developed by
Blizzard, just on a Blizzard game and it was taken over by Valve so it doesn’t
count as a Blizzard game.
Now with the game
finally coming out the closet to show off its prettiest dress in hopes to
appeal to fan boys, I managed to get a sneak peak of the game while it was
still picking out its underwear. I was given a beta key out the blue and not
being a big fan of MOBA decided maybe to try it at a later stage. Finally after
drumming up some courage, and having bugger all else to play, I decided to give
it a chance. Now PVP for me was something I got into later on in life, like tentacle
porn…I mean mud wrestling, and so MOBA didn’t have that a big appeal to me even
at lans…yes lans. But as I started playing something happened that removed the
crust of boring gameplay Blizzard had pelted me with for a while now, it was
actually interesting. Fair enough story is virtually no existent and the
comments the other player’s characters make while playing can make you want to
fuss them to death with barbed wire, but the challenge of out smarting other
players you will never meet is oddly satisfying. But if you can organize you
and four other dip sticks via just chat obscure and annoying pings standing
other something, then you might want to think about arranging peace in the
middle of Africa…or curing AIDS. It can also get easy to lose your character
while every one performs their so called “Ults” leaving the screen looking like
something between Michael Bay and J.J Abraham’s love child jazzing on your
face.
Now how does it
compare with the other MOBAs out…fuck if I know? I guess you will only play
this if you really want to beat the ever loving shit out of Nova with Kerrigan,
which you should totally do because FUCK YOU NOVA. She is a total bitch of a
character and needs to calm the fuck down. All and all it’s a nice little time
waster while doing your washing, but I can’t help that feel that for all its
trying not to be like other MOBA, it will quickly whore itself and become
another night worker on the street of mainstream, unoriginal ideas.
