games

i think the designs are set in stone

^

Yeah this is weird

Valve's art direction in modern Dota, Underlords, Artifact, etc.

has been terrible

I agree

compare early dota characters to recent ones (excluding TV show tie-ins)

i like the mexican.

i like primal beast

i like most of those new ones

opinion invalidated

idk how to describe my issue with newer designs

theyre not units from a 2000s computer game?

I feel like there are these base template characters they use, that they then slap key design elements on

"this model will wear a hood"

"this model will havea crown"

do you think thats just becuase

they want to sell skins

a lot of the old dota units

dont have skins

like literally have one skin

honestly maybe

because they cant come up with anything

def easier to design skind for

even primal beast, one of the newer heroees and one of my favorite visually

has two

and just got one recently

and he was good in pro games for a while

but yeah, this new game, even if they polish these characters

they don't inspire much in the way of deisgn

its its free I'll try it at launch

I want to try it

but I do not suspect it will be a long lasting phijkchu game

I want a dev like valve to bring something new if they're coming out with game in a saturated genre like this

not just "it's our spin on the same generic slop" done in a generic slop-like style

but yeah, hopefully closed alpha this year, beta soon after

Hopefully it is at least tribes 3 fun to play together once

$20

for the same # of maps/content

lmfao

no I did not see that

So I am never playing that again huh

I played the aplha a few more times on my own after we played

enough to fill 2 lobbies

I like tribes, hope on of the spin-offs can not fall on their face

well spooky

we can play the alpha for tribes 4 in 5 years or so

I am sure that'll be fun

lol

The Valve-Microsoft rumor is the dumbest thing possible, and it's retarded that anyone is taking is even remotely seriously

What do you mean microsoft won't buy valve for a super lowball offer

seeing people try to justify "Bloomberg is a high-brow economic publication, if they say Valve is worth $16bb they probably know more than you gamers"

$16 Billion is such a low offer it's absurd

>basically the monopoly on PC gaming

nah 16B is what its worth guys

7 minecrafts not adjusting for inflation

significantly lower with inflation

1/10th of Roblox

Spooky, some of the cope I saw was hilarious

"no guys it come happen, maybe gabe wouldn't do it, but maybe his wife who owns part of the company would"

his wife will sell her shares for $16 billion to microsoft

Microsoft selling off their game division to valve

is more likely than the reverse

yeah

I think earnings were that MS was making ~3% profit off of their entire ($80 B) game portfolio

they need to save money to flush down the toilet with copilot endeavors

hey, modern minecraft will finally not be dogshit

they added ai

Alexa, how do I craft a sword

you need a ton of iron sand and a lot of charcoal

"Alexa, download Jenny's mod"

I still think Valve would benefit from a strong partnership with one of the tier 1 companies but the valid thing that's been pointed out, is that if they show that kind of favoritism, they are open to semi-legit anti-competitive lawsuits

They've been close with playstation in the past, and may be again since Sony seems to be all-in on PC gaming now

Nintendo buys valve, does not release mario games on it

stops sale and development of steam decks

I just love the idea of the top games on Steam