Dota 2 trailer emerges from Gamescom

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• Valve are good at videos of accented fat men talking to a camera. : Happy Doodle Muffin
• cant wait : okellyc
• As usual, Valve's cinematics are fucking gold. : barichnikov
• Give this to me now. : DougL
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  Blizzard are still the cinematic Kings tbh. That was pretty cool though. : rottdcorpse
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    Yeah but I bet Valve doesn't spend the same on cinematics as blizzard :P : Snipergen
    • That may be so, but costs aside, Blizz cinematics are still the business. :D : rottdcorpse
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      what about the most recent 'meet the' vids : papaskot
      • Those videos are really, really good, but still only second best to Blizzard. : Fpsnut
  • Considering the low polygon count of the models (relative to Blizzard cinematics), they probably took the... : DrWaffles
  • This is all done in Source compared to Blizzard's 100+ man 3DSmax cinematic farm : Godhatesfatpeople
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    Nope. Blizzard's might be prettier, but they're undone by the laughable dialogue. : Arceihn
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      Succeeding you! : sasoi
      • PAIN! : Gorkgork
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      You mean "awesome dialogue" I'm sure. Some of it sure, like 5% might be a bit hammy, but come on...SC2 fi... : rottdcorpse
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        Blizzard dialogue is cliched and cheesy as fuck, like that SC2 line there. : sneakyalmond
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          Cliched or not, it's the delivery that counts. Also nothing cheesy about it tbh. : rottdcorpse
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            It's the very definition of cheese. Nothing wrong with enjoying that, but let's call a spade a spade. : Arceihn
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              You're confusing "cliche" with "cheese". The delivery is generally pretty good. For the definition of che... : rottdcorpse
              • Cheese isn't just delivery. Writing can be cheesy regardless of an actor's performance. But for what it's... : Arceihn
      • Blizzard cinematics are pretty but its all way way too self-serious : Serpico74
• I like, feels a little rushed but still nice. : supermonkeyballz
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  I wish I could get excited about this, but unless the controls are going to be more like a normal 3rd per... : Vincent Grayson
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    its 4 keys and a mouse click : happynoodle
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      Right, but it's impremise and would be far easier to control if it worked like a normal third-person game... : Vincent Grayson
      • The controls are actually very precise. You have four buttons that work when and where you click them and... : Psigun
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        what exactly do you want? wasd movement? I dont understand? its diablo deathmatch, 3rd person controls wo... : happynoodle
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          Yeah, WASD would get me playing. I tried HoN when it was in beta and the controls just never felt right. : Vincent Grayson
          • that would really hamper your response time to cast spells and abilities. some require multiple clicks et... : happynoodle
          • This would be a really bad idea, dude. : sneakyalmond
          • Trust me, this would be HORRIBLE for this style of game. : Ecks
          • I bet you also turn with the arrow keys in FPS games and backpeddle in MMOs. : Lukiopimp
          • this type of game is not for you : kiddygrinder
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        it's only imprecise if you're really really bad at RTS style controls (point and click what) : R@zzle
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          Which I am. I guess what I want is a different game really, but the idea of lots of characters each wi... : Vincent Grayson
          • do what i do and control camera with WASD. absolute world of diff. trust me on this i know what you are d... : kainen1
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            LoL has co-op vs ai. give it a go for a while and get use to it. you're going to miss out on some epic ba... : happynoodle
            • It being a Valve title (DOTA2, that is), I'll probably give it a shot...I can't help but expect they'll a... : Vincent Grayson
      • The controls are what they need to be. It's not a FPS or TPS. : zehh
  • Hope your clothes are fireproof. : fractured_sanity
  • Then we won't see you playing. Sorry too bad. : Iwannaacura
  • This would be an awesome change , from the leaked screens probably not gonna happen :( Would be cool i... : valcan_s
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  haha why do companies release trailers like this. Just makes their game look like shit. : lcizzle
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    What? That looked pretty good. : sanchez
    • I think he means when you play the game, it looks like shit compared to the trailer. : Vincent Grayson
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    did you watch the video? : okellyc
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      I think he's referring to how it's not a gameplay trailer. http://youtu.be/XDS5D0HKGwo : Sailor of Fortune
      • lol : lcizzle
      • haha I love that one : Godhatesfatpeople
      • haha, great : Nullzero
      • still makes me laugh : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
  • I had no interest in Dota at all before I saw this trailer. : pun][sher
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    Yeah, it's been biting Blizzard in the ass for years now... : Kniggit
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      huh? A Blizzard trailer is 10000000000000000000000000000000x better than this and was pretty much exactly... : lcizzle
      • They game is being shown off in two more days. Calm down nerd. : Godhatesfatpeople
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  "I will give you speed beyond measure!" And then it shows someone running really slowly. I think ... : Mystery0000
  • she fires them arrows pretty fast, speed could also mean agility which speeds up there attack : okellyc
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  It's WoW 2! : Twstr709
  • LOL, I would re subscribe, maybe in 5 years. : valcan_s
  • The warrior guy is all WoW Warrior type. Shockwave, Cleave, Overpower .. pretty neat. : Lukiopimp
• SO FUCKING PUMPED : H@rvester
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  The trailer's very nice, but did you notice all the heroes/champions are ones from DotA? Drow Ranger, Axe... : DelnarErsike
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    Addendum: This is what bothers me, and this is going to hold DotA 2 back from ever becoming as popular as : DelnarErsike
    • I'll certainly give it a try, but you may be right. : sneakyalmond
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      I read it a bit differently than you.
      
      If Valve does the "evolving" similar to what they did with TF2, then it will just continue to get better and better.
      
      But you are right about it trying to get critical mass. I don't think they are trying to necessarily pull players from LoL or HoN. Hell, until about 6 months ago I didn't even know they existed. I think they're trying to pull in people who would have never thought to play a game like this.

      Aug 15, 2011 9:49pm PDT
      I read it a bit differently than you. If Valve does the "evolving" similar to what they did with TF2, ... : Lung Fu Mo Shi
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    LoL was free and HoN was not : synapse19
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      Being free to play doesn't explain how popular it has become. There are loads of free games out there but... : Serpico74
      • It's certainly not the only reason, and I wasn't implying that it was, but being free helped it establish... : synapse19
      • yeah, that's why farmville isn't the biggest game in the world : kiddygrinder
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      I hate this freakin argument so much. I have a HoN account and a LoL account and i only play lol now. Als... : bloodypalace
      • I don't understand why it's so hard for some people to accept that there's more than one factor that affe... : synapse19
  • Well it is titled Dota 2. Valve will probably add more characters. Maybe? : K1Bond007
  • You are high as hell if you think DOTA2 is doomed in two years. : MercFox1
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    You're pretty ignorant on this subject. DotA has only been ramping up in popularity over the years. In pa... : miasma&!
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      4/10? Punchline could have been funnier : Porkasaurus
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        I'm being completely serious here. : miasma&!
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          8/10 - well played : Porkasaurus
          • lol : [7]kami
  • So your saying HoN is dieing? News to me since the number have been going up pretty steadily for quite s... : daroach1414
  • I don't play Dota, never did, but I know from my experience with HoN and my friends experiences that what... : rottdcorpse
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  two more days and we'll finally see this bad boy in motion! : happynoodle
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    I hope to play DOTA again with you good sir! : GoldfishInAJarOfPickles
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      Heck yea! You're awesome mate! I am interested in seeing some original champs from the valve team, sh... : happynoodle
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        Side-thread: What Valve characters would make awesome heroes? I think anyone from TF2 or maybe one of ... : Porkasaurus
        • Dog, the TF2 cast, L4D crew, and the garden gnome from HL2 : Godhatesfatpeople
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          we need the engineer for sure : happynoodle
          • and the zombie combine please! : happynoodle
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  is that claymation because it looks like shit : grandmasterlee
  • I guess everything not super high poly OMG Crysis must look like shit to you eh? : Zips
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    you realize that's in-engine source right? that's pretty fucking impressive. : happynoodle
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      in-engine source? What? I don't understand : grandmasterlee
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        They made the video using high rez in-engine source. for a game engine thats impressive. they did the sa... : happynoodle
        • I didn't realize that, thats damn impressive then. : grandmasterlee
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          Any confirmation of this? Not that I doubt it, given the quality of the "Meet The" videos, but this looks... : ColoradoCNC
          • This video is rendered in the source movie maker. Its the same engine as the game but it allows for custo... : happynoodle
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        Source. Engine. This is why I shouldn't bother to reply to front page news replies... : Zips
        • The OP says CG trailer, how should I have kmown? : grandmasterlee
    • What makes you think it's in-engine? I think it looks awesome by the way. : roggor
  • I liked it, it has style, but then I like claymation too. : Yabrodan
• I don't get it. The game has nothing to do with this. : El Guapo
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  I may not understand the low level intricacies of the DotA games, but it really seems like 3 people made ... : holinka
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    It's about the same difference between Unreal/Quake, Command & Conquer/Red Alert, Age of Empires/Age of M... : Porkasaurus
    • ^^^ great analogy : happynoodle
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      There's no Facing Worlds in Q3Arena. : guigr
      • thank god. : Supine
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        LOW GRAVITY INSTAGIB : [7]kami
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          Heh. I had a soft spot for that game mode. It was just so relaxing. Great way to unwind. : mindmann
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            No it wasn't. It was horrible and you will admit it was horrible or i will.... or i will.... WELL GODDAMM... : [7]kami
            • it was kind of relaxing in short bursts. everyone went in a straight line. you could just kind of sit bac... : mindmann
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  Too bad it'll be tied to two of the worst gaming communities (behavior-wise) on the planet. :( It cou... : wytefang
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    Two? DOTA and what else? : roggor
    • Valve. : wytefang
• I'm more impressed by Steam's new data delivery system that got me the HD version of the video at my conn... : MeestaNob
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  Wait, there's a pandaren in there? Blizzard must be even more miffed that Valve did this now, I still rea... : node
  • Storm is like this fat ghost guy. Only thing close to that Blizzard character is that they're fat and hav... : Godhatesfatpeople
• The guy looks a bit like Bobby Kotick. : Lord Skellington
• Aladin seller, airite? : angelrubio