Also HoN or Heroes Of Newerth has now become free to play and has roatating sets of characters and has pissed a bunch of fans off for becoming too much like its rival LoL or Leauge Of Legends. For those of you who don't know they are Dota games which stands for Defence Of The Ancients which originaly spawned from Warcraft 3. Anyway there seems to be divide of vicious fans for either one, nobody likes both games and fans of one will hate the other i always thought after only playing LoL and the original WC3 map that they can't be that different and failed to see where the hate comes from. But i tryed out HoN after its free to play release and now i fully understand, despite both being the same type of game with the same objectives and same map and now same type of character roatation etc... They feel so different and i am now offcialy a LoL fan hating HoN. LoL is just a lot more user freindly and simpiler to handle and is just a lot more fun, also i prefer the art style it also throws in comedic value its just gratifying to play. Where as HoN on the other hand is a lot darker, a lot more complex like needlessly complex for a simple premise and just feels like it was sculpted for narcissistic elitists. Its just all gritty and serious and i was just overwhelmed and got disorintated by it. Dota is a simple thing which is why its so good going by the easy to learn but difficult to master stratagem, LoL sticks to this it has 4 buildings the towers, the inhibitor, the main base and the shop. It has a laid out map with bushes to hide in allowing for pleanty of tactics. And it has a clean, crisp UI. HoN on the other hand feels the need to add a billion other things to this changing it into ridiculous to learn and nigh impossible to master without some spiritual journey and years of meditation. It has god knows how many buildings half of them i'm not sure what they do, at your base theres 2 types of barracks that make men and theres shrines and houses everywhere for no reason other than to clutter up the feild. On top of that it has "neutral" buildings you can take over in the map one's an observertory and the other is another random shop because you can't have all your items in one place no that would be to "casual", speaking of the map there isn't any bushes to hide in for escapes and tactical ambushes but you can go in the trees and you can also destroy the trees to make new paths because thats like "inovative" or something. And of course the UI is just the total opposite, especialy when it comes to shoping i'm not even going to start on the shopping i'm too tired. Oh also in LoL you can get summoner powers adding an extra level and tactics and you have a recall spell to get back to base to heal up and buy items quickly, both of these things are missing in HoN on that note the healing at your base in HoN is painfully slow compared to LoL's couple second stop and the back in the fight. Theres prob a lot more things i prefer about LoL... well i prefer everything about LoL to HoN i just can't be bothered to name them all right now.
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