• glitchdx@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I was interested until I heard that it’s a shooter/moba.

    when will studios figure out that moba (like battle royale) is a mode not a genre? Congratulations, you made a shooter with only one mode and probably less than 10 maps.

    Remember when unreal tournament shipped with literally hundreds of maps on disk back in 1999? Peperage Farm remembers.

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      8 months ago

      I’m not even a moba guy, but I’ve tried enough to know it’s very much so it’s own genre. Is there a single game that has a “moba mode”?

      Seriously, I’m not trying to be an ass, but it’s like if you said “rts is a mode and not a genre”.

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        3 days ago

        I was going through my own comment history, sorted by “controversial”, and found this. Wish I saw it at the time it was relevant, we could have had a conversation about this.

        I stand by what I said, but I might not have said it very well.

        There’s no reason why League of Legends could not have a “capture the flag” or “king of the hill” mode. There’s no reason why DOTA2 could not have a deathmatch mode. There’s no reason why Super Monday Night Combat couldn’t have any of these. And there’s no reason why Halo or Unreal or Call of Duty could not have a MOBA mode.

        The fact that nobody has done it is not evidence that it cannot be done.