imo tho in the end its just a general label slapped on so that it might make a bit more sense to 'mainstream' audiences and also when it is brought up by the mainstream, they don't sound like niche nerds. Although I doubt that 'MOBA' or 'ARTS' or any other general genre name will mean anything to anyone anyways. (hows that for alliteration ^^)
MOBA/ARTS/Dota, does it really matter?
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BalancedBreakfast
United States189 Posts
imo tho in the end its just a general label slapped on so that it might make a bit more sense to 'mainstream' audiences and also when it is brought up by the mainstream, they don't sound like niche nerds. Although I doubt that 'MOBA' or 'ARTS' or any other general genre name will mean anything to anyone anyways. (hows that for alliteration ^^) | ||
mdma-_-
Nauru172 Posts
Going by that term games like starcraft, quake, cs etc. all fit the description perfectly. The term is just awful. Just call it Dota-Games. Its hard to describe the genre otherwise. | ||
Gamerah
United States9 Posts
Call it whatever you'd like, chances are we know what you are talking about. Making these categories are suppose to ease people to get a quick sense of what the game is about. Now it's just getting ridiculous. MOBA is such a wide blanket, that if i didnt already know its linked to LoL, I wouldn't get a sense of what that game is. If we are relying on connotations to determine MOBA's meaning, then we might as well get the term Dota to have the connotations. | ||
qqw
39 Posts
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Ruscour
112 Posts
On September 03 2011 09:10 qqw wrote: AoS is what you would find dota-type games listed under on all wc3 mapping sites..., but I just call them "DotA-type" games, because that's what they are all based on (there are other AoS gameplay elements besides the ones found in dota, e.g. making the rax spawn different/more units each wave, buying once off global spells, different numbers of lanes, etc... just these dota-type games focus on making their own "dota" game instead of their own "aos" game). I hate AoS too, most people I see using it just went "oh, DotA was based on AoS, so let's call these games AoS". There is such a massive difference between AoS > DotA in comparison to DotA > LoL for example. ARTS if it catches on. | ||
SKC
Brazil11085 Posts
So basically, I don't really care. No current option really makes much more sense than the other, I just think people are sometimes too agressive about something that matters this little. | ||
HypaSnipa
2 Posts
However I feel H(Hero)RTS or HARTS describes the game better because "Action" is involved with many games and doesn't really narrow the genre down to what its all about, Heroes. EDIT: To get in before "Champions! Villains! Fighters!" replies, I believe that even though LoL considers them champions and HoN/DoTA considers them Heroes, Heroes' is by far the better term and HARTS sounds better than CARTS | ||
.Aar
Korea (South)61 Posts
It's not really a type of game you can have too much variation within. Really, the furthest you can go is tweaking (ie true/false for things like denying); any other variation is just new heroes. I don't like MOBA at all, rejected it as soon as someone came up with it. I like ARTS better, but that still doesn't seem right to me because.. Action? That seems about the most useless, nondescriptive word.. If I had to come up with something better, it would have the word "hero" in it. Because that's a fundamental aspect of DotA games, whether you call them heroes or champions or whatever. | ||
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