Who wants to play LoL
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To be honest, I'm so invested in DOTA that I can't really see me spending the time to get to the same level in League.
Panda with issues...
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Yeah, I think the LPG we're all playing here is DOTA for the foreseeable.
Ki!ler-Mk1
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What is an LPG?
Good question. Lane Pushing Game perhaps?
Panda with issues...
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Precisely. I don't know why people are trying to use MOBA and ARTS which describe nothing about the genre, whereas LPG covers it pretty well. It also connects in people's minds to RPG, which shares some overlaps with the genre, at least in terms of computer game RPGs in terms of the levelling, experience, skilling and equipping a character.
In some ways the game is closer to 5 a side football, or particularly basketball than it is to an RTS game.
DOTAlike works too, as it basically describes everything the genre does, though requires you to initially know what DOTA is, which isn't ideal.
Hey, 
Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to Panda's view, it's pretty explicit.
In all honesty, when I first heard Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, my mind went to WoW-like PvP matches. Lanes and creeps and whatnot were as far from it as you could possibly fathom.
Cheers,
J.
P.S. That s up there was supposed to be in square brackets, but XenForo kept trying to interpret that as "begin strikethrough"...
Regardless of whether or not you subscribe to Panda's view, it's pretty explicit.
In all honesty, when I first heard Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, my mind went to WoW-like PvP matches. Lanes and creeps and whatnot were as far from it as you could possibly fathom.
Cheers,
J.
P.S. That s up there was supposed to be in square brackets, but XenForo kept trying to interpret that as "begin strikethrough"...
Panda with issues...
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Multiplayer Online Battle Arena could describe anything from Quake to modern equivalents of Pokemon Stadium to Mario Kart.
Nanor
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While that's true, if we're going to be pedantic Minecraft could be referred to as an FPS.
MOBA works. It's just what it's called. It also sounds a lot less tedious than a lane pushing game.
Panda with issues...
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I don't know if it's really fair to say I'm being pedantic in claiming that MOBA is a spectacularly imprecise term. It barely gives more information than calling it a 'game'. Perhaps the only more nebulous term commonly bandied about is RPG? That's had years to acquire particular connotations both in terms of P+P games and those in electronic format.
I guess it's just jargon now though anyway.
'It just works' and 'it just is' aren't really very strong counterarguments.
I guess it's just jargon now though anyway.
I'd be all for DOTA-like, but I doubt that will sit well with League's designers.
Nanor
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I think using MOBA is a better alternative to creating your own acronym, nonchalantly dropping it into speech and having everyone bemusedly look at you wondering what petrol has to do with DOTA. That said DOTA-like is better than MOBA. Back in the day I mentioned a DOTA-like and while people had heard of it, didn't really know what it meant.
Ki!ler-Mk1
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I like your acronym panda, but in countering it, its conjurers a very depressing game concept up you can only play tug of war so many times, that said I play a lot of starbattle which is exactly a LPG
Its just like dota2 except all the characters can fly. The new version out in a few months is going to have terrain though, asteroids and gas clouds.
you can only play tug of war so many times, that said I play a lot of starbattle which is exactly a LPG Its just like dota2 except all the characters can fly. The new version out in a few months is going to have terrain though, asteroids and gas clouds.
/me slaps Nanor
Panda with issues...
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I wonder how long it took Nanor to come up with that
All these terms, from Dota-like to LPG to MOBA to ASSFAGGOTS (some used more or less pejoratively) have been kicking around the internet for a while. None of them can be claimed to have originated here.
Nanor
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I don't think anyone claimed they originated here.