2011-05-17, 03:25 AM
dante9898 Wrote:Well i believe MOBA is a fairly new Genre in games as far as it goes, i only know of 4 Moba games so far (HoN,LoL,Dota,that one in starcraft).
DotA and SC's MOBA are technically mods. And DotA actually has several variants that are based off of Eul's original DotA (based off of something I never heard of, SC's Aeon of Strife), which was never updated when WC3 Frozen Throne was released. Of those variants, DotA Allstars was apparently the most popular, authored by Guinsoo, and the community website for that was maintained by Pendragon_. (Now it's being updated and balanced by IceFrog.) (Fun fact: Pendragon dislikes dragons, which is ironic; Pendragon is actually the name of a key figurehead, meaning "chief dragon".)
Still, I'll count DotA as the origins of MOBA gaming.
So we have DotA, HoN, LoL, LOCO, Demigods, RoI, and to an extent BLC. That's a fair number of MOBA games. Of those games, LOCO is a third person shooter variant, Demigods flopped because hackers managed to ruin them pre-release (it looked promising, albeit slow with long game time), BLC is all skillshot and it's just champions vs champions in a small arena. Honestly, I'll be amazed if someone comes up with a new and interesting way to utilize the MOBA theme that's not turn-based.