Defense of the Ancients is an incredibly popular custom scenario for Warcraft III. It's so big that entire games have been created based on it. Jon St. John is a voice actor most notably recognized as the titular Duke Nukem. The latter is now claiming that he just returned from doing voice work for the former. Here's the tweet, see what stands out to you.
Had a great time in Seattle last week recording for DotA. The guys at ValveSoftware are awesome! Going to PAX? Might see you there - Sept3-5
Valve? Keep calm, this actually isn't odd at all. Valve announced that they had hired DoTA developer Icefrog in order to make a game that would make DoTA players very happy. I'm thinking that a DoTA game would make DoTA players very happy. There have, of course already been a few DoTA style games released in the form of League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth, but this could definitely be the ultimate DoTA game considering the support that Valve puts behind all of its games.
So, who wants it?
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8:00 AM on 08.07.2010 | 
Then we found out about the HoN/LoL Beta's and me and my friends all managed to get in. HoN is way better then LoL, which has a more kiddo style to it. Now they're on retail and I have to say, Valve making a DotA game? I keep my eyes peeled!
Demigod
inb4LoLvsHoN etc etc etc.
Ultimatelly, though, I would love for Valve to buy S2 (HoN creators).
"Ultimatelly, though, I would love for Valve to buy S2"
They already hired the DotA modders.. not sure what the point would be in hiring S2.
Can't say anything else. 10/10 underrated game, sadly.
only joking, but what if this was just some completely different game that just happened to abbreviate to DOTA?
As for this, every DotA player knew about it, but a serious voice actor working on the game? Now THAT is sweet. After reading this article I formed a mental image of a DotA game in the Source Engine. Can't get it out of my head :(!
Completely different game does not necessarily equal bad
I'd like to provide a little insight on to what exactly Jon St.John was recording for.
DotA has been using the old quake 3 voice and unreal tournament overs like "Triple Kill!" "Holy Shit.." "Rrrrrampage.". St.John was most likely recording for those same lines, which is perfect fit imho.
So yeah.
If I'm right, then that would make Alien Swarm their first steps into polishing a top down version of their Source engine. Now they have a solid top down camera mechanic, tile mapping, a procedural AI director, class specific bot intelligence, and Google Sketchup integration.
Or maybe they could just go "Nah... let's just finish Episode 3 guys!"
I wish they put a decent single player.
I think the genre has a lot of potential, just needs someone to start innovating again, which Lol and Hon don't seem to be doing (not that theres much wrong with that, would just be nice if someone did. Which would be the ideal way for valve to step in).
HoN and LoL are already two established and well-received DOTA variants (One is free and the other is a retail experience), they have some large shoes to fill if they want to impress.
Really hoping it's source engine dota with classes, skills, a counter-strike like economy, and is a bit more accessible than heroes of newerth. I missed demigod completely, and league of legends is too microtransaction infested for me to get into.
And king kong five: dota is competitive tower defense. 3 lanes, one team versus the other. I kill the mobs moving past the tower to get skills and money, spend the money, train the skills, and then we try to kill each other.
Generally, it's 5 on 5, with 3 lanes of creeps moving around, and you spend the first ten minutes farming up money, and then form into groups and start roaming the map trying to kill each other and attack enemy towers. Whoever runs out of towers first can get their command center attacked, whoever loses that first loses the game.