Pipe dream for me is that we’d see the historical Total War franchise move into the Victorian Age or even World War 1.
I mean Fall of the Samurai showed that not only does reaching breech loader era technology work but it’s arguably the best game in the entire franchise.
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“4. There’s no athleticism in eSports.
Interesting, though both points still make the assumption that nothing should be done which hasn’t be done before.
8. An eSport, by necessity, requires the use of a commercial product that is wholly owned by a company/corporation. No other sport in the olympics is “owned” in this manner. There are definitely possible consequences and unforeseen issues here.
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Valve has always paid out in full, what’s your suggestion here, that Gabe Newell is going to pocket the prize pool?
Counterpoint: Blizzard should write Icefrog and Eul and the other dota devs a huge check, because for years, the huge sales of Frozen Throne were for the massive Chinese, Southeast Asian and Russian DotA playerbase. DotA was the estimated most played game in the world for a long time.
A new update to Dota 2 will try to make sure new players are always matched with nice players.
Are you saying you can really see yourself in that dress?
Just like how deadspin does this same thing for college game day on Saturday mornings, this needs to be a mainstay post on compete
The helium versus hydrogen stuff was so funny.
Love that you guys are covering this game. As a long time family of the series this installment is the best by far. I have high hopes for Norsca and the sequel.
“And I don’t recommend using the Total War Reddit. The mods there are huge pieces of abusive homophobic shit, and so are most of the users. Star far away from that trash heap.”
It’s pretty damn cool to see a line of Samurai facing off in an open field, or barbarians charging out of a forest with axes held high, or Roman soldiers or Greek Hoplites holding a line, or British soldiers loading their muskets in a line and firing into the advancing enemy, or Atilla’s warriors charging in on…
I’ve owned Total War: Warhammer for a long time now. Finally got to start it a few days ago. All I’ve had a taste of so far was the introductory combat, but I can tell already that because it’s a fantasy setting, I think it’s done wonders for the gameplay. They can experiment more. And I like how the General is…
Call me when they finally get their asses in gear and start working on Medieval 3, Shogun 3 or a WW1 era game.
I started playing Dota 2 when I was in college, something I wanted to do to distract me from what I thought I was…
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He also sings “Still Alive” when he dies.
Total Biscuit hung out in her twitch chat for an hour or so giving her chemo tips which was pretty cool.
Ha you are right thanks. If you didn’t mention the minimap I don’t think I would have ever noticed.