Multiplayer online battle arena
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Oct 26, 2026
Colin MoriartyHOST
And that's why people still play Melee 25 years later.
Colin MoriartyHOST
is because it is truly a source of pure competition as opposed to these things on these wide open maps or shooters or team based games or MOBAs, whatever, where it's just so much dynamic shit going on.
Colin MoriartyHOST
It's like this is not that interesting.
Colin MoriartyHOST
It's like it's like it's the equivalent of calling American gladiators like a real sport.
KodraHOST
I don't have a ton to say, but I have now observed a bit about Deadlock.
KodraHOST
which looks very interesting and mostly came about because I said I didn't think Valve was making games anymore and then was told that the game I have heard a lot about, but I've heard, I've seen so much fan art, but did not realize it's the new Valve MOBA game.
KodraHOST
So I'm going to be watching this one closely because I don't know that I have a MOBA in me, but I do like most games Valve makes.
AmmoHOST
This is how I feel about it.
AmmoHOST
Like, do I want to play a MOBA?
KodraHOST
I used to really have fun playing MOBA.
AmmoHOST
Yes.
AmmoHOST
True.
HayleyHOST
It's called Heroes of the Storm, give up League and play this.
TristanHOST
I think the three main MOBAs are Heroes, to a degree, League, and Dota.
TristanHOST
dota is very complicated in the sense that everything is free or at the same time and there's items you have to kind of learn and there's weird bits going on league is probably an easier version of dota to a degree but more like um precise on the player to play versus like macro mechanics and then heroes is like baby's first moba if if that's fair to say
HayleyHOST
You know, Heroes is pretty friendly.
Brett MurdockPANELIST
Anybody want to take a guess at number three? He said knowing nobody will actually be able to guess it.
Tony PolancoHOST
Is it fucking some MOBA shit?
Carlos RomeroPANELIST
Is it the banana game? I
Brian MonjomaPANELIST
can probably give a good guess because I kind of know what it could be.
Scott TailfordHOST
So I'd go MMOs is what my mind goes to.
Scott TailfordHOST
And then I also, off the back of that, think of MOBAs.
Scott TailfordHOST
I haven't played a single MOBA.
Scott TailfordHOST
Like the multiplayer, was it multiplayer online battle arena games? Like StarCraft and things like that.
Scott TailfordHOST
I really liked that on PlayStation 2, but probably because it was incredibly dumbed down to the command and conquers of the world.
Scott TailfordHOST
But yeah, other than that, it's only really been like Halo Wars or something.
Scott TailfordHOST
But I feel like MOBAs are RTS games on steroids.
Scott TailfordHOST
And that's just not like base management and watching timers tick up and then deploying stuff.
Rowan KaiserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So like what I'm doing is I'm processing like, how do I get the most out of my car's build? And one of the things I realized as I was writing the review was like dealing with cooldowns in order to make sure that my build works the maximum way that it can.
Rowan KaiserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is like a MOBA.
Rowan KaiserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is like League of Legends or in my case, I played a lot of Heroes of the Storm.
Rowan KaiserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm one of those.
Mike HowardHOST
I was playing a Final Fantasy open world RPG before I even knew what Final Fantasy was, but I was playing it through the lens of Warcraft, which I thought was some of the coolest stuff.
Mike HowardHOST
And then, of course, it turned me on to Dota, right? We're talking about a MOBA that was created inside of Warcraft 3 custom games that went on to spawn a whole genre and a franchise and a game that many people love to this day, but I was playing all these experiences within the world of Warcraft III that was known as a real-time strategy game, but there was so much more to it.
Mike HowardHOST
And then, of course, we got hit with the expansion, Warcraft III Frozen Throne.
Mike HowardHOST
I mean, are you kidding me? Adding new heroes, putting the tavern now on the mini-map so you could go and get different heroes than just the ones you already had.
Joseph KimHOST
And when we look at the history of games, communities have historically driven some of the biggest insights in gaming.
Joseph KimHOST
As an example, MOBA came from Warcraft III, Defense of the Ancient mod.
Joseph KimHOST
DayZ, PUBG, and Autochest are other examples.
Joseph KimHOST
There's numerous examples of where some of the biggest insights from games have come from communities and mods.
Joseph KimHOST
Great to have you.
Joseph KimHOST
And maybe we could just cut right to the chase in terms of one of the things that I mentioned in the intro is this notion of insights coming from communities.
Joseph KimHOST
League of Legends and MOBA, that came from Warcraft 3 mod.
Joseph KimHOST
DayZ came out of Arma 2, PUBG.
GregHOST
It's one of the defining...
RyanHOST
MOBAs, League of Legends, Dota, they exist because of Warcraft 3.
GregHOST
Yes, the design for that game.
RyanHOST
The original Dota 1 was a mod in Warcraft 3.
Sam SteffaninaHOST
Yeah, Lems points out in the chat too, we have another topic that we probably won't have time to get to, but it was about Riot having three of the top 15 games in the Chinese app store.
Sam SteffaninaHOST
And so that's presenting an alternative to the Roblox thesis, which is IP, it's super high quality, very sticky games, it's MOBAs, it's TFT-like, it's completely different genres than we're used to consuming on mobile, and they're having a ton of success there.
Sam SteffaninaHOST
And it's using your backdoor access to China.
Sam SteffaninaHOST
But the difference in
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