Thousands are playing Valve's unrevealed shooter Deadlock, a blend of Team Fortress 2 and Dota with Bioshocky skyrails

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• ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m so sick of game journalism. Every game is a sum total of ideas someone previously developed at that point. Why stop here - team fortress is counter strike with quake weapons. DotA is Warcraft with Chinese RPG gameplay. Bioshock rails are portal lifts but faster. Oversimplifying video games implies that the developers did nothing knew and is stealing credit from them.

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  • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. But also, it’s a good way to communicate complex ideas quickly like Darmak and Jalaad. And many novel ideas come from “What if (blank) did (thing) but differently?” Like a huge portion of art history is just artists doing something another artist did in a different way.

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