Eve of the Apocalypse: Twilight

Casval wrote:Haha, what's wrong with Guinsoo?

I think, more importantly, Pendragon_ is working with them. He's a cool guy, very business and community oriented.

Kotaku wrote:Assembling the Team
With exactly that goal in mind, Riot Games was formed in late 2006, with the intention to create League of Legends as its first product. Over the course of the past two years, the team has grown to include nearly 40 members spread across design, art, gameplay, engineering, platform engineering, and community.

Riot Games' team member credits include Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft, Total Annihilation, Neverwinter Nights 2, Counter-Strike, Dungeon Siege, Sly Cooper, and Heroes of Might and Magic, but despite the high level of pedigree among the professionals, Merrill explains that the core development is still being driven by "the mod guys", including original Defense of the Ancients Allstars co-creator Steve "Guinsoo" Feak.

"The product vision is really being driven from the consumer point of view and is largely in the hands of Guinsoo and the mod guys; they have amazing ideas and are really talented guys."

Tom Cadwell himself worked extensively on the talent system on World of Warcraft, as well as heading up play balance for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne during his time with Blizzard.

"When I was working on War3 at Blizzard, a lot of us were fans of (Defense). It's been a lot of fun to work with Guinsoo and the guys to instill some additional game design principles into League of Legends."

ToXiK wrote:

Kotaku wrote:Assembling the Team
With exactly that goal in mind, Riot Games was formed in late 2006, with the intention to create League of Legends as its first product. Over the course of the past two years, the team has grown to include nearly 40 members spread across design, art, gameplay, engineering, platform engineering, and community.

Riot Games' team member credits include Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, World of Warcraft, Total Annihilation, Neverwinter Nights 2, Counter-Strike, Dungeon Siege, Sly Cooper, and Heroes of Might and Magic, but despite the high level of pedigree among the professionals, Merrill explains that the core development is still being driven by "the mod guys", including original Defense of the Ancients Allstars co-creator Steve "Guinsoo" Feak.

"The product vision is really being driven from the consumer point of view and is largely in the hands of Guinsoo and the mod guys; they have amazing ideas and are really talented guys."

Tom Cadwell himself worked extensively on the talent system on World of Warcraft, as well as heading up play balance for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne during his time with Blizzard.

"When I was working on War3 at Blizzard, a lot of us were fans of (Defense). It's been a lot of fun to work with Guinsoo and the guys to instill some additional game design principles into League of Legends."

If I remember correctly, the only thing Guinsoo had a problem with was triggering the spells and having them work. I would *hope* that with an actual team of people instead of a single individual person making the game that that problem would be solved.

Casval wrote:Yeah, it was a byproduct of him being very conscious of the e-sports community. Guinsoo's DotA was basically one where a certain few heroes were imbalanced and everyone else was useless.

IceFrog really evened it out so that in today's version of DotA, the majority of heroes can conceivably be used for competitive play. He also did a lot of stuff like advance pub play with deny indicators and shorten the overall length of the game by adding siege creeps and tower bounties.

It's kind of annoying, though, sometimes. He has a tendency to make certain heroes temporarily imbalanced on purpose (see Rikimaru, Kunkka, Storm Spirit, Alchemist when released) in order to force shifts in gameplay style and evolve the gameplay in general.

Discombobulator wrote:

Casval wrote:Yeah, it was a byproduct of him being very conscious of the e-sports community. Guinsoo's DotA was basically one where a certain few heroes were imbalanced and everyone else was useless.

IceFrog really evened it out so that in today's version of DotA, the majority of heroes can conceivably be used for competitive play. He also did a lot of stuff like advance pub play with deny indicators and shorten the overall length of the game by adding siege creeps and tower bounties.

It's kind of annoying, though, sometimes. He has a tendency to make certain heroes temporarily imbalanced on purpose (see Rikimaru, Kunkka, Storm Spirit, Alchemist when released) in order to force shifts in gameplay style and evolve the gameplay in general.

Pretty much every hero he introduces is overpowered.

Ion wrote:Guinsoo was just sort of a half-assed kinda guy when it came to thinking things through. He was also really into his own ideas and wasn't as open to suggestions.

Discombobulator wrote:Odds are SC2 will come out before that.

Darkblade wrote:With guns and tanks and lasers and aliens...

Sorry, my imagination doesn't stretch that far.