The Next DOTA, Coming To You From... Valve?

A common missconseption ppl have is that Basshunters DotA song is a new one when it actually is over 4years old. We here in Sweden have been tortured by his shitty songs for longer then you can imagine. Your the lucky ones.

I'll buy it as long as it has achievements.

" What about Episode Three Valve? "

Gordons going to be a playable character in DotA and the episode 3 story will be told by the in-game npcs hidden in the forest? Omg awesome juice

I just saw that DotA music video and I am speechless.

I have something to say. Can I say something? 
 
FUCK YES!!!!!! 
 
 
^.^
For those worried about Episode 3, take a look at the term Horizontal Consolidation. Might give you a little less worry. It's Valve. They never release a ton of stuff on their games. 
 

" Heroes of Newerth is DotA with improvements... Some heroes are missing but it's better than DotA. A new DotA-like game is coming from Icefrog? ROFL! Valve publisher? Rofl! Valve sucks!  HoN is awesome! "

I'm surprised Blizzard hasn't tried to incorporate Dota

could be promising. valve = quality.

I really hope this is legit. 
 
Valve + Dota = Fucking awesome

I never understood the appeal of DotA. But then again, whenever I tried to play a game I would always get called a "fukin n00b" and get summarily booted. Basically if you didn't start playing DotA when it first came out, you are incapable of learning anything because the community as a whole is spiteful and unfriendly to newcomers.

I'm sticking with the free-to-play League of Legends. It's great!

Anyone who played and loved DotA (and still does, but I play Heroes of Newerth) knows that League of Legends is NOT the next DotA. Nor is the original guy who created DotA (Euls) is working at Riot. Guinsoo took over Euls and developed DotA:Allstars for a while until he got a job at Riot. If anything, I'd stick with Heroes.

" Heroes of Newerth is DotA with improvements... Some heroes are missing but it's better than DotA. A new DotA-like game is coming from Icefrog? ROFL! Valve publisher? Rofl! Valve sucks!  HoN is awesome! "

Tell me there at least a few people working on episode 3... *sigh* :(

" I never understood the appeal of DotA. But then again, whenever I tried to play a game I would always get called a "fukin n00b" and get summarily booted. Basically if you didn't start playing DotA when it first came out, you are incapable of learning anything because the community as a whole is spiteful and unfriendly to newcomers. "

 cool I guess, though I kind of want to see dota die out. kind of really...

never got into dota, so yes i do want

Calling them "Defence of the Ancients-style games" is as silly as the way they used to call first-person shooters "Doom clones". Just call them Tower Defence games, Brad.

It's not a Tower Defense though, traditionally TD gives you a builder and you build towers. DotA is all about controlling 1 hero, and as a team defeat the other heroes through destroying their base. How would you call gameplay like this if not Defense of the Ancients?

I find it weird that there'll be so many DotA clones out though, playing HoN and LoL beta regularly I don't think I can take anymore clones. 

EDIT: And the HoN fanboy needs to get a clue. I play it ALOT - and the community is HORRIBLE, plain HORRIBLE. To top it off, the devs actually seem to want to overpower some heroes and ruin others. It's getting to the point where I simply wont buy it if it stops being beta because I'll only get angry about the imbalances they obviously don't want to remove...
[Think - caster spells not scaling ? Predator's Carni scaling too good etc etc etc etc. THEY ARE ACTUALLY CHARGING MONEY FOR IT!!!!]

i can also imagine this game taking years to come out

If I was Riot or S2 games I would be worried right now.  Valve does not screw around.

damn. does this mean i NEED to upgrade just to keep playing DoTA? i hope they make a version that will run fine on warcraft 3 just like before

First Episode 3, than new dota

" Calling them "Defence of the Ancients-style games" is as silly as the way they used to call first-person shooters "Doom clones". Just call them Tower Defence games, Brad. "

HoN is awesome, and its only in beta

  @NoXious: 
Ah, my apologies. Online PC gaming has always been anathema to me, so I've never actually played DoTA. I was under the impression that the Tower Defence level in Frozen Throne was a version of DoTA adapted by Blizzard into the actual game.

Um, Valve doesn't really do the team lead title thing. People work on the projects they want to work on as part of a cabal (their term.) And they're usually pretty tight lipped about projects until they've had some time to cook a while. No doubt they could do a community driven project like this as well or better than anyone but I'm thinking there may be some delusional thinking (or account hacking) at work here.

I FEEEEEL ya mon.
 
LoL, dota= dumb
 
Icefrog= Let's feed off primitive instinct to run up and down killing things for shiny level up animations and to acquire GREATEST ITEM EVER!!! Stagnant DESSOLATE...er..
 
Actually that's just blizzard for ya=darth sith, icefrog is only an apprentice, darth vader.
 
and an hour and a half later? Do it all again :/

yeah i i think it's disgusting where valve is headed. Portal might be their last great game if they're going to feed (pun intended) the pimply PC item-acquire-ers.
 
Left4Dead was the beginning of mindless brain numbing activity. Keep it up valve, never mind the magnificent story telling you once had.

"I FEEEEEL ya mon.  LoL, dota= dumb Icefrog= Let's feed off primitive instinct to run up and down killing things for shiny level up animations and to acquire GREATEST ITEM EVER!!! Stagnant DESSOLATE...er..  Actually that's just blizzard for ya=darth sith, icefrog is only an apprentice, darth vader. and an hour and a half later? Do it all again :/ "

I am tired of DOTA games. I played LOL, HON and the real DOTA. They have their unique stuff, but a true fan can't play all of  them...

Since Icefrog is what made DotA playable as a competetive game I'd give this a higher success-chance than HoN or LoL (the latter which sucks quite alot of ass), HoN is a fun flashier version of DotA, still very unbalanced and I don't think it will ever be seen at a gaming competition.

DOTA is all over the place!!!

Theyre going to have to work hard on the new game though. Heroes of Newerth has won fans over with its improved features on the Dota concept. I'm currently playing the beta and they already got me to prepurchase the game because its so good. If Icefrog can take that Dota idea and expand on it and let Icefrog do what he has always been wanting to do, then they have a sure shot to becoming a successful IP. Here's to hoping that Icefrog pulls it off.