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COOLDOWN REDUCTION!!!! actualy its hp..

pudge.

Here's hoping to be accepted to the beta.

What is Heavy's dad doing in Dota 2?

as long as this plays exactly like dota, then I'm amped!

Oh Ryan, you and your clever word play... 

Looks like it could be from WoW, just like any game Blizzards has made..

Valve still makes great CGI trailers.

to all the comments longer than 3 lines: 
TL;DR

Whenever I think of the GiantBomb splash page, I'll never be able to forget the face I'm seeing now.

Goddamn.

Not the full trailer. Misses the first like 10 seconds.

@phrosnite said:

Behold, your destroyer!

hahahahah

That man is absolutely hideous

@phrosnite said:

Behold, your destroyer!

hahahahah

It looks like a game made by Pixar or Dreamworks....

This game is confusing. It's a Valve game based on a mod for a Blizzard game. Is that weird to anyone else?

Hmmm I don't know how this game will stack up with Heroes of Newearth and League of Legends. I'll have to see some gameplay but so far valve looks like it's late to the party. Frost archers in every MOBA type game makes me :( 

Yeahhh... that choice of preview screengrab totally doesn't scream child molester. [/sarcasm]

@Peewi said:

I don't usually read comments here on GB, so I don't know if he has a history, but this Cale guy is doing some fantastic fakeposting. I don't quite get the cries about Valve ripping off Blizzard's art. Yes, many of them are recognisable as being a specific character, but the they do not look exactly like WC3 units. I can't say I remember WC3 having anyone with a mouth that opens three ways or is purple with a head like a hammerhead shark.

Not to mention it's roots are in the Blizzard mod community,if there's similarity, its simply due to the fact that they were Blizzard characters once and they wanted to keep a certain feel with some of the hero units. If a dude was a knight that turns into a dragon, guess what he's going to look like? A knight who turns into a dragon. Some units are completely different, some look similar but I think the overall art style is completely different imo.

Am I the only one who thinks it´s weird how they never show what DOTA stands for in the trailer.

Some people don´t know what it is, and I can´t imagine this helps in the understanding.

I'm really digging the art style. Can't wait to see gameplay in action

add some tears and you have foreveralone.jpg .... I wonder if they're trying to send a message with that...

This is probably the most generic and uninteresting trailer Valve has ever done.

@Kin3tiK: Not sure if it is relevant but I heard someone say if you right click on the video and disable hardware acceleration that takes care of it. But that may have just been for Flash stuff...not sure it applies to HTML 5...in short I know very little about computers

Day one purchase imo

I'm actually pretty intrigued by the art style and such. It looks nothing at all like a Blizzard product, which is great in my opinion.

Well that looks plenty generic.

While the art style reminds me of Team Fortress 2 in a strange way, the style of the trailer is totally cribbed from Blizzard. 
I love it.

Betting that it will be free. Much like TF2, I won't buy any hats, so it'll be worth playing.

Omg is that Sylvanas? :P I wish they used different characters but ok, I guess they're just gonna take dota and make it better, I wish they just made a new game.

Am I the only one who is getting green bars on all the videos? (Using the High HTML5 setting).

lol why have giantbomb uploaded a choppy version of the trailer with the first 30 seconds missing.

I have to say, this whole thing still smells dirty to me.

Sounds like the Team Fortress arguement is being repeated here.

Hmmm, generic fantasy romp for a trailer did nothing for me. :/ Let's wait and see. I loved LoL, but don't know if I would rather play more LoL or switch to DOTA2 since I never played the first DOTA.

"What does a hero truely need? That is for you to decide."
 Incredible! Summed up dota nicely.

Brilliant trailer from Valve, as expected.

Oh god @ the Aphex Twin face O_O

Looks like they already gave themselves five stars, so I guess there's no need for additional coverage.

Blizzard should sue Valve because Blizzard have invented DotA and have the patent for that creative license so no one else can make that game only Blizzard and Valve are taking Blizzard's money from them like robbers take money from a bank without working for it like the rest of us so if Valve continue to do this we will have no more creative games from Blizzard because Valve have stolen their idea and not given any of the money to Blizzard to make a new idea for a new game and even if they make a new game then Valve will steal the idea and make New Idea 2 and the cycle will repeat itself until eventually Valve will have all the money and Blizzard will have no money and I wouldn't be surprised if Valve make World of Halflife Craft and it is the same as World of Warcraft with all the ideas that Blizzard already invented and have patent pending creative license over because obviously this trailer is showing us that they are stealing the art style as well as the game they didn't even make their own art style for the characters and just look like Warcraft characters only more round and that's the only difference even the spells look the same to me and I have seen many Warcraft videos and the fire effects are the exact same as in this video I think they even use the same software to create them that Blizzard uses so I think the next thing Valve will do is just steal Blizzard's employees and Valve will be the one's who have all the talent and not Blizzard so I think this is unfair and that's why we should boycott this with an online petition thank you.

@Fuga said:

Blizzard should sue Valve because Blizzard have invented DotA and have the patent for that creative license so no one else can make that game only Blizzard and Valve are taking Blizzard's money from them like robbers take money from a bank without working for it like the rest of us so if Valve continue to do this we will have no more creative games from Blizzard because Valve have stolen their idea and not given any of the money to Blizzard to make a new idea for a new game and even if they make a new game then Valve will steal the idea and make New Idea 2 and the cycle will repeat itself until eventually Valve will have all the money and Blizzard will have no money and I wouldn't be surprised if Valve make World of Halflife Craft and it is the same as World of Warcraft with all the ideas that Blizzard already invented and have patent pending creative license over because obviously this trailer is showing us that they are stealing the art style as well as the game they didn't even make their own art style for the characters and just look like Warcraft characters only more round and that's the only difference even the spells look the same to me and I have seen many Warcraft videos and the fire effects are the exact same as in this video I think they even use the same software to create them that Blizzard uses so I think the next thing Valve will do is just steal Blizzard's employees and Valve will be the one's who have all the talent and not Blizzard so I think this is unfair and that's why we should boycott this with an online petition thank you.

First: paragraphs are your friends.

Second: lol

Still a CG trailer of a game like this says nothing, getting this close to release you'd think they'd post some in-game footage.

That's gotta be one of the sloppier CG movies I've seen in quite some time. Look at the non-hero textures and models, really bland and boring.

Still a CG trailer of a game like this says nothing, getting this close to release you'd think they'd post some in-game footage.