(05-09-2010, 01:48 PM)Vic Wrote: HoN was better tbh, but that's going retail in a few days so yeah
tbh i looked at HoN and it seemed like a dry, dull, personality-less DotA clone
like, the mechanics seemed, from what I read, to be exactly the same
I think LoL has more personality and variety in its characters, and the fact that they aren't 1:1 clones (or close) of most of the original DotA cast (unlike in HoN, whose wiki even lists which DotA characters the corresponding HoN character is like)
also the fact that spellcasters and support characters can remain very useful throughout the whole match, no matter how long it goes on for (largely thanks to the addition of Ability Power) is nice imo (among other tweaks and changes to the DotA formula)
also from my experience w/ DotA (and since the characters are so similar, this probably holds for HoN) there was a lot less interesting ability use, more just right-clicking on a dude and whoevers numbers were higher as they auto-attacked usually won
e: and a minor thing, but having only one item shop, in the base, just makes so much sense
e2: and i didn't even mention runes, masteries, summoner spells, 3v3, seriously this is like DotA 2.0 HoN is like "look it's DotA but w/ real matchmaking and more detailed graphics"