Avalach21 said:
Have you actually played WC3 online? I very rarely reach the population cap... If your hero is 2 levels below your enemies, then you're obviously doing something wrong... They are creeping stuff while you are sitting in your base for no reason. You should be creeping as well (and teching), or rushing to attack their base while it is empty (since they are creeping, and will have wounded soldiers and/or a hero with no mana when they run/teleport back to their base).
Of course Heroes are an integral part of the gameplay, but they are no where near as "overpowerd" as you make them out to be. Heroes are what make Wc3 so interesting. They introduced such a novel concept into RTS and it worked out so well. There are too many specific cases to bring up, but there are always counters to other heros. You can definantly counter heros before reaching the population cap (again, the game should be over before you can even concievablly hit the cap). Creeping only gets you to a max level of 5. If you even let someone creep to level 5, then you are terrible.
Basically, it comes down to this - just because you lack skill or understanding at the game, it doesn't make it bad. Heroes, of course, are more powerful than other units, but they surely aren't overpowered. Every strategy can be countered. If you just don't like the RPG elements fused with the RTS elements, that's fine, I can respect that opinion, as long as you can respect that Blizzard did try something creative and novel with the RTS genre, even if you don't like it. But to say that the game is overrated because you don't understand it's mechanics... I can't respect your opinion.
And yeah, I'm sorry your friends play custom maps... There are some good ones, like Footywars, and even wintermaul wars is fun, but I find ladder play to be much more fun than the custom games. |
But my entire point was that it focuses too heavily on the heroes and creeping. If I lose because my heroes are 2 levels behind, then it does focus too much on the heroes....for an RTS game. This isn't RPG, it's RTS. It's supposed to focus on warfare and battles, not small conflicts between heroes and a few accompanying troops.
As I mentioned before with my BFME example, there are RTS games that use heroes in new and intriguing ways, yet the focus is still on the army/economy/general warfare as a whole, as it should be with an RTS game.
I consider the game to be overrated, because many consider it a popular RTS game, one of the greatest, when it is really more of an RTS/RPG hybrid, and shouldn't really be compared to the normal RTS game. As far as strict RTS games go, there are much better games on the market, and you can't say WC3 is better as an RTS, when most of the gameplay features that make the game "better" are RPG elements that take away from the RTS gameplay. These features may improve the game vastly, as shown by the devotion of fans such as yourself, but it doesn't make the game a better RTS.
