Friday, November 2, 2012

REAL TALK Podcast with Phil Haller, Kyle Freedman and Liv Vesterheim

Hey all! Just a short little post about an upcoming podcast that I will be co-hosting that will take place on Saturday, November 3rd and most likely each Saturday after that. The time hasn't been 100% confirmed yet but I will update this post with it as soon as I know. The podcast will feature topics about Heroes of Newerth, eSports in general as well as some real life discussions.


28 comments:

  1. Like I said in the last big post, I've always wanted to know what the fuck an 8 hour work day looks like for people like XanderK, DogKaiser, Diva, Breaky, etc.

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  2. podcast name seems like a rip off of itmeJP's interview series

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  3. It would be awesome if you compared dota/hon/LoL, the CD and GD get easily off topic but i want to hear what u and swindle feel about the diff. games. What each game did well, what they did wrong, etc.

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  4. Can you talk about tentacle porn enthusiast and basement dweller leyst?

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  5. I'd also like some DotA2 real talk. I've already switched over to DotA2 so I only enjoy HoN talk for the nostalgia. But seriously, DotA2 has an e-sports future, HoN doesn't. It's unbelievable how many times S2 fumbled HoN Tour, and even if it was assembled and working, there's no way they could match the money in DotA2 right now or in the future.

    Looking forward to the podcast.

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    1. mind sharing your reasons for switching to dota?

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    2. I can't speak for the above poster but some of the reasons i switched are.

      1. S2 heroes imo are god awful, i really cannot stand them.
      2. The shear imbalance of heroes because of the fast hero release schedule.
      3. Some of the best heroes from dota were never ported.

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    3. I agree with the other Anon's points. I'll also add that the graphics are so much better and they have an actual vision for how the game should look that they're sticking to. HoN used to be dark fantasy, now it has aliens, robots, and mechs.

      DotA's hero design process is more disciplined. When they reworked Centaur Warrunner's ult, in the first week it became apparent it was OP, so it got a supplemental patch in the following week. None of this "let's see how it settles" for months when the answer was obvious already. I'm forever bitter that Dogkaiser let Gemini run around and ruin games for as long as he did (two months I believe), then in a podcast with Honcast he admitted that he hadn't seen that many pub games with Gemini and that's why he didn't realize it was a problem. Also he said he has to be careful about changing the designers' intent with each hero. I think that's why Diva's shit designs were allowed to rape as long as they did. It takes real professionalism to realize your design was wrong and to fix it. S2 had all these infantile egos to worry about. Fuck that, make a good game.

      Every DotA patch is like Christmas; all of the underused heroes get minor buffs, and a couple of the overused heroes get minor nerfs. That's how it's supposed to work. DotA is closer to a metagame where every hero is viable than HoN ever was.

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    4. To add to my points above i like the way icefrog balances the game rather than dogkaiser does, i dont want good heroes nerfed to the point where they are shit, like dogkaiser tends to do. I want the underused heroes to be buffed up to the tier of good heroes like icefrog generally does.

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    5. Dota 2 sucks and nobody cares about it.

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    6. More people play it a day than hon, bigger tournaments, more teams, more sponsors, more money.

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    7. You cant be serious claiming D2 is more balanced, just look at fucking hero winrate. Im sure Valve will sort it out, but atm Hon is more balanced(not prefectly of course).

      Cant argue about visual design tho - HoN has become a shitfest clash of alt avatars and crappy designs, completly lacking consistency and style, is there an art director in S2 at all?

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  6. Could you please discuss the risk tolerances at S2? Why are they afraid to make big gameplay related changes like TP mechanics, smoke or remakes to old and trash heroes.

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  7. Also, how much direct input does Maliken have into the day to day decisions of his gay porn empire?

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  8. 1. give us your honest opinion why you think you got fired. And your reaction to this news.
    2. which s2 members are shady/got you fired/ or just dont like overall? (man the fuck up REAL TALK)
    3. how long do you think s2 can keep up with sponsoring hontour.
    4. DO YOU EVEN FUCKING LIFT SON.

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  9. Can you guys give me the streamlink? I´m unable to find it :(

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  10. Swindle is such a great host!

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  11. http://www.twitch.tv/melonzz/b/337967382 found it

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  12. It was interesting but not quite real enough. I wanted answers to the burning questions in this comment thread, such as S2 questions and DotA2 vs HoN questions. But I understand it was Kyle's show to run and there was an S2 employee on so there had to be some limitations.

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    1. There wasn't an S2 employee on.

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    2. My bad, I thought they introduced Liv as an S2 employee. I was pretty tired when I watched it.

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    3. thats why they called it real talk and not drama talk

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  13. thikn the question we're all asking ourselves is, Who is liv?

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    1. I think it was to have the Opinion Of a girl Which is Great!

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    2. so in other words, about as useful as sneakeee casting.

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