hahaha a pretty good read from top to bottom.

came over coz someone posted in fusion forum and it caught my attention.

The french word "genre" has cause many arguements not only in gaming but also in other fields, namely, Movies, Music, ETC.

the word genre has a academic definition "to group a variety of text that has similar contents"

it is silly to try and define a "text" (note that i'm using the word text as "any game/movie/music) into ONE genre, because there are many hybrid text nowadays that gives you dificulties to specifically define it into one of the genres of RTS, RPG or whatever.

Strictly speaking Dota is a WC3 map with scripted rules of play. it is similar to CS maps that only allow you to use Pistols, Scouts or grenades only. it utilises the game's original design but added in restrictions and rule twists to divert the attention of gameplay.

some people call Dota a "MOD" becoz it modifies the original purpose or play style of the game, which is not wrong, in a way. coz it actually modifies the game rules with restrictions. Many disagree becoz Dota did not actually modify the game engine itself to create any new contents.

Dota is a hybrid game that cannot be solely tagged by either the RTS or RPG genre. Its root game is from WC3, which is well known as a RTS game that added HEROES to add some elements of RPG. from that it doesnt blur the line between RPG and RTS, becoz WC3 is an RTS and no one will disagree with it.

all dota did was it strips down half of the RTS elements (base building etc). and strip down half of the original addition of the RPG element (takes away the importance of character narration) and simplified it into a round by round gameplay. it's a scripted map that takes away story and keeps the gameplay.

WC3 has heroes, and they actually have a story, but when you mod the game map in Dota, the stories do not really matter anymore. coz no matter how sad the hero or how happy the hero is, you only have 1 way to win, take down the enemy base. (heck even counter strike can win by wipe out all enemies =.=!)

to be honest i dun even think this topic is even worth arguing, coz it's only as meaningful as the first post, and it's only as brilliant as the original thread starter.

i posted as a respond to the effort H@H@ tried to make. this post is not a counter arguement to any earlier post.