Everybody's posting before I can but I'm not letting this block of text go to waste:
wailwail wrote:The_TaTs wrote:wailwail wrote:You didn't answer my question, you only made 1 paladin hero. WHY?
Sorry, missed it because someone put a very distracting Liam Neeson (going full Zeus) and destroyed my attention span.
We try as hard as we can NOT to repeat Heroes. We can go for similar concepts, but ultimately, if we can choose between another Paladin or something entirely different, we rather risk it and try to see what we can come up with rather that repeat something. That's all there's to it.
Yep. Because we have 3 dragons, 2 twilight elves, 2 archers, 3 far-eastern themed heroes, 2 sharp-shooters, 2 pirates, and 7 MAGES
wtf.
As if Bonehart has anything in common with Ashbite or Faustus. Lynn and Reg'son are pretty similar, but Lynn has the advantage of being one of the few cool female heroes.
Alleria has a very different playstyle from Eridan. Kutsao and Oni have nothing in common, and I don't know who the third Asian hero is.
Sharpshooters, as in Dante and Bolin? Again, they are very different. Blackthorne is a very different pirate from the level-specific hero who rides a
boat, which is completely original. As for the mages, they also have pretty drastically different playstyles and themes. The only similar heroes were Reg'son and Lynn, but they're both some of my favourite heroes, so I'm ok with that.
Ironhide, you guys are assuredly original designers.