The amount of times I "finally sit down and watch that new Netflix show I've been putting off" and it's 7 years old. My kid is into "newer Disney stories" I don't know from my day... that are 25 year old films!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

League of legends is two decades old now, so if you're thinking it's new, yeah that's on you 😜

[–] LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to be honest I just looked up the game for the first time and had no clue it came out in 2009. I hadn't ever heard of it until a few years ago so I just figured it was some new game. The whole warcraft/dota thing was crazy to me.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Crazy how?

[–] LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

So looking it up my guess is I played AoE over Warcraft, never understood DOTA, don't really like battle area games, and have only ever watched AoE in e-Sports.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I just learned that DOTA was a wc3 mod originally like last month, so I’m assuming that’s what they mean?

Edit: and how did I find out? Well, Basshunter’s “DOTA” music video of course. Which coincidentally I also learned was about DOTA the game lol.

[–] LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Nope. I know about DOTA and how it has a bunch of spin offs. One of my best friends plays some weird betting game that is a mod of DOTA and he tried to explain the whole thing to me a long time ago.

[–] RadimentriX@troet.cafe 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

@tacofox @AwesomeLowlander wasnt LoL made by some of the original DotA modders? But somehow valve ended up with the rights for the name so they made DotA 2 as a standalone game? It's been ages since iv'e seen an article about the origins of those games :D

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds very valve-ish. But my knowledge ends at Basshunter 😅

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

See other comment thread for a bit of context

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

There were many people who worked on dota back then. There was no official version to begin with, you could find a dozen variants in bnet on any given day. Slowly it got centralised. Some of the modders ended up at LoL, others ended up at Valve. The name wasn't copyrighted, nobody really owned it. Valve kinda inherited it by virtue of hiring the guy running the mod team at the end.

[–] tal 12 points 1 day ago

Apparently I’m old.

Further down in the thread, I ran into someone talking about an older RPG, Realmz. I dug up a subreddit on Reddit related to the game, and the stickied post had this gem:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Realmz/comments/qoowgl/assorted_realmz_files_codes_realmz_character/

These are codes that were reissued by Skip (Aka. SpoonLard). He and my grandfather were the original two collaborators when Skip attempted to carbonize Realmz in 2005.

Nothing like a comment about someone's grandfather having tried twenty years ago to modernize a game you've played in its original form.