Heroes of the Storm Review | Dead™ Game™ Edition™ 

You did more for this game with one video than Blizard did the last 5 years.

HotS is indeed a Moba for people who dislike Mobas. No need to research the item store, no need to research the ward placement, no need to practice lasthitting - just pure unadulterated teamfighting and sieging.

I've played hundreds of hours of Smite and LoL, and there ins't a single thing that makes me love them more than HotS. Just the talent system alone is enough for; how every hero can be 3 or 4 different heroes. God, I miss the golden days of this game. It deserves so much more love

All I've gotta say, is I wish this game were more popular today. I play LoL regularly, and still have that love/hate relationship with it, but I had a purely love/love relationship with HotS. Was truly a special game that never took off like it should've, just for Blizzard to Blizzard it.

I played it for a day (sucked of course) and got flamed in one of my games. I told the guy to chill out since it wasn't ranked. You know what he said? "Oh really? I didn't realize. My bad". AND THE GUY PROCEEDED TO BE AN ACTUAL CHILL DUDE! I never knew this was possible in a videogame, let alone a MOBA. I'm still amazed.

HOTS has the unfortunate distinction of having been the spearhead of Blizzard's manufacture and esports scene plan. Except they didn't want to spend any money on it and actually offer worthwhile prizes so it all fizzled out. And it makes me really sad that it got the axe for something that has nothing to do with its quality as a game or moba.

I 100% agree this is the best moba by design. The fact that every map has objectives that force team fights consistently throughout the matchProvides so much more fun than every other moba I've played

Good review. I'll never forgive Actiblizz for shutting this game's development and it's comp scene like they did. It's always been underrated.

HoTS really benefits from being a much less rigidly structured game than other MOBAs. League is kind of a slave to it's 1 top/ 1 mid / 1 jungle / 2 bot metagame and that really limits the kinds of abilities and champions they can bring to the table. Heroes of the Storm actively rejected a rigid metagame not only with it's roster but the differences in it's maps. I recently had a game where I used Kerrigan's phenomenal wave clear potential to farm two lanes at the same time while my team roamed the map as 4 to force camps and push objectives. I've had others where the team split up evenly around the map and used Dehaka's and Brightwing's global teleportation abilities to gank and push vulnerable lanes... Hell, I've seen games where Sargent Hammer snuck off during the big map objective and gutted the enemy's base while they were all distracted by contesting the objective. The game is so much more varied than your standard moba and I think that's really what makes it special.

i specifically remember a match where me and my team were getting bodied hard, to the point where the enemy was at our core and damaging it hard, but when the endgame screen came up and said "victory" everyone was confused, turns out, the camp i had taken, wayyy earlier, had made its way, all the way, to their core, and smashed it while the enemies had been focusing on our bases, i was completely flabbergasted that this tiny thing i did, won us the game.

HOTS is a great moba. It has some of the most unique character designs from a gameplay perspective and it is also simple to pick up and play. Blizzard clearly abandoned the game only because it wasn't a popular esport. They also sunk a ton of money trying to force it onto the esports scene. In reality most game developers lose money on esports, except for the top ones. For a lot of the smaller esports games it's more just there to promote the game.

Love the comparison with TF2, a perfect example that shows multiplayer games don't need constant updates to be played and loved for a long time, as long as it is a good game

Dude, I was working at Gamestop when the beta came out and was speaking to a customer about it. I expressed that I really wanted to play it, but I was going to be away for a year and would have to wait until I got back to have fun with it. The guy came back at the end of my shift with his laptop, hotspot, and beta key and we just jammed for 30 mins in the parking on. The HotS community has been NOTHING except fun and welcoming since day 1.

Best game I've ever played, so sad that indie company abandoned it....

This game is soooo underrated. It by far beats dota and league and I’m a huge dota fan. So sick of farming lanes and last hitting and just waiting for shit to happen. Hots there’s always something happening and you’re kind of forced into it by objectives which makes the game so fun. And the different talents just makes it so much more versatile. No more stacking items and 2 shotting players. It really is all about skills.

HotS is one of my favorite MOBAs. It's also one of the ones I know the least about how to play correctly. I think that says a lot about its accessibility, and I love that I can grab some friends and have them playing semi-competently in just a few hours because of that. It really is too bad that it's so ignored.

I played Heroes of the Storm a couple of times and every time I joined my group of 4 friends who literally have 500 or more lvls in that MOBA. My first game I picked Stitches because he had a hook and from my long experience with MOBAS I knew how important far reaching and or fast displacements are to a team. I looked at the talents as I leveled up and went, "what the? He can increase his hook range to be half the map?" "Yoo, he can eat someone and just run away with them? HE CAN EAT 2 PEOPLE?" I ended up wrecking ass with the character and I was just flabbergasted by the amount of fun HOTS brings to the table. Later I also go t around to playing pre nerf Sylvanas (when she was still broken as hell) and Rag. This game is really dam good but there's just something about it that doesn't draw me back in. It's been more than 3 years, maybe even 4 or 5 since I last played but I remember this game fondly and might just give it another go. Thank you for the nice video, you've re-kindled fond memories that have been long lost to time. I'll send a DM to my old pals right now and see if they're still playing

God, I have slept on HOTS sooo much. It has literally everything I wanted from MOBA. Variety of maps, team fight, abscence of 100 complicated items. So sad that it's now in a vegatative state but I will definitely try to get my friends to play with me. Thank you for this video and I really hope idea about Microsoft and John Halo will become reality!

I know this is old at this point, but yeah, the minions are really really good compared to any and all other MOBAs, they can actually compete against players and actually put up a fight. normal jungle minions can put up a good fight against the towers, while bosses can fold anything if it isn't actually contested by the other team. it's really nice.

haha I didn't realise how much I missed this game until I saw your video. Your review nailed every single great thing about this game and the unique and fun experience it gives to the player. I'm downloading it right now and looking forward to playing CS varian or Falstad :D thank you

Cho'Gall is one of my favorite characters to play in just about any game. The only problem is, since you can't queue up as him, you have to have a friend to play him with and... Well...

What I really loved about this game is that I could just choose my characters and go in a game and play. I didn't have to fumble and think about what specific role I wanted to play and what character is most viable at any given time. If I wanted to queue up as Medivh, then I'd just queue up and play Medivh. The draft mode is obviously a little different, but even then you draft based on the maps and the teams, which feels a lot less limiting than the rigid structures of other MOBAs. As someone who has played League and DotA and even Smite to an extent, it feels nice to have a game that encourages fun in the ways that HotS does. My enthusiasm for the game has dipped since the maintenance mode (read 'live burial') was announced, but it's still the MOBA I have the most fond memories of by far, both playing solo and with friends.

this is by far, one of the best game reviews i have ever witnessed. first video from you Verac and wont be last. im binging the whole channel now. thankyou :)

A+ just found your videos today and I am in love. Binging them all. Thank you for your service!

As my favorite MOBA that I no longer have the will to play, I'm glad this video exists to remind me why I fell in love with it in the first place. The dev team that worked on HOTS clearly loved their game, and its sad that it all went pretty much down the drain. Also, unlike pretty much any other MOBA, HOTS did carry champs right. They are useful at all stages of the game, but do need to work with their team to be at full effectiveness. Compared to League where your carries either need to be carried for 4-5 items because Rito hates the marksman class, or are so grossly overtuned that they can 1v9 from the moment they get their ult because Rito loves skirmishers.

I played hots a LOT back in the day, and friend of mine who was obsessed with league kept asking me why I preferred it over league but I could never really come up with an answer as to why I did, I just kinda did. this video however helped me put a lot of that into words! great video and cheers!

Thank you for making this video. For more casual players I also want to mention: playing vs bots! The groups that cue for vs bot are actually super chill and it's genuinely really fun and casual. The bots team fight and push objectives without being mechanical gods (a decent team can win 10/10 times vs elite bots but not without trying). And the people who queue that are super chill! So if you have anxiety in playing pvp, HotS still has stuff you can do. I'm generally not much of a pvp person, but I loved the idea of a moba. League just...didn't do it for me. The bots felt bad and learning the game felt like wading through hot coals. HotS is *much* nicer. You think a talent build looks decent? It probably is! No need to stress over if you're playing "the right way". (Naturally there are always some builds stronger than others and you can become better over time, but my point is that it's hard to be useless in a game starting out for making 'bad build' decisions. Which means you have the space you need to effectively learn the characters you like, the maps, and the fame as a whole.)

If anyone wants the source for 2:13’s tyrande pic, the artist’s called Demimond23, pretty decent art at times, would recommend a check every now and again.

Team oriented playstyle No toxicity Famous characters Lots of maps AND NO JUNGLER! It may seem as i'm exaggerating or kidding but nope, that was the game at it's peak!

Very entertaining video, awesomely done! You also did a great job at explaining the major differences between HotS and other mobas.

I honestly really enjoyed HotS, I liked the fast matches, the lack of confusing item shops, the fun and interesting talents, and not to mention all the unique heroes from a bunch of series I really enjoyed. HotS was the bomb for me, sadly it's in matinnence mode and no longer growing, which is very sad for me.

So much potential. Our world is unpredictable and there is always a chance that HotS will recieve a love that it deserves.

This will always be my single most beloved game, it is the first game that I got really invested in and wanted to be good at, and when I was able to play a lot in 7-10th grade I grinded all the way to masters. The community was incredibly friendly as well; I met a couple people playing in Team League who invited me to their stack after a game, and they always kept their cool in voice chat despite me probably being probably being an annoying kid at the time. I played with those guys regularly for 3 years. To BananaBread, Dovah, KrisKringle, Lowken, and everyone else I played with who welcomed and accepted a silly stupid kid, I just need to say thank you. I stopped playing eventually once they and other friends moved to other games, but HotS is what made me love thinking about and playing games. Thank you for making me think about it again, I might just reinstall it and play a few games for old times sake.

I played HOTS for years and returned to league once they went into maintenance mode. the constant teamfights were really the highlight for me. great video, inspired by Sseth? love it, make more please

I've loved this game since the beta. Abathur main speaking! Some of my favorite moments in gaming, out of all the games I've played, have been sitting down and playing this with my father and some family friends of ours on my visits home where everyone grabs a laptop, gathers at the kitchen table, and yells excitedly as we attempt to win even a single pvp game. I loved those days!

What got me so interested in HOTS are - Level System: Everyone in the team share the same level. If the team is underlevel to the other team. Everyone is at fault. - Ability Build: You can modified your character ability. And it can be different every match. Not just some classic the ability deal more damage and cd faster. -Diverse Map: There are like everymap for each game Blizzard have. And each map have their own mechanics. They also have different narrators that interact with you Edit: I comment this before he starts listing the thing I literally mention 😭

Ah yes the 2 hallmarks of a modern blizzard game: well developed and severely mismanaged.

As a group of friends meeting up on league, HOTS really was divisive when it released and was supported. There were the more fun and variety oriented friends who really wanted no more league and the more sweaty try hardy ones that didn't like the lack of felt impact on HOTS. Seeing this love letter reminded me that as of now I grew distant to the league group and stayed in good terms with the HOTS crew. Go figure.

My favorite part of HotS is how each hero started out with a cool design and fun mechanics and they were meticulously eroded away and replaced with more generic, and somehow less balanced alternatives that stripped them of their uniqueness and made the game play the same 3 ways every time, making me question why I ever played the game to begin with. Also Varian with two swords is a big strong man and he kisses your dad on the mouth.

I only ever played one character, but he was _damn_ fun. Genn 'Mobility' Greymane. His gimmick is that he has two bars, one for human form and one for Wolfboi form. Human form: Engage, engage, engage. Ranged attacks, area attacks, wear the enemy down. Wolf form: Chase chase chase: Can reposition self and enemy but is melee only. You grind your enemies down, then you pounce. Far as assassins go, he was rather fun. You get to pressure the enemy (and switch back to pressuring IF you survive your dive) while waiting for the other guy to be out of position :D

I am so grateful to you, I haven't even heard of you before, but I play HotS on the regular. I was one of the OG's before I lost my account, so I restarted just a couple months ago. I was so sad to see the game has died. But thanks for covering it so much! I really hope to play with new people who came to play the game because of you. It's people like you why this game is still "alive" to this day.

This needs more recognition - so fun to watch! Plus, it's a nice sum-up from a guy that ate his teeth on DOTA2. Grats, dear sir!

The part at the end was what made me give you the upvote, I think Blizzard MASSIVELY underestimated what they had made with HotS and the reason is simple; map rotations. HotS is the only successful MobA to have multiple maps to play and it's not a coincidence.

I still play HotS from time to time. The game is amazing (Except Booty Bay that map sucks). I love being able to tank or heal without having to last hit. I love the map diversity. The game is so damn good.

HAHAHA keeping the 6.5 meme alive! In all seriousness, I really hope Microsoft/Blizzard revive the game. It's a great game, the only problems are that it doesn't reach as much players as other Blizzard games, and most MOBA players are so loyal to their own MOBA, they're not even going to give HotS a shot. They need to up their advertising budget, and with people like you helping, fingers crossed they'll improve the game and increase the player base. I JUST WANT THE RANKED REWARDS, AND NO ONE PLAYS RANKED IN SEA, QUEUE TAKES MORE THAN AN HOUR, GIMME MY RANK MOUNT, BLIZZARD!

As someone who's played both league and dota extensively, hots is easily the most fun. People always say it's easier, but they clearly haven't ranked up high enough to see that it's just as difficult as high ranked league. Additionally, some might say it's harder to carry because of shared exp, but again, that's simply not the case. a strong sense of macro, understanding the flow of each map, talent choices, and of course microing your heroes leads you plenty of room to carry. Overall good video and I hope it brings more attention to hots. Oh, also I think I've seen you a few times in QM before. I usually play medivh :p

I remember when the game was being promoted at a certain Gamescon in Köln (Cologne) Germany, I went there with 4 other friends. We all played WoW and League together at that time. And we were able to try HoTS out for the very first time in this presentation booth, fighting 5 other random guys. Completely smashed them. Once it released we played it a couple of times, 2 of them still play it to this day. Whenever we organize a lanparty it is the main game to go to because it is so accessible. It's a shame it didn't pop off that hard in the end.

I can't number how many times i already watch this video, and keep watching every time again when is recommended

Azmodan, Stitches and Dehaka. Oh yeah, and Cho'Gall... God I miss when Cho was unstoppable while channeling surging fist.

I used to play this game so much. I even went on the forums and came up with ideas for champions that could be added into the game. I felt like the lack of an esports scene would be good for hots. It meant they could focus on fun characters with unique play styles instead of hyper balanced meta games. This game had so much potential and it’s a shame seeing it holding on by a string.

Algorithm just recommeneded the first SsethTenzeech clone I've ever seen, and man you're good! Subbed. A loving homage to his style, apparently, but solid OC content. Yes, that's redundant.

Hots was the natural evolution of the moba genre. It was fun, engaging and you didn't have to take a holiday from work to complete a single game. After the 2.0 update it became what it needed to be from the start and truly became alive. Heck even blizzard for all their terrible decisions had a great tournament for young people (heroes of the dorm even the name was tacky) and yet had no patience to try and grow the game as an esport so they just killed it. I doubt Microsoft will ever revive it as let's be honest the great moba years are gone. Battle royals is the new hot thing.

as someone who has played like 5 different MOBAs, I must say that you forgot to mention just how fast paced HotS is, there's literally zero downtime of action: - small and short lanes and "jungle space" make traversal through the map very quick (even more so if you add in Mounts) - minions dropping healing orbs and the fountains by your forts make it easy to keep your health and mana polls up and running, plus almost every team having a healer or heroes with self healing, making the need to beam back to base almost rare - the fact that everyone reaches their powerspike in sub 10 minutes once they hit level 10 - literally any character can do objectives, with only supports and healers having some struggle - the lack of need of buying items making your decision making on picking your build a fraction of what it would be on other MOBAs which have items on them it's just so sad that HotS has officially reached its "maintenance only" state as of a few weeks ago, I'd love to see more characters being added, specially Overwatch/Nexus characters since they're the minority -- and maybe some maps, too

Way late to the party on this video but DAMN am I glad you made it. Any time discussions about mobas come up, I think about HotS. I miss this game every day and constantly wish Blizzard hadn't left it to grow mold in the back of the fridge, like your least favorite kind of cheese in a variety pack. The roster was honestly the biggest selling point for me because I could actually play as and listen to my favorite characters talk without having to play their associated games. You couldn't pay me to play Overwatch for more than an hour in one sitting, but I love Tracer being the cheeky little prick that she is, and being able to play as her in HotS was so nice.

glad i found this channel, time to comment on literally every video I watch for the algorithm

I checked if he has any more videos after watching 4. He's got 1.26k subs on 4 vids. Man, you're doing GOD'S WORK. Keep at it

Love your videos. The editing, chill commentary, and just right amount of the funny is so good

Thank you for this beautiful review, everything you mentioned in the video is exactly why I love hots the most. It just such a different creative way to look at a moba and I will continue to play it for as long as I can.

Me and my cousin still play this regularly, and Cho'Gall is our go-to when we decide to goof around. It's great fun! That being said, we mainly play PvE on max difficulty and team up with other friends and/or randoms. Surprisingly it does sometimes prove a challenge, but mainly when our team composition is all messed up or we're not paying attention. xD

I have 5.000 hours on MOBA, I've tried all of the popular ones, and I must say this is the best one for me, I really miss the days I could play this game with friends, so much fun so less frustration overall. Hope Microsoft give it a big bust in terms of publicity, because the game is already good

I remember when it basically got abandoned. I was so hype for the Ravenlord comic they started releasing. They were really awsome. They started to incorporate Nexus Heroes wich in my opinion were really cool (Orphea and Quira) and i was really excited for other Nexus heroes like the queen of thorns or champions of her and the Pirat bay skeleton or underlings of him. It was starting to get really amazing i thought. and then ..... shut down :(

Cho'gall was so much fun when you found a friend that you could really communicate and was on point. some games you would absolutely demolish and turn games around until they eventually came around and found a counter.. good times good memories.

man I miss playing big brain ball, "under which cup?" Samuro and Maiev

I was a samuro main who climbed to high diamond. And this game was so fun. There are unique character there that no one in league or Dota can do. It's unique it doesn't have the I got 3 kills early and I'm a hyper carry therefore I 1v5. Everyone gets xp evenly. This game had potential. A lot of it.

Wish I got into this game when it was big, as it feels much more welcoming than say Dota’s massive list of items and other mechanics. Also as someone familiar with previous Blizzard titles, I can get a better sense of what characters do. And really crossover games are always just cool to see

If anyone wants to know how HotS really is, I recommend Carbot animations for a good laugh -- they used to make a short for almost every character for years, and they're hilarious.

This is the best summary of this game I have seen. You hit all of the points on why I like it more than other MOBAs. People can say that it is a dumbed down version all they want but it is, IMO, more fun than the others.

The moment you pulled out the "Out of your friends which are you" meme, I knew abathur was going to be the apyr one. +5 pts for slumber party abathur

My favorite hero in HoTS is vikings, It's just so fun and hard to control 3 characters at once and control 2 or 3 lanes by yourself. And always being top xp is fun. HoTS really has so many unique characters, like vikings, Abathur and Cho'gall who have such a wierd and fun concept that really changes up the moba

Accurate review. Its the only MOBA I've ever played that didn't make me feel like shit for trying to learn how to play it. Damn good fun and much like Long John Silvers, I will do my part and keep it alive as long as I can as a consumer.

9:32 Duuude 😭 Love your sense of humor, man. This too is the main (only) moba were I come back every now and then. Simple, fast, and varied

Blizzard wanted to get in on that Moba esports scene. The problem with HotS, is that they made a fun and dynamic game.

I miss you gold era Heroes of the Storm unu

Yup. Agree. I love the ready-up animations of some of the character skins, too. The "Showstopper" Whitemane skin has a great ready-up animation. I love this game.

I love the talent based leveling system from HOTS. Felt like it really added variety and personal preference to how you like to play a certain hero in a way that building items in Dota for example can’t. Like there’s always at least two different predetermined playstyles built into the hero but with further experimentation, you can really make them into something entirely different, maybe even something it wasn’t designed for However I felt it was harder to get into on the micro level. You can’t view exact values on any other units HP other than yourself so I found it hard to optimize. But that’s probably me putting more thought into that aspect of the game than the devs intended

Thank you for this video. It has made me realize why hots is so much more fun to me and why it is particularly painful blizzard gave up on it.

Played since Closed Beta with Sgt. Hammer as my main. And man, this game is so much more dynamic anything else. That blood rush from teamfights that goes from very first seconds, these amazing maps with actually quite unique objectives, that goddamn headbanging music (especially on the Nuclear Test Site, with SC1 Terran remixes). It truly feels like youre playing the entire game and not like you have to residentsleeper through half of it...

HotS is the game I come back to because out of the Blizz games I can play, right now I feel it's the one most deserving because it got kneecapped so hard for no reason. I started after the 2.0 update because, yeah I wanted the Overwatch skins, but I fell hard for this game. I remember when around 2018 they started doing new cool shit like the Alterac map, Yrel, the Dark Nexus skins, and adding original heroes with Orphea. I remember reading a couple interviews by the director about the direction the game was taking and I was excited as all hell. Then it felt like a week later everything got shut down. We got Anduin and Mei and Deathwing and I realized quickly that the game just wasn't coming back in a big way. Hogger was the most recent hero but Deathwing was the game's death knell for new content. It makes me sad because this game is insanely fun and learning characters I loathed when I was a newbie was so fun. IDK how I got levels on Samuro but I did. Maybe, just maybe, someone will see this game in Blizz's library and be like "why aren't we doing anything with this?" and I can finally give Microsoft some credit. Just so my comment's not a lament entirely, I'mma talk about some of my favourite characters. Stukov's the best healer hands down, and honestly HotS does a fantastic job of only having one shit ass, boring healer (Morales). Stukov brought me into the fold of playing healers because I was too scared to before, but now I can sigh while my tank runs in 1v5 without support with the best of em. Yrel is one of the most fun bruisers ever made. She doesn't do tons of damage but she's a problem and you have to deal with her, she's fantastic at drawing aggro. Ragnaros is my favourite, nothing feels better than wiping 2 lanes after 20 because you can farm the third. Not to mention just how fun using Molten Core is to completely stall out a push. Zeratul is my favourite assassin, especially post rework. the 20 upgrade for Might of the Nerazim lets you do just so much burst in one go AND get away easily that even if you don't snag the kill whoever you hit is feeling really hurt.

I loved playing Dehaka, just gaining more and more essence until I was basically unkillable if minions were nearby. I miss this game, I tried replying it recently but the game was way too long and there wasn't a surrender mechanic to end the game early, and you can't just leave without getting that punishment. The heroes were way too expensive to buy and you got so little gold out of winning games, it was torture to grind. I remember really liking Admiral Stukov, but he was too expensive to buy so I got him to mastery 8 simply by playing him on free rotation. It's still a better store than Overwatch 2

this game sounds amazing honestly, I played a bit of LOL like a decade ago but with all the new champions and having to memorise which items to buy I dont even want to try to get into it while this seems to be much more approachable

I love this game! Absolutely fun. I played AoS back in SC1 and Dota in WC3, plus the million custom games in WC3 and SC2. Heroes of the Storm brings all my favorite characters into one place, and also makes them super interesting even when their whole deal is “guy with gun”. I play with my best friend and my brother, it’s a blast. The only shortcoming is no surrender option, because the matchmaking is bad and sometimes you’re in situations where not only will you not win, you will spend the entire match getting slaughtered and not getting a single kill. Matchmaking can be pretty horrible lol

I loved HoTS, I always played Abathur, even somehow getting MVP a good few times. I remember when you could tunnel to the bush by the core and chip it down with the locusts, and return home just in case the enemy time realizes their core is half health. Then Dehaka, the primal Zerg guy, was Abby’s absolute bane for a while. I was having so much fun.

Great vid, great review, you definitely hit on all the major points that make it stand out amongst all other MOBAs and, in my opinion, makes it better than the rest. HotS is by far my favorite MOBA game out there, it easily was go to game for the first 3-4 years it was out. Being a support and healing was actually fun, constantly engaging, and had a lot of weight. Whitemane is my go to healer, she may be a bit high stress at times but she comes with high reward. It's a shame what happened to HotS as i believe it truly had the potential to be the LoL killer. Sadly, bad monetization from Blizzard and an over zealous campaign to break into the Esport scene to be the dominate figure caused it's downfall. Too big too fast. There are other reasons too but HotS didn't fail because the game being bad in anyway, it was the management making stupid decisions and burning the budget. I would love to see this game revived.

i've played HotS since beta and always loved it, sometimes it wanted to play it more than LoL in my moba era because of not having to wait 15 minutes in lane to actually do something, i was very sad when they basically executed the game like some rabid dog, one day we had heroes of the dorms, having shits and giggles with the 6.5 score in IGN, making an ingame banner to laugh at it, and the other, all proplayers were out of job, the game received like 10 updates total since and everyone left the freaking game except the hardcore base the only good thing that came out of the getting out of pro play being retired is that the character ideas were crazier than ever, we got freaking deathwing bieng a dickhead and denying allied heals for him to be unstoppable i hope with all my heart that we see a return of this game

Game is actually so good. The neutral objectives are actually interesting and encourage/force fighting rather than farming for 20 minutes just for the game to he decided by a single lane anyway

I'm been a World Of Warcraft, DotA 2, League player... I've never encountered HotS. I want to play this like so bad. Thanks for introducing it to me!

Sunnysundown art never fails HE DON MISS!!!!

Legitimately my favourite MOBA out there because it solves the one biggest issue with other established MOBAs. Map variety. There was a time in League's history when they experimented with different maps with unique playstyles, problem is most players only queued for Summoner's Rift because it's all optional so the other maps barely got any players to play with. The only variation of this that survived was ARAM. Also HOTS game modes are legitimately fun to play, and playing with known Blizzard heroes is a plus too.

This game is so much fun to play man, I especially enjoyed playing with the boss characters here, namely Cho'Gall (I played Cho, always with the same friend ^^), Ragnaros (his trait is way too awesome) and my favorite: Deathwing! there is never going to be another character like Deathwing in any MOBA and he's incredibly fun to play, you really feel like a final boss lol Plus my girls D.Va and Zagara are here too, I can't with this game I love it so much, it hurts that it's no longer being updated ;( PLUS THE MAPS I LOVED DRAGON SHRINE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Okay I'm gonna stop fangirling and come back to this game, at least for a while! even if the queue times suck lol Really good video btw, glad to know there are more HotS enjoyers out there :3

Okay first of all great points made about the game, secondly this was HILARIOUS and I loved it. Subscribed

I have never heard my experience at Wal-Mart described so accurately.

You genuinely made me want to try Heroes of the Storm

Okay, this was an amazing first video. Kind of like Sseth but without the child soldier PTSD. I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna say it! Ahem... I was here before he blew up, subscribing after seeing a single video. *Basks in superiority juices*

This was probably the best heroes of the storm video i have ever watched. I am definitely going to be recommending this to new players who want to get into the game!! Thank you

I played this game religiously from beta, through 2.0 all the way up until its eventual maintenance mode! I play rarely now, but still look at it fondly as one of the best times in gaming I've had, it was the right place and right time for me to just play relentlessly with updates that happened so frequently! new heroes what felt like every other week, and the different maps objectives meant that no 2 games were the same! in my 1200 levels and some 6,000 games played, it really is the best moba out there! its just a shame they tried to force esports on it, and when that didnt work they just dropped it

I adore HotS, very happy to stumble across this video.

Heroes of the Storm is my favorite MOBA. I like the focus on character talents and ultimates instead of generic items. I like the focus on teamwork instead of farming individual XP and gold for the late game. I like the faster pace of the gameplay. I like the changing maps. I started on DOTA back in WC3. I moved to LoL and spent thousands of hours playing that game but I actually have the most *fun* playing HotS, and it kills me to see it abandoned.

You perfectly described how and why I love this game

The way you described Leoric had me rolling on the floor, 10/10

Hots is and continues to be my favorite MOBA on the market. The fact there really is nothing like it is part of why I really enjoy it. Glad to see others are too :)