@@ishyameru6232 It's vaslty different than Smash Bro.... it's only in the same genre. It's like saying why CSGO copy Battlefield. Same type of game different experience
This one honestly hurts me a lot. It was actually a really really fun game but for some reason they just stopped supporting it? If they kept supporting it I could see it still being played a lot since it was really fun
I always said DKO had such potential but seriously.... Like 4 maps and like...5 characters?? Really? Now imagine paying money for that when in reality that's an hour of gameplay before it gets repetitive. Imagine if MK or Tekken made you buy a new game and you only had 5 people to play with...IN A FIGHTER
Who would have thought releasing an unfinished game filled with a bunch of predatory monetization and no room for skill expression would die. DKO is literally a store with a mini game tact on
I loved the game. Had 2 friends who played regularly and was very enjoyable. The servers seemed to get worse and we started losing interest. The first couple of god releases didn't take too long, but it took forever to get loki. Around that time we stopped playing because the servers were just getting worse, new content was sparse, and players were dropping off. Sad to see they still haven't released anything new since then, really enjoyed this game
I used to be on the Community Team for DKO and the last few months I was apart of it, it was definitely something. It's unfortunate it seems to have died off/be dying, there has been zero communication from anyone even now. I hope a comment comes, for the sake of the people who put so much time and work into playing the game. They deserve SOMETHING from someone.
This game made me feel like i was finally going to become a true gaming youtuber. i was getting thousands of views per video, was at the top of every search term for the game, tons of people would recognize me in their dev twitch streams, i could play a fun game an hour a day or more of my favorite game and then make money off it, it was like a damn dream. its so sad to see this game get kicked to the curb the way it did... atleast drop the other 3 gods they had basically finished like come on! Ill never forget you DKO, the time i had with this game will always hold a special place in my heart.
Your right. You were in my feeds and everything. Your energy and skills are definitely there. It sucks that the rug has been pulled from under you. Hopefully one day they will release a big patch to bring awareness back to it.
the game was fun when it came out but it suffered a lot from horrible balance, like how thor's auto attack chain was just way shorter than any one else so he was automatically the worst character because getting out boxed from AA range is terrible, it also suffered from lag in the way that he who lagged was usually the victor. i had so many duels i couldnt win in the 1v1 mode due to laggy opponents that would just fall out of your AA chain, or how you could momentum cancel so fighting someone who knew how to do that in duels ment kill% was over 150% and felt awful while it was a great idea i think they didn't put enough thought into character design for a platform fighter.
The main issue with the game is the fact that the attacks auto track for you. This makes recovering so much harder than it should've been and made some moves legit undodgeable. It was fun outside of that issue, but that issue was a constant presence in the game, especially against decent players.
Honestly, DKO would've had a much better chance at survival if it wasn't so aggressively monetized. Even with it's poor launch roster, if it just kept with the content releasing, I think it might've had a shot. Instead, it was just asking for so much money at every opportunity.
I heard about this game once when it was announced and then never again. Nobody was talking about this game and I don't think Hirez tried very hard on marketing.
I played a lot of the 2v2 game mode with a friend back when the game released. It was a lot more fun than the standard 3v3 to us. The simple controls wasnt really a negative thing for me. I think this game could've shined in the 1v1 game mode, where true gamer skill was at play but I remember I found the direct counters to be a pain in the ass to play. It was fun while it lasted, but the game was too simple to leave a good impression on me. Having to grind for tens of hours to unlock some shitty custom attribute (or whatever it was called) just doesn't feel worth it and
I was excited for this game when it was first announced as free to play, but then the deceptive behavior became immediately apparent when it actually wasn't free to play and instead released for $10.00, so I never even played it in the first place because I felt lied to and deceived by Hi Rez. This game was never worth $10 in the first place but we were forced to buy in if we want to play it at all whatsoever. Second point here, it was too experimental as a 3rd person platform fighter, which have existed in the past (Like Power Stone for instance), they jumped right into an experimental game concept instead of doing something more reasonable and established, like what Riot is doing now with Project L.. when I first heard about a Fighting Game based on Smite and the Gods I was super excited, then I seen the initial trailer and was immediately turned off by this whole idea of a 3d ring out platform fighter in 3rd person. They should've just made a smash clone in 2d, or a traditional fighter which would've been even better I think as a fighting game fan. They could've done like an MVC style 3v3 team fighter where you compose a team of Smite Gods who synergize and can do team combos, which would play into the overall themes of Smite as a team based game, they could've given the Gods passives or included items like an X factor or comeback mechanic, in my mind this is what I initially imagined when I heard "fighting game based on smite" was some sort of tag team fighter, but instead I think they took the easy way out.. instead of developing a worthwhile fighting game that could stand on it's own two feet, they just threw together some chibi skins with simplified game mechanics and put it into a gang beasts like physics simulation probably in Unreal if you were to ask me, who is a game dev by the way. Probably ranting at this point, but this game just wasn't it.. what it was however, was a quickly and hastily developed tie in cash grab that they thought they could use to capitalize on the Smite casual audience. If Hi Rez actually wants to make a real fighting game, give me a shout because I have an endless amount of ideas for a game that would be successful in the FGC market as a fighting game player and game developer myself, ideas I already imagined the game would be before being disappointed by the initial announcement trailer. End rant.
Man it sucks this game didn't succeed. I actually liked the gameplay loop a lot, if they polished some rough edges on the animations and added more content it would have been a very unique experience...
My issue was that it felt empty after the 1st week of playing, either they should've added more before the launch or added more stuff quickly after launch. I hope that they keep the game in the back pocket and just kinda re release it agian with a massive amount of new stuff.
Picked it up around 4 months ago or so and I honestly had a lot of fun at the beginning. The quest system letting you unlock characters was something I loved, it made me feel like I could earn new characters relatively quick! Then the quest system required double the amount of time for seemingly no reason and I realized that unless I spend money I am basically stuck with the gods I have without spending money and this game isn't worth 5 bucks. After learning that I just haven't bothered since and moved on to other things. With Texas Chainsaw finally coming out and with Smite still being something I play I just cannot find any reason to ever come back to this game.
Hi-Rez kills their own games a lot out of hubris. They pulled the same stuff with Tribes Ascend where they slowed down updates to develop Smite and kept changing the pay model to nickel and dime the player base to fund Smite and went so far as to shut down the servers and added that team to the Smite dev team. After outcry they brought it back with the promise of more updates then went "Actually this is too hard since there's no dedicated team for it and smite is too successful to pull people off that team" and shut it down again and delisted it on steam.
I got access to the closed beta and gave my extra code to my friend. Both of us have played Smash Bros. for years, and this seemed like that, but 3D and team-based. We played for a few hours and had some fun. We came back to it the next weekend (servers were only up on weekends at this point) and got bored after about an hour. The cooldowns were awful. It's the only fighting game I've ever played where I use my moves and then all I can do for a few seconds is press LMB for light attack and RMB for heavy attack (you can also do both of these as aerial moves but the aerials felt awful unless you were edge-guarding). I think the idea of cooldowns in fighting games are fine. Multiversus had cooldowns and it worked well, but Multiversus didn't limit people to 4 attacks when their abilities were on cooldown. Also, the basic attacks were lock on. Someone might be trying to knock you off the edge with a basic attack so, naturally, you want to dodge behind them to hit them offstage instead. You do that with perfect timing to make their attack miss... and all they have to do is press LMB again and their character will do a 180 turn and hit you before you can get an attack off. They don't even have to move their mouse to counter your direction dodge input with perfect timing. Also, I absolutely hated playing against Thor and Thanatos. Both of them had abilities that can freeze them in the air and select a place to land and do damage. This gave them waaaaay too much ability to recover from off stage because you can't effectively edge-guard someone who can stop midair, wait for you to make your move, and then dodge it by clicking a path to the stage that avoids you. I know Hi-Rez is new to the fighting game space, but they have to compete with other fighters to survive and the counterplay options, cooldowns, and overall flow of the DKO were all off. I think Hi-Rez misunderstood that counterplay options are what makes fighting games fun; fighting games aren't fun if you can't react to your opponent or can predict them perfectly. In DKO, you encounter both of those situations throughout every match.
It would be too much work for HiRez, but a new video game they can make would be a single player experience telling the story of either (1) Smite Lore or (2) Each God's real mythological story. It would be standalone and price normally. No multiplayer. The story mode could be split by pantheons. OR, if HiRez decides to take on the smite lore, the story is told from different Gods point of view leading up to every God meeting and fighting each other. Maybe an rpg? Call it "SMITE: The Story" or "PANTHEON". Idk, names not too great but you get the idea. One can dream.
I liked the game, I had fun with friends. Sad that it died. My only issue with it was that I was getting interrupted out of all my attacks and I literally couldn’t do anything about it which made the game not fun
The game is extremely unbalanced. Mind you there's no block button, so some characters literally out pressure you so hard, you can't do anything but run and eventually die. They should rework the combat mechanics to make it more fair.
I think the problem with DKO is that it was supposed to be a part of that trend of "arena team games" like Knockout City and Ninjala and whatnot that were billed as easy alternatives to fighting games that exploded with the end of Smash Ult, all of them hungry to steal that playerbase. so while they were pitching it as "Smash but THIRD PERSON!!!" it... was joining a genre that was already well established, and it was clearly far behind the competition.
I don't even think the monetization aspect is subjective - I'm confident it's one of the major reasons why 98% of the playerbase left. For a sad roster of gods even by paying the microtransactions... yeah not subjective at all I actually like the cute chibi character designs, and I'm planning to make chibi fanart for all the other gods that have yet to (or will never) come out
Another factor as to why I think DKO also failed is because it's "inspiration piece" also died off quite quickly. I haven't heard anything about Multiversus in years. I remember people being hyped at its announcement because it was Shaggy vs. Superman or waiting for Hugh Neutron to be added. Then the joke got old. It was only treated as a joke from the start and they managed to become almost hidden except to those that suffer from sunk cost. No-one took Versus seriously, not even the management who played into the joke nature of the reveal such as the taunts.
I enjoyed DKO and liked its gameplay. It was doomed to fail the moment they primarily marketed it towards Smite players. It was doomed to fail that way because Smite Players are burned on failed HiRez products. Most did not even attempt to play because of that, the others never commited to it because they knew it wouldn't last. Bad marketing, slow reaction to bad balance, very slow development cycle with a too small roster and very slow meta progression were also exhausting.
5:47 this... so true. I really love this game and spent over 100 hours on it, and I still play it a little bit, but barely at all compared to March when the game got its last update and then the devs went radio silent. I guess we know now that it happened because of the "Hi-Rez Ventures" restructuring, but it is still so sad. Why do I play this game? Well, I love Smite and I love Smash bros, it kinda combines both in such a fun way. And it came out at a time where I was actually hating smite, and it was leagues more fun to play. I agree that this game has plenty of issues down to its core like oversimplicity and microtransactions, but the true killer of this game was corporate bullshit rushing it out probably a whole year too early.
Been thinking for ages that Hirez should have released Smite-spinoff fighting game like Tekken/SF but when Project L has been announced I dont have hopes anymore
Dont jinkes us. After Project L came out it wouldnt suprise me if hirez hoped on the band wagon as they have done before with the chess game, and idle fighter the did before
@@24kam48 if Hi-rez can release a polished fighting game adaptation of Smite, with proper advertising to boot, not only will it be the hypest shit they could ever pull off, that game could make them some serious cash. I personally enjoy fighting games because they're designed to reward your skill and effort reliably, as it's pretty much you vs someone else most of the time. There's virtually no luck factor involved, so if you lose, you've got nobody to blame except yourself. These are circumstances you can control, unlike smite where you can have a loss due to a leaver/feeder and there's barely anything you can do about it.
I was lucky enough to play the alpha before this game was announced and I can safely say not much has changed from that day. It's a great game at the core but like you said it just lacks the depth of the characters etc also the lack of a rank or incentive for actually winning matches does make it suffer in my opinion.
I was one of the first to download as it was included in ps+, didnt get into it, and redownloaded it like 1 month ago and its still downloaded, i found it was really found to play drunk with friends. Cause i dont have to concentrate and just press buttons LOL. But yeah A game i would go to day to day, hellnah lol.
I just got into it and been playing with friends ever since.. I like it for the time being and still get matches no problem Edited: it is FTP and how I managed to get my Gods, I would just level up all lvl 1 Gods to til lvl 5 and viola.. I did buy a skin and had extra for another character but so far so good esp cause I love Brawlhalla
This video is outdated. The game is currently free to play, cross-platform, all characters are playable, and very easy to queue into games and find opponents equally matched. Having a blast with this game and it's been a while since I got sucked into a new multiplayer game
yeah literally i was waiting for a new character to drop. to go back in and play i like lvling all the gods. havent been on since this full free to play turn about but im guessing its not alot of people there
I was part of alpha and beta testing and the game definitely had potential, but the weirdest part is that the beta was the healthiest that the game ever was. During Alpha Testing there was a lot of complaints about the progression for all of the gods as well as frankly abhorrent balance for Thanatos, Hercules, Arthur, and especially Susano and Ama. There was also problems that they refused to fix regarding the cross-progression where several big people in the community at the time had lost the stuff that they paid for because the cross prog just decided to stop properly working for no reason, this included people who didn't use cross-progression at all. Zeus was intended for Launch but was cut from launch because apparently his mechanics were misbehaving, but honestly that wasn't really the case but he did need some nerfs. After the game officially released everyone expected the servers to have problems but even after the population went below the amount of players for the Beta the servers just stayed absolutely terrible and likely only have gotten worse.
I got into it a few days ago. Really enjoying the game so far. The points that you mentioned are not that bad. I got 2 heroes unlocked and I am full free2play. Also saying that you only have to press 3 Buttons is a straightup lie. The Game is not really this simple if you are on a good elo. Its rather pretty sweaty. Given the opportunity to make builds it is also a little tactical. If they really turn of support for this game, it would be sad because the game could be more than it is right now
Imma be honest that's just Hi-Rez's whole MO at this point. Even in SMITE which is their main game a lot of the practices they implement with chests, skins, and the Odyssey are huge cash grabs. A lot of the time it feels like they care more about the bottom line than actually improving the game. It's sad to see as a long time player
Picked it up yesterday and kicked booty with Wukong. God pass is a nice system, and how we can unlock traits. Seems like a game with a bright future to me
Dude I’m still sad about rogue company was really fun to me and in the beginning DKO was too but just same things happen 😞 ( also I really enjoyed those games because they were the only ones me and my dad played a lot together before he couldn’t play anymore wish they were still amazing when they were released sadly they just need to actually care about a game and not the money)
They better do something about like, idk, everything? Im talking gameplay, gamemodes, ranked, new gods, new maps, and literally everything they need so people constantly play it and have dozens of hours of playability without getting bored like smash or brawlhalla
Tbh I stopped playing because Thanatos and Thor were just annoying to deal with and they didn’t even do anything about it when everyone was giving feedback in the discord
I liked DKO, I've played it for a few hours, but I also noticed the very farm heavy way to buy characters, I only managed to buy one single character and I always find it too repetitive to play with the same characters over and over, so the lack of many options to play as made me quit. It's a shame because the game is fun, but they had it coming really imo
When I went to try it, I saw the price tag on it and I got confused. I thought this was free to play, so I read the comments and the majority said it was a free2play monetization game(inga shop etc), that had a buying cost. O boy was I not in the mood to try it.
Its such a shame....This could of been a Top Tier Game. Amazing concept, amazing graphics. They should do what multiversus did. They should shut down the servers, fix and improve it...and relaunch later.
it was quite enjoyable then i stopped playing for about a month, came back and couldn't get into match/ kick back out to main screen after character select. This happened 5 more time and then I stopped trying
the dev team for this game had the blessing of Hi-Rez who didn't develop the game, though what I think killed it as all of the reviews are about not having some kind of system that grouped players based on level
I enjoyed it for a bit and still do on and off but hell I never would have payed for it. It was free at one point and I only got it because of that and the free chibi susano in smite you got for getting it.
Their first mistake was charging players for a spinoff of a game originally free-to-play: between nick brawl stars and multiversus, which ambitious crossover took the masses by storm on release? I'm so tired of smash clones doing this in general, but a smash clone without a universal block, is *DOOMED* to die, exclusively because of the meta that decision births instantly. And to top it off, there was literally nothing there. I've seen more content on MOBILE smash clones, and you know what, they didn't charge you on entry, either. DKO was the moment Hi-rez officially let us know they have a severe delusion that people care about them as a brand, when 80% of us only played smite because the Playstation doesn't have League on it.
The decision behind making DKO to me was just mind boggling to the fullest. Making a game as shallow as that and just stamping the Smite logo over it, I wonder if it could have had more attention if it was its own IP rather than Smite. Either way a game as shallow as that was bound to fail. Even by watching the gameplay you could easily tell how much there is to the game.
The gameplay was fun, but you could tell the focus was on monetization even in the early access. Combine that with the god awful progression, lack of content, balance and how clear it is that the game wasn't made with a vision in mind. I can honestly say that it had the potential to be an amazing success, but whether it was let down by something in the pipeline or by the wrong captain at the wheel doesn't matter anymore. It's a darn shame that companies keep blinding themself with priorities that only hurts the product and said priority in the end.
Honestly expected, the alpha was fun they were just too dedicated to trying to get smite players on board. I'm guessing someone at a higher up marketing level decided the safest bet was to bank on the franchise they have, which could've worked if they also appealed to the fighting game crowd more. If they had more people from 2'd fighting games play it, I'm sure it would've been better.
This game is one of my favorite games to play from time to time kind of wish they kept updating it at least with this game it doesbt take up alot of space in storage 😂
Im very annoyed because according to datamines arachne was going to be after loki. She looked cute too. Im hoping they are just radio silent trying to update the game because it has a lot of potential. Plus arachne
My friends and myslef all really enjoyed this game when it first came out but it got stale really quick and they took too long to release more characters. Also the grind to unlock more characters was a bit much
Honestly at this point I feel like if hi rez is going to bother doing any more smite spin offs they have 3 options smite genshin, smite dating Sim, or smite 2. I don't even like genshin or dating Sim games but I can see where they have their appeal and how it seems like the kind of thing that could print endless money for them. If they keep doing these other smite spin offs that just don't hit the target their just draining resources from the only things they have pulling in a profit.
this game is def fun and i'm bringing it back, my friends and i play just found out about it ppl complain to much learn to enjoy a game and shut up its simple. for the ones hearing this vid go give it a try its free.
Honestly DKO was fun. My complaints about it were pretty simple. Why is the roster so small. And certain characters were so broken compared to other that if you werent playing them you were getting bodied. Hercules was one of those characters. Some characters were more fun to play like Athena, and Ymir, but most of them werent that fun. The game had a lot of potential but the developers really missed the mark
Its funny because they barely realized how much of a steal the buy all gods deal is compared to other games that either dont have it or have it at 100+ and they dont wanna do that ever again but wont take it out of smite since its been too long and too many people have it now. But in general they make their money from skins anyways so they dont monitize gods hard
I reallh enjoyed my tine playing this game. It sucks that when i got in,it was basically dead.still finding matcjes though which is cool! Maybe itll go the way of Realm Royale 👀
I got the game for free on a key giveaway and really liked it for a couple of hours, then I came back to play the next two days after for an hour each and then never came back. It just gets too old too fast and the combat mechanic becomes frustrating, I saw some potential but I knew it was going to die pretty quickly.
My experience was the exact same tbh. Got it during the "free to keep" launch event and played for maybe 4-5 sessions of an hour or two and then just never felt the urge to play again. It was kinda fun for those hours but got old quick cause of a lack of content.
DKO got hit with both the “smite spin-off” curse and the “not smash bros platform fighter” curse
It wasn't "cursed", it was just bad.
@@arcguardianit's better than Smash but still boring
@@gaaratf2fanboy76😭
But why does Hi-Rez want to copy off other games? Why not make their own standalone IP
@@ishyameru6232 It's vaslty different than Smash Bro.... it's only in the same genre. It's like saying why CSGO copy Battlefield. Same type of game different experience
This one honestly hurts me a lot. It was actually a really really fun game but for some reason they just stopped supporting it? If they kept supporting it I could see it still being played a lot since it was really fun
should have been fully f2p
On Xbox too
Smite Tactics was also awesome
This game was ACTUALLY fun. But it just feels like they didn't support it almost at all. And it's really frustrating.
I always said DKO had such potential but seriously.... Like 4 maps and like...5 characters?? Really? Now imagine paying money for that when in reality that's an hour of gameplay before it gets repetitive. Imagine if MK or Tekken made you buy a new game and you only had 5 people to play with...IN A FIGHTER
Who would have thought releasing an unfinished game filled with a bunch of predatory monetization and no room for skill expression would die. DKO is literally a store with a mini game tact on
I loved the game. Had 2 friends who played regularly and was very enjoyable. The servers seemed to get worse and we started losing interest. The first couple of god releases didn't take too long, but it took forever to get loki. Around that time we stopped playing because the servers were just getting worse, new content was sparse, and players were dropping off. Sad to see they still haven't released anything new since then, really enjoyed this game
I used to be on the Community Team for DKO and the last few months I was apart of it, it was definitely something. It's unfortunate it seems to have died off/be dying, there has been zero communication from anyone even now. I hope a comment comes, for the sake of the people who put so much time and work into playing the game. They deserve SOMETHING from someone.
One free Avatar in Smite, take it or leave it
The game was fun for like 3 matches 😭
fr i was over it by the third game as well
This game made me feel like i was finally going to become a true gaming youtuber. i was getting thousands of views per video, was at the top of every search term for the game, tons of people would recognize me in their dev twitch streams, i could play a fun game an hour a day or more of my favorite game and then make money off it, it was like a damn dream. its so sad to see this game get kicked to the curb the way it did... atleast drop the other 3 gods they had basically finished like come on! Ill never forget you DKO, the time i had with this game will always hold a special place in my heart.
Your right. You were in my feeds and everything. Your energy and skills are definitely there. It sucks that the rug has been pulled from under you. Hopefully one day they will release a big patch to bring awareness back to it.
i really appreciate this thank u! yea im praying they like release SOMETHING that isnt just maintenance its such a shame @videocee 😁
Dropping a game with like 5 characters when u have over 100 is the reason the game died
I think I played it for 10min and never thought about it again
This was the one time i had high hopes for this game but once again leave it to Hirez to sabotage themselves 🙃
It should have been a dlc or a mini game inside Smite, but oh bad news… Smite is still using a patched UE3😅 and it’s not possible
I actually enjoyed this game (for a day)
Same.
the game was fun when it came out but it suffered a lot from horrible balance, like how thor's auto attack chain was just way shorter than any one else so he was automatically the worst character because getting out boxed from AA range is terrible, it also suffered from lag in the way that he who lagged was usually the victor. i had so many duels i couldnt win in the 1v1 mode due to laggy opponents that would just fall out of your AA chain, or how you could momentum cancel so fighting someone who knew how to do that in duels ment kill% was over 150% and felt awful
while it was a great idea i think they didn't put enough thought into character design for a platform fighter.
I would have been genuinely more interested if this was like a Tekken/Street Fighter type spin off of the SMITE characters
The main issue with the game is the fact that the attacks auto track for you. This makes recovering so much harder than it should've been and made some moves legit undodgeable. It was fun outside of that issue, but that issue was a constant presence in the game, especially against decent players.
This game is sooo fun i love playing it. I really really hope they can somehow claw it back
Honestly, DKO would've had a much better chance at survival if it wasn't so aggressively monetized. Even with it's poor launch roster, if it just kept with the content releasing, I think it might've had a shot. Instead, it was just asking for so much money at every opportunity.
I heard about this game once when it was announced and then never again. Nobody was talking about this game and I don't think Hirez tried very hard on marketing.
What? But they gave TIMTHETATMAN his own skin!! How was paying a huge streamer to play the game once not enough marketing 🤣🤣🤣
@@Dinnizzel97 lmao what a waste of money
I played a lot of the 2v2 game mode with a friend back when the game released. It was a lot more fun than the standard 3v3 to us. The simple controls wasnt really a negative thing for me.
I think this game could've shined in the 1v1 game mode, where true gamer skill was at play but I remember I found the direct counters to be a pain in the ass to play. It was fun while it lasted, but the game was too simple to leave a good impression on me. Having to grind for tens of hours to unlock some shitty custom attribute (or whatever it was called) just doesn't feel worth it and
I was excited for this game when it was first announced as free to play, but then the deceptive behavior became immediately apparent when it actually wasn't free to play and instead released for $10.00, so I never even played it in the first place because I felt lied to and deceived by Hi Rez. This game was never worth $10 in the first place but we were forced to buy in if we want to play it at all whatsoever.
Second point here, it was too experimental as a 3rd person platform fighter, which have existed in the past (Like Power Stone for instance), they jumped right into an experimental game concept instead of doing something more reasonable and established, like what Riot is doing now with Project L.. when I first heard about a Fighting Game based on Smite and the Gods I was super excited, then I seen the initial trailer and was immediately turned off by this whole idea of a 3d ring out platform fighter in 3rd person. They should've just made a smash clone in 2d, or a traditional fighter which would've been even better I think as a fighting game fan.
They could've done like an MVC style 3v3 team fighter where you compose a team of Smite Gods who synergize and can do team combos, which would play into the overall themes of Smite as a team based game, they could've given the Gods passives or included items like an X factor or comeback mechanic, in my mind this is what I initially imagined when I heard "fighting game based on smite" was some sort of tag team fighter, but instead I think they took the easy way out.. instead of developing a worthwhile fighting game that could stand on it's own two feet, they just threw together some chibi skins with simplified game mechanics and put it into a gang beasts like physics simulation probably in Unreal if you were to ask me, who is a game dev by the way.
Probably ranting at this point, but this game just wasn't it.. what it was however, was a quickly and hastily developed tie in cash grab that they thought they could use to capitalize on the Smite casual audience. If Hi Rez actually wants to make a real fighting game, give me a shout because I have an endless amount of ideas for a game that would be successful in the FGC market as a fighting game player and game developer myself, ideas I already imagined the game would be before being disappointed by the initial announcement trailer.
End rant.
Man it sucks this game didn't succeed. I actually liked the gameplay loop a lot, if they polished some rough edges on the animations and added more content it would have been a very unique experience...
My issue was that it felt empty after the 1st week of playing, either they should've added more before the launch or added more stuff quickly after launch. I hope that they keep the game in the back pocket and just kinda re release it agian with a massive amount of new stuff.
Picked it up around 4 months ago or so and I honestly had a lot of fun at the beginning. The quest system letting you unlock characters was something I loved, it made me feel like I could earn new characters relatively quick! Then the quest system required double the amount of time for seemingly no reason and I realized that unless I spend money I am basically stuck with the gods I have without spending money and this game isn't worth 5 bucks. After learning that I just haven't bothered since and moved on to other things. With Texas Chainsaw finally coming out and with Smite still being something I play I just cannot find any reason to ever come back to this game.
Hi-Rez kills their own games a lot out of hubris. They pulled the same stuff with Tribes Ascend where they slowed down updates to develop Smite and kept changing the pay model to nickel and dime the player base to fund Smite and went so far as to shut down the servers and added that team to the Smite dev team. After outcry they brought it back with the promise of more updates then went "Actually this is too hard since there's no dedicated team for it and smite is too successful to pull people off that team" and shut it down again and delisted it on steam.
I got access to the closed beta and gave my extra code to my friend. Both of us have played Smash Bros. for years, and this seemed like that, but 3D and team-based. We played for a few hours and had some fun. We came back to it the next weekend (servers were only up on weekends at this point) and got bored after about an hour.
The cooldowns were awful. It's the only fighting game I've ever played where I use my moves and then all I can do for a few seconds is press LMB for light attack and RMB for heavy attack (you can also do both of these as aerial moves but the aerials felt awful unless you were edge-guarding). I think the idea of cooldowns in fighting games are fine. Multiversus had cooldowns and it worked well, but Multiversus didn't limit people to 4 attacks when their abilities were on cooldown.
Also, the basic attacks were lock on. Someone might be trying to knock you off the edge with a basic attack so, naturally, you want to dodge behind them to hit them offstage instead. You do that with perfect timing to make their attack miss... and all they have to do is press LMB again and their character will do a 180 turn and hit you before you can get an attack off. They don't even have to move their mouse to counter your direction dodge input with perfect timing.
Also, I absolutely hated playing against Thor and Thanatos. Both of them had abilities that can freeze them in the air and select a place to land and do damage. This gave them waaaaay too much ability to recover from off stage because you can't effectively edge-guard someone who can stop midair, wait for you to make your move, and then dodge it by clicking a path to the stage that avoids you.
I know Hi-Rez is new to the fighting game space, but they have to compete with other fighters to survive and the counterplay options, cooldowns, and overall flow of the DKO were all off. I think Hi-Rez misunderstood that counterplay options are what makes fighting games fun; fighting games aren't fun if you can't react to your opponent or can predict them perfectly. In DKO, you encounter both of those situations throughout every match.
HiRez? Destroying a game before it barely gets off the ground and then silently shutting down?
Why am I not surprised?
It would be too much work for HiRez, but a new video game they can make would be a single player experience telling the story of either (1) Smite Lore or (2) Each God's real mythological story.
It would be standalone and price normally. No multiplayer. The story mode could be split by pantheons. OR, if HiRez decides to take on the smite lore, the story is told from different Gods point of view leading up to every God meeting and fighting each other.
Maybe an rpg? Call it "SMITE: The Story" or "PANTHEON". Idk, names not too great but you get the idea.
One can dream.
I liked the game, I had fun with friends. Sad that it died. My only issue with it was that I was getting interrupted out of all my attacks and I literally couldn’t do anything about it which made the game not fun
The game is extremely unbalanced. Mind you there's no block button, so some characters literally out pressure you so hard, you can't do anything but run and eventually die. They should rework the combat mechanics to make it more fair.
They also dropped Loki, arguably the most broken god in the game, right as development stopped, so he has just never been nerfed LOL
I played this game for about an hour before I gave up on it
I think the problem with DKO is that it was supposed to be a part of that trend of "arena team games" like Knockout City and Ninjala and whatnot that were billed as easy alternatives to fighting games that exploded with the end of Smash Ult, all of them hungry to steal that playerbase.
so while they were pitching it as "Smash but THIRD PERSON!!!" it... was joining a genre that was already well established, and it was clearly far behind the competition.
I don't even think the monetization aspect is subjective - I'm confident it's one of the major reasons why 98% of the playerbase left. For a sad roster of gods even by paying the microtransactions... yeah not subjective at all
I actually like the cute chibi character designs, and I'm planning to make chibi fanart for all the other gods that have yet to (or will never) come out
Another factor as to why I think DKO also failed is because it's "inspiration piece" also died off quite quickly.
I haven't heard anything about Multiversus in years. I remember people being hyped at its announcement because it was Shaggy vs. Superman or waiting for Hugh Neutron to be added. Then the joke got old. It was only treated as a joke from the start and they managed to become almost hidden except to those that suffer from sunk cost. No-one took Versus seriously, not even the management who played into the joke nature of the reveal such as the taunts.
I enjoyed DKO and liked its gameplay. It was doomed to fail the moment they primarily marketed it towards Smite players. It was doomed to fail that way because Smite Players are burned on failed HiRez products. Most did not even attempt to play because of that, the others never commited to it because they knew it wouldn't last.
Bad marketing, slow reaction to bad balance, very slow development cycle with a too small roster and very slow meta progression were also exhausting.
Literally downloaded this yday it’s been fun to play sad it didn’t get more recognition
5:47 this... so true. I really love this game and spent over 100 hours on it, and I still play it a little bit, but barely at all compared to March when the game got its last update and then the devs went radio silent. I guess we know now that it happened because of the "Hi-Rez Ventures" restructuring, but it is still so sad.
Why do I play this game? Well, I love Smite and I love Smash bros, it kinda combines both in such a fun way. And it came out at a time where I was actually hating smite, and it was leagues more fun to play. I agree that this game has plenty of issues down to its core like oversimplicity and microtransactions, but the true killer of this game was corporate bullshit rushing it out probably a whole year too early.
I’m one of the few that still play it. Wish it wasn’t dying, because I really like the third person, 3-D aspect.
Been thinking for ages that Hirez should have released Smite-spinoff fighting game like Tekken/SF but when Project L has been announced I dont have hopes anymore
Imagine if this game was a real fighting game adaptation of Smite, Hi-rez would make some hardcore cash with that.
Dont jinkes us. After Project L came out it wouldnt suprise me if hirez hoped on the band wagon as they have done before with the chess game, and idle fighter the did before
@@24kam48 if Hi-rez can release a polished fighting game adaptation of Smite, with proper advertising to boot, not only will it be the hypest shit they could ever pull off, that game could make them some serious cash. I personally enjoy fighting games because they're designed to reward your skill and effort reliably, as it's pretty much you vs someone else most of the time. There's virtually no luck factor involved, so if you lose, you've got nobody to blame except yourself. These are circumstances you can control, unlike smite where you can have a loss due to a leaver/feeder and there's barely anything you can do about it.
I was lucky enough to play the alpha before this game was announced and I can safely say not much has changed from that day.
It's a great game at the core but like you said it just lacks the depth of the characters etc also the lack of a rank or incentive for actually winning matches does make it suffer in my opinion.
Not all is lost. They scavenged the skins for chibis. Better than nothing. They have to keep working on smite.
It's sad knowing these games are gonna die from the first day you try them
I was one of the first to download as it was included in ps+, didnt get into it, and redownloaded it like 1 month ago and its still downloaded, i found it was really found to play drunk with friends. Cause i dont have to concentrate and just press buttons LOL.
But yeah A game i would go to day to day, hellnah lol.
I just got into it and been playing with friends ever since.. I like it for the time being and still get matches no problem
Edited: it is FTP and how I managed to get my Gods, I would just level up all lvl 1 Gods to til lvl 5 and viola.. I did buy a skin and had extra for another character but so far so good esp cause I love Brawlhalla
they left it in closed beta for way too long by the time it got to the masses i already forgot / didnt care about it
This video is outdated. The game is currently free to play, cross-platform, all characters are playable, and very easy to queue into games and find opponents equally matched.
Having a blast with this game and it's been a while since I got sucked into a new multiplayer game
BRING BACK PROPHECY PLEASE IT WOULD POP OFF
Didn't even know it existed
i feel so bad for Dakocity bro. dude was KILLING it with this game on his channel and they just stopped giving af about it
I was shocked at that player count the fuck?!
This video is about to have more views than dko ever had players
yeah literally i was waiting for a new character to drop. to go back in and play i like lvling all the gods. havent been on since this full free to play turn about but im guessing its not alot of people there
I was part of alpha and beta testing and the game definitely had potential, but the weirdest part is that the beta was the healthiest that the game ever was.
During Alpha Testing there was a lot of complaints about the progression for all of the gods as well as frankly abhorrent balance for Thanatos, Hercules, Arthur, and especially Susano and Ama.
There was also problems that they refused to fix regarding the cross-progression where several big people in the community at the time had lost the stuff that they paid for because the cross prog just decided to stop properly working for no reason, this included people who didn't use cross-progression at all.
Zeus was intended for Launch but was cut from launch because apparently his mechanics were misbehaving, but honestly that wasn't really the case but he did need some nerfs.
After the game officially released everyone expected the servers to have problems but even after the population went below the amount of players for the Beta the servers just stayed absolutely terrible and likely only have gotten worse.
I ran into an issue of always being stuck in bot games which I felt was weird considering it had just launched a week or two ago
Just needed more support. Me and my friends absolutely love this game
I got into it a few days ago. Really enjoying the game so far. The points that you mentioned are not that bad. I got 2 heroes unlocked and I am full free2play. Also saying that you only have to press 3 Buttons is a straightup lie. The Game is not really this simple if you are on a good elo. Its rather pretty sweaty. Given the opportunity to make builds it is also a little tactical. If they really turn of support for this game, it would be sad because the game could be more than it is right now
It's pretty simple
@@nestormelendez9005 then you are just good in the game or you get one armed Enemies
@@koro9553 nah its just pretty simple
DKO felt like a cash grab
It definitely was
Imma be honest that's just Hi-Rez's whole MO at this point. Even in SMITE which is their main game a lot of the practices they implement with chests, skins, and the Odyssey are huge cash grabs. A lot of the time it feels like they care more about the bottom line than actually improving the game. It's sad to see as a long time player
Picked it up yesterday and kicked booty with Wukong.
God pass is a nice system, and how we can unlock traits.
Seems like a game with a bright future to me
@@Midnight-Haze155 Would be dope as shi
This game was very fun
If Hi-Rez would make a good mobile dacha game like "Mythic Heroes" they could make a lot of money and have a worthwhile game to support
Rouge Company is still alive. Not like the other 2 but is still playable
Smite Blitz and now DKO, NOT A SURPRISE !!!!
Dude I’m still sad about rogue company was really fun to me and in the beginning DKO was too but just same things happen 😞 ( also I really enjoyed those games because they were the only ones me and my dad played a lot together before he couldn’t play anymore wish they were still amazing when they were released sadly they just need to actually care about a game and not the money)
I'm just waiting for it to die so that I can get chibi susano in smite for gems
They better do something about like, idk, everything? Im talking gameplay, gamemodes, ranked, new gods, new maps, and literally everything they need so people constantly play it and have dozens of hours of playability without getting bored like smash or brawlhalla
Tbh I stopped playing because Thanatos and Thor were just annoying to deal with and they didn’t even do anything about it when everyone was giving feedback in the discord
I liked DKO, I've played it for a few hours, but I also noticed the very farm heavy way to buy characters, I only managed to buy one single character and I always find it too repetitive to play with the same characters over and over, so the lack of many options to play as made me quit. It's a shame because the game is fun, but they had it coming really imo
When I went to try it, I saw the price tag on it and I got confused. I thought this was free to play, so I read the comments and the majority said it was a free2play monetization game(inga shop etc), that had a buying cost. O boy was I not in the mood to try it.
Its such a shame....This could of been a Top Tier Game. Amazing concept, amazing graphics. They should do what multiversus did. They should shut down the servers, fix and improve it...and relaunch later.
it was quite enjoyable then i stopped playing for about a month, came back and couldn't get into match/ kick back out to main screen after character select. This happened 5 more time and then I stopped trying
Was fun but ultimately it was wasted dev time that could have gone towards Smite, Paladins or Rogue Company
the dev team for this game had the blessing of Hi-Rez who didn't develop the game, though what I think killed it as all of the reviews are about not having some kind of system that grouped players based on level
I enjoyed it for a bit and still do on and off but hell I never would have payed for it. It was free at one point and I only got it because of that and the free chibi susano in smite you got for getting it.
I don't want paladins to hit the grave soon
Lack of updates removed a lot of players. Less players meant more matches with high latency, which removed me.
Their first mistake was charging players for a spinoff of a game originally free-to-play: between nick brawl stars and multiversus, which ambitious crossover took the masses by storm on release?
I'm so tired of smash clones doing this in general, but a smash clone without a universal block, is *DOOMED* to die, exclusively because of the meta that decision births instantly.
And to top it off, there was literally nothing there. I've seen more content on MOBILE smash clones, and you know what, they didn't charge you on entry, either.
DKO was the moment Hi-rez officially let us know they have a severe delusion that people care about them as a brand, when 80% of us only played smite because the Playstation doesn't have League on it.
The decision behind making DKO to me was just mind boggling to the fullest. Making a game as shallow as that and just stamping the Smite logo over it, I wonder if it could have had more attention if it was its own IP rather than Smite. Either way a game as shallow as that was bound to fail. Even by watching the gameplay you could easily tell how much there is to the game.
theres a very clear difference between a non button complex game and the game playing for you
The gameplay was fun, but you could tell the focus was on monetization even in the early access.
Combine that with the god awful progression, lack of content, balance and how clear it is that the game wasn't made with a vision in mind.
I can honestly say that it had the potential to be an amazing success, but whether it was let down by something in the pipeline or by the wrong captain at the wheel doesn't matter anymore.
It's a darn shame that companies keep blinding themself with priorities that only hurts the product and said priority in the end.
Do is suffering the same fate that paragon suffered. An insanely fun game that just doesn't have the dev support to grow
Honestly expected, the alpha was fun they were just too dedicated to trying to get smite players on board. I'm guessing someone at a higher up marketing level decided the safest bet was to bank on the franchise they have, which could've worked if they also appealed to the fighting game crowd more. If they had more people from 2'd fighting games play it, I'm sure it would've been better.
This game is one of my favorite games to play from time to time kind of wish they kept updating it at least with this game it doesbt take up alot of space in storage 😂
Im very annoyed because according to datamines arachne was going to be after loki. She looked cute too. Im hoping they are just radio silent trying to update the game because it has a lot of potential. Plus arachne
no anubis no play
My friends and myslef all really enjoyed this game when it first came out but it got stale really quick and they took too long to release more characters. Also the grind to unlock more characters was a bit much
Honestly at this point I feel like if hi rez is going to bother doing any more smite spin offs they have 3 options smite genshin, smite dating Sim, or smite 2. I don't even like genshin or dating Sim games but I can see where they have their appeal and how it seems like the kind of thing that could print endless money for them. If they keep doing these other smite spin offs that just don't hit the target their just draining resources from the only things they have pulling in a profit.
this game is def fun and i'm bringing it back, my friends and i play just found out about it ppl complain to much learn to enjoy a game and shut up its simple. for the ones hearing this vid go give it a try its free.
Honestly DKO was fun. My complaints about it were pretty simple. Why is the roster so small. And certain characters were so broken compared to other that if you werent playing them you were getting bodied. Hercules was one of those characters.
Some characters were more fun to play like Athena, and Ymir, but most of them werent that fun. The game had a lot of potential but the developers really missed the mark
Its funny because they barely realized how much of a steal the buy all gods deal is compared to other games that either dont have it or have it at 100+ and they dont wanna do that ever again but wont take it out of smite since its been too long and too many people have it now. But in general they make their money from skins anyways so they dont monitize gods hard
I reallh enjoyed my tine playing this game. It sucks that when i got in,it was basically dead.still finding matcjes though which is cool! Maybe itll go the way of Realm Royale 👀
They need to bring back Hand of the Gods, the game was actually good
I got the game for free on a key giveaway and really liked it for a couple of hours, then I came back to play the next two days after for an hour each and then never came back. It just gets too old too fast and the combat mechanic becomes frustrating, I saw some potential but I knew it was going to die pretty quickly.
My experience was the exact same tbh. Got it during the "free to keep" launch event and played for maybe 4-5 sessions of an hour or two and then just never felt the urge to play again. It was kinda fun for those hours but got old quick cause of a lack of content.
My problem with the game was the awful server coverage all my friends on West Coast (including me) had absolutely horrible connection
So much lost potential.
Makes me wonder how Rogue Company is doing
Never even saw this game existed lmao
Sucks because I really REALLY enjoy DKO 😭
lDK chief, I really liked to play this game
But my friends backed down (as usual) and so did I bc I hate playing online games alone