I was the dude who played Mid Wars with you until the end! Thanks again for the games, it made the last moments quite memorable. I'll never forget this game or the 10 years I played it.
Aye, that we did. A game that was a goofy gem, but a memorable one of my childhood. Thank you for providing Ross the ability to give it a final sendoff, as both a part of League’s history, and a part of his own, and as a personal Beta player. I’ll miss the goofy silly jankiness. But things are unfortunately inevitable. They all meet their end. Shame I couldn’t give it a sendoff myself. But.. glad to see the game got a proper sendoff by many.
@@phaeste I feel like there's a difference between skin colors looking like other characters and literally using Pudge, Tiny, and others directly from DotA...
@@Timmeh7o7 "skin colours looking like other characters"? dude all the skins i talked about are quite literally supposed to look like those characters while staying right on the edge of being illegal, riot even had to make king rammus unbuyable due to the copyright infringement.
@@phaeste Source: trust me bro. King Rammus was a closed beta exclusive skin. And it was FREE. I don't know in what world you live in, but it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to copyright strike COLORS. You're delusional.
@@leoleo1035 The point isn't just about the colors. The splash arts were very clear about what the skin was supposed to reference. Even if it was only about colors, you'd be surprised with how little it takes for some companies to issue copyright strikes. Also, try to keep it civil. No need to randomly throw a bunch of passive aggressive keywords and phrases over this.
I remember my buddy introduced me to HoN like around 5th or 6th grade im currently 24 now...it was my first experience with a MOBA....and its really sad to see part of my childhood go, but this video really brought me back to the past....just seeing all the characters and items and hearing the announcers go off.....it really feels like I just played it yesterday......thanks Ross for this last game sesh on HoN. RIP HoN
This was a lot of fun to watch. Whether I ever played a game or not there's always some kinda of feeling from watching a game shutdown for the final time. Thanks for the insight to this one!
Kinda sad that I missed this actually. Haven't played HoN for years, but man it was a great game. I only ended up switching to LoL because my friends played it. I honestly think HoN could have rivaled LoL in terms of popularity, if G2 Games didn't fuck up their marketing. The game wasn't free to play at first, and when they finally realized LoL's business model was far more effective it was too late.
Never played HoN 'cause I found out about it way too late, but it seems like an amazingly fun game and it's sad to see it go. Let's hope a community-driven version appears some day!
I hadn't really heard of HON before this video, but I was borderline teary by the end of it. Always sad to see a chapter like this close, and it was touching to go for this nostalgia wander with Ross even though I didn't play the game. Thanks for making this one!
I'm so glad you made this video ross. I miss hoN so very much, from the ridiculous announcers to the awesome skins, the champions all felt amazing...i loved it. i really truely did. Seeing you bust out the ol puppet master was great, one of my mains for a while there, forcing enemies to kill eachother, massive crit hits...good times.
Man the "Bitch Slapped" announcer will go down as one of the best announcer in MOBA history. Younger generation will never feel the hype of "RAINBOW WARRIOR"
A friend of mine was an online support staff for this. He basically just had a bunch of scripts and prompts setup so that he barely had to do anything and mostly just played ESO between tickets he actually had to respond to. To be fair I can see why this game fell off to LoL, Riot has done a somewhat decent job at making sure what is going on on the screen is clear to the player. Also HoN has visually not aged well.
Day 12 (probably more like day 41 if you counted all the times I've suggested these) - Full tank Support Kalista - grasp of the undying, font of life, ultimate hunter. She has the ultimate peel for her lane partner and build it vision. Just build frostfire gauntlet and all tank items after that, she will still do a surprising amount of damage in lane. Her synergy with the spectral sickle is also really good, I am consistently able to upgrade my support item way faster than the enemy. Instead of stacking rend, just immediately cast it after the auto so you essentially get a free double proc of your support item with every trade. You also have the added bonus that everyone on their team will focus you because they will never understand that you are actually a tank which relieves a lot of pressure from your actual ADC. Alternatively- Ballista Kalista - This is support Kalista but with full movement speed actives and it should be paired with a one-shot cheese champion such as: Full AP Malphite, Lethality Sion, AP amumu, etc. Fly in at 700 MS and fling a nuke into the enemy team! Lots of fun, I promise you wont be disappointed.
Wth, where was I when all of this was going The game looks really silly and cool and the people are cool It's sad to seem something that lived for so long to go out like that :
The people aren't like this when you play for a month or two, they're actually dicks once you start playing ranked. But once you reach upwards of Diamonds, you're good to go.
@@SheepyPeka Ye true you can find some real cool guys to play with. You can still play HoN if you want, isolated from all the trolls. Just hmu if you wanna play and we'll run a game or two. I'll run you through everything. How to set up the client etc etc. The game is officially closed but that won't stop us HoN players from still playing it xD
@@SheepyPeka You'll have to trust me with some links that I will send you to download the client as the official site is closed and you can't download anything. So, if you wanna play just tell me and I'll send you the links. If not, it's okay. You won't be the first person who hasn't trusted me.
Not gonna lie I was a little off put by the post outro music because after the speech from ross I expected something a bit more mournful. I never even played this game and I miss it already.
Honestly i wouldve played HoN just for the copyright infringement stuff because to me that makes the game so much more fun than LoL. Unfortunately didnt hear about it till now :(
Poor marketing and some players basically played it because it's a less scuffed DOTA since there are characters who just have the exact same skills and kits as some DOTA characters, so I imagine when DOTA 2, a much more polished game than HoN, came out they lost good chunk of players
you gotta admit it tho, HoN has such a great artstyle and animations are sick. all the alt skins are cool as well.. its weird because i swear this game felt the smoothest to play
I vividly remember when Heroes of Newerth came out. I remember thinking it was not my kind of game. Years later I started playing Dota and even later league. Now seeing all this madness I regret not having played this.
i had literal chills when i was watching one punch man and it looked like the villian would beat him, but then Saitama looked him dead in the eye and said "it's one punch time"
I'd probably still be playing HoN if they hadn't decided to drop the free closed beta and charge $20 for the game a few weeks before league came out of closed beta. A huge portion of the HoN player base were disenfranchised WC3 players who had all been thwarted by blizzard when they realized we'd been using the same cracked .exe to play the game online for years and finally updated WC3TFT to stop it.
Wow, this was just a great last moments. Thank you for the video, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I never played HoN but massive respects for them for carrying on so long and bringing what they did to the table and for everything they did for mobas
I'ma keep it 100, if I knew there was a Miku skin I'd've been waist deep in this trashfire. Hate to see a game like this die, but I'm glad there was a fitting sendoff.
This gets me thinking about some games that are online that might shut downs in some years to come. Imagine some of the battlefield games (i mainly played V) just shutting down someday Viewer commented ideas this week: 0, but this was a fitting video to end on. Oh also lightning team go brrrr day 3
HoN was the first MOBA I played ever, I was going to play it again, didn't know the game was dying, this left a bit of a sour taste but you do what you have to do...
Catch-up comment! This isn’t a league video but for the sake of continuity… Day 85 of asking Ross to play Rakan, simply so he has a reason to play him more :D Since we’ve passed 50 days of asking, I’ve decided to include some fun, off-meta ideas: - Tank Rakan (chemtank) - Tank Rakan (chemtank), but TOPLANE - AP Rakan Also…. Day 32 of asking Ross to play Dance Dance Revolution with Bel’veth, where he plays a song and has to Q in different directions to the beat of the song
Day 480, we hit the number when the last one was done. Taking bets on how far beyond day 408 we can go before this one is done - Play with the following team of five: Annie, Ivern, Shaco, Yorick, + (optional 5th pick) Azir/Kindred/Kled and Skarl/Lulu and Pix/Malzahar/Neeko/Nunu and Willump/Quinn and Valor/Sejuani and Bristle - so that the match is a 10+ v 5. Current bets, after the additions from yesterday's video: Luke - Day 500 or 2 years Jhinn The Reaper - Day 444(sadly no, but good try) Lincoln Patience - Day 550 Luckynumber Slevin - Day 489 Benjamin Carmelo Borg - Day 531 Alex140i - Day 501 Kobus - Day 453(admirable attempt) Romaine Green - Day 700 or 2 years [blank] - Day 469(the funny reference was not to be it seems) Archer Elms - Day 666 Just another commenter with an opinion + will44bott - Day 493 Aydan Burgess - Day 537 Kirito the Abridged God - Day 52! Sørensen - Day 623 Feynren - Day 523 sid smith - Day 679 DirtyBatman - Day 555 Ali Aramayo - Day 524 Slykrana - Day 535
Day 77 of The Groundskeeper: Groundskeeper Swain (jng) has to make the rounds to clear out the pests (ganking) and literally feed (1st/bird seed emote on every gank) the birds (Only Anivia, Azir, Quinn, Xayah, Rakan as allies) You must try not to let them walk on the grass (go near the nexus)
DOTA, League, and HON were like the Holy Trinity of early MOBAs. So sad to see one of them go. RIP.
Legit
To be fair, LOL is trying pretty hard to kill itself too in the past few years...
I had a hand in all of them, they were so exciting! Especially the arguments with friends over which was better. Really sad to see HoN go.
sorry im young, i was taught smite was mama
I mean dota died too we on the second one so really league is the last OG moba
I was the dude who played Mid Wars with you until the end! Thanks again for the games, it made the last moments quite memorable. I'll never forget this game or the 10 years I played it.
Wanna play HoN mate? I'm up for a game or two right now.
@@protz9914 Yeah bro hop on
@@MurtleisJordanFGC BRO YOU PLAYING PRIVATES TOO? I THOUGHT YOUD BE CLUELESS ABOUT THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU SAID ABOVE.
@@protz9914 Privates? Hook ya boy up
@@protz9914 I wanna play devo wars
We had a great time 🥲
🥲
Thanks for letting Ross bring us this. I just got a rush of nostalgia for something I never even played.
I played to the end too bradas
Aye, that we did. A game that was a goofy gem, but a memorable one of my childhood. Thank you for providing Ross the ability to give it a final sendoff, as both a part of League’s history, and a part of his own, and as a personal Beta player. I’ll miss the goofy silly jankiness. But things are unfortunately inevitable. They all meet their end. Shame I couldn’t give it a sendoff myself. But.. glad to see the game got a proper sendoff by many.
@@matthewwojcik576 it was a pleaser to live the last moments with Ross
This game has a bunch of cool... "Copyright infr-" I mean collaborations! Imagine a universe where they took off instead of LOL...
league also has amazing -copyright infingement- collabs, like our beloved deadpool kennen, scorpion and sub zero shen, bowser rammus and more!
@@phaeste I feel like there's a difference between skin colors looking like other characters and literally using Pudge, Tiny, and others directly from DotA...
@@Timmeh7o7 "skin colours looking like other characters"? dude all the skins i talked about are quite literally supposed to look like those characters while staying right on the edge of being illegal, riot even had to make king rammus unbuyable due to the copyright infringement.
@@phaeste Source: trust me bro.
King Rammus was a closed beta exclusive skin. And it was FREE. I don't know in what world you live in, but it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to copyright strike COLORS. You're delusional.
@@leoleo1035 The point isn't just about the colors. The splash arts were very clear about what the skin was supposed to reference. Even if it was only about colors, you'd be surprised with how little it takes for some companies to issue copyright strikes. Also, try to keep it civil. No need to randomly throw a bunch of passive aggressive keywords and phrases over this.
I thought HoN was dead long ago, thanks for bringing this to light.
I remember my buddy introduced me to HoN like around 5th or 6th grade im currently 24 now...it was my first experience with a MOBA....and its really sad to see part of my childhood go, but this video really brought me back to the past....just seeing all the characters and items and hearing the announcers go off.....it really feels like I just played it yesterday......thanks Ross for this last game sesh on HoN.
RIP HoN
This was a lot of fun to watch. Whether I ever played a game or not there's always some kinda of feeling from watching a game shutdown for the final time. Thanks for the insight to this one!
Ok the tips u get on death are actually a really nice touch
I do remember playing this quite a bit wayyyy back
How did we let a game where you can play as Hatsune Miku and Saitama, with Samuel Jackson as announcer, die?
Basicly Bad Marketing sadly
Kinda sad that I missed this actually. Haven't played HoN for years, but man it was a great game. I only ended up switching to LoL because my friends played it.
I honestly think HoN could have rivaled LoL in terms of popularity, if G2 Games didn't fuck up their marketing. The game wasn't free to play at first, and when they finally realized LoL's business model was far more effective it was too late.
goodbye dota revamp, i never knew you, but you looked kinda neat!!!
-this guy 2022
Never played HoN 'cause I found out about it way too late, but it seems like an amazingly fun game and it's sad to see it go.
Let's hope a community-driven version appears some day!
always sad to see an online game die. i never played HoN but i feel sad for the community. sad to say goodbye to a game you had fun with.
I hadn't really heard of HON before this video, but I was borderline teary by the end of it. Always sad to see a chapter like this close, and it was touching to go for this nostalgia wander with Ross even though I didn't play the game. Thanks for making this one!
I'm so glad I rememberd what HoN was this year just before it ended, and I'm so happy you are covering this
”Do not grief or be toxic, etc.” The commitment is real 😂.
All those "collaborations" were fucking hilarious XD. The Hatsune Miku made my heart happy.
I'm so glad you made this video ross. I miss hoN so very much, from the ridiculous announcers to the awesome skins, the champions all felt amazing...i loved it. i really truely did.
Seeing you bust out the ol puppet master was great, one of my mains for a while there, forcing enemies to kill eachother, massive crit hits...good times.
It's always sad to see a game go. I've never heard of it until now but it looks like it was a blast.
Actually an emotional experience.
I kinda love this after watching the video feels like old lol man how have I never heard of this before it died
saw this on ur stream and found out my account was already locked out :( glad i can live out the final days of HoN vicariously through you sir
Therapist: “anime girl ross isnt real, he cant hurt you”
Anime girl ross: 7:46
With you on this - league is my moba of choice nowadays but i have fond memories of HoN, big shame i didn't have friends who played it with me
Man the "Bitch Slapped" announcer will go down as one of the best announcer in MOBA history.
Younger generation will never feel the hype of "RAINBOW WARRIOR"
Vrzo announcer🙊
in altarnate universe this game become popular instead of lol, imagine how this game would turn up
have to be the better World
Wish I could have played it
I mean you can xD, online too
My HoN account is the only thing I'd ever consider buying as an NFT
A friend of mine was an online support staff for this. He basically just had a bunch of scripts and prompts setup so that he barely had to do anything and mostly just played ESO between tickets he actually had to respond to. To be fair I can see why this game fell off to LoL, Riot has done a somewhat decent job at making sure what is going on on the screen is clear to the player. Also HoN has visually not aged well.
Day 12 (probably more like day 41 if you counted all the times I've suggested these) -
Full tank Support Kalista - grasp of the undying, font of life, ultimate hunter. She has the ultimate peel for her lane partner and build it vision. Just build frostfire gauntlet and all tank items after that, she will still do a surprising amount of damage in lane. Her synergy with the spectral sickle is also really good, I am consistently able to upgrade my support item way faster than the enemy. Instead of stacking rend, just immediately cast it after the auto so you essentially get a free double proc of your support item with every trade. You also have the added bonus that everyone on their team will focus you because they will never understand that you are actually a tank which relieves a lot of pressure from your actual ADC.
Alternatively- Ballista Kalista - This is support Kalista but with full movement speed actives and it should be paired with a one-shot cheese champion such as: Full AP Malphite, Lethality Sion, AP amumu, etc. Fly in at 700 MS and fling a nuke into the enemy team! Lots of fun, I promise you wont be disappointed.
I would love to play seraphine with a hatsune miku skin
Fucking hell im gonna miss this game
/Came from HoN OMG
Wth, where was I when all of this was going
The game looks really silly and cool and the people are cool
It's sad to seem something that lived for so long to go out like that :
The people aren't like this when you play for a month or two, they're actually dicks once you start playing ranked. But once you reach upwards of Diamonds, you're good to go.
@@protz9914 that is to be expected tbh but just having cool people like that is just hella .w.
@@SheepyPeka Ye true you can find some real cool guys to play with. You can still play HoN if you want, isolated from all the trolls. Just hmu if you wanna play and we'll run a game or two. I'll run you through everything. How to set up the client etc etc. The game is officially closed but that won't stop us HoN players from still playing it xD
@@protz9914 oo !
yea that would be cool !
@@SheepyPeka You'll have to trust me with some links that I will send you to download the client as the official site is closed and you can't download anything. So, if you wanna play just tell me and I'll send you the links. If not, it's okay. You won't be the first person who hasn't trusted me.
If your interested they are making hon in the arcade mode of dota so stay tuned
I paid for hon, which should tell you just how long ago i got into it XD I never expected any current youtuber to talk about it
If only s2games did not shoot themselves in the foot with odd game and title juggles, maybe we'd see more of hon
Not gonna lie I was a little off put by the post outro music because after the speech from ross I expected something a bit more mournful. I never even played this game and I miss it already.
Honestly i wouldve played HoN just for the copyright infringement stuff because to me that makes the game so much more fun than LoL. Unfortunately didnt hear about it till now :(
HoN was amazing.
Loved it for a long time, sad to see it gone.
watched this entire stream. loved it, hoped you enjoyd the nostalgia kick!
Damn this game brings back memories. It has been an honor, HoN o7
wth this looks infinitely more fun than league why have i never heard of it :' (
same man same this gives off old lol energy
Bad marketing 😕
@@marvelousball but the character models and map textures are waayy better
@@marvelousball its defo less clunky then dota. I played over 1k matches in HoN years ago. I always preferred it over dota.
Poor marketing and some players basically played it because it's a less scuffed DOTA since there are characters who just have the exact same skills and kits as some DOTA characters, so I imagine when DOTA 2, a much more polished game than HoN, came out they lost good chunk of players
In a world without gold this could have been our league. Rip HON even though I played you like 2 to 5 times.
o7 to the all fallen brothas n sistas that plays HON,to HON_OMG,thank u,u are a hero,
you gotta admit it tho, HoN has such a great artstyle and animations are sick. all the alt skins are cool as well.. its weird because i swear this game felt the smoothest to play
Now I'll never get to play Hatsune Miku 😭
I wish all squads were like this, love that last group so damn much
I vividly remember when Heroes of Newerth came out. I remember thinking it was not my kind of game. Years later I started playing Dota and even later league. Now seeing all this madness I regret not having played this.
"if were not gonna win were not gonna let them win" loooooool
Duality of man:
Douburu tappu!!!
Deep - "DOUBLE TAP"
WTF this game actually looks fun. Why did I never heard about it before?
it was for 10 years !! LOVE it !!
Oh it's sad we lost HON
i had literal chills when i was watching one punch man and it looked like the villian would beat him, but then Saitama looked him dead in the eye and said "it's one punch time"
I played a fair bit of HoN a decade ago, only played Witch Hunter though
LoL = ideas (Dota + Hon) + Dev's Dota + fanservice (for kids) + cash grab + unbalanced game
(at least the movment is pretty fluid)
I've never seen this game before but this video was absolutely hilarious to watch
The best MOBA RIP
Whats the music playing at 15:00 ?
Wait, this actually looks kinda fun wtf
I did not expect this video to be THAT funny
Imagine a Samuel L Jackson announcer pack for league
Actually, imagine any announcer packs for league while you’re at it
I MISS HON SO MUCH AND I DIDN'T EVEN PLAY IT!
Its still playable via lan
wow, this is awesome. Witch slayer is like..the only champion i played for the brief period that i played HoN
I'd probably still be playing HoN if they hadn't decided to drop the free closed beta and charge $20 for the game a few weeks before league came out of closed beta. A huge portion of the HoN player base were disenfranchised WC3 players who had all been thwarted by blizzard when they realized we'd been using the same cracked .exe to play the game online for years and finally updated WC3TFT to stop it.
That made me wonder if a champion whose ult makes them explode on death and revive if they kill someone with it would work.
Of all the moba games this reminds me most of the old school custom games and skins from frozen throne
HoN was my first MOBA long ago
So I see this game and it seems far more similar to Dota than League, so it makes me wonder why Ross doesn't play Dota
The fact that LoL doesn't have a Pimp slayer skin just shows that the wrong game closed down.
Hahaha..I was laughing after you were surprised by Miku Hatsune(rhapsody)...it's japanese voiceover avatar...
we hear ya ross
great vid as always
This game actually looks pretty fun.
Wow, this was just a great last moments. Thank you for the video, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I never played HoN but massive respects for them for carrying on so long and bringing what they did to the table and for everything they did for mobas
I'ma keep it 100, if I knew there was a Miku skin I'd've been waist deep in this trashfire. Hate to see a game like this die, but I'm glad there was a fitting sendoff.
Eyyy lezzzgo, I was waiting for this man
This gets me thinking about some games that are online that might shut downs in some years to come. Imagine some of the battlefield games (i mainly played V) just shutting down someday
Viewer commented ideas this week: 0, but this was a fitting video to end on.
Oh also lightning team go brrrr day 3
Wow HoN still existed until recently? I thought it shut down ages ago.
Bruh, I've never heard of seen this game before and I get sad that it's dead now.
I have never heard of HON before this vid. Sadge
Rest in peace to an unsung hero 😔
9:40 WTF 😂 😂 😂
And I’m only hearing of it now…..
I will miss HON
there is a GP custom skin looking just like pimp slayer
Sad... is this how League of Legends end?
Kind of crazy ive never heard of this game wish i could have played it
HoN was the first MOBA I played ever, I was going to play it again, didn't know the game was dying, this left a bit of a sour taste but you do what you have to do...
hatsune miko/saitama
haha, game was even better than i remember
Catch-up comment! This isn’t a league video but for the sake of continuity…
Day 85 of asking Ross to play Rakan, simply so he has a reason to play him more :D
Since we’ve passed 50 days of asking, I’ve decided to include some fun, off-meta ideas:
- Tank Rakan (chemtank)
- Tank Rakan (chemtank), but TOPLANE
- AP Rakan
Also….
Day 32 of asking Ross to play Dance Dance Revolution with Bel’veth, where he plays a song and has to Q in different directions to the beat of the song
Day 480, we hit the number when the last one was done. Taking bets on how far beyond day 408 we can go before this one is done - Play with the following team of five: Annie, Ivern, Shaco, Yorick, + (optional 5th pick) Azir/Kindred/Kled and Skarl/Lulu and Pix/Malzahar/Neeko/Nunu and Willump/Quinn and Valor/Sejuani and Bristle - so that the match is a 10+ v 5.
Current bets, after the additions from yesterday's video:
Luke - Day 500 or 2 years
Jhinn The Reaper - Day 444(sadly no, but good try)
Lincoln Patience - Day 550
Luckynumber Slevin - Day 489
Benjamin Carmelo Borg - Day 531
Alex140i - Day 501
Kobus - Day 453(admirable attempt)
Romaine Green - Day 700 or 2 years
[blank] - Day 469(the funny reference was not to be it seems)
Archer Elms - Day 666
Just another commenter with an opinion + will44bott - Day 493
Aydan Burgess - Day 537
Kirito the Abridged God - Day 52!
Sørensen - Day 623
Feynren - Day 523
sid smith - Day 679
DirtyBatman - Day 555
Ali Aramayo - Day 524
Slykrana - Day 535
bro ross be looking like an egg at the start
Taunts, announcers, name colors, skins, not a pay to win
strong frozen throne vibes
This is league but with rtx enabled, don't lie to me Ross...
Day 77 of The Groundskeeper:
Groundskeeper Swain (jng) has to make the rounds to clear out the pests (ganking) and literally feed (1st/bird seed emote on every gank) the birds (Only Anivia, Azir, Quinn, Xayah, Rakan as allies)
You must try not to let them walk on the grass (go near the nexus)
But who remembers the DC moba? With a giant circle of a map xD
Day 4: river Nilah
love ya Ross, but god damn did you forget to put your chin up before recoring the intro?