If you like item grind, pick Diablo 3.

If you like being verbally abused, pick Dota 2.

gw2 sounds like the perfect MMO if they pull it off

Diablo 3 fo sho

they all look like really good games tbh.

DOTA 2 will likely be free to play. GW2 will have an up-front cost, but no subscription fee. GW also doesn't require you to put much time in, and even lets you play PVP with a max level character whenever you want. Both of these games will be great for casual play.

Diablo 3 has an in-game real cash shop for selling your items. In order to get enough gold to buy any top tier items (unless you intend to pay real money for them), you're going to have to farm for absurd lengths of time.

Are you sure about GW not having subscription fees? As far as I know the game won't be instanced like the first and will be a fully featured MMO.

Dota 2 being F2P makes the most sense, but they haven't said anything about it yet, have they?

http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/game-faq/#four

They haven't said that DOTA 2 will be free, but it makes the most sense. In an interview yesterday, Gabe did say that they haven't decided how they are going to set it up yet, so they're at least considering a free to play model.

Good to hear that about GW2, another reason to buy it.

Regarding Dota 2, it makes lots of sense but, unless they are hiding lots of stuff, it looks like it doesn't offer many incentives to pay.

Sure, they could add skins (or hats!), but LoL is so good in that regard because you don't have to pay for anything useful, yet the RPG elements make it so you can take a shortcut to buy runes, IP boosts, etc that usually would just take a few matches. And the skins, people buy them like they are crack.

The DOTA 2 at gamescom has 47 heroes, and the game will have more than 100 at launch. They've also talked about adding new maps.

That said, I do hope that valve stick to paid vanity, rather than pay to win. They've done very well with TF2 so far.

That's what I mean. From what we know now, if they choose to go the F2P route they can only sell heroes and skins.

LoL has it much better in that regard, they can sell a ton of stuff yet nobody feels the game is unfair to non-paying players. Their ARPU must be through the roof.

or hats!

I do, if you buy characters with real money you can fill up a rune page much much faster.

wouldnt it make the game random with so many heroes?
I don't get why they aren't making new once, we have already played most of them in dota, but I guess they have change some heroes too..

DOTA is more about teamwork than individuals. There are certainly worse heroes than others, but hopefully a bigger hero pool will simply let you have a bigger selection of good choices.

I think they'll follow the tf2 model - paid upfront for a while, then as less and less people buy it it gets cheaper/free

well the only mmo u names is GW2, it looks to be really good but also very time consuming as every mmorpg.

Dota2 takes a lot of time getting the basics down, if you've not played LoL. dota or HoN. Probably LoL will be easier to pick up if so, it's more forgiving gameplay wise and more action based then strategy based.

Diablo3 is made to be as an easy pick up game, fun to play for shorter periods yet still fun for long sits (looking from what i've seen combined with what diablo2 offered).

Guild wars will probably the "heaviest" game to run, diablo 3 and dota 2 will be equal probably, nevertheless i think you could run all of them on low settings. i think for you it's: Diablo3 > GW2 > Dota2

GW is not time consuming at all. In fact, if GW2 is anything like GW, you can hit max level in a single day without any trouble. The only reason to grind is for vanity, not for stats. Additionally, if you just want to PVP, you can make a max level PVP character with all PVP gear to choose from at any time.

I think you won't be able to hit the maximum level in one day though.

However, since you can play PvP on an even field no matter your level I don't even care one bit about how much grind there might be in PvE.
The only thing that bothers me is how they say GW 2 is not teambased anymore and there won't be a healer class, each class can take care of itself. That doesn't sound good for PvP, IMO.

Still gonna buy it for sure.

GW1 was already like that, just more in the PVP department - all they are doing is streamlining what players did in PVP and making it a general part of all classes. It's still team-based, you just don't have to spend 30 minutes in chat looking for that last elusive healer/tank to do instances.

GW will behighest req i think Dota the lowest

probably gonna play diablo 3,
still have fond memories on Diablo 1 and its Hellfire expansion-pack ... but atm I don't have any good pc, so maybe I will only play it next year when I get myself a new machine ...
about multiplayer games gw and dota ... probably they're fun ...
dota is probably a competetive multiplayer game, but it takes a lot of time and energy to get good in a competetive multiplayer game, atm I just don't have this energy for a computer game ... but I could play again some fake-success wow-like game like GW ... but probably I still won't play it ;-) ... damn I still have to finish portal2, it's a cool game but somehow I don't play it :-)

LOL what question is that. Diablo 3 all the fucking way.

need an internet connection at all times to play it :<

No problem for most of people.

Just wait few days after release and you won't need an internet connection to play sp, they'll find a way to crack it, like with every title.

d3

d3 ftw. no question about it!

Diablo 3 for sure!

d3nt

diablo 3.......

and since you didint play the previous ones, do so.. they age well.

the other 2? meh.

Diablo 3 and GW2 for sure (played the first so much I really have to).

Don't even care one bit for DOTA 2, even if it's free.

GW2, ohhh the shit that i've heard about it.

do tell!

Skyrim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

diablo 3.

diablo 3 all the way, guildwars 2 looks good though

im bashing out diablo 2 again now ;) such a quality game

get all obv. 3 best games in the near future

dota 2 :P

i don't know ANYTHING about computers

all you need to know is here: http://vimeo.com/8703840

Star Wars: The Old Republic!!!

lol my mate said that when i asked this same question as a status on facebook. from what i've read though, it's monthly subscription which is an automatic no pour moi.

Yea but you don't have to pay every month, You can take breaks and not play for a month or so and then pay and play it again.

i`d say gw2, interviews and pre reviews look very promising,
diablo3 looks like bland copy of d2,
and fuck all dota games

pre reviews? where ? :)

http://angryjoeshow.com/2011/03/top-10-anticipated-2011/
starting at 15:10 f**king epic!

I was waiting for Diablo 3, but fuck it. GUILD WARS 2 LOOKS AMAZING.