It works fairly well with a controller, though going at it after getting comfy with the mouse and keyboard, I preferred the latter. Paragon is a MOBA your average idiot (like me) can pick up, which is good because it’s coming to PS4, too. And it probably won’t be like that in a live, global environment (where teamwork and cooperation will be way more important). Now I know what it feels like to be born wealthy. Completely unearned, too, which is great. Warning: it might be that I had fun with Paragon because, in the controlled environment with other press and developers, I was really good. Once I stopped getting shot up by laser beams in enemy-controlled towers (they’re dotted along the map and the goal is to push forward across three lanes towards your opponents’ base, which you want to destroy) and kind of figured basic MOBA-things out, I became an absolute wrecking machine with Sparrow, driving entire lanes by myself and doubling the next highest player’s kill count. Cards can only be assigned, trashed, or otherwise dealt with at base and there’s a button to teleport back to base (it takes a few seconds of vulnerability), which is useful for various reasons. You can build your own deck, though we played using pre-made starter decks which were made to buff your character in the most typical way - for Sparrow, that meant slowly increasing things like physical damage and rate of fire as you level up (in addition to unlocking or upgrading your moves by way of earned experience). The latter is important because there is a card deck system tied to your character’s performance ceiling. On the ranged, damage-dealing side, there’s also the faster, somewhat weaker, dual-wielding Twin Blast and the sniper Murdock, who does energy damage rather than physical like Sparrow. The result: I do not like MOBAs, but I had a good time playing Paragon.įeeling much more comfortable with the idea of third-person shooter than a MOBA, I elected to go with a ranged character, Sparrow, whom happened to be one of the plain strongest characters in the game. Also I played every match as an archer, so, there’s that.

Not really my eye-jam.īut the MOBA is a tricksy scamp and as Johnny-come-latelies try to get into the game dominated by League and Dota 2, they often have to do so on the strength of an existing brand or by way of a special hook - in Paragon‘s instance, high graphical fidelity and gameplay that feels a bit closer to an objective-based shooter, or at least tricks you into thinking so with the close camera angle.

I played League of Legends once, the weekend it released almost seven years ago ( want to feel old!?). Yes, everything is a MOBA these days.įor me that’s usually a cue to glaze my eyes over with a special goop my eyes have started secreting at will over the past five years. Epic Games ( Gears of War) announced Paragon (PS4, PC) at PlayStation Experience, an in-tight, third-person MOBA from the developer of seminal shooters like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament.

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