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My brother is in the beta and I've tried it out.  I applaud the attention being payed to game balancing, but most of my affectation for this type of game comes from not just the diversity of the abilities and back stories of the Demigods.  It also comes from the number of playable characters. 

 

8 characters is too few... everything else in the game is generic anyway.  It's pretty much all about the heroes.  I dislike being in a game like this where I was forced to play a mirror match against the same character, it would break whatever modicum of immersion I'd nursed into being.  I would consider purchasing this game if there were more than 20 playable 'gods'.  Devs too obsessed with balancing often end up producing something lacking in strategic complexity and replayability.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

Umm, u sure, If a games not balanced it won't be fun, so balance is key. I mean take a look at great ganes, their great because everything is balanced. Dow I only liked the original because they just kept on adding more races for the sake of more stuff, and In my opion that killed the game. Now in Dawn of war 2 their making it 4 again because they also realised that. Devs are going to add more but 8 is ok, It means you can try out lots of differnt strats with each demigod and what a shocker remember things about each not demigod. Dota has alot of heroes and look, does anyone actually know every heroe and what he/she does. No. I'm not saying thats bad or anything. For rts's fewer is usually better and in rpg's their usually more. So u take those sort of average them out and u get 8 demigods plus whatever ones the devs make as patches.

I have said alot about balance and how its s crucial componet for a good game, yet demigod is in a beta phase and has yet to go thropugh the balance department. yes its somewhat balanced but not completely. If it was balanced right now than their would be no real reason for us to be taking part in the beta. We are supposed to help the devs make a better game and we can't do that if its done now can we.