Originally posted by: CottonRabbit
The zoom in Demigod definitely spoiled me too. While it's a nice break from Demigod, but I'm not sure if I would buy it. Especially since League of Legends is also coming out, which looks a bit more original.
I never played dota, but was the shop in that game also so convoluted? Titles like "initiation" don't do a terribly good job at telling me what kind of items I'll find in there. If I'm upgrading my marchers to enhanced marchers, I shouldn't have to look for it in a different tab.
The original DotA shop was horrible, all the tabs you see were all different shops in DotA and they had even less intuitive names, you also couldn't open recipes and buy the ingredients in one place like you can in HoN.
The HoN shop is not perfect but it's pretty great, the categories are fairly intuitive (initiation means the items you should "initiate" your hero with, then you have attack, protective, support and morph attacks) and you can click on recipes, see their ingredients and buy them right there, as well as the total cost of the recipe.
DotA, being a WCIII map, was a total mess in terms of interface.