r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Axis251 • Feb 24 '26

Discussion A tweet that has me thinking.

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I don’t know if Riot can copy what valve has created with Deadlock. The atmosphere and setting so what I think makes deadlock so enjoyable. Yes the gameplay is amazing and the moba aspects are great but I just don’t think riot will even try to copy valve and make a deadlock clone. What is all y’all’s thoughts.

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u/ClericDo Feb 24 '26

If Icefrog is working on it, riot is working on a shitty clone of it

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

This is just bitter Valve glaze. Valve hasn't invented any genres that I know of, and their versions are not automatically better/less "shitty" because they inspire others.

Inspiration & competition are both very good for consumers. Valorant and League may not be truly original, but they are massively impactful, considered great by millions, and the market as a whole is better off having them. Image related.

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u/Night-O-Shite Feb 25 '26

Are you serious lmfao , Half life was genre defining, HL2 is the reason games started having and using actual physics in them , TF is literally the first hero shooter, portal is the most intuitive and puzzle game , left for dead is literally the greatest and most popular zombie game out there, TFT is a literal copy of auto chess , this type of game wouldn't even exist without it...etc.

Valve ain't perfect but It's like there is a reason people glaze them and now we're having deadlock and maybe HL3 soon (we hope and cope)

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '26

TF wasn't developed by Valve originally. None of the other things you listed are genre inventions. They're all titans of their genres, because Valve is a really good company, but this doesn't change what I said.

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u/Night-O-Shite Feb 25 '26

Tf was a mod for quake and was acquired very early so it did indeed release as a valve game with people who still work at valve even today , TF2 is also widely different from the OG TF despite the similarities and it is still the first actual prober hero shooter , HL literally changed how the games (mainly single player games) are made it's the reason you have games with actual cinematics and story instead of move and shoot and HL2 added to that with physics...etc .

I might be wrong but I legit don't thing I saw a game like L4D before it and while there might of been puzzle games they aren't anything like portal either.

They are in fact genre defining