I saw a comparison of the two games the other day and something that I noticed about DOTA 2 (never played it) is that it's map overall looks (colors, tones, saturation, etc) reminds me a lot of the new summoners rift.
Was this incidental or intentional on riot's part?
The reason why the maps may look similar is because the Dota map was actually built to increase gameplay readability which translates into darker tones. The new summoners rift is made darker and that is the only reason why the both look similar
I think you mean coincidental :3
The map is indeed darker but it's not like the muddy colors of DOTA.
As I have only seen Dota 2's map once I can not say of the similarities, but if they look similar I would attribute it to the look of Summoners Rift from the start. The look has not changed only the graphics and Riot can only go so far with a certain tone of color or graphic till players say it is "overdone" and they change the look. So I would say Riot may have taken from Dota 2, but I would leave the majority of the similarities to a coincidence of just the only direction or the best direction Riot could go with the visual look of Summoners Rift.
Looks more like an overhead view of Everquest Next to me.
^ Looks almost identical in style to Dawngate, EA's moba. That's just an unfortunate fact of the matter. Those bushes...
That's funny, it sure looks like Summoner's Rift to me.
In my opinion new SR looks more like Dawngate then Dota2
