EPTSuddenly finding myself addicted to LoL - Page 2
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Vronti
United States111 Posts
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arepa3000
Canada57 Posts
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Leftwing
Canada229 Posts
On March 13 2012 10:19 Angra wrote: Whenever I've tried LoL I've never liked it very much. But that's probably because I play DotA 2 and HoN all the time. :p This, I find that if you don't really like LoL it's because you simply play another DotA game. A couple of my friends play HoN, and I'll be honest I don't really like it. They just happen to feel the same way about LoL, that it's not really for them. Sometimes they say the graphics throw them off, but hell you get used to to it pretty quick, other times they just come out and say they prefer HoN over LoL because they played HoN first. The only thing that bothers me with LoL is how you literally need to play 1000s of games to really get into the higher echelon of competition. If you play ranked matches right as you hit level 30 often times you find yourself weaker and less effective than other players because you need masteries and all that jazz. | ||
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
Simple, less-mechanical games don't necessarily lack depth - in fact the limitation is often the player's imagination rather than the game's design. Easy-to-learn, hard-to-master, high skill (knowledge) ceiling, team element = heaps of depth, replayability = probably a fantastic game. | ||
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mothergoose729
United States666 Posts
On March 13 2012 12:38 Hidden_MotiveS wrote: Same, except I've been playing more than 2 days. The number of whiners increases dramatically to the point where I had to ignore 3 allies on my team and 2 enemies on theirs in one game. People get more diehard in ranked, people complain slightly less in normals, and now, even in Coop vs AI there are 2 people complaining about KS. I really wish I never got into this game. It's fun to think about but horrible to play. It's no fun to lose to things that are outside your control and to either get yelled at or see other people yelling. People genuinely do get angry and not have fun in this game. I think if you play any team based game with random players, you need to be ok with losing when its not your fault. Its a fun game to play. I try and keep that in context. I wish when I started playing starcraft one of my primary goals was to never get frustrated or angry. I would probably be a better player today. | ||
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Hidden_MotiveS
Canada2562 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:17 mothergoose729 wrote: I think if you play any team based game with random players, you need to be ok with losing when its not your fault. Its a fun game to play. I try and keep that in context. I wish when I started playing starcraft one of my primary goals was to never get frustrated or angry. I would probably be a better player today. It's not winning or losing that necessarily makes me unhappy. Maybe that's true for you. I find the raging and everything else to be much worse. I loved BGH in Broodwar and losing wasn't really that big of a deal. Problem with BGH(or any team game I guess) though was you realize that early game builds tend to win more because once one ally dies to a rush, the game is over. Therefore it really wasn't profitable to do late game builds (anything slower than vultures), and the best games that drew on for 40+minutes rarely happened. Now imagine broodwar except leavers occur twice as often and you can't just leave the game when a leaver does occur. Imagine you get ragers about noob allies that go on and on about how X and Y sucks and you should have banned Z and the jungler should have ganked A and the top shouldn't have fed B and C... | ||
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theRNG
United States22 Posts
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Leeoku
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theRNG
United States22 Posts
 and how you have improved watch day nine good YouTube player knows mor about thE game than the makers of Starcraft 2 watch him and you will be set :D sonics blog but why so long | ||
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dtz
5834 Posts
Some people who have been playing Dota for a long time struggle to enjoy LoL fully which is understandable ( metagame more stale and young, dislike paying for runes/heroes/etc) as LoL is much younger while Dota's metagame and balancing have been developing for nearly a decade now so dota feels deeper. LoL wil grow in time though, M5 has shown everyone that lvl 3 tower diving is a viable strat just like Virtus Pro did with Dota. But to anyone who has not tried any game in the genre would be in for a pleasant surprise. A few hundred games in, you will see why this game can be competitive in a pro level and how it really needs you to cooperate with your team which is an aspect of the game which has no skill ceiling | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
That being said LoL is a good game for a free game and Riot had PERFECT timing to catch such a large player base. S2 kinda fucked their shit up and only now is HoN getting back up there to 70k concurrent players...which is shit tiny compared to LoL. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
Unfortunately, a lot of the community is pretty tryhard, which kind of sucks. :/ | ||
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SuperFanBoy
New Zealand1068 Posts
LoL right now is the biggest esport and it will only continue to grow. It has already started getting popular in Korea, I believe if a few big names from sc2 switch to LoL it will spark a huge wave of korean players moving to LoL. | ||
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S2Lunar
1051 Posts
I'm always down to try new games, If I were to get a Dota 2 Beta Key, I would definitely check out that game, but MOBAs don't really entertain me. | ||
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Xiron
Germany1233 Posts
On March 14 2012 23:43 Toppp wrote: It's interesting so many people are addicted to LoL. I have tryed to play it countless times on the recommendation of my friends, but I really can't get into It. I don't find it fun, enjoyable, or challenging. I can see why so many people can find it addicting and fun, but it's really just not my cup of tea. I just stop playing after a few games and don't play it for months. I'm always down to try new games, If I were to get a Dota 2 Beta Key, I would definitely check out that game, but MOBAs don't really entertain me. I came to LoL with really low expectations. I played it for a month or two and then I had no intention on playing this anymore. It gets completely boring if you don't have 4 mates playing with you, because 1 guy can ruin the game for 9 others, which is the case for 95% of the games. I also find Riot to be doing a shitty job at enhancing this game. When I started, I already hated the fact that there is just 1 map all the fucking time. Now, a year later, nothing has changed, but every two weeks there is a new op hero, while the rest is completely unbalanced. They should of stopped making champions when they had like 40 and started balancing. As riot knows, people don't want balance to play this game, they want new stuff to pwn with. This means this game will never be even close to balanced. | ||
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
On March 13 2012 21:17 Jayme wrote: I honestly think this genre of game is one that the first one you really play a lot is the one you tend to prefer. It amuses me because I understand that, fundamentally, Lol/HoN/Dota are basically the same thing. I can't stand LoL though. The lack of denys, removing health pots when hit, and cartoony texture just bother me. That being said I believe that if I had tried LoL first i'd probably find HoN's style more irritating. I'm not sure. Personally, I played LoL religously at first (during the beta), but after a while I just started playing on/off. Then I tried out HoN and fell in love...and now I'm in DotA2 because HoN is going in a weird direction. But maybe I like HoN and DotA2 more because LoL Beta felt a lot closer to DotA2/HoN back then. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
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