PhilosopherOfSorts wrote:I don't often say things like this, but LoL is without a doubt the worst, most boring, repetitive game I have ever played. I gave it two weeks on the recomendation of a friend, and it will get no more of my time.
Chardok wrote:
Firstly, I don't want to endure the endless whining of ZOMG UB0RLEETPLAYORZ drone on about what a fag I am and how useless and ultrasuck I am because I didn't jungle the weedlurkers fast enough so the laserdivers could spotcheck the flipwands. And If I'd only dropped PoDJORtS when the YAK set up the SoF, we would have won the match.
Secondly - what the fuck is a Janna magedealer damage jungle?
I'll admit it took a bit for me to warm up to the game. It can be a bit repetitive at lower levels, especially without friends to play with. League is in a very specific set of games which have their roots in Defense of the Ancients which is a Warcraft 3 mod (still being played). A lot of the game mechanics (especially in Valve's DotA 2) draw directly from Warcraft 3's quirks (in DotA 2 and WC3 you could kill your own minions, which was an encouraged game mechanic). In a DotA clones, players farm NPC's to get money and experience, fight the enemy team to destroy towers (structures that shoot minions and players on the other team), and ultimately destroy a structure in the enemy team's base. An interesting take on the DotA concept is Monday Night Combat, which puts it into FPS form.
As for rude and frustrating people, they exist in every game. Compared to some of the other DotA clones, League is pretty tame (I find it on par with TF2 for complaining). Heroes of Newarth has built in voice chat and there is a lot of complaints of assholery. I'm betting DotA 2 will be even worse considering it makes no gameplay changes from Warcraft 3's DotA, so you'll have people who've been playing DotA for 7 years or so with people just trying it out. Leauge tracks player experience so that you're paired with similarly experienced opponents. I remember so pretty horrible games on both ends of the spectrum: I feed (die to the other team) horribly because their team just rocking me in particular, our entire team feeds, their entire team feeds, their entire team feeds me (dies to me).
tl;dr League is probably the best newbie friendly DotA clone currently and inherits many of the DotA and Warcraft 3 gameplay mechanics. It can be difficult to get into without any prior DotA knowledge or friends who have that knowledge.
If it waddles like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's a KV-5.
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