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I've always wondered what LoL is like and if it's any fun. Now I'll never find out.
Its fun but the people who play it are the most irrational, angey and fucking miserable people you will encounter.
That’s why I play single player so I only deal with one irrational, angry and fucking miserable person.
I always found dota to be worse from my casual experience.
dota community is radioactive.
so many frustrated chuds
"I wonder how crack tastes."
It's an amazing game, but really hard to get into as a new player. And playing with friends of wildly different skill levels tends to ruin the experience.
If you play with experienced friends, you'll quickly learn that the best way to win is to do nothing and effectively stay out of the way. You learn to minimize your negative effect on the game, which just isn't a fun way to play.
If you play solo, you have to get beat down at least the first ten games until you get to a level with other new players and small children. Then you can spend the next 20 games learning until you can apply enough that the game starts to be fun.
LoL is the poster child for toxic community. The game is fantastic but it's really not worth playing because the other people ruin the fun.
It really only takes one person to ruin a match and you're always playing with 9 other people (in the "main" game mode). Because of the way ranking work, leaving early because of a troll actually punishes you so you are incentivized to stay in a game that you're not enjoying. It makes people cranky and they tend to take it out on internet strangers.
And for some reason, only in LoL do they seem to feel free to use the most despicable language you can imagine.
Anyways, there are other games in the same genre if you want to try them. DOTA2 is the obvious one, though I personally think it's a worse game than LoL. The Blizzard one was really good but it was shut down IIRC.
Fairly sure Heroes of the Storm is still playable, just not getting a ton of active development.
That's dumb. There should be an option to vote to end the game early, and if you get a majority with at least one on each team, the match ends.
Full disclosure, it's been many years since my last LoL game. It's possible they've taken steps to mitigate that particular issue, but it's just one of many.
You’re not missing out on anything. One of the worst games I’ve ever played.
That's my opinion too, but it's a fantastic game for the right person.
It has a good mix of strategy and tactics, which is exactly what a competitive game should have. If you're looking for a competitive game that doesn't really benefit from twitch reflexes, it's hard to beat. I recommend people try it or something similar (e.g. Dota 2) at least once. It's not for me, but I don't regret few hours I spent with it.
As a long time Dota player, I never could take LoL seriously.
I played it when it released, as W3 engine sucked, and LoL allowed reconnects and match-making.
But the game is absolutely soulless. Compared to Dota, it's a hollowed out husk. I get that making it simple opened up the genre for more people, but it just sucks.
Some years ago I tried watching finals of the top league tournament. 5 times same champs doing the same shit over and over again. Who thinks that's interesting?
IDK, but my coworker loved it and he's a smart dude (Ph.D in astronomy, plays a bunch of other games). Then again, I personally don't like MP games much at all, so I'm the wrong person to ask.