I'm currently trying to learn how to play anivia efficiently, a difficult quest, as you can imagine.
ick yea I'll stay away from her, going to buy viktor and the proto-type viktor skin this afternoon! pretty excited. I really only want him for the shuffle he does!
At :10 seconds is when I decided I wanted him with that skin.
I only really play Ryze and Morgana, Haven't had much time to play with the MC release and Diablo 3.
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I used to play this all the time, but it's gotten a bit overloaded with champions. Also, the community is probably one of the worst I've ever come across. They literally ruined the game for me, and I have thick skin.
I have to agree with Metadigital, the community is generally crap, but a lot of games have awful communities anyway.
I'm around level 25 or something with about 130 wins, I usually play as Jax, Miss fortune, Olaf and Urgot.
The community is alright, if you get Brazilians then it goes downhill really quick.
holy autism batman! just played a few games in a row and it seems...after much conclusion...90% of people that play league of legends are brazilians, have autism, or are mentally handicapped! garsh!
Throughout my 30 wins only once have I come across people who have insulted me. Minecraft servers are usually much more dense in jerks.
I have thousands of wins. I'm not sure how many. I played it since the beta and got to mid-high Elo for a bit (I think I capped around 1600). I thought the community would get better as my ranking went up, but I was wrong. It got worse. It's also gotten worse over time as the game expands.
The community of League of Legends may not be the worst, but they certainly deserve a spot on the top 10. Together with games such as CoD, Minecraft and Guild Wars.
One can be very selective with one's partners in Minecraft and Guild Wars, both of which are perfectly fine solo or with just friends. In League of Legends you are forced to play with other jerks whether you like it or not. Same with Call of Duty, but really, if that kind of game appeals to you, you probably deserve the company anyway...
Games can impossibly be juvenile, the community can, but that's the community. Not the game.
I read this as saying that games can't be juvenile? Of course they can! Look at most AAA titles. This reminds me of a recent interview with the creator of Journey, Jenova Chen.
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"My biggest complaint for computer games so far is they are not good enough for adults. For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life. Playing poker teaches you how to deceive people, and that's relevant to real life. A headshot with a sniper rifle is not relevant to real life. Games have to be relevant intellectually. You also need depth. You have the adventure -- the thrill of the adventure -- but you want the goosebumps too."
That's a fairly common sentiment, really. These kinds of games (like CoD or LoL) tend to attract young audiences because they simply aren't very relevant to adults. They don't deal with anything of any real importance (no, how to survive a zombie apocalypse isn't important). Games that can be played competitively or professionally are like this. In that sense, they're like football or baseball. Look no further than athletes and professional gamers (as well as their fans) as evidence to the kind of maturity one might expect in that setting.
Competitive video games tend to have far worse communities than traditional sports (like football), though. The MOBA genre is not even a decade old yet and is constantly changing. Fighting games like Tekken or Street Fighter are the same. They lack tradition and evolve so quickly that there's no sense of inheritance or legacy. A major part of the appeal of a game like baseball comes from inheriting that tradition as a child and growing up to pass it on to your own children as an adult. That's where the relevance starts to come in. As of yet, video games don't have this. Starcraft is now just over a decade old and is probably the most established of the esports, yet look at that community (especially the pro community). It's not juvenile, it's childish. One might argue that Starcraft isn't inherently juvenile (in the same way that chess isn't), but it's still got a long way to go. Games like LoL have even farther (have you seen the champion selection?).
I'm not saying that LoL is a bad game. A game doesn't have to have much adult appeal to be fun. It will attract an immature playerbase, though. Despite Riot's best efforts, the community is fairly bad. You can't play without the community and you can't just ignore all chat (if you want to play as a team). You can try to overcome the community and have fun anyway. I tried that for a long time, but it's exhausting. As time goes on, others like me have given up as well. There's a reason I don't go to the local middle school to make new friends, after all.
You can't play without the community and you can't just ignore all chat (if you want to play as a team).
Well, I've found that you can entirely ignore the team chat and do just as well, if not better, than not ignoring it....
But either way, you will do just as badly because the morons who play and abuse the game won't play well whether you communicate with them effectively or not.
They think they are the best, they want to be the best, and if they die or don't get 100% of the credit like they think they deserve then they will just blame everyone else on the team for their failure.
That's just how the LoL community works. The game caters to 12 year olds, egotists, and sociopaths.
With the availability of free accounts to circumvent bans, incentives to self-refer and create alternate accounts, and the dev's exploitation in over-powering the newest champs to give people more incentive to buy them.... It is guaranteed the community will definitively be complete chaos.
You can try to overcome the community and have fun anyway. I tried that for a long time, but it's exhausting. As time goes on, others like me have given up as well.
Bah... You can't avoid it.
I played with my brother, and he is a pure egotist himself... He fits in perfectly with the community and it does nothing but bring the worst out in him, getting himself banned regularly like the rest of them... and then blames others (me and anyone else playing) for his own problems.
That game is nothing but a total nightmare, unless you have 5 close friends who have no real psychological disorders and actually have time and want to spend it on a game with a horrible community.
I don't suggest anyone play it. It may seem like fun for a little while, but then you realize most of the community is literally insane.
-Make new friends in game!
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ick yea I'll stay away from her, going to buy viktor and the proto-type viktor skin this afternoon! pretty excited. I really only want him for the shuffle he does!
At :10 seconds is when I decided I wanted him with that skin.
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The community is alright, if you get Brazilians then it goes downhill really quick.
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I have thousands of wins. I'm not sure how many. I played it since the beta and got to mid-high Elo for a bit (I think I capped around 1600). I thought the community would get better as my ranking went up, but I was wrong. It got worse. It's also gotten worse over time as the game expands.
One can be very selective with one's partners in Minecraft and Guild Wars, both of which are perfectly fine solo or with just friends. In League of Legends you are forced to play with other jerks whether you like it or not. Same with Call of Duty, but really, if that kind of game appeals to you, you probably deserve the company anyway...
that's his gangplank minuteman skin, which is pretty cool. On another related note..what's everyones favorite skins? Brolaf is on the top for me.
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Nasus can be INSANE if he is fed too much, the Egyptian side is pretty awesome IMO.
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What? CoD is juvenile at its best. If anything, I'm acting like a grumpy old man. The same could be said for LoL.
I read this as saying that games can't be juvenile? Of course they can! Look at most AAA titles. This reminds me of a recent interview with the creator of Journey, Jenova Chen.
That's a fairly common sentiment, really. These kinds of games (like CoD or LoL) tend to attract young audiences because they simply aren't very relevant to adults. They don't deal with anything of any real importance (no, how to survive a zombie apocalypse isn't important). Games that can be played competitively or professionally are like this. In that sense, they're like football or baseball. Look no further than athletes and professional gamers (as well as their fans) as evidence to the kind of maturity one might expect in that setting.
Competitive video games tend to have far worse communities than traditional sports (like football), though. The MOBA genre is not even a decade old yet and is constantly changing. Fighting games like Tekken or Street Fighter are the same. They lack tradition and evolve so quickly that there's no sense of inheritance or legacy. A major part of the appeal of a game like baseball comes from inheriting that tradition as a child and growing up to pass it on to your own children as an adult. That's where the relevance starts to come in. As of yet, video games don't have this. Starcraft is now just over a decade old and is probably the most established of the esports, yet look at that community (especially the pro community). It's not juvenile, it's childish. One might argue that Starcraft isn't inherently juvenile (in the same way that chess isn't), but it's still got a long way to go. Games like LoL have even farther (have you seen the champion selection?).
I'm not saying that LoL is a bad game. A game doesn't have to have much adult appeal to be fun. It will attract an immature playerbase, though. Despite Riot's best efforts, the community is fairly bad. You can't play without the community and you can't just ignore all chat (if you want to play as a team). You can try to overcome the community and have fun anyway. I tried that for a long time, but it's exhausting. As time goes on, others like me have given up as well. There's a reason I don't go to the local middle school to make new friends, after all.
Well, I've found that you can entirely ignore the team chat and do just as well, if not better, than not ignoring it....
But either way, you will do just as badly because the morons who play and abuse the game won't play well whether you communicate with them effectively or not.
They think they are the best, they want to be the best, and if they die or don't get 100% of the credit like they think they deserve then they will just blame everyone else on the team for their failure.
That's just how the LoL community works. The game caters to 12 year olds, egotists, and sociopaths.
With the availability of free accounts to circumvent bans, incentives to self-refer and create alternate accounts, and the dev's exploitation in over-powering the newest champs to give people more incentive to buy them.... It is guaranteed the community will definitively be complete chaos.
Bah... You can't avoid it.
I played with my brother, and he is a pure egotist himself... He fits in perfectly with the community and it does nothing but bring the worst out in him, getting himself banned regularly like the rest of them... and then blames others (me and anyone else playing) for his own problems.
That game is nothing but a total nightmare, unless you have 5 close friends who have no real psychological disorders and actually have time and want to spend it on a game with a horrible community.
I don't suggest anyone play it. It may seem like fun for a little while, but then you realize most of the community is literally insane.