Tomwithnonumbers
Since: Dec, 2010
11/15/2011 00:00:00
I think the problems with League of Legends is 1) Strategy isn't always particularly clear, in encounters it can be hard to feel for what went wrong and whats losing you the game
2) Snowballing. Smaller mistakes in the past gradually having larger and larger consequences until eventually you're forced out of the game is the wrong way round compared to something like Starcraft, where the moderately sized mistake can lead to a kill if the enemy follows up on it quickly enough and not following up a small mistake quickly will result in the mistake being ironed out a bit
lacusness
Since: Jun, 2010
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A bit hard to get into, but it's free intense co-op fun once you start playing it.
League of Legend is IMO the best MOBA out there, and one of the best game period. It does have a lot of issues, but despite its flaws I heartily reccomend you at least try it.
Gameplay description: League of Legend (Lo L) is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, or if you prefer a Dot A clone. It takes a lot of elements from both real-time strategy and Rpgs. You are summoner, able to control a hero. Your goal is to work together with several other players to destroy the ennemy team. There are currently two play style: standard and dominion. In the first play-style, you need to destroy the ennemy HQ by fighting your way to it. In dominion, you need to capture and hold several points to lower the ennemy HQ's health to zero. What makes Lo L gameplay different from your standard RTS or RPG is that at the start of every game, your hero starts from scratch. In the beggining of the game, you collect cash to buy items, and as the game goes on, the fights become more and more intense as everybody grows in power. There are more than 85 heroes, and each of them have their own sets of abilities. This means that even though 4 heroes are mages, they have all a different focus: long range, immobilising the ennemy, pure damage, area denial. If you add to that the items you can buy both in game and out of it using the cash you earn every battle, its easy to see that the game offers a vast amount of strategy.
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