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Online games; Is it too much to ask to enjoy the damn game?
Topic Started: Feb 10 2015, 12:25 AM (93 Views)
MasterofBalance
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First off, I'd like to say hello to anyone that still comes around this site. Sure has been a long time since I visited it myself.

That having been said, aside from hoping to see some familiar screen names, I'm also here to rant about something so I can hopefully let it go before I get a tumor.

My topic for this evening is Online games. This can probably be accurately generalized to other games, but in particular I'll be looking at the MOBA genre and specifically, League of Legends.

For the longest time, I avoided League of Legends like the plague because I had heard nothing but bad things about the community: How toxic everyone was, how unwilling to work with other people, how opinionated people can get. During my senior year of high school however, I made some friends who played and they assured me that many of the stories I had heard were overblown; not all of them, but many. Here I am more than a year later and I can tell you this my friends: they...were...wrong. The community of League is just as toxic and grating as you were lead to believe. I bring this up because of a particular game I played this evening. Now, there are a couple things you need to know before I can continue with this. First of all, there are several different game modes in League. They are similar in their overall goal, but different in how it is achieved. That being the case, there's a map called Summoner's Rift, but most league player's just call it "normals" because that's the default map, and the first one. This is the sort of map that began the MOBA genre. It has three "lanes" or paths and there are two bases, one in each corner of the map. For more information on this genre, I invite you to ask me or to go have a look for yourself

So, I was playing myself some normals, which I normally don't do because this is the map where the toxicity is concentrated the most, but someone I added on my friends list invited me to play. I decided to go with the Support role as this was the one which I am best at. The game began and as soon as we got to our lanes we ran into our first problem. My partner in the lane asked me not to attack the minions because (apparently) it was throwing off their timing for last hitting them. This was not an unreasonable request, but all I was doing was attacking the minions in order to lower their health and ultimately make it easier for him/her. This may not seem like a problem to most except for one key detail: THIS IS A MOBA!!!! MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Can any of you nice children please point out for me the word int eat acronym that's of particular significance?

(I have much more to say on this subject, but it's currently late where I am, so I will finish this post tomorrow. good to be back NBTD :) )
Edited by MasterofBalance, Feb 17 2015, 12:17 AM.
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