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League of Legends (2009)

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Tutorial

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All over the place I've been told... "League of Legends is awesome.. the best... the thing to play, if you aren't playing you're a square" or whatever the hell various ridiculous statements have been made or could be made up that don't make any sense at all.

I played Dota 2, a rather very unfriendly significantly more difficult version of League of Legends no doubt, i'd even say marginally better graphics imo. But the community is for lack of a better word, totally unforgiving.

Does this make league of legends any better? I would have to say, no, Considering the tutorial pits you with 3 options, of which I favored the play style of ashe, I played through, tried numerous different strategies, and read up on things. I like to do that before even attempting a multiplayer run because I PREFER to know what i'm doing and what some of the lingo used by a lot of people means as well. Granted i'm a newb in this game.

I'm a defensive player, all the games I play i'll hold my ground and build experience/grind if you will, collect what I need and then push, it's ultra rare for me to go on the offensive and even more rare to take major chances. Dying isn't my play style.

Venturing into my first real multiplayer games, Player vs Bot, I was both kicked and called a "bot" before a game even started, to this day I have utterly no idea WHY. Was it because I was a low level? (is lvl 5 low?) Was it because the only champion one I decided to buy was the champion I was familiar with and knew how to play somewhat, being ashe? It didn't really bother me until about the 6th try where I was hassled quite a bit before being booted from the co-op vs bot game. Doesn't look good at all for the LoL community.

In an effort to perhaps see if this was just the general and rather unsurprising nature of North American Servers, I decided to venture to the Euro West server (granted I was suggested to do so anyways).

Worked up another ashe to level 5, ventured into my first co-op vs bot run and proceeded to get relatively the same treatment.

I'd say it seemed to work out about 2 in 3 games I joined, pretty much instantly booted me without being able to even get a word in. Out of those 2, 1 instantly stated "bot".... Is botting really that big of an issue?

The 1/3 of the games, I either had a 50/50 chance of being called a botter and newb or something totally uncalled for OR no one said anything, Maybe because they didn't speak English which i'm fine with.. don't know.

Out of the multiplayer games I've played, every single one, I've had the least number of deaths, the largest minion kill counts, largest gold supplies (or close to because some players just went around murdering all the other champions like crazy), and usually always the highest damage count. Assists through the roof too. Quite often I was either the first or 2nd one to make it to the highest level and I was usually always the one with the most gear/stacked.

It boggles my mind how often people commit suicide in order to try and get a single kill on another champion. Just waltz head on through minions and even into towers without a hope of survival and i'd say about 50% of the time, they didn't even kill their target.

What's worse is a lot of these players are the ones that called me botter.. names.. or various other things. Add to the fact that a rare few that would stick around in the end game screen long enough to comment, would occasionally say I sucked or was a terrible player that needs to learn how to play the game, even though, and i'm not trying to be big headed, I think I contributed around the most or close to it in terms of sustaining a line, not losing a tower, and not kill stealing or venturing to far off when the other needs help.

So this brings me back to the tutorial, annoying as all hell as it is to have to wait through a minute and a half to 2 minutes of tutorial to start play, and then get constant pop up tutorial messages for the same thing over and over again throughout... but at least i'm having a bit of fun with that.


In terms of the game, the mechanics are smooth, it's a very simple to follow, the tutorial worked really well at giving people a good idea how things work and suggestions, granted they aren't ideal. They don't explain "jungling" really, which i'm not entirely sure of yet. But it's enough for someone to get in and figure it out (hopefully).

The graphics are decent, imo i'd love to see highest resolution support and better widescreen/eyefinity, but then again we've got tons of people clearly complaining about "cheaters" having an advantage cause of that. Meh Dota 2 hardcoded the prevention of using such displays, in fact, they made it so it's a handicap, you run anything at all that gives you a wider aspect ratio than 1920x1080, you see less and your interface is ballooned to such a rediculiously ugly size, you wouldn't even want to play.

Sound/surround sound actually is well placed, sounds good.

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