Y'know, I don't mind when my friends talk about LoL even when I don't like it, but what I do mind is them talking about wanting to play the game when they were, just 5 minutes before, talking about how much they hate the game and will stop playing it.
It's a ******* abusive relationship man. It pisses you off and hurts your mind body and soul yet you have to stick with it because sometimes it's kind to you.
I also like community around it. I know people are toxic and whatever whatever but there's so many youtube videos, streams and so many more things around it that I love besides just the game.
I also just like knowing about the game. I was watching a game in my living room and my dad sat down and watched some of it with me and after I had to reacted to a couple of things he's like "You know what's going on in this? It looks like utter chaos." I started to basically be an announcer for it so he might get it a little and it seemed like he was impressed a little. I dunno, man .
Yeah the community aspect is pretty awesome. My favourite thing is high elo streamers and pros for sure, I love watching Sneaky, MEteos and Gosu they're all great fun to watch.
Sneaky Meteos announcer pack is legit the best thing to ever happen to league.
Play zerg cause its the best race. Lose, lose, go to terran. two barracks with reactors. PUMP MARINES OUT LIKE A MOTHER ******* TRAIINNNNN, YOU EXPANDING, TAKE SOME MARINES, YOU TRYING TO DEFEND AGAINST MY MARINES WITH AOE'S. TAKE SOME MORE MOTHER ******* MARINES!
I meant meta as in general understanding of the game and knowing when and where you had ****** up.
Drops were important for terran, but nowadays anyone can (and should) harass, so anti-air in the mineral line is pretty much default for me, especially in 2v2.
I haven't played 1v1 in a while now, only 2v2 with a bro. The gap between platinum and diamond is really weird nowadays, because platinum league can't mass units well, despite doing everything right, and diamonds somehow get ******** of units out of nowhere and wreck you.
Needless to say, we're in platinum.
Also mfw two widow mines that cost like 150 gas in my own mineral line destroy a fat stack of mutas that cost 1500 gas.
everytime I try MM in SC 2 I get paired against level 60 Koreans; is the game trying to compliment my skills by putting me up against OP players or just hates me?
well either I picked the wrong thing or I am near retarded but the times I tried to play it I was level 4 not competitive (I think) but I always would get matched against level 60s with korean letters
I've been a huge SC fan for a few years now. Loved Brood war and loved SC2 plus HOTS, except the widow mines ( **** widow mines). Has anyone played LOTV here? I'm getting it for xmas and I'm quite excited. If so how is it?
Yeah i've gotta say, the only good thing about broodwar that I can figure out is that because it was 2d, units never ended up behind things.
I will never understand the nostalgia fanboyism to it, you're like "gen 1"ers.
The balance was not good, it was just a raw mechanical game because the whole time you were fighting with the controls, so you had an illusion of balance.
Even if you want to pretend bw is better, sc2bw exists and emulates literally everything except for the a/v design.
I much prefer the original controls. They're vastly easier for me to manage. Also, the game is roughly balanced. Zerg have the best early game, the worst defenses, and start sucking into the late game. Terrans have the best late game, mediocre defenses, and take a while to get going. Protoss have more good late game units, the best defenses, and hit late game units the fastest if you manage your workers well.
StarCraft 2 is a great game, but I enjoy Brood War more. And since there's no objective way to measure which one is a better game, let's agree to disagree.
Ehh... you can make quantifiable claims about the technology, and the existence of sc2bw really trivializes the existence of bw, but by the same reasoning, I can also say that superman 64 is a better game.
Yes, the game has better graphics, and runs on a more modern engine. Don't care. That's near the very bottom of qualities I look for in a good game. Also don't care about the hacking on Battlenet or the glitches I've never experienced.
I like the controls for Brood War more. SC2BW uses the SC2 controls.
I'll stick to playing Brood War when I feel like playing Brood War, and 2 when I feel like playing 2. They're both great games. Hell, they'd both make my top 20 games of all time list. But, I prefer Brood War.
I didn't know that. I've never played the mod. One of my best friends did, and said he didn't like the control difference, and I took his word for it. He was probably talking about the mapping of the keys.
What you see from them is doing really strange stuff or not knowing about team play. But then again most are bad some are fine and you'll have a good game with them
and then that recruit goes on in the game and completely obliterates the rest of the people in the lobby and ranks at the top of the list. its happened in that game so man times its crazy.
im lowkey hating the new quinn ult she literally gains like what infinite movespeed? then jumps on me and lets not forget that they added a slow to that and then the crit and im suddenly feeding. Quinn jungle is OG kindred.
Yeah 5.23 she was broken as **** in every lane but now in 5.24 her mana costs are really high so she's very limited in what she can do. Also her Q base damage isn't as good so she needs items to be effective.
i just really dislike that movespeed. Like when im mid with velkoz or zed she will come out of the bush so quick and slow me then their midlaner will jump on me and im dead. She's just really annoying even with wards there is no escape.
Early on, before LoL became such a huge thing, my friends tried to get me into it. Like Gears of War and Magic the Gathering, I failed to see the appeal.
And now that I've seen how toxic the community has become, I have even less reason to play it.
One of my friends has a crap ton of card and board games. Recently played Exploding Kittens, some Red Dragon Inn, and quite a bit of a DC Superhero deckbuilding game. Oh, and Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Fun stuff.
But doesn't stop me from playing some games with bad communities. It's pretty much unavoidable now.
I pretty much exclusive play 4x stuff or isometric strategy games like xcom. Multiplayer stuff just makes me mad unless it's co-op multiplayer like L4D.
I have shot so many "teammates" in L4D because they would waste medkits, throw molotovs at the WORST possible times (Elevator...) and quite a number of times, they have literally walked right up to my incapacitated ass, stared at me for a few seconds, and then walk away.
And then they bitch at me for not getting that Hunter off of them in .05 seconds.
I play well with others, but only if they're competent and/or friendly. I can handle a new player not knowing exactly what to do, as long as they're nice. But not an edgy, overly emotional twelve year old who just learned a bunch of swear words and skipped the tutorial. I will happily kill them, even if we're supposed to be on the same team.
The perpetrator of most of those asshole-ish acts is one of my friends. In real life. I hit him in the head with a boogie board for that **** .
Also, I love a lot of single player games. Most Final Fantasies, Zelda, Paper Mario, Dragon's Dogma, DMC (Classic and New), Dishonored... Lots of RPGs, it seems. Beyond that, I don't really have a preferred genre. I just play what I like, I guess.
>Hanging out at buddies house
>They've got a LoL stream on the TV while we do whatever
>Everyone stops what they're doing for like 5 seconds, then they all go OOOHHHHHH in unison
>I just sit there confused
I don't think it's a bad game. Until the absolute stupidity of the last few months, the game was relatively well designed with a smooth difficulty curve, a diverse cast of distinct characters and a decently fun competitive scene to follow.
However, as millions have stated, it's the problem of the community. And it's not simply the matter of the toxicity of the community, but rather the counterproductive dynamic of the game.
Why is it that when people do poorly, everyone does everything in their power to make them worse? Hardly anyone ever says stuff like "Hey man, you want me to gank your lane or drop a ward for you to help you out?". And it leaves those few people who try to help someone else out getting responses like "STFU I know what I'm doing" when they are legit trying to help, because we've come to expect malice out of the team rather than support. The entire thing feels counterproductive, and I think part of it is because everyone wants what is best for themselves, rather than for the entire team and the community, so they only look at how everything in a game affects themselves and not the team. Kinda hard to quite say what I mean, but basically it's as though everyone is treating a team game like a dog-eat-dog, every-man-for-himself kind of game.
The other big issue is the game has no way to drop in and drop out. I get that it's by design as opposed to a shooting game where players can come in and out and rating is involved and whatnot, but you have to commit to a full game. They need to do a better job of making sure people on a team with a disconnected player have the option to forfeit sooner than 20 minutes with little to no cost, punishing only the player who leaves should the team lose because of it.
Dota is a little better in that regard.
people actually try to play as a team, even if there is always the one retard who thinks he can do it all by himself.