I’ll honestly never understand the hype for League of Legends. Skill wise the game is more team oriented than anything else. Comeback wise it’s a complete joke.
You start a round. You bitch and moan about the controls because click and point is a shitty mechanic no matter what game you’re playing (Only works for RTS because it’s the only way to play one). You get killed because of poor positioning (Or thanks to the shitty controls/limited camera). And you end up progressively losing the match because of one ****ing death. I don’t wanna hear any ‘You can recover the game still’ bull crap because in a perfect League world, the first kill is the end of the game. Not only that, you inevitably feed more and end up getting harassed by your teammates (Even in ranked because MOBAs the worst out of people).
Factor in the fact that it’s Vergil easy to play, no more dynamic than Marvel 3’s TAC system, and hardly worth being considered more competitive than World of Warcraft’s Arenas, and you have a game that is creating a downward spiral into super easy E-sports and player elitism thanks to accessibility to casuals.
Then again, this is a problem with MOBAs and RPGs in general. They really have no stand in the competitive world, and, If anything, they need to be more player vs environment oriented, not player vs player. I’d take a FT10 in Marvel 3 any day over a round of League.
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[details=Spoiler]It doesn’t help at all that the game is so easy to pick up everyone and anyone flocks to it. So many people I know (Including my own brother and myself) dedicate so much time to it that I force myself to sit through at least an hour a day of terrible KoF13 online to counter-act the simplicity. I’m sick and tired of these easy ass games coming out (Marvel 3 included) and gaining such large user bases because everyone and anyone with half a brain can play them. Sure there’s more to it than just pointing and clicking, but even then I could explain the dynamics of League in no more than two paragraphs.
Could I do that with Marvel 3? Hell no I couldn’t. Mind you, I could always say pick Vergil and mash H, but even then whoever takes me up on that advice will be having a hard time fighting the millions of setups Marvel has to offer. You literally have to sit next to a player as they’re playing and say, “Oh shit look out, you’re in situation X, with variable possibility Y, leading into outcome Z, and further into a second plane of A, B, C, D (Your incoming character being mixed up).” There’s no summing it up beyond that. Hell, you can’t even really explain Marvel to someone, they just kind of have to keep losing until they get it.
Fuck Marvel 3 and fuck MOBAs trying to be competitive. Why can’t we mock this shit like we do Brawl?[/details]
