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Anybody else feel like the game is underwhelming?

EugeneSims·5/6/2016, 6:47:23 PM·26 votes·1,645 views

I remember when I used to wake up excited to get on the computer and play League of Legends. When I would spend hours playing, not caring about losing or winning, happy that I managed to try out new champions and see their abilities. When I would pratically drag my friends online just to play with them or enjoying my time with strangers...

I've been playing for three years or so and I have to admit, this game has been so underwhelming lately. I see a new champion and kind of roll my eyes, not excited to see them and I mostly buy them for the sake of being new (it's kind of an impulse). I read the patch notes and it's huge chunks of text that bore me to no end, the constant changes to the game that feel unecessary and forced. I'm not sure if I've exhausted all of the excitment I had towards the game but it genuinely feels like all these changes, new champions, new skins...they are all kind of "meh".

Don't get me wrong; the design of these champions and skins are great but it's become so common that it just makes me shrug. In all honesty, the kits of these recent champions have been uninteresting, the changes in items are uninteresting, the game still feels one-sided and I don't feel the urge to play as much as before. I can go days without touching the game, it doesn't cross my mind until I focus on my desktop and see the icon there and when I do click on it, I patch and just close it or I play a few games and feel bored after two or three.

Out of those three years of playing, this year has been the most boring and not even Hextech feels rewarding, not even buying new champions feels rewarding. Doing anything other than playing this game feels more worthy of my time, lately.

I'm kind of waiting for that sudden burst of emotion that makes me want to play again because there are some good memories I have about this game and I genuinely like seeing the game from an artistic prespective (the way splash arts are drawn, the way champions look, visual updates, etc) but as an actual active player --- doing something in-game --- it's just not enjoyable.

25 Comments

Athenes Lulu5/6/2016, 11:30:14 PM3 votes

I think that applies to most games just simply "getting old".

Yes, there are games that don't become "boring", but that's because they have been "boring" from the start, and never got anymore interesting or more boring over time. League just has too many dynamic changes happening all at once.

I don't mind changes, but to the point where it discourages individual skill, that most players (yes even support mains who depend on their teammates to win) value? Especially where a lot of players play single-player games for their most of their gaming time? DynamicQ (and the fact that it replaces solo/duo and ranked 5s Q's) discourages that, the "faster paced games" discourages a lot of that, and so on.

There's no need to ask this kind of question when the majority of Boards are filled with threads like these; but for even people who actually values teamwork as well as individual skill, yes, the game is becoming underwhelming.

SlaktarTasken5/6/2016, 10:00:30 PM3 votes

Yes. Too much change in too short of a timespan, no mercy, no allowing anyone but whoever has the most time to be able to keep up.

This has literally killed the game for me, LoL has gone from fun to tedious. The ammount of time I've spent reading patch notes and PBE notices is staggering compared to previous seasons. The need to network and headhunt for a good premade, to not get fucked in "ranked" has made the game feel more like work than relaxation. Fighters are shit if you're not GP or Trundle. And most of my irl friends have moved on. Honestly, it has gone so far that I don't even feel the release of true soloQ could be this games saving grace. Hextech crafting just feels like a bandaid, I would have revelled at the though of free skins a year ago, now it just feels meh and I don't really care.

Now we got "blink dagger" yippie fucking hoooray! So fresh! Whatever.

deadlychuck5/7/2016, 11:07:58 AM2 votes

Honestly i'm forcing myself to play with this new mage update right now. Not because i'm enjoying it, but because i want experience as much as i can to reinforce the idea in my head that the game has been changed beyond the point that i enjoy it and, in my personal opinion, is complete garbage.

They keep making these changes which feel heavily biased **against **the kind of play style i enjoyed and played for going on 7 years. Unaddressed mobility creep, Overloading kits, dropping time to kill (burst), crit centered marksmen, cheese centered mages, now the stat design isn't cohesive with the rising champion power so you have shit like tank assassins everywhere, and then changing well designed kits for no rhyme or reason into some of these abominations.

9 inches of love5/7/2016, 11:43:58 AM2 votes

it's because everyone that used to make the old champs/skins and balance patches have been kicked out and replaced by a bunch of sjw that cant do their job, I mean hell, look at the guy that balances the game (scarizard) he doesn't even know what to buy on champs, he had gunblade on veigar. The new artworks are really bad compared to the old ones, I dont know why they hired these people tbh, anyone that says they are good is either blind or has no taste at all...

Zone of Endless5/6/2016, 6:51:21 PM2 votes

Remove dynamic with from ranked. That's all I care about.

Dealth5/7/2016, 7:35:03 PM1 votes

I wish LoL was like every other video game that never got boring!

Oh wait.

Raka Flaka MD5/6/2016, 6:55:34 PM1 votes

You are just getting bored of the game. It;s like when i 1st played WoW. I was amazed by the graphics, the huge open world, the endless amount of things to do! Then after a few years it just kinda got old.

Mysterage5/6/2016, 8:17:04 PM1 votes

I'm a beta player, and I've felt like you've described for about as long as you've played League...

WookieJesuz5/7/2016, 5:02:09 PM1 votes

Its only fun if you have some friends to play with

Zerolera5/6/2016, 6:49:34 PM1 votes

I'm not sure if that's so much the game's fault or it's simply because you're just getting bored of playing the same game over and over. A lot of the changes are to try to keep players interested in the game but that doesn't always work.