@Riot I loathe this game

Unward49··4 votes·826 views

I had a big long post here about anti fun champs and how every game I play is full of them and that I dub this the anti fun meta, but instead I will restate the above.

I loathe this game. Your game has transcended un-fun. It is now anti fun. I could write volumes on why, but I'm not your fucking balance and design team.

I feel certain that at some much distant period in history I experienced something approaching the emotion of love for this game. Now I'm definitely in that horribly uncomfortable phase in a failed relationship where you are pretty sure you actually now loath the other person, but all your shit is in different places and you don't actually have anyone else in mind in particular that you'd rather be with and hell, let's just be honest here, Sex, even loveless, mechanical, passionless thrusting is still often preferable to masturbation.

There are just so many little things at this point, so many minuscule grievances which alone would be nothing, but together create this enormous cancerous mass of shitty anti fun game play. Some of the things are not at all your fault, like the way in which people communicate with each other in game, some of them are absolutely 100% your fault, like how you consistently throw all manner of random fucking game play mechanics and changes and stupid fucking bullshit into and out of the game without even giving players a chance to get used to the changes, some of the things are just the kinds of shit you spend your money on suggesting that you don't have a fucking clue what makes a game fun. Nobody who plays this game actually gives a fuck about lore Riot. I know your stupid survey says that they do, but they are a part of the "community". The rest of us who play the game, we don't give a fuck. No Riot, we don't need ANOTHER Teemo skin. No Riot, I don't know why you insist on continuing to give CertainlyT a salary. When you need to pay 10 other people just to fix 1 person's mistakes, maybe you should re-examine how you employ people.

How about a matchmaking system that doesn't eat goat dick. How about you get on that eventually. How about a replay system already? How about a functional test mode so that I can actually properly experiment with all the new fangled shit that you insist in cramming into this game every two weeks.

All tiny bullshit easily ignored things by themselves, like I said.

But do you know what I hate the most.

I hate that this is the best of the Genre, a genre I truly love. I loved this style of game long before you named it moba and LoL completely monopolizes it. Anything else that wants to compete has to do it with stupid gimicks (hots) or has to appeal to nostalgia with purposely janky and dated mechanics (dota). And that's it. There's nothing else. If I want to play this kind of game, I have League, I have Dota and I have hots. Yours is just the least bad of a shitty lot.

At yet my favorite memories of playing video games have come playing this kind of game, so like some fucking aging hippie, I keep plugging away at it hopping for a chance to rekindle that lost glory.

Fuck you Riot and fuck your stupid game.

11 Comments

ULTRA RAMOOSE2 votes

Riot does not care, they won't listen, nor will they do anything... until there is a mass exodus, by then it will be too late.

jaymc11302 votes

To be honest, this game has been a really bad game for years now. Things have only gone downhill since season 2. It has almost no redeeming qualities and is played purely out of addiction.

Sad to hear you're just finding this out. I quit for 8 months back at the beginning of season 4 after playing for 3 years. I picked it up again for no real reason and I regret that decision every day. League may as well be nicotine.

Unward491 votes

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jaymc11301 votes

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jesus1worlds20151 votes

easy there, i might have the solution.. hear me out: what if runes/masteries helped you deal with anti-fun champs? but firstly, what are anti-fun champs to YOU? to ME: it's annie/veigar/TF, i hate their stuns so much i wana cry when they land them to me it's so frustrating to get caught in their stuns and then get bursted to death :/, so... what if there are runes that reduce stun duration? whatabout masteries that at Tier 3 you can prevent a killing burst blow? i think runes/masteries have the potential to do something about anti-fun champs

Itadaki Seieki1 votes

The idea of Annie, Veigar and TF stuns being reduced by something called " Stun Reduction Duration " is redundant. After the Veigar nerf to his E ( Yes, it was a nerf. No more instant cast -> delayed stun is a lame nerf ) you have to be very oblivious to see it. Annie always stuns with the swirls, and TF has a giant gold card over his head.

They aren't anti-fun, they're MADE to do that because you have to be AWARE of the idea that this will screw you over no matter what. Once you play them and then have fun punishing people who don't grasp the concept of " OH BIG CIRCLE AROUND ME BETTER RUN ASAP " is honestly rewarding and fun.

All champions in League are fun. Especially Bard, I find to be the most fun, and he's simply a support. Most people who preach " anti-fun " just take the game WAY to seriously.

Screw around with friends, go Rek'sai support, go Jarvan Xin bottom lane. Break the meta, it wasn't around when the game started and that was the most fun I ever had.

Bard - Phijkchu Baku

Crett1 votes

I've got some concerns with the direction the game's heading in, too. (mostly just being dominated by one-sided snowbally games, stalling being a thing of the past, and the game just being saturated with damage in general)

But the kind of things you're saying are pretty harsh. Riot's dedicated to making a good game, I mean, this is their only game, it's their thing.

No matter how wonky their balance decisions get at times (LOL flat health on Veteran's scars, item 3742 nerf, Unyielding nerf, Bond Of Stone nerf, crushing my dreams one mastery at a time) they'll always be trying to steer this game towards being as fun and engaging as possible.

Even now, I occasionally can have some semblance of fun in this post-apocalyptic preseason. But mostly pain and suffering, or the completely unsatisfying apathy that comes with completely stomping the enemy team with no chance of a comeback, it's numbness enveloping me in a cocoon of silent agony.

Really, I had the most fun in this game when it wasn't just about who can kill who faster. Honestly I have the most fun when tanks are actually very durable. Even playing as an assassin or an adc. When you have to actually respect their tankiness, the game's a lot more interesting while keeping all roles powerful and meaningful.

But I don't like how much damage tanks do. At all.

To be honest, If I was in charge I'd zap the AP ratios off of the following champions Alistar Amumu Braum Chogath DrMundo Gragas Leona Maokai Malphite Nautilus Sion Rammus TahmKench Volibear Zac Sejuani .

Some people would crucify me for some of those. Namely Malphite Sejuani Zac Maokai Chogath But I believe itemization has gotten to the point where most hilarious off-builds of tanks just aren't worth the gameplay price paid. Without AP scaling on these tanks, Riot would have much more control over where their damage is coming from. That said, I think tanks should still deal damage. What I don't like is a tank flying past your backline and assassinating the ADC. That's when the tank meta becomes disgusting.

A proper tank should be respected. Almost like a raid-boss. Not in that they're insurmountable, but they should really be a team effort, and should take a bit of time to take down. AND NOT something some little monkey can fly in and assassinate with % health damage and %pen abound in five seconds.

Khell DarkWolf1 votes

Keep your paws off my Mage fighter Sejuani Sejuani

Crett1 votes

LOL

Unward491 votes

I don't think they're trying to make a shitty game, I think they are inadvertently breaking a good game by over complicating what should be a very simplistic formula.

The best examples of the genre that I have played actually have very few characters, very few items and generally very few "mechanics". League isn't Dota levels of complicated, but it's pretty fucking close. It's a total mess and they do themselves no favors at all by even TRYING to balance it.

Everything they add to the game, at this point, just makes it worse.

When they changed the ADC stuff around I was just like, nope, fuck this, I never adc anyway, I REFUSE to learn how to do it again. I don't enjoy it, I never WILL enjoy it, but at least when I had to do it I had a kind of a grasp of what was expected of me. And you went and changed EVERYTHING about it. None of the items do the same thing, half of them are completely new just like half of the adcs are completely new. No. I refuse. You can make changes like that once every 6 months and then NOTHING for the next half a year. You can't fucking do this to me 8 times a year! Fuck you.

Crett1 votes

You sound

like

you need

to take a break from League

indefinitely

Why not try Undertale? Or Flower Or Journey

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