My experience with League of Legends Summed Up with "Take On Me" by A-ha
#Prologue Season 1. I learned about League after watching my dad play it, who learned about it from his cousin. I began playing on his account, eventually making my own after he saw how much I loved playing it. All of a sudden I had found a type of game I had never heard about, and I instantly fell in love with it. It combined the strategy and thinking I was forced to use when playing games like Sid Meier's Civilizations IV and Starcraft with the action of games like Virtua Fighter 4.
We're talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'll say it anyway Today's another day to find you Shying away I'll be coming for your love, okay?
Season 2-3. Ah the days; I came as often as I could and played to my heart's content, stopping only for life's other beauties (or curses, such as chores). I would wake up with thoughts of playing League of Legends, and this is expressed no better than with the line "Today's another day to find you", only to start "Shying away" when it was time to go to sleep.
Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two
The knowledge that I would inevitably stop playing League one day, whether that be of my own accord or the sad death of the amazing game I fell in love with. Amazing being used only because there isn't a word I know that expresses my true feelings for it, back then.
So needless to say I'm odds and ends I'll be stumbling away Slowly learning that life is OK Say after me It's no better to be safe than sorry
Season 4. Life's going good. I'm growing up with the game (I started playing when I was 8 years old, but it worked out because everyone else was learning too. Even came up with some of my own cheesy strategies). Through hardships inside and outside of the game, I kept playing. Other game came and went, but LoL stayed. Up until nowadays I moved every 3-4 years because my dad was in the military (didn't reach the 20 years he needed to retire, just left or 'quit' essentially. I don't think any less of him for it.) and League stayed through all the friends and amazing people I met, despite myself being the only one I knew before 7th grade who played League.
Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day or two
The same as last time. I almost believed that it would last forever at some times: the feeling of playing the game and the amount of fun I had.
Oh the things that you say Is it live or Just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway
Season 5-6. I began to worry about the game and our relationship. The game began taking some questionable turns around this time, eventually making only questionable choices, rather than making some that I approved of. Despite that I played on, had some fun still, but I found that I wasn't having quite as much fun as before. I looked elsewhere to fill in the gaps. I found those fillers in games such as Paladins, Warframe, Skyrim, Starcraft II (a little bit, had more fun with the first game honestly) and Garry's Mod. "You're shying away" now represents the game drifting further from what I remembered and loved. Is it just the normal change things experience as they age, or is it something greater, or more accurately, more somber?
Take on me, (take on me) Take me on, (take on me) I'll be gone In a day
Season 7. We're at the roads end. I found myself having less and less fun with the game. League had changed into something completely different from what I remembered. I've begun to actually play more of other games instead of League. Towards the end I began to queue aimlessly and groan when I had to pick a champion, sometimes also finding myself saying "I shouldn't have decided to play this game." or "Why did I decide to play this game?"
I'll be gone (take on me) In a day
Preseason 8. I stopped playing League. Instead I play the games listed before, except Starcraft II. I replaced League with DOTA 2 and sometimes play it with a couple of my friends.
#Epilogue Even though I have stopped playing from the lack of fun I retain from playing, the memories I have from playing will always have a special place in my heart. It was fun while it lasted, and for a while it was something more than a game to me; it was me. I hope that someday I will again be able to say that League itself has a special place in my heart, but for now I have set it aside. I still visit the boards and interact with them, spending most of my time in GD and M&G.
Farewell for now, old friend, CytheGuy
P.S. Happy 4-day-late birthday Poppy! I would have remembered to make a post about it if I wasn't at dinner with my family celebrating my own birthday... [sg-soraka]
