Am I the only one upset with how dull the new map is?
Here are my thoughts:
Riot is trying to make it less eye-catching in order to preserve player focus. They say that the map should be the last thing anyone's eyes focus on. I completely disagree and there are other reasons the map shouldn't be dull.
Lets talk about focus. When I am ideally focused in a League Game, for example a team fight, I am taking into account my Cooldowns, the sounds, the visuals, my knowledge of the enemy's cooldowns, my predictions of the enemy's movements, and my knowledge/experience. No where in that list is "the background".
Was a distracting map a problem before? I never once said "Dang it, I missed my Q because that stupid grass is too bright" after I died. If anyone had a problem with that then please speak now or forever hold your peace, because I had never noticed any of those problems. I also don't notice any kind of a difference now that it is duller. It's pretty poor reasoning to change your whole art style to be more like DotA.
Before the map update I liked League of Legends because it's art style was much more vibrant and lively. One of the reason's I don't like DotA is because of it's duller art style. Now that I hear people say, oh now it looks like DotA, I get really sad. I can tell in some aspects it has upheld some of the original themes, but the map is just so overwhelmingly dull I left depressed.
Can we please just brighten it up? I have a toaster and have to run it on Low and it looks awful anyways, can it at least be a nicer color since I only get 1 color on Low and its moldy green.