this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
86 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

30555 readers
196 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
Whom@beehaw.org
The_Hunted_One@beehaw.org
alyaza@beehaw.org
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
chloyster@beehaw.org
remington@beehaw.org
86
LOL? lol (feddit.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by TIN@feddit.uk to c/gaming@beehaw.org
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

My son asked me if I would play league of legends with him, so tried it for the first time. So much going on!

Firstly, how does anyone zero in on what hero they want to play, there are so many of them! I feel like it would take a year just to play enough to decide.

Secondly, the purchase UI seems to have been designed to ensure that a new player can never understand it. I'm sure like all things it becomes clear over time but jeez, did a professional team really work on that thing?

Anyway, 2 defeats from 2 games so far, I write to you from the lobby waiting for the third!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Is that game still the poster child for toxic gamers? Been years since I played but I would never let my kid play that game.

It's sad because it is pretty fun when you get into it and when you have people to play with. But it really only takes one person to ruin a match for nine other people by trolling/feeding/etc. I ended up quitting because it was just WAY too toxic.

The shit people used to say in that game... like nothing I've heard in any other game. Literally talking about

spoilerraping people
like that's somehow acceptable shit talking. Curious if it's gotten any better... it certainly couldn't have gotten any worse.

[–] Xel@mujico.org 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's somewhat better but heavily depends on what you play and how you play it. Empirically, it's better as now I only find toxic players every 20 games or so, when before it was like 1/2. But I also recommend to just mute everything and everyone and stick to ARAM if you don't like toxicity.

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I forgot they added an official ARAM mode. Back when I played, it was a custom game thing and kinda honor system to stay in the middle lane. I played it a lot before I quit for the low stress environment. Kinda want to check it out now. Shame/not-shame I can't because I'm on linux.

[–] Xel@mujico.org 1 points 11 months ago

I recommend it a lot, it's very entertaining for team fights and quick tactics, rather than waiting 20 mins for the fun to begin or waiting for your JG to do something in SR

load more comments (7 replies)