What can be said about LoL. It's one of the most popular video games on the planet and I say for pretty good reason. The game is incredibly simple and only controlled with the mouse and a few keys, and the game has light yet appealing graphics that can run on pretty much any computer. There are over 150 playable characters with countless fun abilities and playstyles to try and build items around to let you dominate enemies in your own way. I started playing around May 2020 a little after the big pandemic and got pretty addicted to playing the game with my friends and occasionally by myself to get better. My champion pool lately consists of Xerath, Swain, Pantheon, and Mordekaiser, characters with huge potentials for carrying a team to victory.
What holds this game back is some technical issues with the client, poor balancing (not what you think), and general negative views on the company behind it. The game client can have regular connectivity issues, kicking you out of parties, loading in the game slowly or crashing sometimes. The balance I refer to and dislike for Riot Games is a ratio of new champions to reworks of existing ones. We pretty much get a 1:6 ratio of a rework of an existing character to brand new ones each year, and the new champions just get tiring. Most, if not all champs released in the past 3 years launch at incredibly overpowered states and either don't change to become weaker or get nerfed into oblivion. The alternative game modes have completely gone down the toilet. Even though they were before my time, I know about the likes of Star Guardian and Dominion, and the countless hours of fun players had with these modes that I will probably never ever get to experience. Despite this, League is a regular game I find myself playing since it's mechanically fun and pretty satisfying to win in. I can only hope that Riot will take some better steps in looking out for the game's community since League no doubt has one of the most dedicated fanbases in the industry. I recommend people play this game
What holds this game back is some technical issues with the client, poor balancing (not what you think), and general negative views on the company behind it. The game client can have regular connectivity issues, kicking you out of parties, loading in the game slowly or crashing sometimes. The balance I refer to and dislike for Riot Games is a ratio of new champions to reworks of existing ones. We pretty much get a 1:6 ratio of a rework of an existing character to brand new ones each year, and the new champions just get tiring. Most, if not all champs released in the past 3 years launch at incredibly overpowered states and either don't change to become weaker or get nerfed into oblivion. The alternative game modes have completely gone down the toilet. Even though they were before my time, I know about the likes of Star Guardian and Dominion, and the countless hours of fun players had with these modes that I will probably never ever get to experience. Despite this, League is a regular game I find myself playing since it's mechanically fun and pretty satisfying to win in. I can only hope that Riot will take some better steps in looking out for the game's community since League no doubt has one of the most dedicated fanbases in the industry. I recommend people play this game