Comments on: Legend Is Nigh: League of Legends Open Beta

By: Opti

Opti — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:34:25 +0000

Dumbed down Dota – HoN all the way.

By: Kommissar Nicko

Kommissar Nicko — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:32:12 +0000

I like this game, and have been playing it for a while now. I was a very old hand and DotA, and the change between LoL and DotA has been somewhat refreshing. The core mechanics are the same, but they’re a little more “transparent,” in that when you get stunned/snared/slowed/etc., it tells you as much, and things don’t seem quite as “random” to a new player. The major improvements are in how the shop is laid out, as well as some of the control mechanics. I would say the balance is similar to DotA, but with fewer heroes (so far).

Aside from that, however, all the players are the same fucking assholes you’d expect to find in any average game of DotA.

By: WilPal

WilPal — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:03:17 +0000

LoL. I lol’d.

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:19:53 +0000

To this day my facebook profile states my religious views as “Church of Horace the Endless Bear”.

Not a single one of my friends gets the reference, it’s not mentioned any more by the RPS random PHPness (huh-huh-huh – Pness), and it’s an in-joke I wasn’t at all part of in the first place.

Oh and, um, yeah this game looks alright, I guess.

By: Sparvy

Sparvy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:27:49 +0000

Railick, he didn’t explain them. He was trying to be funny.

Anyway, played my first game of this today, had real fun and everybody I played with were friendly and chatted a bit after the game. Think I will put some time into this the next few weeks.

By: Railick

Railick — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:56:34 +0000

I always thought it was kind of a bad idea to try and entice hard core fans away from a mod with something you have to pay for any how.

By: Tupimus

Tupimus — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:54:45 +0000

To be honest, this shouldn’t be even called in any way a successor of DotA. DotA’s doing good, and it’s balanced – same with HoN, which is more faithful to the actual genre than making up some stupid advantages that you can buy with (real) money from the shop.

LoL is more accessible for newbies, though. The people who actually like the balance that DotA has already assembled are better off in DotA/HoN.

By: Railick

Railick — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:50:06 +0000

Its pretty bad that he explained those terms and I still don't know what they mean lol

By: Shalrath

Shalrath — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:43:24 +0000

Is LoL ‘combat’ basically chain-stunning people to death? I’d like to try a DoTA game that didn’t involve that.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:27:27 +0000

http://beta.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=13418 – Has an explanation of most common terms.

I played a little DotA but I’ve now played a lot of LoL and I enjoy it a lot.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:20:39 +0000

farming: raising up newbs to be good teammates
pushing: as in “pushing” bottom. This is when the newb gets good enough they can help you push
gank: this is what you do to newbs who haven’t been farmed yet
jungling: this is pushing bottom on newbs in the woods
buff: the kind of newb you would enjoy ganking or pushing bottom on
feeding: what you do after a good jungling

I’ll see if I can remember anything else

By: Shalrath

Shalrath — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:17:45 +0000

I literally knew none of them, and none of the ones you mentioned popped up. Feeding, Pushing, Farming, etc are pretty obvious. ‘Bit’ is not.