Furiianda
DELICIOUS!
Greetings, my fellow tCoDians!
Some of you have played League of Legends already, and I’m always looking for new additions to my friendlist. If you know what you’re doing, go ahead and add “Furiianda”, if you want.
For those of you who don’t know about this, allow me to explain.
LoL is a free game for your PC. It does require a slightly good machine (nothing too astounding, I assure you!) to play… and Windows. It’s about a 400MB download. You’ll also probably want a mouse, and uh, pro skillz?
More to the point it’s one of the “successors” of DotA, and it’s very similar in many ways, however the interface is built to suit the playstyle and the champions are (probably) a lot cooler.
Anyway, if you happen to not know what DotA means, basically League of Legends is… kind of like a cross between a RTS (real time strategy) and RPG (I’ll assume you know what that stands for). A real time RPG, perhaps? The play style of this genre became very popular very fast and spurred many companies to try and produce similar games, most likely including WoW, and some random game my friends play at LANs called Demigod (which really sucks)!
You pick a champion for each round/match – which tends to go for 30 minutes to an hour, so be prepared for long playing sessions, (leaving midway nets you a lot of penalties) in 5v5 or 3v3 teams! Champions vary quite a lot; there are all the usual things… mages, archers, gigantic monsters that eat people, healers, rogue/assassins, warriors, tanks, whatever you like. Anyway, they’ve all got 4 usable abilities unique to them, as well as a passive. You level up as you fight in the match, and purchase an item set (up to 6) to boost your stats, and try to break into the enemies’ base, past their defensive turrets and minion/creep waves to destroy their Nexus. (It's a big shiny purple thing that spawns each team's minions) It’s generally a PvP game, though there are some AI/bots, with a pretty good matchmaking system – you have a level attributed to you that grows as you play more matches, and you’re paired with people of a similar level. Finding games usually takes about half a minute!
If this doesn’t quite make sense to you, you’d probably spend your time better finding some videos rather than getting me to explain.
Anyway, if you’re interested or are a new player, I’m happy to help out anyone with what I know. This, admittedly, isn’t too much. There are tonnes of online resources as well and a pretty comprehensive in-game tutorial.
I would love if some more friends or acquaintances of mine would join. I don’t like queuing for games on my own, as in any PvP game, you run into a lot of jerks. As well as co-ordination and planning (and voice chat) making things much easier for a team, which is a bit harder with strangers.
If you’d like to play an online, competitive game without spending a lot of (or any) money, League of Legends is a great choice! I would say it’s a lot of fun, and there’s no harm in trying, right? It’s a lot easier to get into if you have friends with you, too… just the nature of the game. ~
You can download the game at http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ . They also try to force you to watch a shiny trailer when you go to the website, so don't be shocked when you see one of those "Skip this ad" page fronts.
Anyway, moving on from the blatant advertising, please contribute your screen names if you play and I’ll compile them or something. Feel free to discuss, or argue, or peacefully share your opinions or experiences of the game.
Summoner Names
Furiianda
ArtsyAlraune (Alraune/Spike)
Blaziking
Honalululand
Some of you have played League of Legends already, and I’m always looking for new additions to my friendlist. If you know what you’re doing, go ahead and add “Furiianda”, if you want.
For those of you who don’t know about this, allow me to explain.
LoL is a free game for your PC. It does require a slightly good machine (nothing too astounding, I assure you!) to play… and Windows. It’s about a 400MB download. You’ll also probably want a mouse, and uh, pro skillz?
More to the point it’s one of the “successors” of DotA, and it’s very similar in many ways, however the interface is built to suit the playstyle and the champions are (probably) a lot cooler.
Anyway, if you happen to not know what DotA means, basically League of Legends is… kind of like a cross between a RTS (real time strategy) and RPG (I’ll assume you know what that stands for). A real time RPG, perhaps? The play style of this genre became very popular very fast and spurred many companies to try and produce similar games, most likely including WoW, and some random game my friends play at LANs called Demigod (which really sucks)!
You pick a champion for each round/match – which tends to go for 30 minutes to an hour, so be prepared for long playing sessions, (leaving midway nets you a lot of penalties) in 5v5 or 3v3 teams! Champions vary quite a lot; there are all the usual things… mages, archers, gigantic monsters that eat people, healers, rogue/assassins, warriors, tanks, whatever you like. Anyway, they’ve all got 4 usable abilities unique to them, as well as a passive. You level up as you fight in the match, and purchase an item set (up to 6) to boost your stats, and try to break into the enemies’ base, past their defensive turrets and minion/creep waves to destroy their Nexus. (It's a big shiny purple thing that spawns each team's minions) It’s generally a PvP game, though there are some AI/bots, with a pretty good matchmaking system – you have a level attributed to you that grows as you play more matches, and you’re paired with people of a similar level. Finding games usually takes about half a minute!
If this doesn’t quite make sense to you, you’d probably spend your time better finding some videos rather than getting me to explain.
Anyway, if you’re interested or are a new player, I’m happy to help out anyone with what I know. This, admittedly, isn’t too much. There are tonnes of online resources as well and a pretty comprehensive in-game tutorial.
I would love if some more friends or acquaintances of mine would join. I don’t like queuing for games on my own, as in any PvP game, you run into a lot of jerks. As well as co-ordination and planning (and voice chat) making things much easier for a team, which is a bit harder with strangers.
If you’d like to play an online, competitive game without spending a lot of (or any) money, League of Legends is a great choice! I would say it’s a lot of fun, and there’s no harm in trying, right? It’s a lot easier to get into if you have friends with you, too… just the nature of the game. ~
You can download the game at http://www.leagueoflegends.com/ . They also try to force you to watch a shiny trailer when you go to the website, so don't be shocked when you see one of those "Skip this ad" page fronts.
Anyway, moving on from the blatant advertising, please contribute your screen names if you play and I’ll compile them or something. Feel free to discuss, or argue, or peacefully share your opinions or experiences of the game.
Summoner Names
Furiianda
ArtsyAlraune (Alraune/Spike)
Blaziking
Honalululand
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