League of Legends

League of Legends is one of the most played games in the United States today.  And luckily for us, we got to binge it for three days straight!  Over this three day period, we experienced a wide range of emotions and opinions about the game.  Even though we all played the same game, we had different experiences and reactions to it.  Ultimately, we concluded that it really isn’t worth all the hype.  Here is why.

Reva…

The main problem I had with the game was the sheer repetitiveness of it.  I wasn’t big into video games as a kid, but going into this binge I had the idea that I would be entering this fantasy world with a serious mission -- but I was very mistaken.  I am sure there are games like that out there, but League of Legends is not one of them.  After I played a couple of games, I realized that there wasn’t much else to the game.  It consisted of fighting the same enemies in the same landscape for basically eternity.  I guess the goal was to get better and better, but I became extremely unmotivated when I found out that there was no greater purpose.  I mean, at least in Super Mario Bros you work towards saving Princess Peach.  All I can say about this experience is that I immediately deleted League of Legends off my computer when the binge was over.  I don’t think I will be returning…  

Margaret…

Before this binge, the only real video game experience I had was with Nintendogs, a game where to you take care of puppies and play with them. League of Legends is very different from my favorite fourth grade game, so it was difficult to get used to such an interactive and complicated game. I struggled to learn how to control each character, work with my online teammates, and figure out how to kill the other opponents in each match. After three days, I had become fairly good at the game, but nowhere close to a pro. Even though I kept playing the same game and participating in identical matches, I was only a level 5 and I still died a lot. Looking back on this binge, I don’t think I will play League of Legends again anytime soon. Although I liked winning the battles and learning the game with my friends, I never made any real progress; LoL is only so much fun for a short period of time.

Hadis...

League of Legend is a strategic video game.  In this game you are about 40% dependent on your teammates in terms of whether they get to help you win or leave you to die on your own. The computer graphic design is ridiculously appealing. Because it is very detailed, the whole game experience is very exciting and mysterious; in every corner or on every wall there is always something more than what our eyes can see at first glance.  One of the main reasons this game is so attractive is its incredible graphics.  

Addie…

Upon entering this binge, I was actually excited to play League of Legends since I figured the eighteen hours would move faster if I was controlling and interacting with something. However, my three days got off to a pretty rough start with lots of technical difficulties and sheer lack of video game knowledge (read: The only video game I play is Just Dance). Even after I sort of understood the basics of League of Legends, my character was still dying approximately twenty times each game. This went on consistently for the first two days of the binge. I would kill two, maybe three people in a game if I was lucky, and I would be killed every other minute. On day three though, something wild happened. I was killing six or eight people in a game and only dying three or four times. As I type these words, I realize that any average League of Legends player would laugh in my face for how awful those stats are, but I felt like a goddamn Legend. I’m not sure if I’ll end up returning to the game since it is pretty episodic and repetitive, but who knows? Plus, I do have beef with a character named Trundle who killed me sixteen times in one game, so I am still on the prowl for Trundle vengeance.