Saturday, October 22, 2011

LOL

No, this is not what you are probably thinking. I have recently came across a game called "League of Legends" and that has taken up almost 5 hours a day for the last 3 days (while I am at school). The reason I am liking this game so much is because the game is free to play online, and also that you do not need skill. Obviously skill helps, but it is not required. I am the perfect example of this phenomena. When I used to play games like World of Warcraft, I did not ever compete at the highest levels because every character has 40+ spells to use, and most of them help you in different circumstances. If everyone had to click them, I would assume I could be just as good as the next guy, but to be faster, the best players keybind their abilities so all they have to do is press a letter on their keyboard when they want to use a certain move. I on the other hand can hardly think fast enough to do anything besides clicking, so I stuck to the slow method. Now for League of Legends, each character has about 6 moves they can use total, and the letters on the keyboard you use are q,w,e,r,d, and f so you don't even have to move your hand around. This allows me to focus more on strategy over playing ability. For the first few games I was absolutely terrible because I didn't understand the game dynamics, but now I am certain that I have been either the number one or number two contributor to my random groups of 5 online players. It is the perfect game for someone with my learning ability and skill ability, as learning benefits you much more than skill here and I have the former of these two. That is all.

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