Poll: Should ZP review League of Legends?

[lordmardok]

This is something I've been wondering for a while now. It seems like Yahtzee should at some point review this game since it's star is currently in the ascendant. At the time of writing League of Legends is the most played PC game by an order of magnitude. It seems at least in terms of reviewing games of current relevance in today's gaming environment that League of Legends should have come up much earlier. Now everyone who plays MOBA's has thier favorite but I think that we can all agree that whatever your personal preference is, League of Legends is winning. It has more players and more media coverage than any other so it makes the most sense to review it rather than HoN of DotA II.

I can see the marks against it though. Traditionally Yahtzee reviews games for consoles more than PC's. I actually counted.

Currently the score stands at...

Console games reviewed: 196
PC games reviewed: 91

If the numbers seem off it's because in the interest of fairness I counted games that saw releases on both Consoles and PC's toward each one. So Mass Effect counted as a game reviewed for both Consoles and PC's. The other hitch in the track is that Yahtzee generally seems to dislike reviewing MMO's. A distaste that probably transfers neatly over to MOBA's which share the endless gameplay. However I would posit that the main reason for the dislike is the hatred of useless repetition. After all, in MMO's no matter how long you play all it takes is someone having better gear than you to trounce you effortlessly. It's like he said in his Cataclysm review. "You just want to have the biggest numbers", and that's true. In games like LoL and HoN and DotA II the emphasis lies heavily on skilled gameplay and teamwork where even a longtime player can get rolled if he's caught in a well planned attack.

I think that Yahtzee should review MOBA's, maybe not just one, maybe review them as a whole. I think that the MOBA genre is a new facet of gaming that shouldn't be ignored and really needs to get more mainstream presence in the critic sector.

EDIT: As a disclaimer, the numbers above probably have a margin of error of about 4-6 because there may be some games ported to PC or PC games ported to Console that I'm unaware of.

 

[hazabaza1]

Not released recent enough to be relevant and he hates dislikes multiplayer. Nope.

 

[Chased]

I have a gut feeling that Yahtzee could care less about League so he's just reviewing games that interest him in some way (whether it be positive or negative). I could see Yahtzee maybe reviewing DotA 2 but then again I'm not even sure if he reviews F2P games.

Though I don't play League I would certainly be interested in what he has to say.

 

[lRookiel]

Oh it would be a hilarious review.

But I don't think he would touch it with a ten foot pole since it's multiplayer and a fairly competitive multiplayer at that.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Chances are he'll absolutely hate it. Well, he might maybe like some of the gameplay, but I've got a gnawing feeling the LoL playerbase is the kind he abhors.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I feel it'd be something like the Final Fantasy XIII review: He's not gonna have enough time to fully judge. From what I hear the LoL queue to join a game is long. But yeah, I don't feel he'd review it anyway.

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

I feel it'd be something like the Final Fantasy XIII review: He's not gonna have enough time to fully judge. From what I hear the LoL queue to join a game is long. But yeah, I don't feel he'd review it anyway.

Who told you that? it only takes me about 30 secs to find a game.

 

[lordmardok]

Chances are he'll absolutely hate it. Well, he might maybe like some of the gameplay, but I've got a gnawing feeling the LoL playerbase is the kind he abhors.

I do agree with this, the player base is really hard to get used to. Really though is it any worse than the community for Modern Warfare or Battlefield? The chat in those are pretty atrocious.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

I feel it'd be something like the Final Fantasy XIII review: He's not gonna have enough time to fully judge. From what I hear the LoL queue to join a game is long. But yeah, I don't feel he'd review it anyway.

Who told you that? it only takes me about 30 secs to find a game.

Friends who play League of Legends.

 

[lordmardok]

Not released recent enough to be relevant and he hates dislikes multiplayer. Nope.

Well the thing about League of Legends is that it is recent. It will always be recent so long as there is media and player attention. My main argument is that League is extremely relevant today in gaming. I think that means it deserves a review from one of the most relevant internet game reviewers.

 

[lordmardok]

I feel it'd be something like the Final Fantasy XIII review: He's not gonna have enough time to fully judge. From what I hear the LoL queue to join a game is long. But yeah, I don't feel he'd review it anyway.

Who told you that? it only takes me about 30 secs to find a game.

Friends who play League of Legends.

Well they're wrong. Normal games have a wait time of 22-30 seconds and ranked games have a wait queue of 1:00 - 1:30 minutes.

 

[StriderShinryu]

If he did, he would absolutely destroy it in a likely very entertaining review.. plus it would front a popcorn bowl worthy comment thread. So, yeah, he should review it.

 

[Racecarlock]

I think I'll let yahtzee field this one. "And now, since this review has left me with a lot of surplus bile, let me close by requesting that if any more of you would like to tell me how to do my job, then please get hurled out of a plane, and land anus first on the spire of Winchester Cathedral."

That's from his COD4 review, if anyone is wondering.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Not released recent enough to be relevant and he hates dislikes multiplayer. Nope.

The problems in a nutshell, with the second one being a bigger one. The guy is an admitted misanthrope who absolutely loathes multiplayer, especially online multiplayer. He'd be too biased to give a decent review, or even a particularly funny one.

 

[Aircross]

He could play Dota 2 when it's released and just play with bots. That's as single player as you can get.

 

[AD-Stu]

Chances are he'll absolutely hate it. Well, he might maybe like some of the gameplay, but I've got a gnawing feeling the LoL playerbase is the kind he abhors.

I do agree with this, the player base is really hard to get used to. Really though is it any worse than the community for Modern Warfare or Battlefield? The chat in those are pretty atrocious.

Remember though, he insists on reviewing Modern Warfare and Battlefield on the merits of their single-player modes

Not released recent enough to be relevant and he hates dislikes multiplayer. Nope.

Well the thing about League of Legends is that it is recent. It will always be recent so long as there is media and player attention. My main argument is that League is extremely relevant today in gaming. I think that means it deserves a review from one of the most relevant internet game reviewers.

I'm not sure I understand.

You know exactly what a Yahtzee review of the game would be like. If, as you say, this game has "more players and media coverage than any other" (I have no idea if that's true or not, but I suspect not - I've never played it and barely heard of it) then why does it need one more comedy "review" that would almost certainly be overwhelmingly negative?

 

[lordmardok]

You know exactly what a Yahtzee review of the game would be like. If, as you say, this game has "more players and media coverage than any other" (I have no idea if that's true or not, but I suspect not - I've never played it and barely heard of it) then why does it need one more comedy "review" that would almost certainly be overwhelmingly negative?

It's not the NFL but League of Legends has supplanted Starcraft and Starcraft II as the most played game in Korea. It has national, international, and world championships every year and tournaments in every major game convention.

No offense but just because you don't follow these things doesn't meant they aren't relevant. League of Legends may not be a household name but among millions upon millions of people play it every day. Also the main reason I'm interested in Yahtzee's review of this is because, unlike you clearly, I don't just watch them because they make me laugh. I watch them because they have pertinent things to say about the games that don't follow the usual "9/10 stars!" rigmarole, instead they break down the game piece by piece. If you listen in between the snark and sarcasm he really does a good job of breaking down what is good and bad about the game.

Also, I know you likely don't care, but it is in fact the Most Played Online PC Game currently. That's not my words that's statistics. It clocked almost 1.3 billion hours played in six months, over twice what WoW had which was the next runner up.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/07/11/riot-games-league-of-legends-officially-becomes-most-played-pc-game-in-the-world/

and yes, that is Forbes magazine.

 

[DugMachine]

He'd tear that game to shreds I think. He already doesn't like multiplayer and add the horrid community I don't see him liking it in the least. Would make for a funny episode though i'm sure.

 

[Vivi22]

Really though is it any worse than the community for Modern Warfare or Battlefield? The chat in those are pretty atrocious.

If the LoL community is anything like the DotA community for Warcraft 3 then I would say yes, they'd be worse than any FPS I've ever played. Then again, I've never played any of them online on Xbox. By all accounts the Xbox Live community is orders of magnitude worse than the PSN or PC community since more of them have mics.

As to whether or not there should be a ZP review of LoL, I can't see what the point is other than perhaps getting a few laughs. LoL is one of those games which we can almost undoubtedly assume Yahtzee will hate as completely and absolutely as it is possible for a person to hate something. There's no reason to do one because his opinion should be obvious to any long time viewer, and I doubt anything surprising will come of it.

 

[OniaPL]

It'd be entertaining. Then I'd have a thread where I could rave about the f*ckers playing AD Ahri or AP Tristana in ranked games.