StarCraft® II

I used to play LoL a bit just to relax, but I got bored of it because it is no way to really multitask when you ONLY control one unit and nothing else.

lol is free, easier to understand the general idea, and its much easier to blame your team for the lose and not yourself, therefor there isnt the frustration of losing because you dont play good.

Ghoude
14/07/2012 17:37Posted by Resist
LoL bores me to death. Could never manage to watch a match to the end. And i've tried.

It is boring to watch. Fun to play. I got over 1k lol games and never have watched tournament game or anything. It is like wow raiding nobody wants to really watch when somebody raids but it is fun when you are your self raiding.

14/07/2012 17:29Posted by eMGmoG
LoL team games are so boring, I dont know why its so popular, its like if every sc2 game goes to min 15 without anything happening in 90% of the time. high elo RT is decent though, alot more action and fun to watch.

Have you even played lol?

started nov 2010 on the NA server, played quite some game till now. ok i was wrong, team games are really interesting before the mid game mark. watching people lasthit creeps and flash out of spectator fun is great. one big engagement usually decides the outcome, carried by snowball effect.

Although Starcraft and LoL are not really comparable in terms of gameplay, you can compare the competitive scene. The reason LoL usually has a lot of viewers on twitch or any other livestream website, is because of the wide range of audience that it has attracted with its free-to-play service. And of course, more LoL "pros" stream more often than most Starcraft pros.

I have to say though, playing LoL professionally is like playing professional tag while Starcraft is more like chess. There is a very high skill cap in Starcraft and while there is one in LoL it requires mostly common sense and not nearly as much dexterity as does SC. I've played LoL and Dota2 and the MOBAs offer a team gameplay system, they lack severely in individual representation of skill. That is why I prefer to watch and play Starcraft.

LoL never has or never will be bigger in terms of competitivnes considering the game revolves around a lot of luck (get 1 lucky kill early, snowballs into 3 which snowballs into more and more) , and is why it isnt taken seriously when considered competitive. However, the game has much bigger numbers because its easy, its fun and its free. Its precisley why around 75% of the playerbase are children between the ages of 8-18, and why the players in the competitive scene are average players. But as others have stated, LoL is dreadfully boring to watch. Especially the 'pro players' who play the game very slowly and make little to no action for themselves, which is why they are often losing unpublished matches to players who are supposedly worse. SC on the other hand is incredibley difficult to pick up, i struggled to learn it even with my brother coaching me, and couldnt find others learnign basic builds without coaching. Compared to LoL where players who are genuinely worse than a good player can win by accident. there are no real loL pros for this matter, as nothing seperates good from great players in the game, as the game doesnt revolve around skill. Dont get like im a LoLhater, ive played over 3.3k games of it and love it, but the game is indefinitley worse than a complex game like SC (excuse the grammar, was typed in a hurry)

McDonalds sandwitch is the most sold one, does not mean it is the best one out there.

LoL never has or never will be bigger in terms of competitivnes considering the game revolves around a lot of luck (get 1 lucky kill early, snowballs into 3 which snowballs into more and more) , and is why it isnt taken seriously when considered competitive

I beg to differ. LoL has set the biggest record to date in prize money pool, last season was a whopping 5 milion doller, 5 000 000, get it?

What determins if it's taken seriously? Korea started this spring with LoL too, now you got teams over there and broadcasts on TV, I hear even Kim Carrier and Fruitdealer are coaches :)

LoL is more accsessable to people then SC2 is. You have 10 minds trying to create strategies and working as a team, it's a lot of fun tbh.

SC is a lot harder and a lot more skill based game, but that alone does not determin whether a game is taken seriously in terms of Esport, no my friend, it's popularity!

WCG has even had FIFA, Colin Macrace (or some sort of car racing game), and DDR if I'm not mistaken. You think those are considered heavy skill based games?

Funny question.

Why not extend it and ask why people call CoD/BF games 'esports'?

In my opinion the only real worthwhile (competitive) game left is Starcraft 2. Sadly, I don't have the time nor motivation to keep at it.

My time ended with CS1.6 :(

cuz sc2 and sc2 support are both garbage

Same reason more people choose zerg over terran: its easier to play.

05/08/2012 13:06Posted by darkness

cuz sc2 and sc2 support are both garbage

You seem to send an awful amount of time playing "garbage" games...

05/08/2012 15:51Posted by Resist

cuz sc2 and sc2 support are both garbage

You seem to send an awful amount of time playing "garbage" games...

It's the current mindset of PC gamers.

Why change game and play something you actually enjoy, when you can spend your time whining on forums?

1. Free to play

2. Casual game

3. Easy to learn and not so much to focus on at the same time ^

4. Play with friends*

* = SC2 is not balanced in team games and makes it less fun. Often much cheese in team games.

5. Its really easy to fool yourself that you are good (ego booster) cause the games infrastructure is so thin it takes about a day to learn everything... And if you don't know anything, just check out the "build pages"..

6. Low stress, not the "ladder anxiety"

7. And apparently its viewer friendly? Go figure... *facepalm*

(I literally don't get whats fun about watching it,and sure... I play LoL, no shame in that.. but... so boring to watch... Even the instructional videos bore the living crap out of me....)

LOL sucks
LOL designed for 5v5 teamspeak as solo queue is IMPOSSIBLE
LOL is a damn stressful game
thats why i prefer dota2 over LOL but soon blizzard all stars will own all those "moba games"
LOL = power to the noobs!! power to the noobs!!

I have to say though, playing LoL professionally is like playing professional tag while Starcraft is more like chess.

starcraft has a much higher skill cap than chess.

Ghoude
14/07/2012 17:37Posted by Resist
LoL bores me to death. Could never manage to watch a match to the end. And i've tried.

It is boring to watch. Fun to play. I got over 1k lol games and never have watched tournament game or anything. It is like wow raiding nobody wants to really watch when somebody raids but it is fun when you are your self raiding.

14/07/2012 17:29Posted by eMGmoG
LoL team games are so boring, I dont know why its so popular, its like if every sc2 game goes to min 15 without anything happening in 90% of the time. high elo RT is decent though, alot more action and fun to watch.

Have you even played lol?

started nov 2010 on the NA server, played quite some game till now. ok i was wrong, team games are really interesting before the mid game mark. watching people lasthit creeps and flash out of spectator fun is great. one big engagement usually decides the outcome, carried by snowball effect.

it's a good thing Starcraft2 isn't all about one big engagement that usually decides the outcome, carried by snowball effect ... oh wait

LoL is F2P which lures in a lot of people. Funny thing is, an average lol player has probably paid more money for microtransactions than the cost of SC2. There was a reddit poll and it came out that 85% of reddit lol players had paid to riot and a decent percentage of them had paid several hundred dollars(most had payed less obviously, but still)

SC2 is a far superior game in my opinion - less frustrating, more strategically complex and more demanding in terms of skill and practice. But the mainstream doesn't want difficult games - it wants lazy games.

Tryndamere, Warwick, Soraka, Karthus, Master Yi, and every new champ....... Reason i stopped playing LoL. They put EVERYTHING into making champs.... That are OP.... To earn money...... LoL sucks, dont ever play it. I started playing it and got like 15 times better than my friends that had played it from the very beginning. Its a memory game. And since people love wasting their energy on feeling good, rather than trying to be best, most of them play LoL. STICK TO SC2 AND YOUR LIFE, ********************************************************************************************************************************** LoL. I regret every !@#$ing second of playing it.

Ghoude
14/07/2012 17:37Posted by Resist
LoL bores me to death. Could never manage to watch a match to the end. And i've tried.

It is boring to watch. Fun to play. I got over 1k lol games and never have watched tournament game or anything. It is like wow raiding nobody wants to really watch when somebody raids but it is fun when you are your self raiding.

14/07/2012 17:29Posted by eMGmoG
LoL team games are so boring, I dont know why its so popular, its like if every sc2 game goes to min 15 without anything happening in 90% of the time. high elo RT is decent though, alot more action and fun to watch.

Have you even played lol?

started nov 2010 on the NA server, played quite some game till now. ok i was wrong, team games are really interesting before the mid game mark. watching people lasthit creeps and flash out of spectator fun is great. one big engagement usually decides the outcome, carried by snowball effect.

They're not called team games. Team games are games where teams exist(no sheeyat sherlock, right?). The games you are comparing are called MOBAs.

Answer is simple ... LoL is FREE!

Can you compare a free game to a game you have to pay for?

It's not fair to compare oranges with apples!

Manno