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[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

The rage-inducing MOBA’s what? Real cliffhanger at the end of this meme.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago

I also hate that the grammatical standard for all cap pluralization is to include an apostrophe. What is it the Oakland A's possess!?

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s not the standard tho. Every style guide says this is an error it with the optional exception of single-character capital letters …such as Oakland A’s.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

Even if it was the law I would fight it.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Rage-inducing Noita is my cup of tea ☕

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 5 points 5 months ago

Should I play Noita if it mostly caught my eye because of the cool physics? Hades and Vampire Survivors are the two roguelikes that finally clicked for me.

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

I started playing because of the physics.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Haven't tried the other two, but I would say yes if you do roguelikes. The physics and reactions are the half of it, the wandbuilding mechanics let you build some completely bizzare and powerful wands, and with a little luck can start getting a godrun fairly quick.. but you're always vulnerable.

Highly recommend going in blind, there are a lot of secrets to find, different sidequests, etc, winning the game once is a milestone.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just had a nice cup of Thai white tea, which induced the opposite of rage 🍵

The DoTAs and League of Legends kinda games.

Never understood the appeal honestly.

[-] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

They were joking about the apostrophe in MOBA's

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Never understood the appeal honestly.

Same here. I spent about 30 minutes trying to play one (DoTA I think?) and figured out:

  • Each hero has a zillion upgrades and abilities
  • Each hero is basically on their own roguelite style upgrade path
  • The game has a dozen or more such heroes
  • icons and text too small to play on livingroom TV, controller play out of the question
  • at mercy of online match-making algorithm if I'm not in a league/clan/whatever


From this I could deduce:

  • There's no way in hell this is perfectly balanced - too many variables, it may as well be MttG
  • Going to take 20 or more hours to dial in a personal play style
  • Going to take probably 50-100 to develop a play style that can adapt to most situations
  • League play will probably kick my ass, requiring another 50-100 hours of practice/training
  • Causal play is out; likely can't pick up and play immediately due to lobby, variable match times


I'm not knocking the genre as a whole, but this is not for me. It's too far outside my typical mode of gaming and is likely to just frustrate me more than anything else. I'm familiar with hard to play online games like Quake, TF2, and even Soldat. But those have small power systems that, even with gross imbalances, were still playable because there were usually only one or two scenarios you couldn't overcome. Adding more on every axis just sounds like a wildly unbalanced system where the skill curve isn't steep enough, costing a lot of time invested in bad strategies before you figure it all out.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

The appeal would be with a limited albeit large set of characters, items, & rules, you can have effectively an infinite set of outcomes due to the dice rolls of teammates but also champions/heroes chosen on team. It is almost impossible to see the same game twice unlike. There is skill expression & build mechanics that allow a player to outplay or recover matchups & adjust to the state of the game on the fly. With every game starting over at zero, you don’t get invested in building a specific character, but in mastering the gameplay which can go from micro mechanics to macro. I think a lot of folks liked it coincidentally at a time with better broadband for communications for this style of game, developers doing frequent patches to force meta shakeups & e-sports + streaming also taking off. But also a sunk cost fallacy of having invested the time to git gud not bothering to learn any game too similar.

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I read this in Steve Austin’s voice

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