![]() Games had patches before League of Legends, but League changed what patches were for. One of the most important ways that Riot keeps the game difficult is through constant patching. Some of the most popular games of the decade challenge players rather than making things easy for them. Even a game like Overwatch is a mess of characters, abilities, maps, and cooldowns. ![]() Sports games like FIFA have gotten more complex, and Rocket League has challenging mechanics that not every player can pull off. Fortnite, and PUBG brought it to shooters. Demon Souls brought this kind of challenge to action games. Over the decade, watching League grow, it’s impossible to ignore this same kind of difficulty in other games. Nothing about this is easy and it takes a mountain of time and investment to learn. All of that was true when League was released, it’s only gotten more complicated in the 10 years since. Players have to farm, hit skill shots, track enemy cooldowns, and know their abilities. Warding - placing items on the map that you give you vision of your opponents’ movement - is a key part of the game. There’s no such thing as being good at the game, because there are a dozen smaller skills you can always improve. But these challenges are exactly why players keep coming back to the game. Sometimes all you get out of a 40 minutes game is a crushing defeat. It takes hours just to feel like you know what you’re doing, and no matter how good you are, it’s still extremely easy to let your team down. League is complicated, punishing, and difficult - for years it didn’t even have a good tutorial. Conventional wisdom says that games need to be accessible to find an audience. ![]() League of Legends’ existence as one of the most popular games in the world doesn’t make a ton of sense. The best comics of the decade Everybody loves a challenge ![]() The best movies of the decade, according to us ![]() And we’re reevaluating the all the ways in which the face of entertainment changed from 2010 through 2019. Graphic: James Bareham/Polygon | Source images: Various The best of the decade, 2010-2019Īs the 2010s draw to a close, we’re taking stock of the best pop culture of the decade. ![]()
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