The fact that the games are so demanding and that you tend to get paired up with a bunch of people you don't know are among the top reasons that I haven't been able to get into them. Friend tried to get me into DOTA 2, but it just didn't click with me.
Well yeah everything besides Dota 1 sucks. The worst part is indeed not being able to go AFK often. Getting paired up with random people is fine though, I mean they're all plebs for not playing good games like Dota 1, but it's a very nice experience if you get decent people.
The thing I miss just as much though is all the other Wc3 custom games; which are all pretty much dead. If I was sent back in time Wc3 custom games would def. be one of the things I would enjoy the most to see again. I even made some of my own and all that (you guys would love the humor in them). If only Wc3 was made free and everyone could enjoy custom games with me again.
People don't even enjoy themselves playing games today, like stopping by at my local Gaming Center after picking up a Pizza; they're all just letting themselves die inside playing LoL. Custom games had everything, and Wc3 4v4 Battlenet was also great times; you enjoyed the hell out of everything.
This would be 2006 to 2010/2011 or so when Smash started takin over. And before Wc3 it was Runescape, I have no clue on the age ranges I was for that.
Yeah games totally suck now. I feel sorry for this generation of kid gamers.
Some days it feels like these 20 years haven't been much, other times it's like I've already lived a life-time and half of it is just foggy memories.
Eventually they'll be able to have a mini camera attached to a necklace they'll give to kids and tell'em to wear, that uploads constant video to a global cloud network with Wifi everywhere. And when they're 20 they'll be told that necklace had a camera in it the whole time and here is a computer generated hour montage of your life so far to watch; and it'll freak'em the **** out.