First off it was great with the exception of the league heavy scenes.
I'm not a league player and when i watched the original web series i wasn't a WoW player however the majority of the jokes on specific games in the webseries could still be funny as you the viewer would see the jokes from the perspective of not understanding just as most other characters do.
This film has certain scenes that can only be enjoyed if you understand the metagame of League of Legends so any time those scenes popped up especially the ending id sit back and think "well okay.. they're killing them.. and uh they won?" then everyone would go ballistic over this crazy play that i have No idea what happened in it.
the old web series would often sneak in a game specific joke but it didn't linger on it, when the old webseries lingered on a specific game it was usually very easy to understand even if a gamer hasn't played WoW or Counter Strike or C&C Generals or CoD the big scenes could still be understood from an outsider. In this film the big LoL scenes i barely understood and it took a lot of enjoyment out of the film for me.
I do wonder what other non League players think of this film.
Maybe it's not as big of a deal as I'm making it out to be it's just for me i felt like i Really should've understood more instead of being a clueless bystander.
Even if id never played Counter Strike and end tournament was about CS:GO id think any gamer could've easily understood what was going on such as the old EP8 Lanageddon episode.
I really don't have a problem with League i just have a problem with my inability to understand what the hell was going on during those scenes.
Ultimately it was a huge nostalgia trip, i do hope we see more PP content in the future and despite my desperate attempt at describing my own inability's it's a great film with classic characters and some interesting new ones. They're free to meld the new PP in to whatever they want and hopefully ill be around to watch it.
I'm not a league player and when i watched the original web series i wasn't a WoW player however the majority of the jokes on specific games in the webseries could still be funny as you the viewer would see the jokes from the perspective of not understanding just as most other characters do.
This film has certain scenes that can only be enjoyed if you understand the metagame of League of Legends so any time those scenes popped up especially the ending id sit back and think "well okay.. they're killing them.. and uh they won?" then everyone would go ballistic over this crazy play that i have No idea what happened in it.
the old web series would often sneak in a game specific joke but it didn't linger on it, when the old webseries lingered on a specific game it was usually very easy to understand even if a gamer hasn't played WoW or Counter Strike or C&C Generals or CoD the big scenes could still be understood from an outsider. In this film the big LoL scenes i barely understood and it took a lot of enjoyment out of the film for me.
I do wonder what other non League players think of this film.
Maybe it's not as big of a deal as I'm making it out to be it's just for me i felt like i Really should've understood more instead of being a clueless bystander.
Even if id never played Counter Strike and end tournament was about CS:GO id think any gamer could've easily understood what was going on such as the old EP8 Lanageddon episode.
I really don't have a problem with League i just have a problem with my inability to understand what the hell was going on during those scenes.
Ultimately it was a huge nostalgia trip, i do hope we see more PP content in the future and despite my desperate attempt at describing my own inability's it's a great film with classic characters and some interesting new ones. They're free to meld the new PP in to whatever they want and hopefully ill be around to watch it.