Raku-Gosha said:
Once you open your eyes to the meta- innocence is lost man. You can never go back.
All you'll see is counter champs, fotm, cpm, tried and true builds ad nauseam. it's no longer a game but a job, you need to maintain to feed your inner elitist.
Nah, just do what I do and play stuff like a botlane with no ADC or support and watch your opponents cry themselves into a pile of dust because they have no clue how to play against anything that isn't meta.
Actually ran a very fun and effective game with 2 mates the other day, we had Jax/Sona top and I was Brand solo bot. We won in like 15 minutes with a team score of roughly 25/5/30 because they simply couldn't adapt, they stuck to their precious meta too much.
Of course this only
really works at higher ELOs, you'll actually have a harder time using this against Bronze/Silver players because they don't have countless hours spent sticking themselves into the exact same routine.
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More on topic: I'd like to say I'll try anything, but there's an increasing amount of exceptions these days, I refuse to touch the mobile Dungeon Keeper just out of principal.
Something I've recently decided against is unfinished products.
Buying Minecraft in Alpha was probably one of the best purchases I've made, pretty much a stars-aligned story of how selling development versions should go. Unfortunately I think this has also been one of the largest factors in Early Release becoming standard practice...
And I don't think anything else I've bought early has even been finished... Starbound is doing well so that'll almost definitely become the exception to what I just said, Forge Quest still has potential too.
But
Lords of Uberdark (Lately people now know what this is because of Jims coverage of Earth 2066, LoU is made by the same developer) was something I helped kickstart, it was abandoned in early alpha in a state with no actual gameplay in it and basic functions missing.
Cube world
technically not abandoned but might as well be, there's been one patch since the game became open-for-all a year ago and it was just a small batch of bugfixes.
Starforge development seems to have been halted.
And then ofcourse there's the big public messes like WarZ.
So yeah, in short I spose I'll never play something that's too early in early access again.