What makes a popular video game? Is it the number of players it gets? The biggest ever international tournament held? Or, is it something else one cannot comprehend easily? Well, the Esports spectrum isn’t new. It has spanned for over a decade and just recently, it started to take shape of a pro gaming platform. Now local and national level championships are secondary to many esports companies and gaming brands.
The future is bright, lucrative, and highly competitive. But what are the games that won’t falter until the end? Maybe you do know a few and maybe you are an avid fan of the games. The esports scene evolved due to the emergence of high-speed internet offered by internet providers such as Cox internet and other ones available in your corresponding inhabitancies. Before you start counting the blessings the age of the internet has bestowed upon us, you might as well know where the esports industry currently stands with some of the most popular titles.
Dota 2
MOBA games are aplenty but only a few titles see the light of popularity. Many novice and professional gamers have deemed Dota 2’s gameplay mechanics difficult as compared to its MOBA counterparts. Once you start playing the game, the selection of characters, their set of abilities and strategies seems like a simple notion until you actually begin mastering the gameplay for real. The game’s also free-to-play, offering in-game purchases for items, characters and glossing up their appearances with skins or weapons.
League of Legends
The only MOBA securing the number one spot on the Esports list, League of Legends is a free-to-play game by Riot Games standing tall amidst the competition for 10 years already. League of Legends is no longer your ordinary MOBA. With video games, an animated series, and a mobile app under development, the game cannot be dethroned anytime soon. As for its live-streaming scope, the World’s Championship 2019 secured 1.7 million viewers on Twitch and easily broke the view count record of Fortnite.
Fortnite
Surely every online gamer is familiar with the Floss Dance Fortnite brought forward. No matter how embarrassed you feel to admit it, you must have tried it at least once. Well, setting aside the separate fanbase the Floss Dance has, let’s present our outlook on the fame the battle royale game has achieved so far. The concept of battle royale games was given life again by Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) but Epic Games had a different take on the game in mind. You build your fort, you protect it, and you fight until the end to survive. It felt as if the company merged various game genres into one and presented a complete package to gamers with varying interests.
Overwatch
Epic Games? Check. Riot Games? Check. Blizzard Entertainment? Of course, it’s a check from us. Overwatch, a global phenomenon of a shooting game, is still not faltering in turning heads worldwide. From championships and tournaments dedicated to the game to animated videos with cinematic visuals, Overwatch is nothing short of a triple-A title in the realm of esports games. It’s good to have a first-person shooter game in the list but one that is bursting with color, achievements, extensive hero rosters and opportunities to opt for playing the game on a professional level.
Mortal Kombat 11
So you thought Mortal Kombat X was brutal with its fatalities? Wait until you start playing Mortal Kombat 11. The game is gruesomely fatal yet streamlines the game’s lore immaculately. Having a 1v1 playoff with your friends can be immersive but solely playing the story mode is an experience of its own. That just shows how the Mortal Kombat series never falters to improve with every new release. What has made millennials so hooked to the game is the comeback of many important MK characters such as Sindel who was one of the main attractions as a playable character in Mortal Kombat 3 yet that was way back in the 90s.
