Game For Story and more

I have been thinking for quite awhile now on some ways for Riot to tell the stories of it's characters. Although Riot hasn't been the best when it comes to to giving it's customers a backstory and over-arching stories for the characters, and places (Unless of course you enjoy half it's champions having a "Dark and secret past.") there is already so much there from when they consistently put out different story lines for the earlier characters. I have probably read some of them 5 or 6 times, as I found things like how Swain dealt with things and interacted with Darius. At this point, I don't think anything short of coming out with a extensive graphic novel, with stories of most of the characters in League, and those yet to come being hinted at.

I do not see this happening though, which I think would be kind of cool in a way, but something slightly out of Riot's expertise as well. I was playing Final Fantasy Tactics recently, and it got me thinking, how awesome it would be, if Riot made a game, say a Tactical RPG similar to FFT. Having an semi open story, giving your character the option to say Support Damacia or Noxus, and recruit characters from either to fight a way outside of Summoner's Rift, would be a ton of fun, but also be the perfect medium to tell the stories of these characters, and give out easter eggs to things like Katarina and Garen's romance, or Fizz's people perhaps being destroyed the Tahm Kench's.

We have gotten these tiny to fairly large events of late from Riot, which frankly is more than I expected after it seemed as though they gave up on stories altogether. I like that they are doing this, and in my opinion, is like stage one of making a brand new game with the stories from their world. Mini-Games that in part tell the new stories of the champions are all well and good, but I crave what these characters would be like, in a real world setting, not merely fighting in a tournament, being controlled by someone else.

I know this is probably even more of a long shot than a graphic novel, but with how huge Riot Games has become, it blows me mind that they do not have more individual games using the rich world they created in other ways. I really hate how they have that wonderful world, but then banish all these characters, that could have interesting interactions, to the Rift. They cannot fight wars, and all their diplomacy is settled there? It's a nice thought, and maybe could make sense if Noxian champions could not be on the same team as Damacian. At this point the story behind what the League of Legends is, is far beyond me.

I am not a huge reader, in fact I haven't read a book in probably 10 years, only listen to audio books if something strikes my fancy. I think an interactive story like in a Role-Playing Game, is just what the doctor ordered. I think you will all find that you agree with such an assessment. Well I was just bored and thought I would share my dream.

Hassie