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Lore Influenced Game Mode

addmorebacon·6/14/2016, 8:41:56 PM·3 votes·796 views

So I just recently got into the Lore of League, and I was surprised at how detailed it was. It's in depth enough to spawn a series of novels, and yet there's little to no emphasis on the lore, other than the tab in the champion info screen. I think it'd be an extremely productive idea to start a lore influenced game mode, a "campaign" or "story mode" of sorts.

The way I envision this would be something similar to a regular game, except with the champion pool based on the lore, and possibly an open arena style map (or at least something slightly different from the rift.) For example, a Demacia vs. Noxus fight, with each of the champions, or just a pre-generated team, from the respective city-states available free-to-play, would lead to not only a more widely accepted appreciation of the lore, but also would give players a chance to try new champions in ways other than ARAM or the weekly free-to-play (possibly offering champion mastery but no XP or something similar. If the teams were pre-generated, it'd be cool to see some of the partnerships come to fruition on the rift, such as pre-teaming Teemo with Tristana , or Annie with Amumu , or Taliyah with Yasuo . Or even Soraka against Warwick

This is the best way I can envision expanding the lore and making it more known to players, short of novels of Legends. Which now that I mention it, would be even cooler.

TL;DR: Make a lore based game mode that isn't filled with cinematic scenes.

3 Comments

addmorebacon6/14/2016, 8:45:32 PM1 votes

First board post on any site ever btw

Ebonmaw Dragon6/14/2016, 9:05:16 PM1 votes

Actually, the new direction of lore that Riot took with the game and lore is the exact opposite of what you are saying, with the game being disconected to the lore at all.

They cant just "make a game mode where Warwick kills Soraka" (for example) because it would be not canon anyways, if they did such thing it would mean that Soraka would be not part of the game anymore, she would be reworked into something different or something like that.

The most similar thing that Riot did was the Bilgewater Event, with the Butcher Bridge, in that Event people could play in the map were TF, Graves and GP fought in the Burning Tides... Event that changed GP forever.