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A Possible way for Riot to make League of Legends Story more involved

Derion·5/20/2015, 1:39:07 PM·2 votes·707 views

Dear Riot and fellow summoners,

I was looking at Riot's shurima concept art, and i thought to myself " this place look so amazing, if only i can discover it more ". Ever since LoL story elements is pretty much non-exsitence to most of the players, its a shame because just think of being a part of the Demacia vs Noxus war is pretty exciting or try to catch a super criminal in Piltover or even dive in to deeper story of Yasuo or maybe we can visit a Yordle's city,Freljord , the void or even Shurima ? Those places would make epic adventures.

How to do all this, like hearthstone, they have an option to play an adventure, defeating boss after boss like an dungeon and you get a great card at the end. So riot could make an co-op dungeon styles base on their stories, where as a team of 5 players play keys characters of that event or chapter. For Example: as for the war between Demacia and Noxus, a mission could be garen, Xin Zhao, Lux, Jarvan IV and Galio try to infitrate a noxus castle through a battle that going on at the same time. Pretty much like Dungeons in WoW, where each of them has a story within. A 'boss version' of Darius could be in that mission so make it more challenging, and Draven and Sion ? and a reward can be as simple as ip or a skin.

Moreover, to make those scenarios have more replay value is after players finish it they can replay those missions with a different combination of teams and with several difficulties.

Just would be very nice to see more of the world of Riot has created and put my thoughts out there.

Derion.

5 Comments

Sharjo5/20/2015, 2:20:56 PM1 votes

The problem I forsee with this is the need to make the "instances". I love this idea don't get me wrong, and I always thought it'd be a great way to explore a champion's lore, but think about this for a second:

You wanna make lore for the champions in Freljord with these playable scenerios in the game. Sounds good, but there's only ONE place in Freljord we actually have in game. The Howling Abyss.

And Freljord's lucky, it's actually represented visually in the game. Demacia, Noxus, Shurima, Ionia, Piltover, Zaun, the Kumungu, Bilgewater, none of these areas can just be visited in League right now, so they'd have to make maps entirely from scratch. That's a hefty bit of work there: concepting the map and the stuff in it, creating 3D models, textures, geometry, any special visual effects, potentially custom A.I. for any npcs there, the list goes on.

So while yes, it'd be great to have a sort of "campaign mode" and I'd play the shit out of it, said mode would also take a lot of time and effort to make happen, way more so than we probably 100% understand.

GreenLore5/20/2015, 5:27:54 PM1 votes

Overall this sounds kinda cool and way better than many other suggestions for a story mode that I've read so far(many suggest the story mode to be some kind of campaign or single player mode which would come with certain problems)

However I doubt this will be ever made and there is one big reason for that: It is going to need an extremely high amount of work to get this right. They'd need to create vast maps for every scenario,a bunch of new enemies and balance all that stuff,taking into account what your champs can do(I think Bard could easily end up breaking the dungeon by just bypassing certain places with his gate-ability).

Derion5/21/2015, 5:49:45 AM1 votes

oh and these missions dont need to be free, I would pay to play them .

Tsumikiri5/22/2015, 12:38:12 AM1 votes

The amount of development time something like this would take despite being such a niche product probably isn't worth the resources for Riot. Although it is a neat idea, I think there are a lot of other avenues for delivering lore (videos, stories, comics, etc) that are more accessible and appealing to more people.