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New lore is just as bad as the old one but for different reasons

MS exceI·3/8/2019, 10:10:33 AM·7 votes·2,737 views

First of all, the current lore is not connected to the game on any level which makes its existence questionable. Not many people seem to care about it, not to mention most players are not up to date in this field at all. Riot said several times they do not want to rush making a movie so the lore is just there for no reason.

It is also very inconsistent. The most checked pieces are obviously the cinematics so lets say a new league player watches 'A new dawn' and 'Awaken' afterwards. He will have no idea what is going on but he may grow to like a champ's design. So he finds out about the universe website and checks the champion lore. He will read vastly different things from what he has just seen. Also some champions in lore and in game have two separate personalities. In-game quotes often dont make sense in the lore

Too many elements get retconned or changed up in general. Riot says they just turn back the clock for characters for now and that we need to see what will happen next but honestly whats the proof anything will happen at all? There are 140 characters in the game and with riots current pace theres no way we get progress in a way that would satisfy or draw in most players. The changes also alienate the older audiences and I dont see a sudden growth in new lore fans either.

The lore itself is not at all that interesting or good to be worth following. There are several inconsistencies, contradictions. The set up is rather boring and many individual champion stories seem to lack the essence they had before. Way too many things are stuffed into the world to make a coherent whole. Rioters seem to be quite proud of the stories they write but if you have read a proper book in your life you probably wont be amazed by their work.

I think riot should have just rewritten the bad pieces of old lore and give us champion interactions. I feel that wouldnt have been an impossible mission and that would be more than enough lore for a moba

15 Comments

Lord Scorch 623/8/2019, 11:09:30 AM9 votes

new lore has the foundation of good world-build and story-telling (the short stories they put out are shockingly good).

old lore was next to nothing, like a badly written D&D world where the DM wrote a book instead of telling a story. it was all bones, no meat.

i am personally looking forward to the book they have coming out soon. and i never thought i'd say that about a MOBA's lore.

Camille Ferrøs3/8/2019, 2:10:18 PM6 votes

Simply no. The current lore is not as bad as the old "lore".

RyzeTheSmurfMage3/8/2019, 10:25:39 AM3 votes

MOBA lore is garbage in general. I prefer the world of Runeterra lore than the lame Insitute of War one cause at least there is tension in this one.

The Ecdysiast3/8/2019, 10:30:08 AM3 votes

Well first of all, A New Dawn is a representation of an actual game, hence the nexus in the background at the end.

And it's a simple mistake that they said the new cinematic reflects current lore, since the fact Riven was fighting makes that false. That'd be the only "contradiction", although to say a cinematic is lore is stretching it.

If you're going to accuse the lore of having inconsistencies and contradictions, you have to provide quotes. No one should take your word on it, especially considering the fact it isn't true.

RISE9943/8/2019, 12:51:09 PM3 votes

Sorry for this but people have different points of view on stuff they may be right and they may be wrong it's subjective to the subject in hand , but you my friend are just wrong the new lore is extremely well written and it's an ongoing tale of Runeterra (which means not all champion should have an impactful lore, after all, there are 142 of them so far) and they said that the lore written from 2014-present is just setting the foundation of the world which means the best stories are yet to come, not mentioning the upcoming yearly novels (i presume) and the monthly comics written by Marvel themselves, so I really have no idea what are you talking about.

The Skáld3/8/2019, 10:21:37 AM1 votes

I think they are re-shaping the lore. Even new champions and reworks are based on this I guess. That's why there are too many not connected things.