So An Oversized Rat With A Crossbow.......

Salzigorimando·3/14/2015, 12:00:28 AM·2 votes·1,343 views

So An Oversized Rat With A Crossbow Is Capable Of Mixing It Up Not Only With Super-Soldiers, Magical Beasts From Beyond Reality, Dark Mages, Light Mages, Tech Mages, Angry Men With Swords, Angrier Women With Projectiles, All Manner Of Hulking Monstrosities, A Handful Of Corpses That Decided They'd Really Prefer Not To Just Lay Around, As Well A not one But Two Giant Cats, But Now Actual Human-Turned-Gods And An All Powerful Being Of Celestial Energy Who Just Kind of Turns Up Every Few Centuries To "Restore Balance"?

Does anyone else feel like The League might be suffering Some sort of Lore-Power Creep Lately?

9 Comments

Darrosh Jewfist3/14/2015, 2:08:53 AM4 votes

There's nothing keeping the world together in the problem.

Right now, Valoran is just a mess. Like, just a literal mess. There's no overlying power structure that binds them together to make a coherent and plausible story. It's just a mix-mesh of fetishes and cliches bundled together to a League (which was retconned) and a game (which it's story is now divorced from).

In WarHammer 40k, you have 20 primarchs (technically 18 since 2 are missing but blah blah) and each one has their one Jesus-like origin story where they rise up as some kind of savior to their people. Like, these stories range from ridiculous Khans to literally building intersellar empires to just a broody Batman to a choir boy who got touched too many times in the head.

Like seriously.

But what bound them together?

THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND.

And man, it makes sense.

The Emperor and the Imperium of Mankind was the glue that bound all these ridiculous concepts together. If we can tolerate a guy with a fetish for wolves working together with his best friends metal-slug-juice-hands and hawk-boy then we can accept Galactic Space Elves, Orks, CHAOS SPACE MARINES, and man- SPACE MARINES- COME ON. In any other context the idea of CHAOS SPACE MARINES sounds utterly ridiculous.

But in WarHammer it just makes sense.

Then there's WarCraft, where you have several factions all coming together on Azeroth. While there may not be such a unifying factor between, Blizzard has built up such a masterful history of interactions and characters and heroes for each faction. There aren't just one kind of Elf, there's Night Elves, Blood Elves, High Elves, and even among them are factions within factions. It's more believable, more interesting, and especially more fascinating because each of these groups have stand-out heroes: Sylvanas, Tyrande, Veressa, etc...

But without the Institute of War, the League lore lost that glue.

How the hell does a world with a pyromaniac schoolgirl and Rengar and HeimerDonger make any sense? How can they live on a continent where one city is a technological paradise and across the valley there's a bunch of over-industrialized wastes and beyond them are dudes still fighting with swords and spears?

What?

They've certainly don't have the vast lore and histories to back it up.

So it's just ridiculous.

Dreddeth3/14/2015, 12:20:24 AM3 votes

Excuse me, but you're not supposed to capitalize every word in a sentence, just the first word. Also, that sentence is very run on.

Come back when you're more coherent, and I'll probably be able to figure out what your problem is.

Only Play Darius3/14/2015, 12:04:17 AM2 votes

I love twitch. Shut your mouth.

Sydelle3/14/2015, 1:24:24 AM2 votes

He's a Whiskered-American.

OhOkYea3/14/2015, 12:14:01 AM2 votes

Not a rat

SchaakaKon3/14/2015, 6:34:00 AM1 votes

Lets be honest, Bard is not shown to be powerful by any means. Take his video teaser, regular Noxian humans attack some poor village thats maybe Bards home away from home. Now, a powerful being would be like "Nope." and lay down the law. What does Bard do? He see's several regular humans with swords, he shits his pants and runs. All Bard seemingly has immense power of mobility (he can travel through space and move really fast).

Twitch coulda handled those bandits with ease (with maybe a few collateral friendly fires), imo - Twitch more powerful than bard.

GreenLore3/14/2015, 9:36:56 AM1 votes

Overall the purely physical fighters often look too weak compared to some of the more magical ones. The big problem is that they are usually depicted to be not much tougher than real life humans(like you see graves getting hit by nauts anchor once and he is immediatly down,while ingame he is capeable of taking some hits).

However even if the enemy is a powerful magician,just because he/she uses magic doesn't mean they are that much more powerful. Yeah Xerath can shoot beams of magic,but who is to say they are more lethal than a good old poisoned crossbow?Or a sword to the face? For example Azir might be an ascended,but he is rather squishy,so if twitch shoots enough arrows into him he'll die too.