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@Riot - Can you guys create a Story mode?

DeathTheHorseman·9/3/2016, 4:38:56 PM·103 votes·5,489 views

#Dear Rioters,

I know most of you are quite busy and don't have time to read lengthy treads so skip the "Story card example" if you want but please at least read the core and if possible answer my two questions.

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#Core:

As someone very passionate about lore and reading/watching a good story I have wished for a **"Story mode" **on LoL for quite some time. Even if doesn't change the platform of the game ( new game in RPG 3rd person setting ) or it's not an individual movie for each champion.

I think that just having some campaigns interwoven with cinematics/comics and dialogue would be nice and really bring people closer to Runeterra. (The way Warcraft 3 campaigns were)

My favorite idea is this:

When you own a champion you get his "Story Card" which would involve 1-3 campaigns and some cinematics/comics to tell you key points of their lore and also teach you how to play them.

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Talon #Example story card:

Part 1 -_ Theft and solitude_ : ** Cinematic ** Talon making a living as a thief, trusting no one and training himself into an assassin and becoming quite good at it. It ends with Noxus guilds sending him the message to join them or die. (Could even be something simple like a slide show/comic with voice over)

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Part 2 - The answer to a proposition : Map of the sewers of Noxus. You are playing as Talon and the objective is to outplay the Noxus guild assassins and escape pursuit while leaving bodies in your trail.
(The map would be highly binary coded and involve you learning his mechanics - Q AA reset, kiting with W, warding over a wall to E something and going for burst trades and making it out and other such stuff in order to survive to the other end of the map.)

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Part 3 - The troubles of fame : ** Short comic** Talons fame spreading as the best and only independent assassin in Noxus after the bodies of everyone sent after him are found. The comic leads up to Talon getting hunted down on the streets of Noxus by some unknown new assassin of great skill and cornered in a warehouse.

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Part 4 - A test of shadows and steel : **Map of a warehouse. ** Fight Katarina's dad ( General Du Couteau ) Boss fight - You start at level 3 and need to evade the boss skillshots while duking it out to level up over time (passively gain experience from doing damage) and trying to stay alive until you get your level 6. Once you are level 6 (lets say 5 min game of cat and mouse with the boss) he taunts you: "Show me a true expression of skill. I heard you are the best assassin in my city but I can't see proof of it." Then you need to perform the perfect burst combo: A Talon Voiceover (of his thoughts) narrates at how it should be done.

So you do the maximum amount of damage in the smallest window possible and avoid the boss hard CC. (Much like you would in a teamfight assassination.) Fail this and he will kill you.

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Part 5 - Life exchanged for allegiance, obedience only to strength : **Cinematic. ** The general defeats you in the end even after performing perfect combo on him (same as lore) but offers you to work for Noxus and you swear your allegiance directly to him. Then you get some general "How Talon lives every day" arc until the general disappears and Talon starts to look for him.

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#Just like that, we get a Tutorial/Campaign + Lore/Cinematics in one.

Also to get players really into those it would be nice to have some award for completion like a chroma pack on the classic skin or some other small bonus that is champ related. It would also immensely help people finding **their ** champion. You know, the one who just perfectly clicks with you.

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#The questions:

So this "Story mode" would most definitively be awesome if done properly but can you make it happen?

From what I know Riot is currently on a leash by Tencent. "Don't do this", "Make me this", "These skulls on Karthus Trigger me. Remove them!" and other such stuff.

#This is why I want to ask - How does your funding work?

Even if Riot go cheap with comics and not cinematics and very little voice overs I somehow doubt Tencent would dedicate that much resources for each champ individually. Personally, I think this would be great for the community but it won't make as much money as it will probably consume unless you make the story cards RP purchasable (would be considered a d*ck move but even if it comes to this it's better than nothing).

So please tell me are you** actually in charge of what projects you want to take** or is it an "If it brings no profit to Tencent we can't really make it" policy?

The project for Talon alone involves at bare minimum: 2 Comics + Voice overs + 2 custom made maps + General du conteu and Noxus assassins models.

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#In the end

Riot disappointed me a lot when they announced shortly after Bilgewater "Burning tides" the fact that they decided to focus their resources on Pro play and will leave the Lore with the leftovers.

I know, I know this is not the exact quotation but I am quite salty about it OK?

The thread stated that events like the Bilgewater were very taxing on the team when they were already doing so much around Worlds and would cease or be very, very rare.

I mean I enjoy LCS and Worlds to an extent but have always liked good lore and events more.

This would be a big chance of redemption and story building and it doesn't need to happen all at once so I ask that you consider it.

I understand that you want League to be a sport but feeding all your resources there and forsaking lore is a big slap in the face to the:

#Riot Manifesto you want to uphold

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/00/006fd811b42bb561542996b7ffb15bb36f25449f5f063eacac886919da848ce6.jpg http://oi63.tinypic.com/28lxa84.jpg Please read it again and remember it because that is the company of "Gamers who make games for other gamers" that I want to support and not Tencent Holdings.

That is just my Ten cents on this.

P.S. TFW I read my thread:

https://outlierbabe.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/my-work-here-is-done-cat-with-morning-paper.jpg?w=600

65 Comments

Sharjo9/3/2016, 5:04:11 PM23 votes

Would love, would play, would pay for honestly.

The resources required to go in to such a project would be immense, but I still think It'd be a great idea.

inhale the mems9/3/2016, 4:45:27 PM12 votes

Riot hire this fucking god.

Fasmodey9/3/2016, 4:41:14 PM6 votes

Pick Aurelion Sol gg wp.

Jokes aside, only human champions are creatable, or at least, godlike ones would be pretty hard. They powers are immense, they should show it really really well, so people wouldn't be disappointed. Also, champions like Kindred, how can you play them? If they don't make Kindred while making others, it would be unfair.

So, if they're going to make a lore themed game, make only champions playable like Sivir, Taliyah, Talon, LeBlanc etc. Xerath, Aurelion Sol, Bard, all of them would be disappointed. We can still see them in game though, they can be NPC, villain or an ally. If you're going for Shurima, you play Sivir or Taliyah. If you're going to for Noxus you play Katarina or LeBlanc. Like this. You relate factions and their characters with more possible ones, so everyone is happy.

Edit: Ok, fail. You're talking about literally lore themed champion tutorials. This shouldn't be that hard if Riot wants.

Schrödingers Nut9/4/2016, 3:22:09 AM5 votes

Not trying to daper your excitement for this idea, because at first it seems pretty cool. But in the long run is seems like an immense waste of time for the riot team. Yeah, more lore is always welcome, but the lore is only a TINY bit of League. The actual game is a bunch of characters fighting each other with different attacks and play styles, which doesn't really have to do with lore at all. The lore wouldnt even have ro exist for the game to be exactly the same. The amount of time to make two or three new maps and main characters for EVERY single champ would be the equivalent to making an entire new game. And there wouldn't really be any amazing outcome from making it either. The player finishes the story mode for their favorite champion and asks "now what?". A champ campaign would never be as amazing as the fan base would want, and would end up taking vast amounts of time without any real accomplishment from beating it

OokamiNoSora9/4/2016, 2:45:58 PM4 votes

I would love this , but sadly this will never happen. Way to much work and way to many champions now.

Legacy Hydralpha9/4/2016, 1:01:13 AM3 votes

Bard Story Mode:

Collect chimes.

Good, now more.

Beyond Legends9/3/2016, 8:07:53 PM2 votes

...like no? Story mode neat idea but realistically it's not even the slightiest possible without and insane budget. Do you realize how fast millions can disapear when you are developing a game? I don't think this idea is remotely even possible.

Think realistically people. You're a fucking retarded in your belief of tencent. Like crack hold tin foil of dumbness.

Gary B Enkelis9/4/2016, 5:16:29 PM2 votes

If you want story can't you look it up on the website or in the Champion descriptions in the client or something?

BurnSnake9/4/2016, 5:36:50 PM2 votes

The problem is that this would work as a spin off game but not as part of league, its almost an entirely different feel. The whole idea is different----------think of it like this riot would basically have to make a new game and add on to it several levels, cinematic, comics for each character (would slow down new content massively). I don't think this a bad idea. Its just not League of Legends. LOL is a team-based MOBA game, this would be more like a action-strategy game with high focus on narrative.

Doctor Ivellius9/4/2016, 3:38:26 AM2 votes

I would rather them fix their permanently broken story first than work on something new story-related.

SithesisLord9/3/2016, 11:40:02 PM2 votes

So basically, like the non base construction missions from Starcraft.

Me likey.

Kingdom Corn9/4/2016, 11:06:52 PM1 votes

I REALLY want a movie about LoL but including all the champions is quite impossible.

KoKoboto9/4/2016, 1:02:38 AM1 votes

Maybe the first 2 parts are free and the last pay for? Maybe you pay for but it's not super expensive like skins. Maybe you put time limits on when you can start another part of a champions story but if you use RP you can get to the next part right away?

When I first tried Dota2 I really like the tutorial, although it was simple it felt like their was a story behind it and exploration to some extent. It was really enjoyable and fun!

Jeddy0179/4/2016, 2:40:37 AM1 votes

Personally, I would rather have a whole separate game with lore as the focus rather than a mode added on to a multiplayer centric game.

Neamean9/4/2016, 6:55:18 AM1 votes

I kinda hope the could collaborate/hired The Game Bakers to make a PROJECT universe single player game.

The Game Baker made a game called Furi when I first saw it I thought that it would be cool to have a PROJECT theme video game just like it.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMuHjg5oA-s

Gameplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg-j6kH8pGw

The game consist of only boss fight. So it would be like Project: Yi running arround fighting a boss that know something about his past. It would be his journey to recover his memories. Between each level or each chapter we can get a cinematic that further tell the story.

HerobrineTWH YT9/4/2016, 9:33:50 AM1 votes

Would Caitlyn and Jinx's story mode be a fps (first person shooter)?

Pakku Ito 9/4/2016, 1:27:47 PM1 votes

Another nice idea combined with this would be unlocking champs like this and either paying IP or RP for the single parts. Would love to see more like they had with the Bilgewater Event, cuz that was tbh a neat event in my eyes.

Bagguette9/4/2016, 2:19:22 PM1 votes

They need to make movies for each character. As a fiora main, i really wanna see a movie based on her, animated well like an overwatch short or disney movie..

Xela Syab9/4/2016, 7:35:51 PM1 votes

I really think they should do other games based in the same universe as League, this is pretty much the only game they have made. Imagine a retro beat em up style game with league characters, or a legend of zelda style dungeon crawler, or old school turn base rpg.

Apogalacteum9/4/2016, 7:50:51 PM1 votes

This idea is great, but if it is done, it would be too hard to make in League of Legends. They would have to create a new game (LoL RPG???). It is Riot GameS, after all.

Also, after playing against a rioter once, he teased that he was on a team creating a new game. He didn't explicitly say it, but it's what I inferred.

MorgulNicky9/4/2016, 9:16:38 PM1 votes

I love this idea, but development would take SOOOO long. In the Nexus Siege QA, a Rioter said how long it took to create things like this... new AI's, maps, etc. would take a long time, most likely years and years.