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Possible other outlets for Lore?

Klubhouse·3/1/2015, 4:44:06 AM·4 votes·1,513 views

Hey all, Klubhouse here with a brief little question. Now, I've been playing the game and I've always looked at the lore and thought that there is indeed potential with all these characters. I know that some of the narrative things come as cliche'd as riding off into the sunset, but it's usually how one deals with and turns those cliches on their heads that can certainly make good story.

League had a pretty cool foundation, what with summoners, the institute of war, and champions and all.

But now a big old Ret Con happened and while we've had more focused "Lore" events, (Shurima making a scene). These Lore events are establishing excellent "Point A's", but unfortunately we haven't seen how these "Point A's" journey into "Point B's"

So now I come to my brief question.

Has Riot ever considered letting the lore and story of League of Legends branch off into their own form of media? Like a mini-series on Youtube, A comic, A book, heck: maybe even a show?

I mean, it's got to be something that would at least stoke some interest.

Anyway, that was my question. Go coocoo for coco puffs, offer your opinion. Would a show be something you're interested in?

14 Comments

A Superb Villain3/1/2015, 5:29:20 AM2 votes

It would succeed, but first it needs to exist.

WastelandKittah3/1/2015, 7:39:58 AM1 votes

Your asking the whineyst part of this community(yes the lore people are worse then bronizes) for an objective oppinen. Commendable effort but your not going to get any rational discussion on this board, your just going to get,a bunch of angry annoying whiners spamming your post.

Nybx4life3/2/2015, 4:11:30 AM1 votes

I believe when the Spirit Guard Udyr skin came out, they had a comic-book tie in, although the details of that comic elude me.

I feel it could work with comics or more animation shorts (something lower quality that can move the lore forward and be pushed out regularly, like an anime or something).

SaltyToplaneGoat3/2/2015, 11:01:45 PM1 votes

Comics. Simple as that. Cheap to make (in comparision to anmiations, etc.) Great for telling awesome stories without whacking a wall of text into the readers face - althouth there are some aspects of Lore that would be awesome to read as a book.

As for movies... A full "League of Legends" movie would never work out. But I can see a series of shorter movies becoming hits, most of them only starring a few champs - all different genres of course. Murder/Mystery in a Noxus, Action in Piltover/Zaun, Comedy... hmmm, let's say shadow iseles xD

Something that would be even better would be a weekly series (mayne anime/catroonish style? Well if it fits.) So, but how do you stuff all of LoL into one series? You don't. You make several series, with different timelines and cast and sometimes there is a crossover and references or something. This could also be a total non-serious thing. Like, we take every science char we have and make them explain magic and techmaturgy. Like a Bill Nye show - but with more chars all arrogantly hating each other (Zaun Vs Piltover, you know...)

Hmmm now that I think about it, weekly comic series wouldn't be so bad...

gr8job3/2/2015, 11:31:23 PM1 votes

I definitely think they should explore this. There really is no way to adequately present lore in the game, to the point where I'm baffled that it even exists, and that it has its fans. Lore gives "flavor" to a champion, and shapes his abilities, quotations, and personality, but that's about it. These characters are set in stone. They have a story, and now, ta-da they sit in a menu, waiting for us to click them so they can say the same things over and over and kill some turrets and such. The idea that they exist in this vacuum and don't learn and grow and develop makes me very uninterested in the lore. However, if there was some other form of media like weekly comics, stories, or cartoons, perhaps I could find this interesting. I remember when I first started playing, they had like a newsletter of some sort that delivered stories about the champions. That's pretty fuzzy in my memory, though.

I'd also like to see these characters in other venues. I always thought a TCG would rule. Now I see Hearthstone and Riot really dropped the ball there. Who knew Riot would face such competition in the "esports" microtransaction marketplace from a TCG.

Jeddy0173/3/2015, 5:30:56 AM1 votes

I think a series that follows the world of Runeterra.I'm not saying an overarching plot throughout the series,but several different story lines & events. If this was a TV series,then one episode could follow the misadventures of the Yordles.Then the next explore the lives of those in Shurima.Then a story arc about Noxus vs Ionia.You get the idea.Once they're done with one storyline,they can go to another.And the storylines can interact (the events of one affects the other) This could be presented as a comic or a show,shorts or full length episodes.