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Riot should implement a story mode/campaign

BoyManDog33··3 votes·1,083 views

Imagine an episode based series that, in at least one episode, has you walking through the streets of Piltover as Caitlyn (and maybe Vi if you want to do a co-op kinda thing) fending off a yordle invasion, or chasing after Jinx through buildings and shit. You fight small enemies with varied items and abilities that would be there to get slow your progress and provide a sense of danger in the story telling. Finally, it would come to a conclusion with a boss fight and narrative. Imagine a raid boss type version of Rumble who was leading the invasion on Piltover, a doom bot type of fight where he can use equalizer in a bullet hell fashion. You kill him and you get a cutscene (i would hope for ones similar to the cinematics every year).

A second scenario, you play Draven (and again, possibly Darius) in Noxus' arena performing executions on hundreds of people when you're tasked to kill Twitch, a pest in the streets of Zaun. As you run towards him, he throws acid in your eyes and runs away unseen by the crowd. You then run through the sewers of Zaun in pursuit of Twitch until you come across Singed's unhinged experiments (say that 3 times fast). You find that Twitch is an experiment of Singed (I'm making stuff up but I believe that would be interesting to find out through the process of narrative) .

Ultimately, I believe this could be one of the best ways to reintroduce the lore of League of Legends. It definitely won't be coming out anytime soon, but it still seems exciting to me. Riot could also use it to tease champs and upcoming changes, possibly lead way into introducing new maps or at least skins for Summoners Rift, test out different gameplay mechanics, and really give the lore department a reason to be hired.

Let me know what you think, give me your ideas and hopefully gimme some red attention with this.

6 Comments

SEKAI1 votes

Nah I think we already have enough story and drama across all modes, take a trip around the forum and you would see.

BoyManDog331 votes

If you think "enough story" is little to none then that's fine. Summoner's Rift used to be in a dark forest, now it's floating, or at the top of a mountain. Is Crystal Scar still the area where Void used to be connected to the world next to the Shurima desert, or is Crystal Scar just part of the Shurima Desert now. Is Twisted Treeline still part of the Shadow Isles or just some dark part of the map that was retconned some time ago. If anything, after the retcon, I'm just left confused about the purpose of most champions and areas of the map. Everyone seems to be from Shurima now, most lore stories are incredibly black and white about "this is the bad guy, play him".

On top of that, I'm not talking about the current modes, I'm discussing a new mode that wouldn't replace any modes. Think of like a Telltale games kinda episodic series, where each episode is almost a standalone.

SEKAI1 votes

I was actually referring to the player dramas, not the actual game's though.

While a campaign mode would be nice, they don't have any lore to base on atm, it's now a complete blank to say the least, since you know, they kinda deleted the one we had.

So not now I guess.

BoyManDog331 votes

Well that's what I'm saying. This could be where they create new lore. Where they start saying, "everything past this point is canon" and add to their world. They have the map infrastructure that they can literally fill with anything. Just imagine what they could do with Bilgewater alone.

SEKAI1 votes

Considering writing things is too complicated for them for whatever reasons I don't think the possibility where they will make gamemodes for lores is gonna be great, also the budget, time required and all.

We have got a few of that before, which was nice, but yer unless they are planning for a MMO otherwise I really won't bet on seeing Riot do something like this really, but that's just me.

BoyManDog331 votes

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