So I’m completely oblivious about League of Legends, except that I know it’s a tower defense game. I’ve never played it myself, but I am an old gamer in my late 30’s.

My wife and I started watching Arcane today, and watched two episodes. God damn, I’m hooked!! Being a grown up, we had to stop, as we have work, and can’t wait to watch more this weekend. But I just can’t imagine how this world is inspired by LoL. Can someone explain if there actually is a story in LoL?

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    16·
    20 hours ago

    Tower defense game is a wild thing to call a MOBA, but no there’s no real story in a given League of Legends match. The characters all have small lore blurbs explaining why they’re fighting though, and those small lore blurbs are what got expanded to Arcane.

    • P1nkman@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      5 hours ago

      My bad. And thanks for the response! I honestly believe Arcane has no right to be as good as it is when it’s “based” on a game like LoL lol 😝

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      31·
      17 hours ago

      To be fair, MOBA is a stupid name that could apply to many other types of games as well.

      I should look up the etymology…