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?
Sorry, I wasn’t assuming you’re stupid, I was trying to answer with a comparison…but I can see how that wasn’t a clear answer without an explanation.
Quite often, games have lore and worlds that go much deeper beyond what a player sees in the game.
Warcraft is an RTS that largely amounted to Humans and Orcs facing off in battle for territory using units that began as only reskins of each other. I actually haven’t played the original, but the world and story were probably not overly complex, especially as the player can hardly explore it.
As the series progressed, the team enjoyed building out the world by adding characters, backstories, detailed locations with histories…and ultimately decided to flesh it out all the way into an MMO (which, from a world building perspective probably has more depth than a TV series, given that a TV series can be more railroaded).
So just because a game is simple (or comes from a simple genre) doesn’t mean that the game’s designers haven’t put a lot of thought into the game’s world and lore. If Warcraft can be fleshed out into an MMO, LoL can be fleshed out into a TV series.