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?
You can make a movie/serie out of any content, and LOL was (is ?) pretty popular. Yes OK may-be a farming simulator the serie won’t be that great. But if you have some basic setting, and some factions competing for power you can develop in any direction
Oh, sure, but considering Arcane, it could’ve been named something else, and thus have no connection to LoL. But damn, the series is great!
Then comes the part LOL is a popular and well known brand, so doing something even remotely linked to it will drag an audience. Remember how the World war Z movie ignored the books but paid licencing fee for the title (and the associated _brand recognition)
Several people are telling you that LoL is a MOBA. If you don’t know what a MOBA is, read this.
It’s not based on the game, it’s based on its lore. There is a backstory for in-game characters but very few people care, it’s not actually part of the game
It’s also not a tower defense game, it’s a moba. There are towers and some defending of them, but you’re not placing and upgrading towers to stop enemies, you’re controlling one individual character from a large roster. The towers play a pretty minor role.
To be fair, describing MOBA as a PvP tower defense game is really genius 😅 Because in the end your only goal is to defend your nexus and to kill enemy nexus.
The game prints enough money that they could afford to have a writing staff and illustration team. I think the idea is that building character depth will make a subset of players more connected to them. This keeps them playing and also increases the odds of them buying a skin for the character.
It’s similar to the Meet The ______ videos from TF2 and the comics that built on them.
I’m calling League a tower defense game from now on. Because technically you do defend towers as a primary objective of the game haha.
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.
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 😝
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…
The same way king arthur is based on chess
How was World of Warcraft, an MMO, based on Warcraft, an RTS game?
I’m in nostupidquestions, and you respond to me like I’m stupid. I haven’t played either of the games you’re referring to, so your comment makes no sense. I am asking if there is a story or not 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.
