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
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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.
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)
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.
If you play Hermindinger / Azer you can simulate Tower Def lol
But wait, there's a free cannon bot! (the 0/14 Yasuo who just finished his S7 IE)
I haven't played league since like 2018 but I understood some of those words.
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.
Didn't both genres, tower defense and MOBA, evolve from Warcraft III mods / custom levels? I don't think it's too outlandish to get them confused if you aren't into them.
Riot actually has short stories, comics, and a few books on the lore of the world. It doesn't show up in the game beyond voice lines, but some of the broad strokes of the Arcane story had been all but confirmed for years. Legends of Runeterra is also a card game set in the same world that expanded on things by letting champions talk to more minor characters (other cards in that case). And they are working on an mmo that will probably dive into the lore much more.
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.