The elusive Riot MMO stays one of many firm’s most fun bulletins up to now – particularly on condition that it is going to be set on the earth of Runeterra, the setting that frames iconic MOBA League of Legends. Whereas particulars stay skinny on the bottom, a current interview with govt producer Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Road confirms that, wild fan theories apart, it’ll stay trustworthy to LoL’s in depth lore.
One in all League of Legends’ essential pulls is its spectacular character design and wealthy lore system. Not solely do characters look good, they’re all distinctive people with compelling backstories that, in some ways, make them extra akin to actual folks than digital heroes and heroines.
With current champion Okay’Sante embodying queer black tradition, Summoner’s Rift has change into a spot that accommodates echoes of our actual world, making it a house away from dwelling for lots of gamers.
The groundwork has been laid for a World of Warcraft-style universe, and in a current interview with Misplaced Ark content material creator and Twitch streamer Kanonxo ‘Kanon’ govt producer Greg Road has confirmed that Riot will construct upon LoL’s current lore.
“With out giving any bulletins I can inform you about how we at Riot take into consideration [lore],” Road says. “We would like gamers to have that funding. The way in which we give it some thought is that there are core truths concerning the world and its characters, and in case you violate these, that’s fairly dangerous.”
Taking DC icon Batman as his instance, he states that most individuals wouldn’t be enthusiastic about a recreation that sees the Darkish Knight commerce out his signature stealth mechanics to go in all weapons blazing with a katana. “We predict, for essentially the most half, gamers simply wish to really feel like [character actions] are true to that character; ‘oh, Garen would do this, Akali behaves the way in which I assumed she would based mostly on watching cinematics and Okay/DA.”
When requested how Riot plans to handle the entire numerous races we see in Runeterra, Road states “we don’t have a whole lot of normal fantasy races; it’s actually a really human-centric IP.” This doesn’t rule out taking part in as Vastaya or some kind of Void-contorted monster, however we may even see people being the usual race within the MMO – no less than initially.
The associated phase begins at 1:16:20, which Kanon has helpfully timestamped.
Nevertheless, Road promptly shuts down my conspiracy theories by noting that “gamers have made a whole lot of assumptions, and a few of them are simply flat out improper – and that’s been enjoyable for us.”
And as for a launch date, there’s no new info right here sadly. “We would like to have the ability to talk when we now have actual info,” he says. “Once we’re snug with that we’ll begin speaking about it extra, and it’s not going to be a grand reveal – it’ll be a sluggish trickle that goes on for a very long time.”
Whereas we look ahead to the curtains to be pulled again, there’s all the time League of Legends to maintain you busy. We’ve received a rundown of the whole lot that’s coming as a part of the League of Legends preseason 2023 replace, in addition to the League of Legends 12.21 patch notes, which added new prime lane terror Okay’Sante to the sport.
