Questionable Questing

How you?

Hey, how are you this Monday? Anything happen on Sunday? Me I did some grocery shopping and some other chores then passed out. Was tired.

And I hung out with a friend and played cards. Want to talk about Legends of Runeterra which I got into last night.

Sure, is it a game or a book?

Card game with Champion cards that level up over time as you play under different conditions fitting the playstyle of that champion and common and uncommon ally cards fighting with them

Alright, so is it a tiered leveling system where you can pick and choose different abilities and powers from a couple predetermined paths for each card, or is it like Pokemon where each upgrade is pretty predetermined?

Each champion has a set level up from normal to advanced and have conditions. Some need to be on the field and have the things happen while on the field to level up while others are like if you do 50 damage at all during the game that card will level up once it is played or when's its been on the field building up level up charge.

Alright so it's based on different conditions, you can engineer to set up based on other cards you put in your deck and maybe the buildings or effects of the board. Alright pretty cool. Any lore?

Runeterra lore which is. I don't have a summary to explain the Rune Wars or the ancient Ascended Empire or Pantheon. I have a vid you can watch for Volibear or Pantheon. Which you like?

Going to be honest, not as into card games. I like hearing you talk about it because you're very passionate about it, and hearing people talk about what they like is always fun, plus you have some fun ideas, but some random guy making a lore dump for a game I'm probably never going to check out isn't as fun. lol

Its league of legends. The card game is the setting League takes place in

Huh, that's kind of cool. I knew League was a multi billion dollar franchise, so the idea of them branching out and making card games along with cartoons and plushies makes sense, but still pretty interesting to see just how big it is that it can justify all these different business endeavors.

The lore is interesting if you want to know some

I know there a hero based game, and I was always curious how they balanced that many different characters from different nations and with different storylines while maintaining the core gameplay loop. It's the same problems Mortal Kombat and Overwatch has,

Where the characters are supposed to be fighting and killing each other, and yet if you actually permanently killed one off or upset the status quo you lose out on a highly marketable and beloved characters. So you're stuck in this limbo of nothing ever really changing, but having to pretend that the story or something is actually progressing in the background.

The game is disconnected from works like Arcane and Legends of Runeterra. As you'd have things like Volibear losing to a girl with a magic sniper when he is a primal god

Which reminds me that of all the hero shooters or hero games in general, TF2 is still the king in this. Not just character design and class balance, but by making the whole thing a joke, having lore reasons for why everyone keeps coming back to life, and repeatedly commenting on the futility of the whole thing and focusing on the interesting characters instead of a grandiose battle we never see.

I have read the comic for TF2. It has good characters and story and I love the animations they have for each character

But these different works, are they separate settings? Are they one big setting? How does this all work? And yeah SFM and TF2 practically built meme culture.

They are the same between League and Legends with Legends having better worldbuilding and Skins are alt universes