User blog comment:Wandering Stranger/Riot's recent videos, and a changing method for story telling/@comment-10540150-20140919043703

First off, I'm not gonna complain about Riot giving me cinematics of any kind. I may not love one or the other, but I'm certainly not gonna hate them for doing it. As for how they're going to perform lore exposition, I really don't think they're going to stay with written format for very long. All it's really good for is short stories, which can't reveal larger overarching plotlines, mostly beause the alternative is novels. And the biggest video game franchise that I'm aware of making the leap into novelization is Halo. Now, if they can pull off a move of that scope and scale, League of Legends will have become something new, something MASSIVE. Except unlike Halo, LoL will probably actually get made into a feature length film eventually(Hateful stare at Halo and the scrapped movie). Ultimately, it's pretty fricking difficult to write a novel for LoL, though. To do it right, you'd have to give equal time to all the characters and not really pick favorites outside of heroes and villains. To spend an entire novel going on about nothing but Garen's escapades would be certain failure if it didn't involve other characters we know and love. So, ultimately, I do believe the future of LoL lore lies in visual media. Comic books, videos and the like. Plus, it's not like kids these days can read, anyway, right?