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They've been making cinematics and films using this "painterly" shader look to maintain a consistent design language across the whole LoL brand. The thing is, the shaders used in the Arcane series isn't even the most impressive. In the show each frame looks like a hand-painted piece of concept art, but their most impressive use of it produces individual frames that look like oil paintings:


And all those cinematics were produced as branding support material with no expectation of immediate profit or media partners who have their own expectations (like Netflix). Riot has been producing these assets, TFT, Runeterra and even their upcoming fighting game called project L:


They all use the same consistent character designs and the same design language as Arcane to lay the groundwork for Riot's upcoming MMO.
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This isn't how you launch an MMO though.

You need to go the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen route to success. Have crazy volunteers, die of a coke overdose, monetise your forums and have no persistent player database. In 8 years they are starting to monetise their forums, while Riot just have growing brand recognition and multiple successful games which make money they can use to fund the MMO.
 
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This isn't how you launch an MMO though.

You need to go the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen route to success. Have crazy volunteers, die of a coke overdose, monetise your forums and have no persistent player database. In 8 years they are starting to monetise their forums, while Riot just have growing brand recognition and multiple successful games which make money they can use to fund the MMO.
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Considering the last time anyone heard anything from Ghostcrawler, they could still go that route. Aside from the few seconds of footage shown earlier even the fighting game is mostly vaporware. Seth Killian left Riot (after selling his own fighting game to them as the core of Project L) and the ARPG they've been working on has even less footage out:


You know they would've cross-promoted the everliving shit out of it with Arcane if they could manage even a stress-test or a network alpha in time for Arcane's release (which was delayed for a year due to COVID too).
 
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The voice actor is some guy in Arrow, but I've never watched the show so I dunno.
 
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Also why is nobody listening to the Ancient Immortal super wise Hamster? They hype him up to be the a deep well of knowledge and then everyones like fuck off little gerbil you're dumb.
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All council members will benefit one way or another from Hextech innovations now rather than later. So they are removing the one member that is promoting being cautious and taking their time.
 
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Jayce's voice actor was the shaman dude from True Blood.

HexTech and the mana stones I more-or-less get, but what's the purple fluid stuff? It seems to only show up in Zaun, not Piltover?
 
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Jayce's voice actor was the shaman dude from True Blood.

HexTech and the mana stones I more-or-less get, but what's the purple fluid stuff? It seems to only show up in Zaun, not Piltover?
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Yeah the purple stuff is Chemtech in the game, it's a zaun thing that was found at the bottom of the sump. In the game it came from Urgot who was a spider-god thing down in the sump but in the show it's an invention by Singe I guess.

The runestones kinda look like the icon for their RMT currency in the game, which explains why it's the most powerful substance in the world.
 
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urgot is just a noxian officer, who got thrown in a Zaun prison.

spider god is totally unrelated. Vilemaw is in the shadow isles, and not mentioned here at all.
 
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Also why is nobody listening to the Ancient Immortal super wise Hamster? They hype him up to be the a deep well of knowledge and then everyones like fuck off little gerbil you're dumb.
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They've been lured by the promises of socialism obviously.
 
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Pretty damned solid show. Animation is awesome...they are clearly showing off and enjoying it.
 
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I liked the middle set even more than the first 3. The music part was a little jarring. Also I swear Caitlyn's face changed halfway through. She looks like a man at the start then very feminine later.

I was most curious how they were going to handle the Viktor story. I couldn't figure out who the crippled guy with glasses was at the end that knew Vi, I assume he is someone in the first set.

Also not 1 scene with Ekko. I thought he might be one of the guys at the end with the mask. still possible but I figured we would have seen his face at least once.

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So again coming from someone who hasn't done the game how many characters from this series are playable ones in the game?
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Vi
Jinx
Viktor
Jayce
Ekko
Caitlyn
Heimerdinger

Singed - chemist that makes the Purple stuff and is who Viktor sees at the end.

Teemo - (only his picture was shown in a book, in the daughter's bedroom)

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Unless I missed someone, all others not playable in LoL, but a ton more characters are cards in LoR.

Like Mel is such a big character in this series but isn't a LoL champ.

Also Silco is new for this series and Vander is theorized at being Warwick in LoL, but who knows, probably won't see it confirmed. Too much main story to wrap up I think.

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Regarding future seasons...
I would hope they do more, so much lore in LoL to pull from. They can do so much without even revisiting this storyline.

I'd love to see a Freljord season and Mt Targon season but I think their biggest winner would be doing Ionia.

Demacia or Noxus would tie into Arcane easily if they go that route.
 
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Also why is nobody listening to the Ancient Immortal super wise Hamster? They hype him up to be the a deep well of knowledge and then everyones like fuck off little gerbil you're dumb.
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True, the idea that a respected scientist is only respected when he is telling them what they want to hear is entirely bizarre and could never happen in real life ;p
 
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I was most curious how they were going to handle the Viktor story. I couldn't figure out who the crippled guy with glasses was at the end that knew Vi, I assume he is someone in the first set.
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He was the guy who was being cheated out of his deal until Vander intervenes in the first episode.
 
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I liked the middle set even more than the first 3. The music part was a little jarring. Also I swear Caitlyn's face changed halfway through. She looks like a man at the start then very feminine later.

I was most curious how they were going to handle the Viktor story. I couldn't figure out who the crippled guy with glasses was at the end that knew Vi, I assume he is someone in the first set.

Also not 1 scene with Ekko. I thought he might be one of the guys at the end with the mask. still possible but I figured we would have seen his face at least once.

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Vi
Jinx
Viktor
Jayce
Ekko
Caitlyn
Heimerdinger

Singed - chemist that makes the Purple stuff and is who Viktor sees at the end.

Teemo - (only his picture was shown in a book, in the daughter's bedroom)

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Unless I missed someone, all others not playable in LoL, but a ton more characters are cards in LoR.

Like Mel is such a big character in this series but isn't a LoL champ.

Also Silco is new for this series and Vander is theorized at being Warwick in LoL, but who knows, probably won't see it confirmed. Too much main story to wrap up I think.

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Regarding future seasons...
I would hope they do more, so much lore in LoL to pull from. They can do so much without even revisiting this storyline.

I'd love to see a Freljord season and Mt Targon season but I think their biggest winner would be doing Ionia.

Demacia or Noxus would tie into Arcane easily if they go that route.
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Crippled guy with glasses was Huck. from the very beginning. the guy making the deal with the others, where Vander steps in when they try to cheat him.

A few of the new characters are supposedly going to be future Champions. Like alot of people theorizing the firelight leader is Ekko. the other half are saying, no, that guy is a future champion.
 
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Crippled guy with glasses was Huck. from the very beginning. the guy making the deal with the others, where Vander steps in when they try to cheat him.

A few of the new characters are supposedly going to be future Champions. Like alot of people theorizing the firelight leader is Ekko. the other half are saying, no, that guy is a future champion.
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I don't see how anyone could think the Firelight Leader is not Ekko. His outfit is basically Ekko's ingame base outfit plus the mask and the hoverboard. Hell, his mask is basically his ingame kneepad:


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Not only does he fixate on his pocketwatch every time he's on screen, which would become his ingame shtick once he gets into hextech, in the act 2 credits "Firelight Leader" is credited as the same voice actor as in-game Ekko (Reed Shannon). Ekko might even be the only Arcane character that has the same voice actor as the LoL voice actor.
 
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I don't see how anyone could think the Firelight Leader is not Ekko. His outfit is basically Ekko's ingame base outfit plus the mask and the hoverboard. Hell, his mask is basically his ingame kneepad:


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Not only does he fixate on his pocketwatch every time he's on screen, which would become his ingame shtick once he gets into hextech, in the act 2 credits "Firelight Leader" is credited as the same voice actor as in-game Ekko (Reed Shannon). Ekko might even be the only Arcane character that has the same voice actor as the LoL voice actor.
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In one of the league videos where they're dicking with hextech it has Ekko developing a skateboard thing which might tie in.

 
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I don't play Runeterra but apparently there are tons of voice-acted banter in the game, including a lot of stuff between the Zaun kids:

 
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