Ruined King: A League of Legends Story | Official Announcement Trailer ( SP-RPG by Riot Games, early 2021, PS5/4, XBOX SX/S, SWITCH, PC)

Adulfzen · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

gotta say it's amazing how you guys went from a big kickstarter project to a Darksiders game and now you're working on a major franchise like League of Legends
Cannot wait to see how Ruined Kings is in action considering the great animation work from your previous titles.

Pai Pai Master · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

Nice trailer, beautifully animated ♡

Deleted member 14089 · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

I'm really hyped! Can't wait to see some gameplay. Also really cool that Illaoi is in the game!
She's awesome

Dogui · Oct 31, 2020

Battle Chasers was kinda disappointing imo, but i'm willing to try it anyway.

I really like the idea of games based on the LoL world/characters. Its lore is so big and full of neat stuff that it feels wasted in a online competitive game where story doesn't actually matter.

Not a fan of the trailer tho.

Darkmaigle · Oct 31, 2020

If it plays like battle chasers I'm mega in.

I also play league at least a few times a week so I'm already in

cheesekao · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

I hope the team managed to learn from the shortcomings of Battlechasers. Game was good but it got a little too repetitive. The final boss difficulty spike was also kinda nasty.

BlueKnight · Oct 31, 2020

Hope it gets an awesome OST like Battlechasers did!

Here's one of my favorites:

Witch of Miracles · Oct 31, 2020

>Sees Pyke

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

Klyka · Oct 31, 2020

Justumhm said:
ppl should approach with caution when it comes to the expectations here, these stuff meant to draw you into their GAAS.

...wat?
You sound like someone warning people from not doing drugs

Ionic · Oct 31, 2020

Delusibeta said:
Yeah, that's arguably the biggest surprise. If there's one company out there that would have no problem launching a launcher, it would be Riot who have been operating all of their games off their own infrastructure for the entirity of their existence. So, kinda crazy to see them release stuff on Steam and EGS instead of a theoretical Riot Launcher.

This game probably exists as an ad for League. No reason to only have it on the League launcher.

skillzilla81 · Oct 31, 2020

Battlechasers was one of my favorite rpgs this gen. Super excited for this.

Sanka · Oct 31, 2020

Looking at the previous game battle chasers. Art direction and combat system are definitely going to be on point. Haven't played league in years but it's quite exciting how they are expanding the IP in different ways.

EzekelRAGE · Oct 31, 2020

More LoL lore stuff is cool. Would be insta buy if it had Xerath 🤷🏾‍♂️

Why haven't they made like a league cartoon or something for youtube? LoL Origins, just on how each champ came to the league or started. That's over 100 episodes right there.

jon bones · Oct 31, 2020

EzekelRAGE said:
More LoL lore stuff is cool. Would be insta buy if it had Xerath 🤷🏾‍♂️

Why haven't they made like a league cartoon or something for youtube? LoL Origins, just on how each champ came to the league or started. That's over 100 episodes right there.

The first League cartoon comes out next year. It's based on Vi & Caitlin I believe.

Shingi_70 · Oct 31, 2020

EzekelRAGE said:
More LoL lore stuff is cool. Would be insta buy if it had Xerath 🤷🏾‍♂️

Why haven't they made like a league cartoon or something for youtube? LoL Origins, just on how each champ came to the league or started. That's over 100 episodes right there.

There's a animated series in the works, plus they put out animated shorts at a fairly often clip with all the new games

Vonocourt · Oct 31, 2020

Have no familiarity with League of Legends, but this game being a turnbased rpg got me interested.

Downloading Battlechasers right now as it was always one of those "I'll get to it eventually."

EzekelRAGE · Oct 31, 2020

jon bones said:
The first League cartoon comes out next year. It's based on Vi & Caitlin I believe.

Shingi_70 said:
There's a animated series in the works, plus they put out animated shorts at a fairly often clip with all the new games

Hmm not looking bad 🤔

Hassansan · Oct 31, 2020

Klyka said:
...wat?
You sound like someone warning people from not doing drugs

lol, it's not that serious, I just love the ip and love battleship syndicate and am sure the game will be great, but I've heard ppl go wild with their expectations with this game before, hell, someone already dropped Larian name before my post.

It just would be sad when the full reveal for this comes up and people get mad because it's not X or Y.

FoneBone · Oct 31, 2020

i know the details are new but it's weird to call this an "announcement trailer" when they announced the game last december

Mifec · Oct 31, 2020

League lore and characters are laughably bad and always were. That said Battlechasers was great until it got too repetitive so I'll give this a try.

Crow Pudding · Oct 31, 2020

Ahri, Braum and Yasuo instead of Ganplank, Samira, Katarina or even Gragas? ok.

Lil Peanut Brotha · Oct 31, 2020

I'm so excited for this getting closer! That's about all I can / am gonna say too 😅. You can check out the Riot Forge Twitter to keep up with this (@RiotForge) too.

y2kyle89 · Oct 31, 2020

Interested. I hope it uses more then characters already in League proper. I'm fine if the playable characters are that but it'd be a shame if every named character is just someone you can play in LoL. Maybe I'm just weird, I dunno. ~~Have the party from Battlechasers be a secret boss though.~~

NHarmonic. · Oct 31, 2020

Art style is on point, and Turn based?? I'm in.

jon bones · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

Lil Peanut Brotha said:
I'm so excited for this getting closer! That's about all I can / am gonna say too 😅. You can check out the Riot Forge Twitter to keep up with this (@RiotForge) too.

really brilliant collab between your teams - can't wait to play!

GwyndolinCinder · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
The team is thrilled with the reactions of the trailer so far! While the trailer doesn't show gameplay, it does reveal the gamut of different personalities the party will consist of. My lips are sealed however, so I'm not answering any questions. Just wanted to chime in and say, early 2021 is just around the corner and we can't wait to share more info soon™!

It was an awesome trailer.... unfortunate announcement timing following up the best game of the finals though!

Zim · Oct 31, 2020

Main website went up this morning too.
It has Joe Mad's portraits for the champions if any of y'all are interested.
https://ruinedking.com/en_US/

TheThreadsThatBindUs · Oct 31, 2020

Just who is responsible for the song choices of these trailers.... ugh!

Great Deep Sea · Oct 31, 2020

Finally gonna find out where the blade comes from...

Darkmaigle · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
Main website went up this morning too.
It has Joe Mad's portraits for the champions if any of y'all are interested.
https://ruinedking.com/en_US/

that Illaoi art is so good

Ra · Oct 31, 2020

plow said:
Yeah anyone interested, this is another game by the same dev:

Looks a lot like FFX battle system.

I really should boot up Battle Chasers one of these days.

Lil Peanut Brotha · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
Main website went up this morning too.
It has Joe Mad's portraits for the champions if any of y'all are interested.
https://ruinedking.com/en_US/

These are so good!
My boy P Y K E! I worked on his login screen + part of his trailer back in the day, I'm hyped to see him in a new game...The leviathan shot in the trailer really brought me back :D

Bonezz · Oct 31, 2020

Crow Pudding said:
Ahri, Braum and Yasuo instead of Ganplank, Samira, Katarina or even Gragas? ok.

Braum doesn't really make any sense but at the end of the Yone cinematic they showed Yasuo going to Bilgewater with Ahri which explains why he's there (other than just because he's Yasuo).

The game was probably in development long before Samira became a thing, nobody cares about Gragas, Gangplank doesn't really make any sense because he wants to kill MF in the lore and Katarina, well, I have no idea.

Elliot Pudge · Oct 31, 2020

big battlechasers fan, wishlisting this so i don't forget about it

Christmastree55 · Oct 31, 2020

Fuck riot.

Kalentan · Oct 31, 2020

This looks cool...

But...

Where's our Garen-Katarina Co-Op Cinematic ARPG? We gotta know what's going on with that story.

bounchfx · Oct 31, 2020

hard to get excited about that. give gameplay

xir · Oct 31, 2020

Yuntu said:
Yasuo

Really?

Joltik · Oct 31, 2020

Faiyaz said:
Never played League of Legends, and never will. But RPG? Turn-based? Those are words I like. Colour me intrigued.

Same. The most I know about LoL is from K/DA, some fanart, and that it's a very popular MOBA, a genre I'm not interested in. Turn-based RPG, though? Now you're singing my tune.

Zim · Oct 31, 2020

Lil Peanut Brotha said:
These are so good!
My boy P Y K E! I worked on his login screen + part of his trailer back in the day, I'm hyped to see him in a new game...The leviathan shot in the trailer really brought me back :D

Fun fact, I animated 90% of Pyke's animations in this game. I hope I make you proud Lil Brotha lol.

Negaduck · Oct 31, 2020

Main website has cool Joe mad style art. Edit: ah late to the main website party lol.

I can't wait, I'm a huge Joe mad and League stan so this is my shit.

Vincent Alexander · Oct 31, 2020

Same folks that made Battlechasers? Sold. That is easily one of my favorite RPGs this last generation. Plus, Illaoi. She's the best. Well, almost the best. She's no Teemo.

DimitriLH · Oct 31, 2020

Some fun lore insight:

This guys channel is all about Runterra (League of legends) lore, real fun stuff to watch/ listen to. Riot has been better at doing lore as of late....excluding Seraphine, but even Riot knows they effed up there and are fixing it.

Naphu · Oct 31, 2020

I like how Braum's whole thing is he has a huge full-body shield but when a flaming boulder is launched at him he just punches it...

MOBA character designs are so disparate that applying it to a single player game leaves it looking like such a frankenstein mishmash. That said, the dev has good word of mouth in this thread so I'm keeping my eyes open for the gameplay reveal.

Vic_Viper · Oct 31, 2020

Would have rather had a Battle Chasers sequel, but ill check this out. The first Battle Chasers game was awesome, it just needed a bigger budget. But it was a kickstarter game, so what we did get was still great. The overworld was the only part of the game that needed improvement.

I dont know much about the LoL lore, was always a DOTA 2 guy. But I am excited to see all these different projects coming from Riot. Wish Valve would try some of these things lol.

EDIT: The trailer does really give me some Battle Chaser vibes lol. I really like the red head, cat ears lady, and the samurai dude. Eh, ill check it out.

Filipus · Oct 31, 2020

I loved the artstyle of that animation (3D with some "hand-drawn" animation around it). Would love a game with that artstyle, like an action-adventure or something.

Lil Peanut Brotha · Oct 31, 2020

Zim said:
Fun fact, I animated 90% of Pyke's animations in this game. I hope I make you proud Lil Brotha lol.

!!! That's awesome, I'm sure you will :D

Prototype Viktor · Oct 31, 2020

Having Ahri as a character makes me worry about them and this game direction

Kalentan · Oct 31, 2020

Prototype Viktor said:
Having Ahri as a character makes me worry about them and this game direction

Why?

Prototype Viktor · Oct 31, 2020

Kalentan said:
Why?

They are pushing Ahri as hard or harder than they did Ryze back in the day. To the neglect of other characters. It's why she just happens to show up in a absurd amount of skin themes.

What really shocks me is them putting in Illaoi like she exist to them

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story | Official Announcement Trailer ( SP-RPG by Riot Games, early 2021, PS5/4, XBOX SX/S, SWITCH, PC)

Deleted member 14089

One Winged Slayer

Self-requested temporary ban

Motion Graphics Artist at Riot Games

▲ Legend ▲

Senior Animator at Airship Syndicate

Alt account

Rap Genius

Motion Graphics Artist at Riot Games

Prophet of Truth

Senior Animator at Airship Syndicate

One Winged Slayer

Thanked By SGM

Prophet of Regret

Motion Graphics Artist at Riot Games