The interviews were actually conducted during the later stages of the show's production. Also, if you're used to the toxicity of online pvp games, you should be fine with the main game. Otherwise, you can play of their other games like Legends of Runeterra and Ruined King or wait for their upcoming MMO and fighting game
Christian Linke is such a huge force behind not just Arcane but Riot's entire music department and any of their narrative based media, he pretty much built the department to what it is from the very beginning. Definitely recommend the Frequencies documentary mentioned in another comment which came out a few years before Arcane.
I originally didn’t have the transparent watermark but I kept getting random Netflix claims and I wanted to get the videos out to all of you in time. I may try to reupload at a later point without the watermark so that it is out there!
Also, dont let the community let you stop from getting into playing League. Every online game has bad people. If it gets too much, just mute the chat. Would love to be a part of your league journey (there are also a billion cinematics and music videos you could react to on this channel)
Something to point out. Arcane was in development for 6 years. The very beginning of Christian wanting to make this show took place when Riot as a public company was only a handful of years old. They were popular, but not famous. And definitely not a proven powerhouse. It looks so obvious now, but know that it's been a year since Arcane released. Meaning he was asking this of the company 7+ years ago. How could they be so confident then? Riot games launched League of Legends in 2009 and was practically a Kickstarted game. Then come 2015 some guy walks up to the CEO of that formerly Kickstarter company and says he wants to make a multimillion dollar full production series.
In addition to that, we don't know the details on the original draft for this show. Maybe there where actual problems with the story that would have let the show to turn out not this good. If the production wasn't set on hold and rebooted, there is a high chance we wouldn't have gotten the masterpiece we have now.
@@jezzluck We have a lot of scenes in this episode of bridging the rift shown to be of the pilot or earlier tests), that are NOT in the first episode or not on the show at all. Some exemples: Someone drowning (Silco, in episode 3? Probably?). Powder screaming on an airship flying away. And on earlier extracts: the fight scene of Vi and Jayce (with them looking very different, especially Vi which looked more like she is in the game) already with the hammer and gloves. Vi in her flat in Piltover (she was supposed to be from Piltover originally? I mean, in the game she is team Piltover, but it's so far from the beggining of Arcane...), etc. It seems to me the story might haveturned out something between "meh" to just okay: characters meet and fight, without enough background maybe, with them already adults, already with their "final form" and their weapons, etc. The show would have been good in term of animation, music, and atmosphere, I think, but with a "meh" story, it would not have been the masterpiece we have now. The "intervention meeting" was probably deserved and maybe kinda saved the show?
Not only that, but a guy who was working on player support tickets for league was who was proposing these ideas. (he wasn't on the support team at the same time, but going from mail house to pent house is nice to see)
In case you didn't see it in other comments... you don't have to worry about any of these episodes being copyright claimed. RIOT loves youtube reactors and won't claim anything that they own.
I was struggling a bit at first with Netflix hitting some of these vids so I did end up having to slap the watermark in there just to save time so I could get the videos out to all of you in a timely fashion 😄
@@TheGamingTeacher1 Netflix hits the motion picture aspect. but the music and the "Bridging the Rift" videos wont be claimed. as Riot owns the all of the music and the Rift videos and dont mind the content being shared in either case.
@@steffanhymer1285 Slight correction, Riot owns most of the music and wont claim most things, but some artists they work with arent on the same boat, the most prominent example is imagine dragons, but yeah 95% of Riots music is safe.
This is what I love most about this game and the company - they are really passionate about what they do. It is not always a success but they try to listen to the critics and make it better next time. The game itself is pretty addictive - that's why people are so against it because you get sucked into it and have a hard time leaving it. If you are interested: They've done a documentary on their music department before. It is called "Frequencies". Christian was the head of the department at that time. He is the creative pioneer at Riot and his ideas mostly pop off because as you might guess he is a perfectionist. It takes a lot of courage to set such a big, time consuming, costly and ambicious project on hold because you realize this is not what you want it to be yet - not to mention the psychological burden in feeling that you dissapoint your hard working team and managing the frustration on top of that. Riot's team has always been legendary because only with this they can pull off these amazing and ambicious ideas/projects. I very much believe that this documentary was done before even the premier of Arcane. So they didn't know if it will be a success or them being too biased of their own work at this time. They did documentaries of various projects and topics before, so I am pretty sure they set up everything for the documentary from the beginning and finished it before release. It is amazing to see the making of from the Arcane themed 2021 Worlds Show open - I very much recommend it as a reaction together with the actual Show Open in one video. It is crazy what they had to manage there.
I'm just catching up on these videos of yours. But this whole documentary just enforces all the things I love about Riot. They are honestly an enigma, they ooze this passion about every damn thing they do in a way you dont see other companies do. Like any time you can hear them talk about the things they make they are just a bunch of really talented people making cool shit. And they also really do think big picture. Aside from all the stuff they went through to make Arcane, over the last few years they have been slowly turning League from an IP into a franchise. With different games, stories, music and more. Arcane may have been a gamble at the start (I mean it started development over 7 years ago at this point) but Riot has really made it a point that this big bold new direction is who they are, and its honestly really impressive just the sheer confidence and the results that they have been outputting. I personally really like league as a game, but honestly im more interested in what bold moves Riot might make next.
If you want to play a game in this universe, there is Legends of Runeterra, the card game. It is fantastic. The gameplay is good. the league characters are translated into the game exceptionally well 9/10 times. It is free to play. And not in name only. You do not need to spend anything to get the cards you want in a reasonable time. Like a full new deck of your choice every 2 weeks, which is orders of magnitudes better than than any competitor in online card games. Even if you decide to spend money on cards, you cannot gamble. No packs for sale. How insane is that. Also there is a single-player mode which is quite fine.
You don't have to cut/mute these videos since they are produced and posted by Riot on their own channel. They love that content creators react to their content.
Yes, Warriors were made specifically for League of Legends, or rather, with Riot Music for the 2014 World Championship. Imagine Dragons even did the live performance during the Finals, before the first match. You should definitely watch some Opening Ceremonies from Worlds and I recommend to start from 2014. Each and everyone was unique and never seen before in other industries like Music and Sport.
The reputation is one of the most moronic things Ive ever seen. The game is quite fantastic, its THE most played AND watched game there is. Crap games dont accomplish that. What everyone hates is the community. This is for the same reason as its bad rep. Its filled to the brim by rxtarded 14 year olds (or 20 somethings mentally stuck at 14) who quite literally messure their entire lifes value by their League Rank. Its toxic AF. All you need to do is mute chat and you wont have a problem. If you do that you will have one of the most engaging and rewarding game experiences there is. It CAN also be frustrating as hell but only 'if you let it.* When you lose, especially if you lose to some bs reason, just keep your head cool and remind yourself that is just a game. This way you will nullify the negatives while keeping the positives.
"Much spent" is subjective. Its was roughly 10m an episode. Its alot of money sure... But considering most shows spend 2 or 3 times more (or in the case of rings of prime almost 10 times) its not actially that much.
So excited to watch this with you! It's so cool to see everything that went into Arcane, just makes me love it even more, which I didn't think was possible 😁
Arcane is not accurate to the original story, but they changed it in a better way. Its all about the emotional storytelling, and sometimes accuracy or realism is not all
Just adding some additional info for GT, every song that Riot uses is made specifically for them. That's every music vid, every piece for the games, and everything in Arcane.
Its one of the biggest brands in the world with a MASSIVE, insanly well written lore behind it loved by hundreds of millions of people. I would probably be nervous too.
Oh, you would LOVE Riot's cinematics, not only for League, but for Valorant, too! Some of them are music videos and most of them are free from copyright, so you won't get striked for a majority of them on UA-cam. Riot loves their Reactors 🥰🥰
You can play LoL if you want but there is one character in particular that if you see him, you'll probably get spoiled because that's what he'll look like eventually. His current design even made a very brief appearance in this episode. Luckily, you did not recognize him immediately I think. I'm talking about Viktor. But it's up to you though.
Been waiting for this.... Crazy to see how things happened and how Arcane came to be... Your gonna love episode both 3-4 a lot i got a feeling... See you next time
I've been doing the same trying to convince people to watch it. I have no one to talk to about how awesome it is, so here I am. 😁 it sucks that Riot has some major problems, but I'm so glad that Arcane managed to break out from most of those, at least in its presentation.
Warriors was not written for League, it was back in 2014 when it was still standard practice to take existing songs and use them with other media. Unfortunately licensing issues, copyright conflicts, royalty deals, etc became a problem as League continued to grow which led to Riot opting to produce all their own music in-house. Because they write/produce/create all their own music now, they have complete creative control of it now. Part 4 will go a little bit more into this, including why they wrote EVERY song in Arcane.
I'd love to see you react to more of their cinematic. They are top quality. If you do decide to try league just mute all the chat and then it is fun. However there's a pretty steep learning curve so you do have to be pretty committed to learning the game.
if you're looking for another game in the league universe, Legends of Runeterra is a really good card game with all the same characters, a solid singleplayer mode, and no chance of being called something horrible for not knowing how to play.
It's exciting to watch you figure out when to enable subtitles for the video as the subtitles translate spoken French to English text. Good on you to understand French though!
I originally didn’t but Netflix randomly threw some claims out so just to make sure it got out to all of you quicker, I threw the watermark in. I’ll probably reupload at a different point without the watermark!
By the time I was finished watching this "making of" series, Christian Linke link was my hero.
I can see why! Definitely a legend in his own right!
Same.
Mine too❤
The interviews were actually conducted during the later stages of the show's production. Also, if you're used to the toxicity of online pvp games, you should be fine with the main game. Otherwise, you can play of their other games like Legends of Runeterra and Ruined King or wait for their upcoming MMO and fighting game
Christian Linke is such a huge force behind not just Arcane but Riot's entire music department and any of their narrative based media, he pretty much built the department to what it is from the very beginning. Definitely recommend the Frequencies documentary mentioned in another comment which came out a few years before Arcane.
Facts you dont need to hide the video... Riot company have no copyright its free to use there content except for the music of imagine dragons song
I originally didn’t have the transparent watermark but I kept getting random Netflix claims and I wanted to get the videos out to all of you in time. I may try to reupload at a later point without the watermark so that it is out there!
Also, dont let the community let you stop from getting into playing League. Every online game has bad people. If it gets too much, just mute the chat.
Would love to be a part of your league journey (there are also a billion cinematics and music videos you could react to on this channel)
I love how they already knew in the beginning that Ekko being the firelights leader "will be the worst kept secret" XD
Something to point out. Arcane was in development for 6 years. The very beginning of Christian wanting to make this show took place when Riot as a public company was only a handful of years old. They were popular, but not famous. And definitely not a proven powerhouse. It looks so obvious now, but know that it's been a year since Arcane released. Meaning he was asking this of the company 7+ years ago. How could they be so confident then? Riot games launched League of Legends in 2009 and was practically a Kickstarted game. Then come 2015 some guy walks up to the CEO of that formerly Kickstarter company and says he wants to make a multimillion dollar full production series.
That does make a bit more sense when taking that into consideration. It’s hard to imagine when we have the masterpiece of a show we have now.
In addition to that, we don't know the details on the original draft for this show. Maybe there where actual problems with the story that would have let the show to turn out not this good. If the production wasn't set on hold and rebooted, there is a high chance we wouldn't have gotten the masterpiece we have now.
@@jezzluck We have a lot of scenes in this episode of bridging the rift shown to be of the pilot or earlier tests), that are NOT in the first episode or not on the show at all. Some exemples: Someone drowning (Silco, in episode 3? Probably?). Powder screaming on an airship flying away. And on earlier extracts: the fight scene of Vi and Jayce (with them looking very different, especially Vi which looked more like she is in the game) already with the hammer and gloves. Vi in her flat in Piltover (she was supposed to be from Piltover originally? I mean, in the game she is team Piltover, but it's so far from the beggining of Arcane...), etc. It seems to me the story might haveturned out something between "meh" to just okay: characters meet and fight, without enough background maybe, with them already adults, already with their "final form" and their weapons, etc. The show would have been good in term of animation, music, and atmosphere, I think, but with a "meh" story, it would not have been the masterpiece we have now. The "intervention meeting" was probably deserved and maybe kinda saved the show?
Not only that, but a guy who was working on player support tickets for league was who was proposing these ideas. (he wasn't on the support team at the same time, but going from mail house to pent house is nice to see)
In case you didn't see it in other comments... you don't have to worry about any of these episodes being copyright claimed. RIOT loves youtube reactors and won't claim anything that they own.
I was struggling a bit at first with Netflix hitting some of these vids so I did end up having to slap the watermark in there just to save time so I could get the videos out to all of you in a timely fashion 😄
@@TheGamingTeacher1 Netflix hits the motion picture aspect. but the music and the "Bridging the Rift" videos wont be claimed. as Riot owns the all of the music and the Rift videos and dont mind the content being shared in either case.
@@steffanhymer1285 Slight correction, Riot owns most of the music and wont claim most things, but some artists they work with arent on the same boat, the most prominent example is imagine dragons, but yeah 95% of Riots music is safe.
This is what I love most about this game and the company - they are really passionate about what they do. It is not always a success but they try to listen to the critics and make it better next time.
The game itself is pretty addictive - that's why people are so against it because you get sucked into it and have a hard time leaving it.
If you are interested: They've done a documentary on their music department before. It is called "Frequencies". Christian was the head of the department at that time. He is the creative pioneer at Riot and his ideas mostly pop off because as you might guess he is a perfectionist. It takes a lot of courage to set such a big, time consuming, costly and ambicious project on hold because you realize this is not what you want it to be yet - not to mention the psychological burden in feeling that you dissapoint your hard working team and managing the frustration on top of that. Riot's team has always been legendary because only with this they can pull off these amazing and ambicious ideas/projects.
I very much believe that this documentary was done before even the premier of Arcane. So they didn't know if it will be a success or them being too biased of their own work at this time.
They did documentaries of various projects and topics before, so I am pretty sure they set up everything for the documentary from the beginning and finished it before release. It is amazing to see the making of from the Arcane themed 2021 Worlds Show open - I very much recommend it as a reaction together with the actual Show Open in one video. It is crazy what they had to manage there.
I'm just catching up on these videos of yours. But this whole documentary just enforces all the things I love about Riot. They are honestly an enigma, they ooze this passion about every damn thing they do in a way you dont see other companies do. Like any time you can hear them talk about the things they make they are just a bunch of really talented people making cool shit. And they also really do think big picture. Aside from all the stuff they went through to make Arcane, over the last few years they have been slowly turning League from an IP into a franchise. With different games, stories, music and more. Arcane may have been a gamble at the start (I mean it started development over 7 years ago at this point) but Riot has really made it a point that this big bold new direction is who they are, and its honestly really impressive just the sheer confidence and the results that they have been outputting. I personally really like league as a game, but honestly im more interested in what bold moves Riot might make next.
If you want to play a game in this universe,
there is Legends of Runeterra, the card game.
It is fantastic. The gameplay is good. the league characters are translated into the game exceptionally well 9/10 times. It is free to play. And not in name only. You do not need to spend anything to get the cards you want in a reasonable time. Like a full new deck of your choice every 2 weeks, which is orders of magnitudes better than than any competitor in online card games. Even if you decide to spend money on cards, you cannot gamble. No packs for sale. How insane is that.
Also there is a single-player mode which is quite fine.
You don't have to cut/mute these videos since they are produced and posted by Riot on their own channel. They love that content creators react to their content.
Yes, Warriors were made specifically for League of Legends, or rather, with Riot Music for the 2014 World Championship. Imagine Dragons even did the live performance during the Finals, before the first match. You should definitely watch some Opening Ceremonies from Worlds and I recommend to start from 2014. Each and everyone was unique and never seen before in other industries like Music and Sport.
The reputation is one of the most moronic things Ive ever seen.
The game is quite fantastic, its THE most played AND watched game there is.
Crap games dont accomplish that.
What everyone hates is the community.
This is for the same reason as its bad rep.
Its filled to the brim by rxtarded 14 year olds (or 20 somethings mentally stuck at 14) who quite literally messure their entire lifes value by their League Rank.
Its toxic AF.
All you need to do is mute chat and you wont have a problem.
If you do that you will have one of the most engaging and rewarding game experiences there is.
It CAN also be frustrating as hell but only 'if you let it.*
When you lose, especially if you lose to some bs reason, just keep your head cool and remind yourself that is just a game.
This way you will nullify the negatives while keeping the positives.
"Much spent" is subjective.
Its was roughly 10m an episode.
Its alot of money sure... But considering most shows spend 2 or 3 times more (or in the case of rings of prime almost 10 times) its not actially that much.
So excited to watch this with you! It's so cool to see everything that went into Arcane, just makes me love it even more, which I didn't think was possible 😁
Arcane is not accurate to the original story, but they changed it in a better way. Its all about the emotional storytelling, and sometimes accuracy or realism is not all
Don't play the game. Just get into the lore. You can listen to all the voice lines on UA-cam
I know this is way late and other people probably said it but league is a MOBA, not an MMO, very different. Virtually no story telling done in game
Thanks for the clarification!
i would love to see you react to all of their cinematics for the game, from champion teasers, music videos, skinline teasers etc.
Algorithm comment.
43:45 yes Warrior was made for the LoL world champion chip of 2014, Imagine Dragon are huges fan of League of Legends and plays it
Just adding some additional info for GT, every song that Riot uses is made specifically for them. That's every music vid, every piece for the games, and everything in Arcane.
About playing LoL, I would advice playing the mobile version, Wild Rift. It's a much more accessible, and in my opinion better, version.
Its one of the biggest brands in the world with a MASSIVE, insanly well written lore behind it loved by hundreds of millions of people.
I would probably be nervous too.
Oh, you would LOVE Riot's cinematics, not only for League, but for Valorant, too! Some of them are music videos and most of them are free from copyright, so you won't get striked for a majority of them on UA-cam. Riot loves their Reactors 🥰🥰
You can play LoL if you want but there is one character in particular that if you see him, you'll probably get spoiled because that's what he'll look like eventually. His current design even made a very brief appearance in this episode. Luckily, you did not recognize him immediately I think. I'm talking about Viktor. But it's up to you though.
yes, that Jayce vs. Vi animation test is on RIOT official youtube site. Here is a link:
ua-cam.com/video/RHElv9Kk9gY/v-deo.html
"They are all hesitant".... well they're all first timers in the field
Been waiting for this.... Crazy to see how things happened and how Arcane came to be... Your gonna love episode both 3-4 a lot i got a feeling... See you next time
I've been doing the same trying to convince people to watch it. I have no one to talk to about how awesome it is, so here I am. 😁 it sucks that Riot has some major problems, but I'm so glad that Arcane managed to break out from most of those, at least in its presentation.
Ahh nice, i was waiting for this!
Warriors was not written for League, it was back in 2014 when it was still standard practice to take existing songs and use them with other media. Unfortunately licensing issues, copyright conflicts, royalty deals, etc became a problem as League continued to grow which led to Riot opting to produce all their own music in-house. Because they write/produce/create all their own music now, they have complete creative control of it now. Part 4 will go a little bit more into this, including why they wrote EVERY song in Arcane.
Try the Legends of Runeterra card game
I'd love to see you react to more of their cinematic. They are top quality. If you do decide to try league just mute all the chat and then it is fun. However there's a pretty steep learning curve so you do have to be pretty committed to learning the game.
if you're looking for another game in the league universe, Legends of Runeterra is a really good card game with all the same characters, a solid singleplayer mode, and no chance of being called something horrible for not knowing how to play.
DO NOT start playing League of Legends. If you are interested in playing within the world, look to Teamfight Tactics or Legends of Runeterra.
It's exciting to watch you figure out when to enable subtitles for the video as the subtitles translate spoken French to English text.
Good on you to understand French though!
Understand is a bit of an overstatement as I haven’t been using it much since early college but it helped a bit 😂
Nice 👍
You don't need any watermark or censorship in the video. Riot doesn't put copyright on his videos or music.
I originally didn’t but Netflix randomly threw some claims out so just to make sure it got out to all of you quicker, I threw the watermark in. I’ll probably reupload at a different point without the watermark!