Editing Crunch (section)

== Examples of Crunch Overwhelming Fluff ==
*League of Legends and the handling of the lore. The first champion background to not include a reason for joining the League was Varus in 2012. Many felt a few champions into that the League was being abandoned. After Riot Games realized they could safely ignore it and the majority of the playerbase would not quit, or would rather watch esport athletes score skillshots than follow the lore they got rid of it. It took 2 years until fall of 2014, about 24 champion releases in without mentioning the League before Riot revealed they had retconned the Institute of War and the League of Legends. Riot decided to abandon the Institute of War and almost several years of story to focus on the esports scene. Cue butchery of some characters on par with [[Matt Ward]] (like Varus simple background becoming 2 gay men fused together with a demon weapon). But...lore still exists. Only the organization of uber mages organizing world tournaments to decide conflicts disappeared. Characters still interact with each other. From Lucian and Olaf (he wanted a good death) showing up to fight undead in Bilgewater alongside Miss Fortune/Illaoi/Other Bilgewater champs, to Jinx and Ziggs becoming buddies in Zaun, to Yasuo crosssing paths with Taliyah teaching her how to control her elemental powers and giving her nickname "little sparrow". Yasuo still uses a thread from her tunic to tie up his hair. The League CCG Legends of Runeterra picked up the worldbuilding again in 2020 until Riot decided to make it a series of "what ifs" instead. 2021 saw the Ruination/Sentinels of Light storyline (which sucked), Ruined King (which was decent, but lore nerd catnip and definitely beat the Sentinels event), and Arcane Season 1 (which won awards, but is technically in its own universe)...which was all then followed by virtually nothing outside of LoR and skin theme storylines for the next two years. Whether the lore is "better" now with its comics/written stories/videos/semi-canon card games/award-winning Netflix show not directly involving gameplay ... is a truly [[skub|skubtastic]] debate.

*In approximately every RPG there's a lull before the final boss fight when the player decides it's time to hit up all of the side quests.  Never mind that the dragon god will destroy the world in two days time, or that the evil empire has conquered your city, you've got a backlog of chocobo races and dating minigames to play first (or in one memorable case, a hundred lightning strikes to stand around waiting to dodge).  It doesn't matter that their own explanation may make no sense, there's [[XP]] and late-game weapons waiting!

*Most modern shooters include a melee attack of some sort.  It may be a swipe with a knife or a strike with the butt of a gun, but it's normally very quick and extremely powerful, frequently killing a foe in less time than unloading an entire magazine into their torso.  This is done to balance the game, sacrificing some verisimilitude to expand the depth and breadth of the positioning and movement mechanics.  No, the developers don't really believe hitting somebody with a sharpened stick is comparable to emptying an assault rifle at them point blank, we promise. Some developers mitigate this by only making backstabs instant kills, which while somewhat nonsensical, acts as a workable substitute for the enemy player being unable to defend themselves from an attack to their back.

[[Category:Gamer Slang]]
[[Category:Roleplaying]]