Lore is a word used by nerds
Don't you just mean like
The item description text
Pretty much. As if you need a better reason to play a game than Hit People, Get Stuff.
Anyway, looking elsewhere, I should really play DS1 when I am done with DS2. People seem to think DS2 is the weakest. I'm loving it, so those should be a real treat.
The combat system in DS2 is more developed, but the world is a lot less interlinked than DS and previous KF games.
Oh, and I could also give a fuck about the multiplayer, too much hassle for too little payoff. They're all just single player dungeon crawls for me.
I look at the item descriptions and wonder "Why would someone scribe the entire history of this sword on its hilt??!!!"
It's kind of like how in the real world you'll see a half-eaten Baby Ruth on the sidewalk, and when you pick it up you just know that this Baby Ruth was bought by a man named Joseph Winterbottom who lives in Oak Grove, who was seduced by the need for a chocolate bar, but was cursed with a mild peanut allergy, and so fell prey to the hidden peanuts within. He now wanders the city with puffy lips and a strong desire for a different chocolate bar, without peanuts. The location of the Nestle distribution center from whence this Baby Ruth came is lost in the mists of time.
And I'm like, whatever, free calories.