Plague Doctor
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Ever go down a lore rabbithole for a game series and ended up shocked how deep and out there it was?
Which is the craziest?
Which is the craziest?
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What game series has the craziest and deepest lore/world building?
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EverydayBeast
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Ocarina of time
Plague Doctor
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Elder Scrolls' deep lore has a god literally shitting out another god, time traveling cyborgs hell bent on elven genocide, and trees magically mind controlling and gaslighting all argonians.
Oh and then there is how vampires were created...
Oh and then there is how vampires were created...
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Craziest?
Kingdom Hearts for sure.
Kingdom Hearts for sure.
The_hunter
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Warhammer 40k, but maybe that's cheating.
apocaliptic
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Warhammer. There is nothing that comes close to it
CrimsonTide
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It's really the only answer here. Objectively
simpatico
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After Dark Souls and Elden Ring (with a little help from Vaati and my own imagination), it's hard to imagine another RPG even having acceptable tone. That was the best part. The lore wasn't delivered to me via TV show inspired dialog exchanges or laced with Marvel quips. I'm very low on video game stories as a whole though. I think there are maybe 10 games in existence that I won't skip every cutscene if I play it today. Doom 2016 understood this, but the success filled Hugo's brain with demonic hubris and he spent God knows what percentage of the Dark Age budget on those unforgivable cut scenes.
diffusionx
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Dwarf Fortress
LectureMaster
Or is it just one of Adam's balls in my throat?
Second mentions above for Dark Souls and Nier.
Dragon Age has pretty cool lores, the lead writer created the whole overworld and wrote several novels. Such a shame Veilguard killed it.
Dragon Age has pretty cool lores, the lead writer created the whole overworld and wrote several novels. Such a shame Veilguard killed it.
Introduction
Before you start, care for some music while you read? So you want to have proper context for Dragon Age: Inquisition’s story, but don’t feel like combing through pages upon pages of wikis to do it? I hope this thread serves as a quick-look guide into the lore that will hopefully supplement Shinobi's excellent OT next week. For that purpose I'll skip over the games except to include them in the timeline as Shinobi will be covering them in depth next week!
General Info
Dragon Age takes place on a...
Before you start, care for some music while you read? So you want to have proper context for Dragon Age: Inquisition’s story, but don’t feel like combing through pages upon pages of wikis to do it? I hope this thread serves as a quick-look guide into the lore that will hopefully supplement Shinobi's excellent OT next week. For that purpose I'll skip over the games except to include them in the timeline as Shinobi will be covering them in depth next week!
General Info
Dragon Age takes place on a...
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Icymanipulator
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The Elder Scrolls has to be a candidate.
Hawk The Slayer
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Easily Elder Scrolls and Fallout, deepest and best lore.
Werewolf Jones
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Mario Kart.
Represent.
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Black Myth: Wukong
Journey to the West is basically the blueprint for many genres
Journey to the West is basically the blueprint for many genres
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Angry_Megalodon
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As a fan of cosmic horror, Bloodborne's is my favorite by far.
Besides From, I will mention their best pupil: team cherry. HK's lore is fantastic and it's depicted in the world even better than in From's games. The narrative consistency of their two games is nothing short of fenomenal.
But it's not only the lore but how it's shown in the game.
Besides From, I will mention their best pupil: team cherry. HK's lore is fantastic and it's depicted in the world even better than in From's games. The narrative consistency of their two games is nothing short of fenomenal.
But it's not only the lore but how it's shown in the game.
HRK69
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Discovered Mario Kart 8 last month and I'm already considering professional karting as a career
What a fucking great game
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
The Trails (Kiseki) series.
All dozen plus games take place on the same world and there's still more coming out. An interconnected story. Etc.
Elder Scrolls
Halo
All dozen plus games take place on the same world and there's still more coming out. An interconnected story. Etc.
Elder Scrolls
Halo
I can't believe it took this long for someone to mention the trails series. This would be my vote for video games.
If it's not only video games D&D and Warhammer would have to up there.
digimaster7
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people mentioning dark souls, is this some sort of inside joke? because the story is non existent
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Sooner
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Sounds like another Gran Turismo movie-like real-life story coming up.
Discovered Mario Kart 8 last month and I'm already considering professional karting as a career
What a fucking great game
RafterXL
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It's either Warhammer or Elder Scrolls. As cool and as vast as Dark Souls lore is, it pales in sheer breadth and scope to either of these.
Story and lore are two different things.
KimDongHwan
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I remember reading some heavy (MB) lore guides for the original Silent Hill on gamefaqs back in the days explaining the whole religion/drug thing going on in town. It blew my child brain back then that there was more to what was shown and all the hints I missed.
A newer one would be Inscryption. Also went the YouTube rabbit hole on that one
A newer one would be Inscryption. Also went the YouTube rabbit hole on that one
Hollowpoint5557
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There is enough Warhammer lore to last a lifetime.
grvg
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The lore and world building is super deep in all the souls games, though how much of that is from making things intentionally vague so that YouTubers will dream up crazy stuff is unknown
Gameplay Gods Bless
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Xenogears.
Plague Doctor
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Btw, I say this as a huge critic of Bethesda for the past 10 years, but one thing I give them props with with elder scrolls is that there is so few definitive authoritative lore dumps directly from the devs. All the lore comes from in game dialouge and in game books which could be biased, propaganda, ill informed, or out right wrong. The only official things are in game events you play through and 2 published novels and they don't cover much.
So you have to piece together what the in game lore books and dialouge say and figure out if it's full of shit or has secondary confirmation or environmental storytelling supports.
So you have to piece together what the in game lore books and dialouge say and figure out if it's full of shit or has secondary confirmation or environmental storytelling supports.
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kpopSuperstar
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Unless they show it in the game it shouldn't count. From Software games is more like dev fanfiction, it doesn't feel connected to the games at all.
San Dan Glokta
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Destiny
Legend of heroes
Bioshock
Depends on what exactly your taste is and what you mean
Legend of heroes
Bioshock
Depends on what exactly your taste is and what you mean
YeulEmeralda
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Xenosaga.
TerribleAtThisGame
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Since I just talked about it , Returnal has truly unhinged and great lore. There's an insane amount as well if you start going through all tiers of Databank entries etc.
There are very different theories but the one I find the most "obvious" I guess is cool as fuck.
There are very different theories but the one I find the most "obvious" I guess is cool as fuck.
