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I’d have to go with Doom
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Always liked the Valve games for their lore that you mostly find in their Wikipedia articles. Whether it’s the Xen creatures, the Combine, City 17, Aperture Science or Black Mesa inhabitants. Always liked that stuff.
Bioshock, Mass Effect, Dark Souls, are all pretty great too.
ID: hph729tID: hphdq6fThere was that one time the Valve fanbase had to place radios in certain places in portal, record the audio which turned out to be HAM radio “slow-scan television”, decode that into pictures which contained numbers, assemble them in the right order, run a CRC on them to get a phone number, which had a dial-up BBS on the other end, containing ascii art of the forthcoming Portal 2.
The login and password for the BBS was hidden in there somewhere too but I can’t remember where. It was a long time ago now
ID: hph367nTf2 lore... thats all I have to say...
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Mass Effect is pretty great
ID: hph10fyThe codex was great. My favorite entry from the first game was
"The krogan evolved in a hostile and vicious environment. Until the invention of gunpowder weapons, "eaten by predators" was still the number one cause of krogan fatalities. Afterwards, it was "death by gunshot".
ID: hpguwicJust started playing for the first time and I’ve never been so captivated by so much dialogue. Then again, I’m a sucker for distant future sci-fi, ancient aliens, and a galactic empires.
ID: hpgvvxpWe don't get a lot of scifi space opera type games so i'm right here with you
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Outer Wilds
ID: hphff27That’s my game of the year, even though it didn’t come out this year. But in seriousness, it’s incredible.
ID: hphb3ajThis is an interesting answer because I'd usually consider lore to be world building that isn't important to playing the game; however, Outer Wilds lore is vital to beating the game.
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Warhammer 40K is a good one for lore. You can spend months just reading the wiki.
The battletech universe is good also.
ID: hpgn83cThere's a lot of awesome novels based on the 40k universe too.
ID: hpgu95fI recently read The Infinite and The Divine and I highly recommend it, even if you’re not a huge Necron fan.
ID: hpgwc81Upvoting for Battletech visibility.
It's easily my favorite fictional setting. Set 1000 years in the future, all 1000 years are fully developed and written out, giving the setting its own fully fleshed out history. There's no aliens, just humans being shitty, fallible animals, and a entire collapsed interstellar empire locked into endless civil war. It's the perfect, logical end state of the modern military industrial complex mixed in neofeudalistic knights driving big, stompy robots.
It's just so fucking good.
ID: hpgrjok40ks lore is so large it's almost cheating. I've read almost every page on the wiki but its been. six. years.
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Dead space!
If we talking about the lore they went extra mile developing the world around the game, Books, comic books, cartoons and the wiki, they made really good sci-fi world, with it own motives, fanatic religion cult and ect, if you gonna dive in to it it so good, I’m really big fan of this universe
ID: hph0dcuI can't wait for the remake
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Legacy of Kain series, or KOTOR
ID: hpgjgd3KoTOR for real but also that feels like cheating. Need categories for original narratives and adapted narratives.
ID: hpgn9ylI agree, so much to go through and leave you questioning everything
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The Witcher (granted it’s based on books, but nonetheless)
ID: hpgm7p3Characters and places are from the books but the story/plot of the games is just a sequel of the main story that Sapkowski approved but didnt write
ID: hpgoiklThey are still great, there's a reason why Witcher 3 is considered one of the best games ever made.
ID: hpgj6gbAnd those books are based on centuries old folk lore themselves. *Example, in the latest season on Netflix there's a "witch in a hut" character. First time I saw the hut I told my wife, "that hut is going to stand up on what looks like chicken legs later, I guarantee it". She looked at me like a crazy person because why would it do that?
Sure enough, it did. The Deathless Mother is a pretty clear-cut re-telling of Baba Yaga, from the shapeshifting to the promises and enchanting to the hut on chicken legs. The Baba Yaga is a very old and very well travelled bit of folk lore about a witch who lives in a hut that rises on the legs of a basilisk. Consequently, the monster Leshy and Baba Yaga appear around each other all the time in slavic folk lore, and being that Leshy had made an early appearance in season 2 my mind was already working on that path.
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ID: hpgoytqI remember the witch hut on chicken legs from a book on folklore I had as a kid. I could swear I also remember it from D&D and/or some other game, maybe multiple games. I thought it was pretty widely known about, but I also recently found out many of my friends/coworkers had never heard of it before.
ID: hpgw47mHella interesting side note.
Baba Yaga is heavily influenced by the indigenous Scandinavian peoples, the Sami. They build traditional storehouses that can be reached in deep snow and keep out animals.
It’s not even a stretch to figure out why “chicken” legs
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Hollow Knight. Don't believe me? Go ask mossbag
ID: hpgda3hOh my I love this game and I’ve been meaning to look into the lore for forever but I keep forgetting
ID: hpgh8vpI started looking into it for fun one day after beating the first two endings. I was blown away with how much I had missed lore-wise
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Elderscrolls its such a deep and intresting lore, halo also has very cool nd intersting lore but imo not nearly as cool or intersting as TES
ID: hpgtjxhThere's definitely a lot of cool lore throughout the franchise, but honestly, I can happily dive into just Morrowind's lore and history. IIRC that was the point where they really went back started developing the world behind the games.
ID: hph0j8vElder Scrolls Lore is the deepest I've come across in my gaming years. It's a lot of years.
ID: hph0d93The Oblivion crisis has to be one of my favorite parts of that, specially with how the argonians handled it.
ID: hph73qpEverytime someone brings up tes lore all I can think about is the crazy adventures of vivec and his penis spear
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Planescape: Torment. And like some other replies this is a bit of a cheat since it's lore is based on outside source material. But damn does this game have captivating lore. You have all of this captivating backstory for characters like The Nameless One, Dak'kon, Morte, Deinnora, etc. And Sigil itself has so much great lore to it. Every location in this game was interesting and had me invested in reading all of the details.
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Far cry blood dragon
In the near future of 2008…..
ID: hpgxbkkStoked for the remaster? I know I am!
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Fallout
ID: hpggsoiSo much it almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter!
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Disco Elysium ! So much depth and leaves you with wanting to learn more.
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Ace combat especially when you factor in the complete bandai namco shared timeline that stretches 2000 years into the future.
ID: hpgxgujDefinitely. I still treasure my copy of Shattered Skies. The soundtrack, the backstory, the gameplay, perfection
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Bloodborne
ID: hpgwda5I've never played any of the soulsborne games but there was a period of like 4 months where I was absolutely obsessed with the lore of Bloodborne.
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Control.... the game directly connects to the original Alan Wake and Quantum Break through the story and easter eggs. Both Alan Wake and Quantum Break have easter eggs in them that tie directly to Control as well.
ID: hph8oafThe greatest world building of all time. I would play a game where you just work a 9-5 desk job at the FBC.
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Dark souls
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Valve lore is only slightly less cryptic than Dark Souls. You have to piece it together with pinned newspaper articles, radio and TV snippets, NPC's that will talk about anything but the horrors of the 7 hour war... It can be so thrilling when you piece together some of the major details on your own, or there will be like one total expose scene after killing monsters for six hours