Which game have the richest universe/world lore?

Which game have the richest universe/world lore?

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Call of Duty

Wario

My Ass.

Fallout
Metal Gear
Pokemon

Any lotr game, or those massive forgotten realms ones.

Fallout 4

TES prior to Oblivion.

Europa Universalis

The real world.

Elder Scrolls
Deus Ex
WarCraft
Team Fortress

Gonna need some evidence of just how deep that lore goes.

Inazuma Eleven

Mario

The Marathon series.

EYE

Langrisser

Ys

tfw you live in a time when doom is worse than marathon

Nothing with a circular loop can have a deep universe.

Does Warhammer 40k count? It had multiple vidya after all.

6500 year history happened before the events of rhimana you twat.

The one that doesn't involve cuckch raiding threads?

Yet even those 2% make up for more than 100% of any other ranchise.

The lore of real life is so incredibly intricate, people devote their entire lives to the studies minor facets of it. Real life is such a profoundly important piece of fiction that ALL works after it have taken significant influence from it in some way or another. It's magic system, dubbed "physics", is used in nearly all books movies and vidya, with the notable exclusion of the ground breaking master piece known as "Sonic 06" witch used it's own system.
Real life is so incredibly intricate THIS VERY BOARD, allegedly devoted to video games frequently discuses the intricacies of "reality", including the likes of, corporations, politics, interpersonal relationships (know as shipping by some), technology, sexual stimulation, mental disorders, hive minds, the internet, metaphysics and miscarriages.
I hope you now understand the size of this universe. Unfortunately, warhammer 40k is bigger.

Are we even sure that it's not real life that's the derigative of WH40k, and not vice versa?

Pretty sure the rest of the world is going on just fine, it's just you stuck in your own cycles.

Says you, goon. I've seen heaps of sages in every thread currently up and I imagine you're partly to blame.

Pic related

how did they even manage to make a game that shit?

Next time keep your plebeian opinions to yourself, kid.

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to be fair it's pretty funny that you can kill the final boss in the very beginning of the game by just having him attack and the village gangbangs him to death

These are just the ones I can think off of the top of my head, not all of them are 'good' and of course every series/franchise has its share of shitty games, but I believe these all have a decent amount of lore to them, that is explored either ingame or through external, official sources.

or make a weapon, any weapon, kill everything in one hit just by spamming all the damage buff gems that lie all around the place on it

The Witcher lore, maybe not as deep as some others but it still impressed and interests me

Dofus/wakfu

MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE FRENCH

Does that mean that universes in which multiple people have had recurring dreams have negative depth?

wait, really? where i can read about it?

You're assuming they're distinct.
In fact, every game exists in the same universe.

Literally nobody care's about wakfu but french and quebecers.

my penis will exist in your bp soon tbh user-kun

I was going to say something but I agree.

That's rich.

Kirby

That's the name of the show

Check the Blood Wiki user, it takes its information from the games, the instruction manuals and developer interviews. Its a rather well researched wiki.

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The Shrek games

Bloodlines or the World of Darkness in general. I think at the point they cancelled the original line they had several overlapping cosmological models and 20+ mystical interpretations of the course of history. It's risible, dated shit but exhaustingly big all the same.

Doesn't Nier/Drakengard have a shitton of lore? I remember having a conversation with someone after I played Nier and they mentioned that there is a ton.

Trails is at least top 3

LOL

League of legends doesn't have good lore what are you talking about??

All Amplitude games are in the same universe, with loads of backstory on their site as well.

Baldur's Gate

Nier

Kirby

Halo unironically has not only either the most or second most lore of any vidya franchise, but also some of the best lore. It and Elder scrolls are basically like 3-4 levels above even the next closest franchise.

How many of the recent halo books are any good? I gave up after the thursday war

The Kilo 5 triology (Glasslands, Thursay War, and Mortal Dictata) were thankfully not the start of a trend, all of the books since then have had more or less as good a quality ratio as bungie's.

Last Light and Broken Circle are both great, Hunters in the Dark, Smoke and Shadow, Saints Testimony/Shadow of intent/the rest of fractures are good. New Blood is iffy. I don't know if you've read the forerunner triology, but IMO those are absolutely fantastic, but they are pretty polarizing.

Just for clarity, here's how I rank the halo novels, in case you want to compare your tastes to mine for the bungie books

Silentium (343)
Contact Harvest (bungie)

Ghosts of Onyx (Bungie)
Broken Circle (343)
Cryptum (343)
Last Light (343)
Evolutions (343)
Shadow of Intent (343) (included in fractures)

Fall of Reach (Bungie)
Primordium (343)
First Strike (Bungie)
Fractures (343)
Smoke and Shadow (343)
Hunters in the Dark (343)
Saints Testimoney (343) (included in fractures)

Glasslands (343)
Cole Protocol (Bungie)
Thursday War (343)
New Blood (343)

The flood (Bungie)

Mortal Dictatata (343)

The build up of the Post-Bungie novels and new media is just, disappointing pile of shit heaped on the "Halo Nation"

Mario Lore

Lemme understand dark wouls
Tell me

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I disagree, see . 343 and bungie pretty much have the same quality ratio as far as the novels are concerned IMO


Most of them are actually pretty good, sort of in between hard and soft sci fi novels even just judged in their own right.

I care.

The Vedas still exist.

Kirby

skyrim

Mega Man Legends, not only in its own series, but the fact that it builds upon thousands of years of Mega Man history and takes place in the distant future after Classic, X, Zero, and ZX where the world is all but destroyed and basically going through a rebirth of sorts.

Unfortunately, Capcom passed Mega Man over to a Canadian animation studio to get… Reinitialized.

Porn.

I think you already posted the answer.

Nothing quite compares to the lore that Elder Scrolls is based on. I quite like the kinda disconnect it has to the rest of the game.

Crazy stuff like the world just being a dream and together with stuff all that crazy stuff with Dagoth Ur who is inverses the principle of Mortals dreaming/being awake and dead or alive.

I like that shit.

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Star Wars Racer

Warcraft has good lore
so does Starcraft
Diablo even
Inb4 blizzardrone, most of their recent games were utter shit.

Starcraft lore is literally Warhammer40k with zerg instead of orcs

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Fallout lore was turned shit by Bethesda
TES lore was turned shit by Bethesda starting with 4

All Blizzard lore was one by one, turned to shit after WoWs release

If you're stupid enough to think any of the Halo books were good you're a fucking ill read faggot and need to read real fiction and fantasy

here's lore you fucking empty headed monkeys

WoW

this children's introduction to fantasy is an immensely superior world created by a grossly superior writer than that of fucking Halo

no because WH40k is clearly a rip-off of Starcraft.

the zerg are basically tyranids. orcs and analogs not required

that said, it's interesting to note that designs for nid models were initially kind of derpy and became more zerglike after starcraft's release

I read the first one as a kid, wasn't bad. Vaguely reminded me of Ender's Game with the whole "taken from your family as a kid and turned into a military asset" plot.

The Legend of Luke and Lord Brocktree still the greatest with the most metal kills of the main villains

shh, we don't talk about old nids

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Actually, lore wise Oblivion isn't that bad, most of it was already written by the same dude who did Morrowind (see Nu-Mantia missive).
The events that unfold arn't boring because they're poorly written, but because the gameplay and worldbuilding was fucking awful.

Todd and his ilk turned Cyrodiil into some giant Jacksons LotR looking thing because that was considered cool at the time.
And ofcourse everything had to dumbed down so they could release it on consoles.
All compounded with the fact that they basically used an updated Morrowind engine so they could'nt do big cities or lots of NPC's without everyones systems catching fire with the unoptimized mess they where working with.

Actually currently replaying with fucktons of mods, largely because of how I have neglected it over the years, and especially now that I've just completely ignored the main quest, there's none of those boring af oblivion gates, makes the game 10 times more enjoyable.

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You could almost say that the lore is thick and meaty.

Hi, /lit/.

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We have a better idea of who the Zodiac Killer is then why Two Worlds or it's sequel was such utter trash.

Not really. The humans are completely different in starcraft. The similarities are in the backstory of "DUH OLD WUNS" (they literally used the same name by the way) making a bunch of artificial life forms and then got fucked by said life forms in the process.

Ultimate Spider-Man was originally intended to be canon to the comics. It was later adapted to the comics instead of just being considered canon on its own, but regardless, the comics, at least the comics that came out before the game was adapted, are canon to the game.

Now, it is Ultimate Spider-Man, and some of you may think that means it's an alt-universe and doesn't count, but the Ultimate Marvel Universe on its own already has richer and deeper lore than any video game, and it exists in the same multiverse as the regular Marvel Universe, complete with crossovers. The regular Marvel Universe happens to include series people forget about, such as Showa Godzilla (which includes King Kong), Doctor Who, GI Joe, and Transformers Generation 1 (which includes Beast Wars and Beast Machines). The wider Marvel Multiverse also includes things like multiple tv universes (all the cartoons from the '90s are the same universe, the '60s/70s/80s shows seem to be related, Japanese Spider-Man is a thing), as well as the MCU, which is already like 15 movies and five tv shows.

Then there's Marvel vs. DC and JLA/Avengers. Canon crossovers of Marvel and DC. The DC Multiverse includes not only its own insanely autistic lore, but the DCAU, the new shitty movies, and the current TV universe that already includes five tv shows (granted one was cancelled). Plus of course the comics-only universes, including the real world (which of course also exists in Marvel).

Of course both of those universes include tons of classic literature like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes, each with different continuing adventures in each universe.

No other video game comes close to ever having the lore of Ultimate Spider-Man.

But lore is best when it's subtle. Sonic unironically has great lore, but most people never notice it.

Kain is deified

Timecop for SNES

Honestly the Treyarch series has deep lore.

Only in Europe/Asia campaign. American one is same thing Skyrim is to Morrowind.

40K and games based in a DnD universe have heaps of source books that count as 'meh lore'.
Any game adapted from a book, such as LotR, DW and GoT has a similiar advantage.
A better question is
What game has a deep AND unique lore not shared with books or table-games. IE: What lore was created for a game and not vise-versa

some suggestions
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Does Deus Ex count when half its lore is the real world?

I actually really started to get into the FFXIV lore. It's very well thought out and it has lots of great details. Problem is it's so hard to find or get to unlock World of Warcraft or even TES. Really the accessibility of the lore is almost, or even more, important than the lore itself in my opinion.

Unlike*

It's shit.
Morrowind is shit

Touhou

Accessibility is for casuals. Best lore is subtle lore that most people would never notice because it's spread out across multiple games, with essential info in spinoff cartoons and books, with only tiny details revealed in each entry, giving the illusion that there is no story, until you manage to tie all the bits together and realize that it's actually deep as fuck.