So I'm a collector, of sorts. I'm a collector of second-hand autism, in a way. Basically, I look for people more knowledgeable than me on a given subject, listen to them, and now I know what they know. I know that there are at least a few people here who fit that quality. Xion-fag is one of the more well known, given he managed to explain the notoriously insane story of Kindgom Hearts, but there's a lot more of these kinds of people. There's the guy who actually understands the Sonic series' lore, although pic related has a lot of speculation, it might be better if you just read the manual translations on Sonic Retro and make sense of it yourself, it's not like they're a terribly long read like some things. There's at least two people who understand Digimon's somewhat complicated story spanning several animes and games, some untranslated to this day (I should have screencapped it). I'm sure there's people who both like and understand the Drakengard/Neir and Xenogears/saga/blade series, and half the games in those are kinda shit, not to mention Yoko Taro's penchant for putting parts of the story in things that aren't the game. I'm sure the list could go on, but I don't personally know any. I'm mostly interested what you know about a game or series' lore, if you'd like to share. Gameplay might be king in a game, but a good story is icing on the cake.
So I'm a collector, of sorts. I'm a collector of second-hand autism, in a way. Basically...
Drakengard's story isn't all that hard to understand, it only seems confusing because where another series would just have a plothole Yoko Taro writes a book introducing an alternate timeline that solves the plothole and becomes the canon version of events. Then he goes on and writes 20 short stories of irrelevant lore filler to cram in between games just because he can.
I seriously always felt like the second picture was someone samefagging/ID Hopping hard.
I implied that, it's kind of ridiculous though. Not to mention the fact that you can level up the weapon descriptions, Yoko Taro just likes writing shit. And making you depressed, apparently.
Just thought I'd pop in to tell you that you missed a spot
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I actually forgot I saw that Legacy of Kain one, thanks for reminding me.
I missed your post. It's probably just Sonic fags being retarded, you know how it is.
Now I see why people compare Drakengard/Nier to LISA
Could I point out a problem with this picture? First off, in the third post, the user is wrong about Eggman being driven to madness because of the death of his grandfather and the evilness of G.U.N.. When Sega made the first Adventure game, they agreed to unify the Eastern and Western lore of the Sonic series. In the Eastern lore, Eggman's entire motivation for his actions is that he wanted to use the chaos emeralds to cook the world's largest egg. In the West, Eggman's backstory is much more tragic (And, probably the most canon of the two known backstories).
SoA created a document, now referred to as the Sonic Bible, that established the entire backstory of Sonic, Robotnik, the chaos emeralds, and everything else in the Sonic-verse. Outside of it's usage in the European comics series, the story was official published as a 15 page advertisement comic to promote the release of StH (I'll just post the most relevant of the comic's pages). The storyline for the comic is that Eggman started out as Professor Kintobor, who was working in a secret underground lab at the time. His life's goal was to rid all evil from the world, and how he planned to do this was by attracting all the evil forces on the planet with a machine he created called the R.O.C.C. and containing the evilness inside the 6 chaos emeralds (Which, he then planned to smash into smithereens). The only problem was that, he was missing the seventh, grey, emerald, which would neutralize the evil in the rest of the emeralds (Or, so he believed). While working in his lab one day, Sonic accidently burrowed into the place, and both of them went on to become good friends. Eventually, Kintobor caused a mishap to happen when he spilled his drink on the machine, and it exploded. The results were that Kintobor was filled with all of the "Evil" that was contained within the emeralds, transformed into Robotnik, and Sonic has been fighting him ever since.
Also, while that storyline can line up with the lore he's posting about all the 2D Sonic games, another thing Sega did when making SA1 was that they made only the Genesis games (And, Sonic CD) canon. All the events of the Game Gear games and Knuckle's Chaotix are considered non-canon material (Which they even mentioned when making Sonic Heroes and the 3DS version of Sonic Generations). And, since then, the only non-canon Sonic game has been Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Even the Riders and Storybook series are canon to the series, but they do not have an established timeline like everything else does.
>Yes, I'm a fan of the Sonic series (For all the good it get's).
If you don't have this dude's autism in your folder, you're missing out. It's some pretty damn powerful stuff.