What RPG has the best lore?

[Marcus]

See topic title.

[Valter]

#1 Mass Effect
#2 Fallout

maybe Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines? (this is cheating, tabletop-sourced RPGs are way more fleshed-out thanks to books)

[rusty_shackleford]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

[Marcus]

maybe Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines?

This was my first thought as well.

[Marcus]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

Wish we had a "Participation Award"-reaction.

[maidenhaver]

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

[rusty_shackleford]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

Wish we had a "Participation Award"-reaction.

I'll need you to define what "lore" is, then.

[Tadeusz]

I think Planescape: Torment and NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer both utilize and unfold pre-existing lore pretty well to tell a story.

[Humbaba]

Rogue Trader because it's 40k, sadly the game itself sucks ***, exemplifying very clearly that good lore doesn't make a good game.

I'd say the Dominions series has good lore but that'd be cheating because it's literally just straight up mythology from every nation on earth.

[PixiGreen]

Any game using Tolkien's work?

[Marcus]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

Wish we had a "Participation Award"-reaction.

I'll need you to define what "lore" is, then.

I'm not familiar with this "Caves of Lore" game, so I thought you were just making a joke. You have my apologies if this does game indeed have good lore.

[Marcus]

Any game using Tolkien's work?

That's cheating!

[DemoGraph]

Which woman gives the best sex?

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It doesn't matter as long as you enjoy the one you have.

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Its urmom.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The Trails series has the world that feels the most alive, with the townsfolk NPC having their own storylines going on and reacting to events, and all of the various countries and organizations that are constantly doing stuff offscreen beyond just what the player sees. In particular, I like the shifting conflict between the countries, the different swordsmanship dojos, the different jaeger corps running around and the arms manufacturers too. However, it feels that the history of the setting before the Orbal Revolution 50 years ago isn't very fleshed out and feels pretty scant.

[Tangerine]

Deus Ex.

[MrTwinkls]

What kind of lore?
Shadowrun games if we are talking about preexisting one.
Original? Dunno. I liked Obsidian PoE games and Dragon Age Origins lore.

[ArcaneLurker]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

Wish we had a "Participation Award"-reaction.

I'll need you to define what "lore" is, then.

@loregamer @LoreMaster ?

[rusty_shackleford]

Wish we had a "Participation Award"-reaction.

I'll need you to define what "lore" is, then.

I'm not familiar with this "Caves of Lore" game, so I thought you were just making a joke. You have my apologies if this does game indeed have good lore.

I'm asking you to describe what you think "lore" means in the context of video games. I've seen it used in wildly different ways.
Exposition?

[The_Mask]

I liked the one Septerra Core had because it was very Christian-adjacent (despite the guy that made it making a webzone 20 years later, trying very hard to be "an ally").

I also like Loop Hero, because every map is basically you being both the DM *and* the player, so you get to make your own "lore".

It's a harder question to answer the more RPGs you play, really.

[Irenaeus]

Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar

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[Wretch]

1 elex
2 simpsons hit and run

[Lhynn]

Are we talking setting? If so then what makes it good? What are the parameters? How expansive it is? How many cool ideas it has? How well it was executed in the games? etc.

[Tweed]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

*****, we got Lands of Lore.

[Marcus]

I'm asking you to describe what you think "lore" means in the context of video games. I've seen it used in wildly different ways.
Exposition?

Turns out "lore" is one of those vague terms just like "RPG" where no one seems to be able to offer a universally valid definition of it. I did not expect that.

[Tweed]

Perhaps lore is best described as all the extra crap fans discuss because of the extensive amount of interesting worldbuilding the writers have done which is why people can go on and on about The Elder Scrolls, but nobody talks about Doom. No one cares about YASS DOOM SLAYY, but people like to talk about how the rape god had rough sex with Vivec's headless body in exchange for being shown how to break the fourth wall. Fans can sit around talking about who might have done what where and what is and what isn't. It also feels really good to put know-nothings in their place who are up to snuff on their extensive deep lore.

[Kalarion]

I'm not familiar with this "Caves of Lore" game, so I thought you were just making a joke. You have my apologies if this does game indeed have good lore.

Caves of Lore actually has good lore. It's not 2deep4u or anything, but it's tightly integrated into playing the game - if you pick up a note or a book and read about something, chances are it hints towards opportunities to find a secret in the game. Its Codex thread has some good examples.

I am Caves of Lore Review completely unbiased.

[Irenaeus]

Presumably caves of lore, it has entire caves of them

*****, we got Lands of Lore.

I maintain that they wanted to name it Lands of Yore but mistyped it.