What video game franchise has the deepest lore?

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>>380500354

For non-RPG/extended media: Marathon series.

>>380500354
Wipeout's is pretty deep for a series with no story whatsoever in the actual games themselves.

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Easily Kingdom Hearts.

>>380500354
Dominions desu

Pokemon

>>380500354
LoTR Games

>>380500354
Pong

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>>380500354
FNAF
come at me fuckers

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>>380500354
Fallout 4

Bionicle

Trails/Kiseki.

Kirby obviously.
They found a way to connect all the games that didn't have anything to do with each other in the first place

>>380502018
HAHAHA Is this Matpat? Fuck off sperg.

>>380501215
Kingdom Hearts is neither deep, nor complicated. It's just really dumb and hard to follow because of how split up between games it is, especially when those games are on wildly different platforms.

>>380502320
Yeah actually this.

>>380500354
Tf2

Does anything come close to the Mario extended universe?

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>>380502384

>>380502616
Not even him but please tell me how it's deep or complicated.

>>380500354
Kirby is up there since all those games are connected in a legitimate way that's absolutely horrifying.

>>380502790
The man that posted the bait picture is saying that no shit, it's not deep or complicated, and that the anon he's replying too wasted his time with that reply because everyone already knows that. Fucking duh, you insipid moron

>>380502384
You have to be a braindead retard to not be able to follow KH's story if you play the games in order.

>>380500704
ironically this

>>380503761
That's the point. Most people don't and then meme themselves into thinking that its complicated because they are missing two thirds of the story.

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>>380500354
beep boop

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i think we all know the true answer

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>>380502097
>Fallout 4

>>380503097
How so? I haven't really played them but I'm vaguely aware of the franchise.

>>380500354
TES

item description souls obviously, the lore is so deep it's hidden in flavortext inside the menus

suikoden series

>>380504442
Specifically, Morrowind. Man that game made me fall in love with the TES universe and each new game just makes me want to play them less.

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Memes aside, Jagged Alliance has absurdly extensive characterization, as well as fictional nations with fully realized economies, culture, history, politics and native flora and fauna.

>>380500354
Dark Souls :^)

>>380500354
Mario

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>>380500704
I came here to unironically say Bionicle.

Kirby for some unfathomable reason.

>>380503761
I was confused as a wee lad when I went straight from KH1 to KH2. Haven't gotten caught up since.

>>380505170
Because you are missing two games and possible even more if there were any phone games I don't know about.

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>>380504604
Todd needs to capture and drug MK for ideas again while letting Kuhlman translate them into the actual game.

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>>380500354
Nier's the only one I can think of where I really bothered to get into all the side material to understand everything.

Novellas, info booklets, drama cds, stage plays, manga, narrative driven concerts, Drakengard, etc.

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>>380500354
I like Zelda's lore. It splits into 3 timelines. Pretty unique for a franchise.

>>380500354
Metroid, definitely

>>380505475
Pure unadulterated trash.

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>>380500354
Kirby and Bionicle.

>>380502320
>They found a way to connect all the games that didn't have anything to do with each other in the first place
>>380503097
all those games are connected in a legitimate way that's absolutely horrifying.
Excuse me what???

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>>380504321
>Obsidian's fanfiction

Doesn't Kingdom of Amalur have a ridiculously in-depth backstory that they hired some professional writer to create, only to never pay him?

>>380501215
fourth post best post

Elder Scrolls (even if you disregard Kirkbride's Meth-induced ramblings in Beth HQ's basement).

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>>380506097
Yes. Ken Rolston was a "visionary" behind it. The guy behind Morrowind.

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>>380505972
>HATE NEWSPAPER

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>>380506430
MK only works when Uncle Ken is holding his reins while Kurt is translating his gibberish. On his own he's just a rambling druggie who spams "faggot" on Reddit.

>>380505919
A lot of the Kirby games are connected due to Dark Matter, which is essentially a cosmic horror and responsible for the Dream Land games, Adventure/Nightmare in Dreamland, and Kirby 64. It's been a long time since I've played the older Kirby games so I could be wrong.

>>380500354
Kirkbride lore
Not TES
Just Kirkbride lore
That shit is some trippy 8-dimensional existencial multi layered interunivresal niggadry

I completely believe the rumours that the guy created most of his material by getting fucked up on drug coctails and locking himself in his room for weeks at a time.

>>380506097
>>380506464
R.A. Salvatore, a very famous fantasy novel writer wrote like 10,000 years of backstory and never got paid. He doesn't regret it though coz he knew that the game had financial problems.

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>>380507182
He himself admitted most of it is just ripped from Hinduism.

>>380507367
>The company laid off its entire staff, including Salvatore, with the $2 million fee for his services having never been paid.[18] Salvatore claimed he harbored no ill will toward Schilling in a 2014 interview with The Escapist. "Why would I sue Curt [for the $2 million]? Maybe he made a couple of bad business decisions ... [but] he didn't do anything nefarious, and he got wiped out. He's lying in the gutter and you want me to kick him in the head? Why would anyone do that?

He sounds like a pretty cool guy.

>>380507901
Really sad how Amalur didn't take off. They just fucked themselves over with a budget but I personally enjoyed the game throughout. Felt like a more colorful Skyrim with better combat.

i liked SOMA if we talking recent games

>>380505681
>heh look at me, Nier's popular now so I'm gonna say it's trash! d-do I fit in yet?

>>380508843
Fuck off retard

LOTR games, movie ones specifically because it stays closer to the story, no fucker has deeper lore than Tolkien.

>>380509969
LOTR is not a video game franchise.