What games have the best lore?

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DINO REX

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Dominions 4

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mass effect
elder scrolls
fallout
final fantasy
halo (expanded universe is surprisingly good)

>>381517818
>mass effect
Wasted

Zelda

Silent Hill.

I got a letter. The name on the envelope said... Mary. My wife's name. It's ridiculous, couldn't possibly be true. That's what I keep telling myself. A dead person can't write a letter. Mary died of that damn disease three years ago. So then, why am I looking for her? 'Our special place.' What could she mean? This whole town was our special place. Does she mean the park on the lake? We spent the whole day there, just the two of us, staring at the water. Could Mary really be there? Is she really alive, waiting for me?

Mary... Could you really be in this town?

>>381519313
mass effect #1 was good before they ruined it with 2 and 3.

Unironically Dark Souls 1 when it first came out.
There was so much to learn about the world and it was genuinely fun reading through the items and wiki's for lore after my first playthrough.

that and Final Fantasy 9 and 12/tactics advance

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Pathologic

>>381516428
.hack

It's got multiple layers. There's the "in-game" lore of The World itself, which is really cool to read about and discover, plus the "real" lore of the actual world that it takes place in, and all the mystery and intrigue of the .hack universe is like nothing I've ever seen elsewhere

>>381516428
I liked Metal gear's story if you can call it lore.

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Legacy of Kain and Ive yet to find another game series with writing as good as it.

Mii

I don't like a lot of the focus of it, but TES has so much lore that I think it's sort of impressive and a lot of it is pretty cool.

Unironically, Dark Souls if you don't try and look too deep into the lore. There's a point where you should stop looking for explanation and meaning.

I also want to say Zelda has some cool basic lore (though that's probably thanks to a bit of nostalgia) that could be really interesting and great if they fleshed it out and did more interesting and ballsy stuff with it.

And of course, Mass Effect originally had a great universe and lore, but it was squandered.

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Without a doubt, the Elder Scroll series, although ESO kind of fuck that up for it. Star Wars also comes into mind with SWG and KotoR 1 and 2, but Disney kill that.

Guild Wars had some deep lore going for it, but the company change when Guild Wars 2 happen and trannie faggots and fat women ruin it with their retarded fanfiction-tier story and lore. Man, Guild Wars could of have a great lore dedicated to the Aztec of all culture.

>>381521832
LoK's beauty is less about the lore and moreso the heavily-verbose language itself they use to describe fucking everything.

Also Tony Jay had godlike voice-acting no pun intended..

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Dominions is good shit.

>>381524905
Tony Jay was too good for this world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0Ks_ph5go

>>381521419
This. I consider myself one of the biggest .hack fans ever, owning every single physical media related to the series, and there's still things I'm learning 15 years later.

>>381522745
Unironically, Dark Souls if you don't try and look too deep into the lore.
Is Demon's Souls separate from the series?

>>381521832
Do those games work on modern systems at all? Do I start with the first one and go with release order?

>>381527115
Yeah, just like how Bloodborne is seperate.

All the Souls games have pretty interesting worlds. Demon's Souls is one of my favorites.

>>381527294
I haven't played them in a while but GOG has them all so at least those versions should work on modern systems.
Play them in whatever order you like desu but release order is probably the way to go.

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>>381516428

>>381524905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9IPMnURTW8
Does a baritone make everything better? Tony Jay truly did have a god tier voice

Halo
I like dishonored but it's not exactly complex. Maybe Thief 1 or 2.

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Ace Combat

>>381528332
Should I buy this game

>>381516428

Drakengard/Nier

>>381528765
yes Dishonored 2 is basically the same story but with better everything except maybe side characters, corvo now has a voice and he's voiced by garett from thief.

>>381529027
Not him but does it play well on PC now?

METAL
GEAR
SOLID

>>381516428
you just posted it, I don't think anything has surpassed Morrowind. It's a shame, the best elements which make it so great, the religious, occult and spiritual were attached by some faggot stoner as affectations and it makes me wonder what might be achieved in the medium given competent direction. Morrowind was lightning in a bottle and kirkbride is too fucking stupid to recapture it, and even if he did the industry no longer has demand for substantive ideas

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>>381516428
Dwarf Fortress

I liked the lost crown's trilogy lore and locations. It felt like that should've been the plot of 2 instead of starting that cyclic bullshit

DaS1 world was also pretty interesting

ME1

Assassin's Creed 1 when it came out

Destiny

SMT because seeing various mythologies interact with each other is always good