Shenmue Dojo

Fallout has interesting lore. Each valt is secretly a different government project some valts even slowly let in Radiation from outside just to see how it would affect the population. Another interesting valt they put 999 girls and 1 man, my favorite they put 1 man in a valt all alone with nothing but puppets. There are bunch all make for good lore. _ My other favorite is Zelda, in ocarina of time Link had to Travel Though time causing a split time line one world with kid link another with no Link (why some zelda games he looks way different) cause its not him. Thats the best way i can explain it =)

I think that Nintendo had a solid time line but sadly them like so many other companies just shit out a few zelda games then felt they had to make it work. Ps Hyped for Suicide squad? Im so stoked xD

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I don't know, I always enjoyed learning about Metal Gear, and I was really big on Final Fantasy 10. I have never liked politics in games, so as much as I enjoyed Skyrim, I never really cared about all the lords and power struggle. The same goes for other games with similar themes: Dragon Age, The Witcher. The more politics there is, the less I start to care about everything else. Dragons? Nah, not interested anymore.

I guess my best one is going to be Forbidden Siren. If anybody here has ever tried to understand the plot putting all the bits and pieces of its lore together, then they should understand. I especially enjoyed Forbidden Siren 2. It was mighty interesting, I felt like I was part of that nightmare and really cared about what was happening to the characters.

In Yu we trust.

Omg i forgot about hat game it fisrt looks like the worst game ever made but the story was so dark about acult and sacrifice if i remember ps2 days since we are on the subject fatal frame had some epic story telling i got thu 1 and 2 did there make 3?

And shenmue is going to be as epic as possible with paypall skys the limit.

Metal Gear Solid is my #1 for sure - I read the wiki regularly just to immerse myself time and time again, and I still find things that get me thinking - and I find the lore behind The Elder Scrolls series very interesting and investing, too. (I couldn't stand Oblivion either, nor did I play any of the series before the former, but Skyrim flawed me.)

I'm a sucker (maybe more of an obsessive) for backstory and how everything came to be and fits together, and the aforementioned are so rich in fascinating lore they're just perfect for me and I adore them

Shenmue!

And Metal Gear, but I hope it all ends with The Phantom Pain. It's gotten a little too crazy (and inconsistent in some places). Nevertheless I'm looking forward to the fifth game mostly for the story and characters.

Monkei wrote: Shenmue!

And Metal Gear, but I hope it all ends with The Phantom Pain. It's gotten a little too crazy (and inconsistent in some places). Nevertheless I'm looking forward to the fifth game mostly for the story and characters.

Yeah, I would be completely fine with The Phantom Pain being the final entry in the series, but who knows what'll happen with Konami in charge of the series' future? In a toss between TPP marking the end of the series and Konami putting out naturally inferior MGS games every couple of years, I would rather the series end right there.

I'd be curious to see what Konami would do with a whole new cast of characters and universe, etc., but I don't hold much hope.

sand4fish wrote:The MGS series is another favorite lore of mine. The exploration of themes about the human condition, war, politics and philosophy had me in moments of sheer amazement, specially in the second game.

And probably the best lore in gaming to me is in Dark Souls. The "less is more" approach is definitely the best way of conveying a story within the media. By not having the lore told to you but simply shown through in-game items and environments, it was such an involving task to try to piece the story together to make sense of the world and the motivation behind the main character's actions. It's definitely a worthy journey.

These basically. MGS normally tends to cover a lot of subjects within each game. Unfortunately, 4 tried too hard to connect everything and everybody, making the world-view much smaller, but the games prior to it and maybe 5 also, tried to be a far reaching series that covers as many convoluted subjects as possible. Dark Souls is basically "Dark Fantasy - The Official Lore", nothing else really comes close in that category.

I also enjoy the "lore" of classic Resident Evil games, especially 1-3, which all connect together incredibly well despite different writers coming and going with each game. Finding the documents left by those who have either died or turned into horrific monsters (or are just awful, awful people) helps to immerse me into the game.

Fatal Frame/Project Zero has a great "lore" behind it too that I am really a big fan of. Especially in 3, whereby they basically have Shenmue's notebook system, with some enhancements like a section of the notebook dedicated to each Ghost encountered in the game which gets updated as the story goes along, every single ghost having their own story to tell which makes up the larger story of the mystery of the haunted mansion. There's also sections divided for each location and items in the game also and just notes left by the deceased that haunt the mansion, each time the notes adding more of a backstory about just exactly happened. Sometimes it's left intentionally open for interpretation what exactly happened to certain ghosts, further emphasising that mysterious feeling of the place. It just helps to make the games even more haunting and disturbing, which makes it stand out against its competition. The way everything connects up at the end of each game is just masterfully done. Every game is written by the same guy (Shibata, who is also the director/creator) and he just really has a knack for tying all of the stories loose ends after the end of each game. Really underrated writing in these games.

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Monkei wrote: Shenmue!

And Metal Gear, but I hope it all ends with The Phantom Pain. It's gotten a little too crazy (and inconsistent in some places). Nevertheless I'm looking forward to the fifth game mostly for the story and characters.

Yeah, I would be completely fine with The Phantom Pain being the final entry in the series, but who knows what'll happen with Konami in charge of the series' future? In a toss between TPP marking the end of the series and Konami putting out naturally inferior MGS games every couple of years, I would rather the series end right there.

I'd be curious to see what Konami would do with a whole new cast of characters and universe, etc., but I don't hold much hope.

Who knows. The future of MGS seems to be totally in the air at the moment. If Konami keeps making Metal Gear games for consoles I could actually imagine them doing some kind of reboot or (like you said) 'whole new cast/universe' thing. They'll want to attract new players after all, and at this point it's pretty tough to catch up and get into the established lore without playing all of the (canonical) previous titles.

The Situation with Konami and Kojima is crazy as hell. Have you read this? http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/20/did-kojima-tell-us-hed-be-erased-in-mgs-5-ground-zeroes?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&utm_medium=IGN%20%28front%20page%29&utm_content=15&utm_campaign=Blogroll - pretty sad what's happening over there.