Debate which RPG setting has the richest/most interesting/highest quality lore.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Please list any setting I may have missed.

 

[Xor]

Probably the Elder Scrolls games. And I don't even like them.

Members who voted for 'Mass Effect'
Clockwork Knight

What.

 

[Onholyservicebound]

Fallout.

 

[Night Goat]

KingComrade

 

[Lhynn]

Probably the Elder Scrolls games. And I don't even like them.

Members who voted for 'Mass Effect'
Clockwork Knight

What.

What? it has a solid lore and the list is shit.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Elder Scrolls no doubt if you ignore some herp like Oblibion Crisis and TESO derp: all Imperials going Deadra Cultists.

 

[Morality Games]

Is Planescape supposed to be folded into Forgotten Reams?

The mystical and metaphysical aspects of the Elder Scrolls' lore is a sparser version of Planescape. Both draw heavily from Eastern concepts like cosmoses expanding through multiple realities and karmic wheels. The Planescape version is livelier and more colorful and much funner to role play in, as evidenced by Planescape: Torment, Hordes of the Underdark, and Mask of the Betrayer.

... the anthropology and ethnography of the Elder Scrolls may be unmatched though. I almost lost it when I realized the Nords were having ethnic tensions with primitives who were cousins of the Bretons but not quite the same thing.

 

[Xor]

Is Planescape supposed to be folded into Forgotten Reams?

I don't know if it's fair to include stuff like Forgotten Realms, since that spreads across literally dozens of novels, sourcebooks, games, etc.

 

[Morality Games]

Is Planescape supposed to be folded into Forgotten Reams?

I don't know if it's fair to include stuff like Forgotten Realms, since that spreads across literally dozens of novels, sourcebooks, games, etc.

If we count the setting outside video games, then I would say greater gains are accompanied by greater risks. Novels and sourcebooks can reflect badly on a setting.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Is Planescape supposed to be folded into Forgotten Reams?

I don't know if it's fair to include stuff like Forgotten Realms, since that spreads across literally dozens of novels, sourcebooks, games, etc.

And what, Shadowrun doesn't? Also, I wouldn't be surprised if FR spreads across hundreds of novels at this point. There are a LOT of series for that shit, it's been around for a long time.

Anyways, voted Dark Souls, since it actually leaves some shit to the imagination, and was designed in such a way that the lore was meant to be told to you by other players as much as the game itself, which was genius and very effective. Gives everything the feel of a real life myth when you hear other people talking about it instead of just reading it from the game as dry facts.

 

[laclongquan]

Is Planescape supposed to be folded into Forgotten Reams?

I don't know if it's fair to include stuff like Forgotten Realms, since that spreads across literally dozens of novels, sourcebooks, games, etc.

Then use: "Planescape Torment setting". That should limit it. And Baldur Gate/Icewind Dale series, for another option. because PST setting is different from BG/IWD

And I vote PST.

 

[Ninjerk]

Deus Ex since it's pretty much our lore but like 10 years before it actually happened.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

Dark Souls. Probably because how well it is delivered.

 

[deuxhero]

Morrowind. I don't really think Bloodlines counts because it wasn't created for the games, likewise for Shadowrun and FR.

 

[StaticSpine]

I've voted for Forgotten Realms (if it includes Planescape setting).

Otherwise I could go for Dark Souls lore, I started to play it because my friend told me a lot of interesting lore things though the DS gameplay is not really my kind of thing.

And TWitcher lore is awesome too, I've read all the books back in the days and I like the dark fantasy and Slavonic myths mixture.

 

[Damned Registrations]

If you're going to throw in some DnD settings, you might as well use all of them. Ravenloft, Darksun, and Dragonlance all have crpgs based on them right? I'm actually rather fond of the Dragonlance setting myself, though I still wouldn't rank it first. I'm probably missing some as well. There's also Tolkien's shit. I'm sure there's a middle earth rpg floating around somewhere.

 

[Topher]

Darklands with some allowance made for Planescape.

 

[Kane]

Please list any setting I may have missed.

Your mom.

 

[DalekFlay]

Morrowind is a no-brainer, even if the sequels aren't as good.

I love me some Fallout but I don't think it's lore heavy or focused, really. I barely remember Arcanum's story specifics, need a replay sometime soon. I find D&D and Might and Magic lore pretty boring, personally.

 

[GlutenBurger]

I don't see how anybody could take Forgotten Realms to "include" Planescape. It's the other way around. The interesting thing about Planescape is that it trivialises everything that is important in Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dark Sun, and other various settings. All the politics and magic and even gods become marginal incidents in the grand scope of the Planescape setting. If you're specifying Forgotten Realms, you mean Forgotten Realms.

That said, if you're going to mention Forgotten Realms, you ought to include the other D&D settings for which there have been CRPGs. I personally sort of feel they don't count because the lore pre-existed rather than being devised for the game, but that's true for Shadowrun and Vampire: The Masquerade (and I guess the Witcher) too, so I don't know.

 

[Infinitron]

I wonder if he's taking Wasteland to "include" Fallout too.

OP is a fag, etc

 

[Longshanks]

Lore needs to be extremely good (by game standards) for me to bother reading all that much of it. On that level most every game listed is a fail, really.

Games in which I have felt compelled enough to read some of the lore, or actually find out about the world? Fallout, Arcanum and PST. I'll include Thief as a non-RPG.

I know there's a lot of lore for TES and people keep telling me it's good. But what I've read of it in my short playtime of Morrowind (only TES game I've played) was not able to hold my interest.

 

[laclongquan]

PST setting is quite specific in Forgotten realms. Different than BG/IWD. Which is why you should separate them. If you want to vote other games like so and so, make separate choice. DO NOT lump them together because Forgotten Realms setting as a whole is for faggots.

 

[Rake]

OP includes PoE, a game that hasn't released yet and we know jack shit about, while missing AoD, PS:T Darklands etc? Seems legit.

 

[eremita]

Only a fucking retard would vote for Forgotten Realms!

Why? Just why?