Posted August 08, 2018
I love a lot of games with deeply thought out lore, and I recognise how that contributes to a deeply involved world and fleshed out setting, but I don't really care about the lore itself at all.
Like with one of my most favourite games ever, Morrowind, I can navigate Balmora and the surrounding areas from memory, tell you you're a filthy swit (n'wah) and swear by the nine like the rest of them, but if you ask me to name the nine divines, I'd only be able to name one (okay, I got even this wrong, I thought Vivec was one of the nine :D).
I just find the actual details of lore to be mind-numbingly boring. Perhaps it's how I find real-world mythology to be absolutely boring as well (I don't care who popped out of whose head fully formed, or who chopped off whose penis and created the tree of life, or who Jesus's 12 disciples were or whatever) but I recognise the importance of all that in creating the world we live in- why people could randomly say "Jesus Christ!", why certain religious buildings are shaped like crosses, and certain ones have domes and minarets, etc. And I understand it is similar for world-building in games.
I don't usually read the books in these games :P. And thankfully, the games (and most games with deep lore) don't really expect me to, but they include a lot of detail for those that do, it seems, and that bleeds into making the world seem real and established.
So, as the subject line says. And in what ways do you express this care?
Like with one of my most favourite games ever, Morrowind, I can navigate Balmora and the surrounding areas from memory, tell you you're a filthy swit (n'wah) and swear by the nine like the rest of them, but if you ask me to name the nine divines, I'd only be able to name one (okay, I got even this wrong, I thought Vivec was one of the nine :D).
I just find the actual details of lore to be mind-numbingly boring. Perhaps it's how I find real-world mythology to be absolutely boring as well (I don't care who popped out of whose head fully formed, or who chopped off whose penis and created the tree of life, or who Jesus's 12 disciples were or whatever) but I recognise the importance of all that in creating the world we live in- why people could randomly say "Jesus Christ!", why certain religious buildings are shaped like crosses, and certain ones have domes and minarets, etc. And I understand it is similar for world-building in games.
I don't usually read the books in these games :P. And thankfully, the games (and most games with deep lore) don't really expect me to, but they include a lot of detail for those that do, it seems, and that bleeds into making the world seem real and established.
So, as the subject line says. And in what ways do you express this care?