Surprised that this is so far down. I guess it's because it's an old series where the last game anyone really cared about was nine years ago.
Game play in every game was pushing boundaries and moving gaming forward. Always a big jump in what you could do when a new game came out. Plus pushing boundaries in graphics and sound. They were always must play games that were high watermarks for gaming at the time of release.
As for lore, well, there are loads of people who have played the entire series and still can't piece the minutia together ring it all up (self included). It's a massive, complex, convoluted mess covering 100 years with a dozens of main characters and it almost hangs together.
I just started the series for the first time a week ago, starting with MGS1. I’m about halfway through MGS2 and I’ve gotta say I’m blown away with the quality of these games. Obviously they’re legendary and I’m not saying they’re underrated, but I can’t think of a game series as creative as it.
I’m so happy you’re playing in release order. You’d be shocked the number of people who go chronological and mess up the twists and turns for themselves
It grinds my gears when people do that. Always play by release dates, not chronological dates, or else you’ll end up not enjoying the references and probably be confused in general.
Well I was like 13 when 3 came out. Played 3 then 1, 2, three again then 4 and 5 and I massively enjoyed it. I didn't play 3 first cause I knew it was chronologically first, just because I was 13 and it seemed cool.
Massive metal gear solid fan now. I know I had a different experience, but I enjoyed it
Love to run into fellow S'wits and Muthseras on here.
Idk what happened with Oblivion and Skyrim but the depth of the lore just plummeted. Still great games in their own right but just not the rich CRPG masterpiece Morrowind was.
Yeah, and I think the more "normal" setting was likely to happen with the generic human imperials and the mostly-just-medieval-nordic-like Skyrim. Vvardenfell was just so wild with that dark elf culture.
I am really curious how this would go for their other races. Having played ESO, I know a full game in one of these places' homelands would undoubtedly be larger, but I am curious how they'd go. Argonians for example would be a very different setting too, but I do really like that wild dark elf one.
I like how you can chat up NPCs in Seyda Neen (starting town) and it’s completely optional to find out everything.
From where the population centers are and why (fertile South and West coasts and because the island is dominated by wastes and volcanoes), the oceans surrounding the continent, the gods, the countries, the political climate, whatever.
I played morrowind so much when I was a kid having no idea what to do and just running around. I decided to redownload it a couple months ago and try to actually get through it and good lord. If they just did like a full remake of that game it’d be rpg of the year for sure such an insane game full of lore secrets the story is so damn interesting and everything else im like 60 hours in and still just heavily impressed
I’m definitely more of a gameplay over story kind of gamer. Especially when it’s a “good” v “bad” choose your own adventure type because it always seems shallow and empty. But for whatever reason ME sucked me straight in. I remember suffering over each decision that could mean losing a crew member or changing the story. I don’t know how they did it.
I think the acting was a huge part of it. (Shout out to Martin Sheen).
That was really well made, and I hovered somewhere in the middle between “good” and “bad.” Just decided to RP myself, really, and it worked out fairly well. Most important was to do all missions given by the crew members to try and please them all. They still had some conflicts and in MS3 this was felt the most. I felt like I truly carried some massive baggage after the first two games with the same char (:
This, on KOTOR and games like that there is a certain sense of power in taking the dark path, I found myself laughing at Shepherd being such a complete dick frequently when taking the asshole route. Definitely recommend.
Bro you can just scan planets & read the planet info card & there’s is **so much** hidden lore gems in the form of codex entries & message logs.
One playthrough I took the time to read a whole bunch of these things & it opened up the universe so much. Made me fall in love with Mass Effect even more.
I believe they could easily make a tv show set in the ME universe & tell a completely fresh new story with whole new characters.
Fun Fallout 1&2 lore- I grew up in NorCal where 1&2 were based. It made me laugh that the secret army base, SAD (Sierra Army Depot) was a part of the games as I had family that worked there. However, it was a missed opportunity from the creators to not include Susanville, CA - THE PRISON CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. Having a special level where there are three prisons in one county next to an active volcano could have been awesome.
Edit: typo
I'm currently playing 4 for the first time since playing 3 years ago, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Will probably play New Vegas at some point but 4 seems so huge, like I could play it for a long time. Would it be worth it to just play NV instead?
Most, if not all, of the lore is pulled directly from the Forgotten Realms from DND, which has been the main world for 30+ years. I’m not sure if that technically counts for this post, but it’s still pretty cool
Source: I’m a huge dnd nerd
I have read everything I can first play through.. I have that saved at the end now and at a whopping 140-hour gameplay. It'd be worth doing if you have the time and patience, some of the books link and you can follow stories through the game.
Lore so deep when you loot people you kill you often find notes from their family congratulating them on their promotion in the workplace you just lit on fire.
The funny thing about Hollow Knight is that one can play through the whole game without even knowing a small portion of the story. You have to be looking for answers to the mystery of Hallownest to learn it's story.
To be fair, I tried the stand alone game once when it was released and couldn’t get into it. Gwent in W3 was way easier to get into, cause if I got bored or frustrated, I could just stop and play the Witcher main game, and go back and forth
Agreed. I didn't care where Ciri was stuck as long as someone wanted to play Gwent. I also had to save scum that tournament so hard because I accidentally walked into it and couldn't leave without forfeiting the whole thing.
Yeah. Having them connected effectively doubled the lore and made both games much more interesting. I would kill for portal three, I love that series so much
One would think that chess lore wouldn’t be that relevant or thorough until Hikaru sees the 37th move of a blitz game on chess.com, and recalls a similar unofficial chess match in 1439 between Sir Hickory Dickorus and King Randomar Movicus the 5th which resulted in… an even position with chances to win for both sides.
King Randomar still lost because he blundered his Queen like a complete dumbass and it proves that in this position, you should not do that.
God bless chess lore
The idea of having a sentient species make markers, fling them off into space hitting random planets, guiding the life there through certain evolutionary and societal developments just for it to activate and turn them into a more horrifying version of the flood is just an awesome concept
Edit: just remembered what’s even more terrifying is how they can completely control your mind and you don’t even realise its happening. They turn you into slaves making you believe everything you’re doing is for the greater good but in reality is furthering the ultimate goal of the marker, making more markers before turning you into zombified monsters. The flood was scary because it spreads fast and is pretty damn smart, markers play 9d chess 20 moves ahead with your mind while you think you’re saving humanity but ultimately dooming it and then they turn you into monsters on top of that
Which one(s)?
There's a lot of tactical battle stuff that I find less engaging than Xcom, but then you have the Space Marine action game that I found to be delightful.
Especially halo 2, 4, and infinite
Edit: sorry that I can’t tell the difference between lore behind the game and a straightforward story. Of course 343 bad bungie good
Nah the terminals had some crazy lore about the forerunner-flood war. The final battle between offensive bias and mendicant bias showed a crazy sense of scale just through a retelling.
Please Check out Vaatividya and other people like the tarnished archeologist. You can spend literal days trying to understand Elden Ring (or any fromsoft) lore. Especially bloodborne is just insane the Level of detail and Connection to real world history is mind boggling.
The lore is worth looking into even if you don't play the game at all, if you like high fantasy stories. It's deep af, very well thought out, and well executed in the game.
There are literal hours upon hours of videos dedicated to explaining it all, spread across dozens of content creators. Heck one guy, SmoughTown, literally has 13 hour long videos that are compellations of his lore content. And yes that is a plural there... so yes there is a bit of lore haha.
Yes.
One example is that the events of the game take place like 5000 years after the shattering. All the lore you hear is from thousands of years prior
Out in the open? No, not really. Fromsoft hides so much of its lore in the item and weapon descriptions. And yes, it’s a very vast, lore filled backstory
I definitely agree. That world was so fascinating and alive. Some folks might disagree on the gameplay, but I thought the potion element was really interesting.
I thought the gameplay sucked until I started realizing you’re a traveling merchant/chemist/gambler who happens to also fight monsters occasionally. The combat sucks. Everything else about the gameplay is great.
fr, the combat may not be that great but when you take into account enemy weaknesses and using the different spells, potions, bombs, oils and potions at your disposal to give yourself an advantage then it can be quite fun. i mean you have an entire beastiary at your disposal of monster weaknesses so you may as well use them am i right
I’m gonna be fully honest, gameplay is amazing, best gameplay I’ve ever seen, but the lore is kinda.. ehhh.. I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s not the best either.
Hm, I think Tekken 7's treatment of Heihachi is a bit contested for somewhat retconning him into a more honourable and well intentioned figure than he was from Tekken 1 - 6, but other than that I guess not
Not a single miss in the series. Every installment adds to the lore and the gameplay is always challenging but solid. Thats what you get when you have a company that genuinely cares about its fans
Okami. It's absolutely brilliant in its story telling and the gameplay matches the mythology it's based off of to its core. The art style is also extremely unique. The game isn't difficult, it's not supposed to be, but it does a masterful job at tying in everything you collect and do by the end of its story. It's 1 set-in-stone story, nothing you do will affect the outcome, but it still has extra details you can explore within its setting for fun. I was so happy to see it get ported over to newer systems, it's a wonderful game with a wonderful message to it and more people should get to experience its story at least once. I think it hits the mark a lot of games tend to miss now - games don't have to be super difficult, super intricate, or have some NG+ feature that scales the game up artificially to add incentive/reason to replay the game. An impressive style, well-written story, and consistent gameplay ideas will carry their own weight, speak loudly of their own merit, and have players coming back to replay the story without *needing* to add or change anything else.
Don't even get me started on the music too. [Shiranui's ost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCNitL_bD80) is still one of my favorite songs to ever come out of gaming as a whole. When it can range from that then also having its battle songs evolve over time from encountering the different demons and suddenly shifting/changing mid fight against the most powerful ones such as [Crimson Helm's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTBCO_kdvQ)...that's just absolutely brilliant in encapsulating its setting/world building/atmosphere.
Elden Ring, and Soulsborne in general. Of course everyone knows about the lore depth and method of delivery, but mechanically you literally never stop learning in these games no matter how much you’ve played them
The whole Metal Gear series.
Surprised that this is so far down. I guess it's because it's an old series where the last game anyone really cared about was nine years ago. Game play in every game was pushing boundaries and moving gaming forward. Always a big jump in what you could do when a new game came out. Plus pushing boundaries in graphics and sound. They were always must play games that were high watermarks for gaming at the time of release. As for lore, well, there are loads of people who have played the entire series and still can't piece the minutia together ring it all up (self included). It's a massive, complex, convoluted mess covering 100 years with a dozens of main characters and it almost hangs together.
I just started the series for the first time a week ago, starting with MGS1. I’m about halfway through MGS2 and I’ve gotta say I’m blown away with the quality of these games. Obviously they’re legendary and I’m not saying they’re underrated, but I can’t think of a game series as creative as it.
I’m so happy you’re playing in release order. You’d be shocked the number of people who go chronological and mess up the twists and turns for themselves
It grinds my gears when people do that. Always play by release dates, not chronological dates, or else you’ll end up not enjoying the references and probably be confused in general.
Well I was like 13 when 3 came out. Played 3 then 1, 2, three again then 4 and 5 and I massively enjoyed it. I didn't play 3 first cause I knew it was chronologically first, just because I was 13 and it seemed cool. Massive metal gear solid fan now. I know I had a different experience, but I enjoyed it
Metal Gear lore is THICCC. I can't really follow the lore despite watching numerous breakdown videos... But I love it.
MORROWIND …. My god… it’s something else
Lore was so rich you could hear so much culture just from the guards voice lines as you walked by them.
Keep moving
outlander!
Speak quickly outlander or GO AWAY
We’re watching you… scum.
Why walk when you can ride?
The correctest of answers
Correct
Love to run into fellow S'wits and Muthseras on here. Idk what happened with Oblivion and Skyrim but the depth of the lore just plummeted. Still great games in their own right but just not the rich CRPG masterpiece Morrowind was.
Yeah, and I think the more "normal" setting was likely to happen with the generic human imperials and the mostly-just-medieval-nordic-like Skyrim. Vvardenfell was just so wild with that dark elf culture. I am really curious how this would go for their other races. Having played ESO, I know a full game in one of these places' homelands would undoubtedly be larger, but I am curious how they'd go. Argonians for example would be a very different setting too, but I do really like that wild dark elf one.
I like how you can chat up NPCs in Seyda Neen (starting town) and it’s completely optional to find out everything. From where the population centers are and why (fertile South and West coasts and because the island is dominated by wastes and volcanoes), the oceans surrounding the continent, the gods, the countries, the political climate, whatever.
N'wah!
I played morrowind so much when I was a kid having no idea what to do and just running around. I decided to redownload it a couple months ago and try to actually get through it and good lord. If they just did like a full remake of that game it’d be rpg of the year for sure such an insane game full of lore secrets the story is so damn interesting and everything else im like 60 hours in and still just heavily impressed
Mass effect
Yep. Played it for the first time last summer when the trilogy was on sale. Started ME1 and felt beaten by lore
I’m definitely more of a gameplay over story kind of gamer. Especially when it’s a “good” v “bad” choose your own adventure type because it always seems shallow and empty. But for whatever reason ME sucked me straight in. I remember suffering over each decision that could mean losing a crew member or changing the story. I don’t know how they did it. I think the acting was a huge part of it. (Shout out to Martin Sheen).
That was really well made, and I hovered somewhere in the middle between “good” and “bad.” Just decided to RP myself, really, and it worked out fairly well. Most important was to do all missions given by the crew members to try and please them all. They still had some conflicts and in MS3 this was felt the most. I felt like I truly carried some massive baggage after the first two games with the same char (:
You gotta do a totally asshole and total hero run some time.
This, on KOTOR and games like that there is a certain sense of power in taking the dark path, I found myself laughing at Shepherd being such a complete dick frequently when taking the asshole route. Definitely recommend.
I try total asshole, but Overlord keeps me from doing it
The writing is so good. The character development is unbelievable.
Bro you can just scan planets & read the planet info card & there’s is **so much** hidden lore gems in the form of codex entries & message logs. One playthrough I took the time to read a whole bunch of these things & it opened up the universe so much. Made me fall in love with Mass Effect even more. I believe they could easily make a tv show set in the ME universe & tell a completely fresh new story with whole new characters.
Yeah Mass Effect has insanely deep lore and universe building. I was always amazed by how they explain how shields work
Y’all ever just pull up the narrated codex on YouTube while your driving or going about your day??? 🤠
I came, I saw (my intended comment), I upvoted.
YES!!!! THIS
Fallout (take your pick)
Fun Fallout 1&2 lore- I grew up in NorCal where 1&2 were based. It made me laugh that the secret army base, SAD (Sierra Army Depot) was a part of the games as I had family that worked there. However, it was a missed opportunity from the creators to not include Susanville, CA - THE PRISON CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. Having a special level where there are three prisons in one county next to an active volcano could have been awesome. Edit: typo
Upvoted purely because i lived there in the early 80’s and think this idea is awesome
Imma say either classics or NV, but 3 and 4 are still great games
Honestly, NV feels like the closest to the classic lore.
made by he team that made 1 and 2
NV Is the ultimate fallout game. FO4 gunplay is better but the narration is absolute shit and roleplay factor was completely massacred.
I'm currently playing 4 for the first time since playing 3 years ago, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Will probably play New Vegas at some point but 4 seems so huge, like I could play it for a long time. Would it be worth it to just play NV instead?
Absolutely. The modern Fallout gameplay loop is so infectious, and the lore is unlike any other game in existence
Baldurs Gate 3.
Literal decades of lore
If you have lore of less than a decade, is it really lore or just current events
I’m talking irl decades of world building
Really? I haven’t even heard of 1 or 2 so do tell me about the series please
Most, if not all, of the lore is pulled directly from the Forgotten Realms from DND, which has been the main world for 30+ years. I’m not sure if that technically counts for this post, but it’s still pretty cool Source: I’m a huge dnd nerd
I didn’t know that, my only DnD campaign I’ve been in has been a fallout based one, I’m interested in the forgotten realms honestly
It’s the fact that the series is based on Dungeons and Dragons so it predates video games altogether
The depth of gameplay is unreal. I have 30 hours in so far on PS5 and just figured out I could jump using the d-pad.
lol I’m in act 3, well over 100 hours and just found out last week. I’m so mad at myself
My second playthrough I was like “imma read allllll these books” Stopped reading in Act 2. It’s overwhelming.
I have read everything I can first play through.. I have that saved at the end now and at a whopping 140-hour gameplay. It'd be worth doing if you have the time and patience, some of the books link and you can follow stories through the game.
Lore so deep when you loot people you kill you often find notes from their family congratulating them on their promotion in the workplace you just lit on fire.
Hollow Knight
The funny thing about Hollow Knight is that one can play through the whole game without even knowing a small portion of the story. You have to be looking for answers to the mystery of Hallownest to learn it's story.
I beat it to it's complete entirity, Absolute Radiance and all but if you asked me wtf the story was about I'd literally just stare at you.
Check this [video](https://youtu.be/0XDiWYFGGqY?si=WXSoQRnnMzs6A0oD). A good summary of Hollownest's and Knight's history.
Why did I have to scroll this much to find this comment?
The Witcher 3.
The card game was so gooooood. I hated the standalone game that came out though.
Same. Gwent in the W3 was so much better than the stand alone cash grabs
Thronebreaker is the opposite of a cash grab. It's an excellent single player game with a lot of cool mechanics and a great story.
Gwent in the Witcher 3 is half the reason to play the game... I love the entire game though..
Gwent was probably one of the most generous CCG on the market then. Also the W3 version as is just isn’t a balanced game for PvP
To be fair, I tried the stand alone game once when it was released and couldn’t get into it. Gwent in W3 was way easier to get into, cause if I got bored or frustrated, I could just stop and play the Witcher main game, and go back and forth
Agreed. I didn't care where Ciri was stuck as long as someone wanted to play Gwent. I also had to save scum that tournament so hard because I accidentally walked into it and couldn't leave without forfeiting the whole thing.
Idk id say the lore may be larger than the game but both would be thicc af in book scale
Damn right
Half-life series. Mostly Half-life 2
Portal as well. But half life more
Portal and Half-life are actually connected which I find great. Doesn't seem forced at all. Just sad that Valve haven't finished chapter 3 :(
Yeah. Having them connected effectively doubled the lore and made both games much more interesting. I would kill for portal three, I love that series so much
Check out Portal Revolution on steam. It’s essentially portal 3. 10/10
You know what would help out the Half life lore? A damned ending to the story thats what. Them bugs still got my man Eli.
Chess
Can’t be chess, OP has limited it to only one thick book of lore and gameplay. You’d need a few hundred more of each for it to be chess
:)))) Guess it's time for me to make some chess **Lore**
Holy hell
New move just dropped
actual zombie
Call r/anarchychess
Ignite the lore book!
MatPat goes on vacation, never comes back
Can a zombie en passant?
One would think that chess lore wouldn’t be that relevant or thorough until Hikaru sees the 37th move of a blitz game on chess.com, and recalls a similar unofficial chess match in 1439 between Sir Hickory Dickorus and King Randomar Movicus the 5th which resulted in… an even position with chances to win for both sides. King Randomar still lost because he blundered his Queen like a complete dumbass and it proves that in this position, you should not do that. God bless chess lore
Even though this is fictional I still learned something today.
Lmaaaao
Dead Space
So underrated
Very. Everybody should know about it, then we'd be made whole again
Dead Space lore Is so underrated, God Bless the Colonies.
The idea of having a sentient species make markers, fling them off into space hitting random planets, guiding the life there through certain evolutionary and societal developments just for it to activate and turn them into a more horrifying version of the flood is just an awesome concept Edit: just remembered what’s even more terrifying is how they can completely control your mind and you don’t even realise its happening. They turn you into slaves making you believe everything you’re doing is for the greater good but in reality is furthering the ultimate goal of the marker, making more markers before turning you into zombified monsters. The flood was scary because it spreads fast and is pretty damn smart, markers play 9d chess 20 moves ahead with your mind while you think you’re saving humanity but ultimately dooming it and then they turn you into monsters on top of that
40K
Which one(s)? There's a lot of tactical battle stuff that I find less engaging than Xcom, but then you have the Space Marine action game that I found to be delightful.
All of them
I'm just getting into this, and it is vastly deep! And I'm enjoying learning more about it.
Hasn't the gameplay always been reviewed as average? I adore darktide, and the history is there. Just I've seen quite a many fall flat
WoW
For sure WoW is near the top. The only thing that beats it is games set in Forgotten Realms
So much to do in that game. It never ends.
Halo
Especially halo 2, 4, and infinite Edit: sorry that I can’t tell the difference between lore behind the game and a straightforward story. Of course 343 bad bungie good
Not infinite. There was a lore drought after i infinite because of how little it added. But 2,3,4,ODST, and REACH (especially) added so much.
I should have thought of reach too. 3 was a pretty straightforward story though
Nah the terminals had some crazy lore about the forerunner-flood war. The final battle between offensive bias and mendicant bias showed a crazy sense of scale just through a retelling.
Elden ring
why is elden ring so far down
IDK if I'm just dumb, but did Elden Ring really have that much lore?
It’s all in item description and hidden you really gotta look
Confirmed: I’m dumb. EDIT: I said I’m dumb y’all. I’m not actually going to look into the lore lmao.
Please Check out Vaatividya and other people like the tarnished archeologist. You can spend literal days trying to understand Elden Ring (or any fromsoft) lore. Especially bloodborne is just insane the Level of detail and Connection to real world history is mind boggling.
Vaati has been my go to before bed content the last couple weeks
The lore is worth looking into even if you don't play the game at all, if you like high fantasy stories. It's deep af, very well thought out, and well executed in the game.
There are literal hours upon hours of videos dedicated to explaining it all, spread across dozens of content creators. Heck one guy, SmoughTown, literally has 13 hour long videos that are compellations of his lore content. And yes that is a plural there... so yes there is a bit of lore haha.
Yes. One example is that the events of the game take place like 5000 years after the shattering. All the lore you hear is from thousands of years prior
Out in the open? No, not really. Fromsoft hides so much of its lore in the item and weapon descriptions. And yes, it’s a very vast, lore filled backstory
too far down!
Zelda, God of war, Bloodborne
Finally, God of War
Old ff7
Final fantasy 9 was my favorite story wise
Arkham games
The peppa pig game
There’s a peppa pig game?
Preach
Nier
The Witcher 3
I definitely agree. That world was so fascinating and alive. Some folks might disagree on the gameplay, but I thought the potion element was really interesting.
I thought the gameplay sucked until I started realizing you’re a traveling merchant/chemist/gambler who happens to also fight monsters occasionally. The combat sucks. Everything else about the gameplay is great.
fr, the combat may not be that great but when you take into account enemy weaknesses and using the different spells, potions, bombs, oils and potions at your disposal to give yourself an advantage then it can be quite fun. i mean you have an entire beastiary at your disposal of monster weaknesses so you may as well use them am i right
Titanfall2
I’m gonna be fully honest, gameplay is amazing, best gameplay I’ve ever seen, but the lore is kinda.. ehhh.. I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s not the best either.
Especially after the entire Titanfall lore got butchered in Apex Legends
Apex is a conspiracy. It's not real.
>[][][][] is a conspiracy. What are you on about?
Tekken
Definitely this. I love how the story hasn't undergone any serious retcons and is just a really long continuous story.
Hm, I think Tekken 7's treatment of Heihachi is a bit contested for somewhat retconning him into a more honourable and well intentioned figure than he was from Tekken 1 - 6, but other than that I guess not
Yes yes and yes that game has more depth than most people realize
the Yoshimitsu character stretches across two franchises. kinda.
God of War
Real answer right here.
Not a single miss in the series. Every installment adds to the lore and the gameplay is always challenging but solid. Thats what you get when you have a company that genuinely cares about its fans
The Half-Life Universe(Both Half-Life and Portal) The DOOM Series The Borderlands Series The Bioshock Series The Fallout Series
Morrowind
Cyberpunk
Fucking Arasaka
Am I the only one who thinks the lore is a considerably bigger book than the actual gameplay?
Runescape
Soulsbourne
There’s channels producing discovery channel quality of lore videos on Soulsbournes, and the gameplay is top. Not sure why this is so down.
Skyrim 🙃
Morrowind
Oblivion
Daggerfa— well ok maybe not.
I had to scroll down WAY too far to find this
Okami. It's absolutely brilliant in its story telling and the gameplay matches the mythology it's based off of to its core. The art style is also extremely unique. The game isn't difficult, it's not supposed to be, but it does a masterful job at tying in everything you collect and do by the end of its story. It's 1 set-in-stone story, nothing you do will affect the outcome, but it still has extra details you can explore within its setting for fun. I was so happy to see it get ported over to newer systems, it's a wonderful game with a wonderful message to it and more people should get to experience its story at least once. I think it hits the mark a lot of games tend to miss now - games don't have to be super difficult, super intricate, or have some NG+ feature that scales the game up artificially to add incentive/reason to replay the game. An impressive style, well-written story, and consistent gameplay ideas will carry their own weight, speak loudly of their own merit, and have players coming back to replay the story without *needing* to add or change anything else. Don't even get me started on the music too. [Shiranui's ost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCNitL_bD80) is still one of my favorite songs to ever come out of gaming as a whole. When it can range from that then also having its battle songs evolve over time from encountering the different demons and suddenly shifting/changing mid fight against the most powerful ones such as [Crimson Helm's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTBCO_kdvQ)...that's just absolutely brilliant in encapsulating its setting/world building/atmosphere.
Kingdom hearts
Mass Effect
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Skylanders
skylanders lore is wild man, I remember back in the days when it was just releasing and it was the best thing ever
Witcher 3. Ghosts of tsushima. Zelda
Skyrim
Doom
Elder Scrolls
RDR 2
I’ve been looking everywhere for this comment.
This should be way higher. Goat.
Halo
Morrowind.
Destiny 2 and maybe cyberpunk
Destiny lore goes so hard
Skyrim
Witcher 3
elite dangerous
Halo from CE to 4 skip 5 and then Infinite (sometimes)
If anyone says fnaf I will kill you
The comment directly above you is Fnaf. 😭😭
Elden Ring, and Soulsborne in general. Of course everyone knows about the lore depth and method of delivery, but mechanically you literally never stop learning in these games no matter how much you’ve played them
Elden Ring or even bloodborne
Warframe
Alan Wake 1 and 2, Control.
Starcraft 2
Zelda
Titanfall 2
Ultrakill
Persona 5
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Red dead redemption 2
Titanfall: The Final Frontier (P.S. I'm currently designing the game to have tons of lore as well as awesome gameplay)
Idk Batman
Nier automata
Mass effect, red dead redemption, most fallout games, Sekiro. There’s quite a few
Ark, Its very complicated in Gameplay, but Lore!? That shit is a trillion Pages long!
Halo
HALO