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Best Lore of any Game
Amjoco
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I have played many, many games. This game without doubt has the best lore and racial qualities of any game I have played. If you take the time and read books, and most important, not skip through the npc dialogue, it is an amazing adventure. Coupled with the types of classes and the gear, the PvP is the best I have ever played.
I liked the game at first, but I am loving it the more I get into it! I just hit level 15 and have 1 day 23 hours playtime.
I don't recommend the game for impatient players that want to get to end game. I do recommend it to mature mmorpg fans that can take the time to discover Tamriel.
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As much as i enjoy the game and reading random books scattered all over the ESO world... for me personally best lore award still goes to EQ and EQ2.
For me nothing else has every come close.
EQ has a really amazing story and lore if you take the time to read it. There is so much about the EQ universe that interests me. ESO is almost as good if not as good though imo. It's really close.
I'd recommend reading up on the EQ1 and 2 timeline/story if anyone played those and hasn't read it before. It provides a great read.
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
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EQ and EQ2 had a lot going for it, but I didn't feel it was so much the lore as all the content. Especially after all those expansions!
The voice acting in this game really helps giving the characters a little more of a personal and immersive quality though. I really love stopping from questing and just exploring each container and item hoping for something good to pop up. It adds another dimension to games I have been waiting for.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
To me it isn't a matter of who's lore is better (as that is a matter opinion) but that the game ACTUALLY tells you the lore!
I played Wow for years off and on and barely had a %#$&ing idea of what the lore was. I constantly read on the forums people swooning over Wow lore and when I ask where the hell they learned of it they always replied: " Novels, lore websites, wikis, etc, etc ...". I would always respond with, "Then why isn't ANY of this information actually IN THE GAME I AM PLAYING?"
ESO is soaked in lore! I pick up a quest and there is often twice the amount of lore through additional conversation not even required for the quest. I then can talk to npcs who tell me far more information of the area story. I can find notes and books about further informing me of both TES and local area lore. Lore is everywhere and relevant to what you are actually doing ... not information on uber powerful leaders (that stand 3 feet taller than you for some unknown reason) from stories outside of the game.
Even the little public dungeons have their own little stories often bound to the region and it's inhabitants that is many times more interesting than "it's a spawn area for baddies therefore they also have their local obligatory dungeon".
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LOTRO told me to tell you to be careful with your claims next time.
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100% agree with this, most in depth lore put into a game I have seen in a very very long time.
As I mentioned earlier it isn't about who's is best but how it is told. The very best thing about Lotro story telling is the main main story arc but outside that the game falls into the usual quest hub game. There is very little story learned outside of reading traditional quest scripts. Lotro was a big step up at the time for story telling (without forcing you into voice over linear story arcs like Swtor) but ESO mixes the style of story telling very well and additionally adds tons more through books, letters and non-quest npc chat.
I do like TES lore though as it is a more realistic high fantasy influenced heavily by real world history which I am also a hobby of mine. One can always argue that far older IPs based on traditional novel format (and movies) is better and deeper but for a lore developed solely off of video games TES is rich and deep if one is willing to learn it.
I believe the entire point to TES is that it is familiar fantasy and easy to jump into. So many games go out of their way to be original that you end up with painfully limited choices for a "normal" fantasy game.
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What if I told you that that how is relative to the person in each game genre in part ( the type of exposition you like in a tactical 3rd person RPG isn't the same as you would like it in a first person RPG, both of which differ from how I like it ) so saying one or the other is objectively best based purely on how popular it is isn't correct ( otherwise on sheer popularity alone the lore of the Twilight saga rank well in literary terms ).
A lot of the Warcraft lore was created way before World of Warcraf. There is also tons of lore in WoW. Have you read all the quests/books in WoW?
I loved WoW and I thought it had one of the most interesting universes and the lore was amazing. But again if you are not a warcraft fan it can be difficult to appreciate.
The same can be said for TESO. I just came across a book that talks about Nerevar and the tribunal. You would never realise the real significance of this if you haven't played Morrowind. Why? Because all the events in Morrowind happened 750 years later than TESO so it's impossible for TESO to tell you what happened. There is probably loads more that you probably wouldn't understand if you haven't played the 5 Elder Scrolls games before ESO.
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