Poll: The best at medieval fantasy lore

[Nechti_Visara]

Bethesda has created some incredibly excellent lore that I know next to nothing about. I'd have to say that, despite the fact that I am a big stupid dweeb for everything Dragon Age and I am steadfastly working on learning everything about the entire universe by reading the wiki and the codex and learning the Dalish language and studying the language of the Qun and learning when to use Dwarven words and trying to use Andraste and the Maker instead of Jesus and God when I swear.

I love the Bioware lore so very much, but it is not the best by a long shot. All things considered it's not even that good. It's so very much like the history of a real continent -- which, while impressive in and of itself, doesn't necessarily make it all that fascinating.

 

[ecoho]

bioware cause i refuse to give blizzard credit and well as much as i love TES it realy doesnt have good lore.

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

They're all the same as far as I'm concerned.

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Urg, so very sick of fifth generation Tolkien rip-offs.

To be fair, Tolkein's just a big Germanic mythology tip-off. Largely to the same extent as well. And Shakespeare stole all his best ideas from the Greeks, whole stole all their ideas from each other. Stealing ideas is the basis of all literature, and I for one don't see that as an entirely bad thing. However, if you are sick of this type of rip-off in particular than I can see your point. I have no problem with people disliking specific genres.

OT- I like Bioware the best on this one, but only because I find all the areas the story hasn't covered to look pretty cool. The nation the Grey Wardens essentially run (anders I believe) especially peaks my interest.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

All the arguing in this thread is stupid. My favorite lore from a game was Planescape: Torment by Black Isle studios but since that isn't an option, I chose Bethesda. Although most of the lore is not readily apparent in the games.

 

[Random Fella]

I'd have to go with the elder scrolls
It has a whole world with 5 games based around the whole lore and has a very easy to understand main idea

 

[endtherapture]

Dragon Age has the potential to be really good, with the Chantry, the Mages and Templars, the Darkspawn, the Fade, Tervinter Imperium etc, but it hasn't been explored enough. If they could explore the lore it'd be really cool.

I want to know more about the First Blight too and the heydey of Tervinter, looks so cool.

Dragon Age pretty much has an awesome potential world but it's a shame we're hoarded into the same areas. Also DA2 wasn't dark at all. DA:O was incredibly dark at times and I fucking loved it.

 

[Naeras]

From Software beats all those three into the ground and makes a giant "THEY DIED"-death screen appear above them when it comes to making stuff feel medieval.

 

[Nouw]

I chose flare! Sorry, I just wanted to chuck that in there. My serious answer is Warhammer. To this day, I still have no idea if it's a satire like Warhammer 40K.

 

[Thaliur]

Of these three, I'd say Bethesda. I never played Dragon Age, though, so I can say for sure.

The most believable, probably working fantasy setting is the discworld, though.

 

[marurder]

NOT Blizzard. It's the same story every time with them.

 

[Cheesus333]

I absolutely love Diablo, but if this is for gameworld lore, how is this even a contest?

Elder Scrolls. Very, very easily.

 

[lRookiel]

Elderscrolls games tend to suck me into the story the most so yeah, bethesda gets that title.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

elder scrolls: best atmosphere and Lore.
Dragon Age (Origins): Best characters
Warcraft: most "magical", I suppose, hard to explain.

if it weren't for DA2, Dragon Age would have won this one in my opinion, although I love all three franchises.

 

[Puddleknock]

If I had to choose from those three then I'd say Dragon Age, warcraft setting is just a sillier version of the Warhammer world (as Starcraft is to 40k) and TES bores me. Though didn't vote for Dragon Age as I don't think its brilliant either, just better than those two.

I prefer the Warhammer setting or even FFIX if I'm feeling a little whimsical.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Depends, do you mean closest to actual medieval fantasy? In which case none, since Medieval stuff had a different set of values and look different from the presented examples. If you mean which one I prefer then... um, Dragon Age? Not Diablo or Warcraft but my opinion is split on the other two.

 

[CrazyJew]

My Sister and I LOVED the world of Elder Scrolls because it was different, starting with the lack of Dragons. Then Skyrim was announced.

 

[lionsprey]

out of the options TES with a close 2nd Dragon age (the first one haven't played the 2nd one)
although if i could chose between any game/developers it would be either DnD or Warhammer

 

[Darth_Dude]

I used to like Blizzard's Warcraft lore, but all that Bullshit in WoW (Killing off major characters, making things more complex in terms of factions etc.) really has put me off.

TES Lore has always been a bit 'off' to me, I cant explain this feeling to anyone actually, it's really strange. Not saying it's bad though.

But Bioware Lore (Dragon Age) is just insane, they've built up this fantastic world, and have so far only used a small, small, portion of it. There's just SO much in this world, I really really want them to feature more of it in future games (Perhaps a game set in Orlais, Antiva or Tevinter. That sort of thing)

 

[Sixcess]

I'd go with Blizzard.

Compare the opening cinematic of WoW to that of Dragon Age. Dragon Age is entirely generic high... dark fantasy that opens with a 3 minute monologue that tries very hard to sound grand and important but just comes across like the prologue of every sub-Tolkien epic fantasy trilogy of the last fifty years. WoW's opening sums up the entire story so far in the first thirty seconds then drops the narration to focus entirely on the strong, distinctive imagery of the world and peoples of Azeroth.

(Rift had the same problem. I was bored with that world before the opening cinematic had even finished...)

That said, Blizzard isn't doing the cohesiveness of their world any favours these days, with Cataclysm lurching heavily toward WH40K levels of 'rule of cool' and going overboard with the blatant pop culture references, in-jokes and parodies.