I'm talking about encyclopedic knowledge here. I'm not asking if you've gone 100% on every game, or if you've even played EVERY game. I mean knowledge: lore, backstories, quotes, technicalities, references, behind the scenes, etc. You at your nerdiest: what videogame franchise do you know the best and the most? Would you win EVERY argument about it?
For singling out purposes I would have to say Silent Hill. I'm not a raving fanboy for it, but it's the franchise I just so happen to have played (and replayed) the most. I've wasted countless hours understanding its plot, the references from one game to the next, the chronology and the cause and effect of events, the meaning and the symbolism behind EVERYTHING (even though there's a lot of BS tucked in between), everybody and everything's name, and anything you can probably think of when it comes to knowledge. I can talk about the spin-offs I've never played, the year EVERY game came out, and what kind of canon each series entry belongs to. I can even call each key dev member by their name, and what games they worked on, and in what position.
And so on.
What about you?
For singling out purposes I would have to say Silent Hill. I'm not a raving fanboy for it, but it's the franchise I just so happen to have played (and replayed) the most. I've wasted countless hours understanding its plot, the references from one game to the next, the chronology and the cause and effect of events, the meaning and the symbolism behind EVERYTHING (even though there's a lot of BS tucked in between), everybody and everything's name, and anything you can probably think of when it comes to knowledge. I can talk about the spin-offs I've never played, the year EVERY game came out, and what kind of canon each series entry belongs to. I can even call each key dev member by their name, and what games they worked on, and in what position.
And so on.
What about you?
