I know Neil Gaiman’s reputation is in a bad spot but I remember reading something from him along the lines of “sci-fi writers aren’t writing about their hopes for the future, they’re writing their worries for the present.”
Horizon is way more terrifying than that: the Faro swarm did not just consume humans, it consumed ALL of the biomass on Earth. In the end it was a barren rock no more alive than the Moon.. honestly the scariest kind of apocalypse I've seen imagined.
God the deus ex universe is hands down one of my all time favourite, its so well put together and filled with secrets and questions, the similarities with things happening today and have happened is mind blowing
Deus Ex first, cyberpunk last. Hmm I’m sensing a potential pattern 😂. Nonetheless it’s how I would’ve structured my video essay. Thanks for the banger man you need more views
Here we go Another super relaxing night for me🥺 Not just the narrative, but the way you speak, so relaxing…. It can’t get any better. Thank you frank!!
You're mistaken about Fallout. The war was very clearly stated to be about resources, and the world was already at war over what was left of the fossil fuels.
About Cyberpunk lore - did anyone actually caught that Mr. Blue eyes might actually be a proxy for AIs? The lore with that game is crazy and so deep. I love this game so much
OMG I am so happy to find Paradise Killer on this list, A true waporwave fantasy, and it is amazing, cool music, histerically good worldbuilding. Love this video thank you!
Thought the same couldn’t get to do Kirby which is what I wanted lol. Looked for hours for an artists to do a 10/10 quality version for like $100-200 but couldn’t find anyone. If anyone knows someone with Mr beast or fine art level quality level let me know
Elder Scrolls lore is by far my favorite western game lore. I been playing the games for a decade but only recently I found out how amazing and deep the lore of that series goes, because honestly the games do not do a good job at showing it to you. I love it so much that sometimes I spend hours and hours just reading the wiki, it feels like I am reading the bible with the amount of history that series has. For anyone interested, I highly recommend that when you play the games you actually read the books you find. You learn the lore way more from them than the games quests. Seriously, if Bethesda was smart they could have made so many movies or tv series using the extensive lore, and as long as it was written and produced well I am sure it could been really profitable for them. It's like having a gold mine that you rarely use. Dragon Age is another western game series with lore that I really enjoyed. For some reason it wasn't mentioned in this video but in my opinion it's even better than Mass Effect lore. Also not mentioned in this video is Baldur's Gate lore. Or the D&D lore in general, which countless RPGs use, so learning about it would take as long as learning the entire history of our real life world, but from the amount I learned with the games I played I would say its very worth the time. Btw, since Xenoblade is mentioned here, I am obligated to recommend Xenogears/Xenosaga, which was how the whole Xeno series started. Even though those original series have almost nothing to do with Xenoblade lore, I can confidently say that Xenogears had the best and deepest lore in japanese RPGs. It is well written sci-fi, mature, extremely depressing at times, heavily inspired by our real world religions and philosophies, all created by a man and his beloved wife. Anyone who enjoys a good story should play that game, and if you enjoy what you read in the game you can also go read the Perfect Works book, because yes, that game had enough lore to fill a book. Xenosaga was a prequel trilogy that also expands on the deep lore of Gears. And Xenoblade is pretty much just a whole new series that only borrows some of the original Xeno lore, but funny enough at the end of the third game they make very clear references to Xenosaga lore, so maybe the next game they make will really go back to it's roots.
3:27…..welp looks like the mere mention of a something deadly being made in a “Chinese research lab” is a new trigger for me….thanks Covid lol. Great vid btw I live for lore
I just wanna say all your videos make my work go 10x quicker and I get to learn so much info I never would have thought about even looking into I salute you sir
At 27:10 we now know, that the mice lost their mind because, while having enough food and space, there was no way for them to entertain themselves. They literally lost their mind because they were bored.
I don't comment on videos that often but this is definitely one of the best videos I've watched in a while, I love this video essay style great job man!
It's me, the nerd who spends too much time thinking about Myst. Just wanted to correct your line at 58:41. Gehn is Atrus' father, not his son. Atrus' grandfather is named Aitrus, however. So Gehn is Aitrus' son, but you never encounter Aitrus in any of the games. Atrus is the main character that you help in Myst 1-4.
As a follow up: it is disputed in the lore, but the generally accepted theory (the one held by Atrus) is that the Art connects people to existing worlds that they describe. Gehn holds the position that practitioners of the Art create worlds from scratch, which fuelled his god complex, but the lore seems to side more with Atrus' position than Gehn's.
Final note: Myst itself has been remade and remastered many times, and it's sequel, Riven, just had a remastered version released in June that is compatible with VR.
I freaking love the lore to these games. Watching my dad play Myst impacted me so much as a child. I’ve been addicted to the lore and the music ever since
Dang. Acting like the FNaF lore is set in stone is wild to me. If you're not part of the community of theorizers, please know that 99% of what is being said is conjecture or just extremely dressed up for drama rather than what is for sure what happened. The community can't even agree on what year any of the deaths occur in, let alone motivations or typical daily lives of characters.
Yep, it's an insult that FNAF was included there as a lore game when what little lore there is, is super vague and incoherent, fanbase can't even agree on basic things, and no matter which theory you like, all of them are just so basic in comparison to DX or Fallout lore.
Nice video! I definitely would add the lore of the „gothic“ games … gothic 1 released in 2001 is about a prison mining colony which was sealed under a magic dome but was eventually taken over by the prisoners who split in 3 different camps … absolutely a must play and the community still releases mods and updates
@@FranklyGaming I‘m from Germany, here these games are very famous and I always wonder if people in other countries also notice this „treasure“🤔 It’s was pretty bugy tho but the atmosphere is sure one of the best
@@Astridwarhal dam right better than some modern RPG 🙈 unfortunately the developers get bankrupt a few weeks ago 😢 but I am very curious about the remake of gothic 1
As someone really into the Myst series, I gotta make a slight correction to your lore. The antagonist of Riven Ghen (Atrus' father) indeed believes that the D'ni are like gods capable of creating the very worlds they link to. However Atrus has a different world view. Atrus believes the art of linking doesn't create the world but rather creates a gateway to a world that used to exist, currently exists, or will exist. Its difficult to say which one is actually correct. On the one hand, modifying the linking book has a direct affect on the world that people within the world can see happen and can stabilize or destabilize it showing an aspect of creation. However if there are significant modifications, the world seems to be on an entirely separate timeline which leans towards Atrus' theory of linking to preexisting universes. *Spoilers for the prequel book below* In the book Myst: Book of Atrus, it describes as Atrus and his father Ghen explore Age 37 (Ghen never gave his ages any names or used the names of the natives). One of the major features of the age was a giant wall of mist surrounding the island due to the warm temperature of the water around the island colliding with the cold water of the ocean. Ghen, annoyed at the native's superstition of the mist wall and trying to reinforce his image of being a god to the native residents of the age decided to make the ocean water warm to remove the mist. This did change the age, though it was rather disastrous by significantly reducing the ocean level and causing a drought. After arguing with Atrus about it, Ghen tried to "fix" Age 37 by striking out a bunch of the parts he had added rather than figuring out the underlying cause of the issues. When Atrus linked back to it after the "fix", he found it as if he and Ghen had never been there at all. None of the residents remembered him and were back to speaking their native language rather than D'ni as Ghen taught them. Basically by striking out the passages he did, Ghen linked to an entirely different version of Age 37 which gives credence to Atrus' theory that the books linked to preexisting realities. So hard to say who is actually correct as there exists evidence for both positions.
As crazy and cruel Fallout is it's not even half as cruel as read human experiments done during WW1 and WW2. (Very few of the scientists responsible got punished)
I got to recommend the cryptic lore of Rain World. It has a similar grand civilization lost to time as some of the other titles in this video but with some spiritual and alien elements.
Talking about indie games with gem of a lore, project moon games: lobotomy corporation, library of ruina and limbus company, all set in the same Universe are extremely well written and interesting.
Great video. Nice to see a good few of my favourites in there. Some other great game worlds with good lore I've enjoyed are: Greedfall, The Fable Series, Divinity: Original Sin, Dishonored, Kingdoms of Amalur, The Outer Worlds, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Enslaved: Journey to the West and The Darkness. So many great game worlds have been created and so many I've not yet got to enjoy.
Loved the lore of all these games. Control is another game with interesting lore. The mystery of that world really draws you in and makes you want to know more.
I just noticed a minor Warframe mistake, in that the synthetic Orokin creations involved in jumping to the Tau system were Sentients, not Sentinels. Sentinels are ally drones like what was shown in your pic.
So funny....i was doing something on my Playstation and this video popped up on my phone and started playing in the background. I am playing Prey, and I recognized your voice IMMEDIATELY from a Prey video you did. Needless to say, I stopped what i was doing and rewound the video so I could give it my full attention. I really enjoy your videos. Thank you.
In the Myst books the main character comes to think they don't "create" worlds through writing. He thinks theres a multiverse of infinite possibilities and their writing connects them to the existing world they specify. The bad guy thinks they create the worlds theough writing and has quite the god complex about it.
The Nedes ancestors of the Nords didn't enslave the Snow elves, the Nedes beat them in a war, the Dwemer enslaved the Snow Elves as they were long time rivals. Yokuda isn't actually the homeland of the Redguards or Lefthanded elves it is where they first landed when they came in from another time and places, they lived on Yokuda for a time until their war with one another caused it to sink into the sea, the Redguards finishing their genocide of the Lefthanded Elves, built a fleet and their leader threw a magic hammer Eastward and where it landed would become their new homeland, Hammerfell.
Kinda surprised not to see the lore of Battletech/Mechwarrior on the list. Easily tied with Mass Effect as my favorite sci-fi universe! Just as, if not even more, grimdark than Warhammer, also with decades of stories sunk into an ever-expanding and extremely dense/historied universe. Amazing video though! I'm a new subscriber, so forgive me if it was covered elswhere.
I’ll have to check out mech warrior lore didn’t even think to check since I haven’t played the games sounds cool. And thanks for supporting the channel!
My favorite elderscrolls tidbit is Pelinor Whitestrake, the time traveling cyborg paladin who killed so many elves he almost single-handedly destroyed an entire empire.
Assassin's Creed is a favourite of mine when it comes to lore, i realised just how much i loved the lore just after AC 1 because i really wasn't a fan of the gameplay of the first game at all but i was completely captivated by it and couldn't wait to play more just because of how interesting the ideas were, and despite the drastic shifts in quality across the series, the concept of the Animus is a phenomenal Sci Fi concept that has infinite potential, and has kept me interested in seeing what's next even during the worst moments in the series
I agree that JRPGs and their unique perspectives or characters can get a little hard to get behind, but the Drakengard/Nier series has some of the craziest lore for real. Each game has a beautiful story on its own but the loose connections between them are a huge cherry on top.
10:50 FNAF went off the deep end after 3, Scott admitted he was just making things up as he went along. It should've been a simple story of possessed animatronics, with them finally granted peace in 3 after dealing with Springtrap. But no, greed ended up ruining everything until Scott was kicked out of his own franchise for wrong think, how appropriate.
I remember playing Myst and Riven when I was a kid Then I watched earlier this year a 4-5 hour long video with the lore, including things from the novels. It was amazing By the way! RealMyst is a remake and this year they released a remake of Riven!
Me hearing about tyranny for the first time and noticing so many similarities with the lore of Genshin... Since I started understanding genshin some years ago, I started noticing how many games pull from Gnosticism xD
You made some mistakes about the Warframe lore. The Orokin created and then fought the Sentients not Sentinel. After the Old War the Tenno didn't get betrayed by the Orokin, it was the opposite. The Tenno was the reason for the Orokin's downfall. The Tenno was but into slumber by Lotus to heal their traumatic experience from the war.
Hmm a biochip, like neural link? Hmm maybe Kingsman 1 plot did have a lot going for it, that and the church scene with free bird goes wild, I’m talking about the plot from deus ex where the bio chip makes people turn into monsters, and tbh I wish the subplot with the Peralez in cyberpunk was a lot longer as that’s the kind of quests I want a lot of in the sequel games if we get them
To be honest I’d kill for a game that works like setup to Tyranny. It’s the exposition and lore dump done right Yes there’s Suzerain, but it’s not this kind of fantasy.
Suzerain is basically political story with (literally) gameplay similar to the setup you’re doing when starting new game in Tyranny. It’s a sort of kinda world similar to post-war Europe. It’s pretty interesting
Philosophy was super good in planescape but the actually lore of the world (theme of video) I found way cooler in tides of numenera. I’ve always found forgotten realms and D&D lore to be super boring
You should defenitely check out the lore for a few games Final Fantasy XIV (yes i know you said you don't like jrpgs but trust me on this one) has an insane lore where and old world with highgly advanced creation magic faced a total apocalypse and ended up being shattered in 14 pieces, with the souls of the old civilization being reborn as one of those 14 pieces of soul that was separated, some of those managed to retain their memories and went on to create an organization hellbent on making the fragments of worlds to rejoin one another, a process that would utterly destroy the worlds affected, it is said that everytime a big calamity happened in the main source world it was the result of one said rejoining, caused by the massive energy influx that comes from an entire fragment of the world being trusted back into the source. Megaman As weird as it sounds, the lore of this franchise is absolutely amazing, while some games later break the intended continuity and it has a lot of holes we will never be sure will be filled, the progression from the advanced robotics that created the original robot masters all the way to a barren land where no humans exist anymore is a fascinating tale. All because the silly and weird villain Dr. Willy eventually decided to create a computer virus that would infect thousands of robots and trust the world on a neverending war for literally centuries. Genshin Impact What sounds like the most generic self insert begining of a game actually later develops into a complex tale about witnessing the truth of a world rulled by an advanced dragon society that was invaded by alien gods and terraformed for humans, you will come across thousands of years of lost civilizations that were whiped out because they got too close to the truth that none of the gods rulling this world trully belong there, you will find that theres a kownledge and power that's so corrupt it will literally infect living beings and make them toxic to be around, you will see how a single civilization who defied the heavens was then cursed to become monstrosities from the abyss, hellbent into destroying all that exists and oppose the gods, and how the world has been trapped into cycles of time that are unescaping and eternal, each era defined by a being with the will to rival that of the entire world descending uppon it from beyond the stars and changing it forever, not only that but you will also find out that you, the main character, are this world's 4th of these "Descenders" and is bound by fate to change it forever, wheater you want it or not, and maybe, just maybe, this will be the last time.
Referring to the souls games lore as riddles or absurdly vague feels like a gross misinterpretation of their storytelling. There is a universal narrative in them that everyone predominantly agrees upon. People wouldn’t emotionally respond to them so heavily if all they had to deal with was question marks. And I certainly wouldn’t consider them more vague than FNAF or Scorn. Heck, Scorn is so abstract that it practically has no lore.
Ya I get that for sure scorn is a good example where it also is even more “wtf”. I guess just in general the from soft games while they have awesome lore how it’s presented makes it hard for me to get as into it as other games
@FranklyGaming I've always loved questions like that. Nier made me think long and hard about that exact question. I didn't know Torment even existed so imma have to check it out
Im really enjoying this video but Geiger wasn’t a psychopath dude. He was a sweet, soft little man with a heart full of love and who loved his mother very much.
It’s weird to see FnaF on a list celebrating lore when the story is so utterly broken. The story is filled with too many plot holes to possibly count and each game only further creates more. Even the lord and savior of FnaF fans GameTheory fully admitted to create a complete timeline he has to ignore plot holes and just straight make shit up. It’s very clear the writers do not have any real answers they just make a bunch of vague mysteries and let the fans do the hard work for them. It’s lazy and it works every time. The series is horribly written.
Ya I always base it for myself more around the ideas which I think the base ideas and lore in FNAF is wild. Honestly a lot of good lore is so convoluted or messy (every fromsoft game for example) which sometimes is part of the fun
@@FranklyGaming I don’t deny that, but take a FromSoft game as an example then. In those games the story is the farthest thing from spoonfed right? You really have to put in work if you want to know what’s going on. But for the fan who do put in that work they are able to create a very solid story they all agree is absolutely what happened. There are little bits here and there people debate over, but for the most part there is a solid structure everyone can agree on. With FnaF there are going to be people who think just the little summary you provided is wrong. What should be the most basic simple details are debated. No one can agree on almost anything because the story is such a mess. That’s why the series irks me so much. None of the games you listed are perfect in the backstory, but the lore they contain is way more thought out and connected down to the tiniest details. I’d like to see FnaF improve.
Yooo thank you for the great work on this vid! I'm only two games in and it's already awesome, and there are so many mores I have played (maybe 75%) I'm looking forward to hear about :) If anyone wants more, I can suggest Doom: Seems like a game where you just run & gun, but it actually has a pretty complex story and worldbuilding ^^
I like how you’re combining long form essays with segmented lists. It’s very easy to watch.
Hey it’s my favorite North Korean history guy. Stay Juche
Yep that was the strategy I’m going for! Makes it easy to transition content into shorts or tiktoks too for those that like that
@@FranklyGamingthat’s pretty smart!
ngl great move frankly heading long video format. as what Spiff said, if its entertaining its entertaining wahtever how short or long.
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Time for work to be more enjoyable for 1h48m
Hope you like it! Thanks for watching!
Imagine skipping the last 53 seconds smh
Bro love listening to stuff like this at work
dude same, I build Playlists on great content like this and vibe out
@@boredSoloDev same here, I put the video on second monitor and just vibe
Am i the only one that was freaking out during deus ex that shit freaked me out with the simpson predictions wtf
"Dystopian writers don't write predictions, they write exaggerations" -some guy on Tumblr.
I know Neil Gaiman’s reputation is in a bad spot but I remember reading something from him along the lines of “sci-fi writers aren’t writing about their hopes for the future, they’re writing their worries for the present.”
Horizon is way more terrifying than that: the Faro swarm did not just consume humans, it consumed ALL of the biomass on Earth. In the end it was a barren rock no more alive than the Moon.. honestly the scariest kind of apocalypse I've seen imagined.
All my homies hate Ted Faro
It's a Grey Goo scenario, we've been worried about it irl for a while now.
God the deus ex universe is hands down one of my all time favourite, its so well put together and filled with secrets and questions, the similarities with things happening today and have happened is mind blowing
Ya had to put deus ex first since it’s such a great example, thank you for taking the time to watch!
If it's like this similar to where I wanted to find the virus, reminds me of COVID-19
Deus Ex first, cyberpunk last. Hmm I’m sensing a potential pattern 😂. Nonetheless it’s how I would’ve structured my video essay. Thanks for the banger man you need more views
Guys should play Prey.
@@Nathanaelelliott prey is the best immersive sim ever and my second favorite game ever
Real world government: *plays Deus Ex*
Real world government: "Hey, this is a pretty good idea!"
Here we go
Another super relaxing night for me🥺
Not just the narrative, but the way you speak, so relaxing…. It can’t get any better.
Thank you frank!!
Really appreciate that hope you enjoy and thanks for the support!
@@FranklyGaming Enjoyed of course
I’ll watch fully after my operating system exam tomorrow.
Yes I pursue similar career to yours.
I agree your cadence and voice is easy to listen to but you cover great topics. Very relaxing before bed
@@gordon5661 Exactly
You're mistaken about Fallout. The war was very clearly stated to be about resources, and the world was already at war over what was left of the fossil fuels.
Shut up nerd
To the point where there was an actual battle on the freaking moon. The Battle of the Sea of Tranquility.
I love Fallout. 😂
A part 2 be pretty awesome. Let it happen
Got one about mysteries dropping this week which is similar touched on some lore too!
About Cyberpunk lore - did anyone actually caught that Mr. Blue eyes might actually be a proxy for AIs? The lore with that game is crazy and so deep. I love this game so much
Mention it some in my upcoming video dropping this week
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OMG I am so happy to find Paradise Killer on this list, A true waporwave fantasy, and it is amazing, cool music, histerically good worldbuilding. Love this video thank you!
Such a cool game, and thanks for the support!
That AI generated thumbnail deserved a 3rd representation instead of 2 FNAF.
Something like a Xenoblade Character or a Souls-like representation.
Thought the same couldn’t get to do Kirby which is what I wanted lol. Looked for hours for an artists to do a 10/10 quality version for like $100-200 but couldn’t find anyone. If anyone knows someone with Mr beast or fine art level quality level let me know
Facts! FNAF never deserved that lore spot
I’ll never play FNAF but dang if I don’t love hearing the lore
I have a lot of games I feel this way about 😂
Elder Scrolls lore is by far my favorite western game lore. I been playing the games for a decade but only recently I found out how amazing and deep the lore of that series goes, because honestly the games do not do a good job at showing it to you. I love it so much that sometimes I spend hours and hours just reading the wiki, it feels like I am reading the bible with the amount of history that series has. For anyone interested, I highly recommend that when you play the games you actually read the books you find. You learn the lore way more from them than the games quests. Seriously, if Bethesda was smart they could have made so many movies or tv series using the extensive lore, and as long as it was written and produced well I am sure it could been really profitable for them. It's like having a gold mine that you rarely use.
Dragon Age is another western game series with lore that I really enjoyed. For some reason it wasn't mentioned in this video but in my opinion it's even better than Mass Effect lore.
Also not mentioned in this video is Baldur's Gate lore. Or the D&D lore in general, which countless RPGs use, so learning about it would take as long as learning the entire history of our real life world, but from the amount I learned with the games I played I would say its very worth the time.
Btw, since Xenoblade is mentioned here, I am obligated to recommend Xenogears/Xenosaga, which was how the whole Xeno series started. Even though those original series have almost nothing to do with Xenoblade lore, I can confidently say that Xenogears had the best and deepest lore in japanese RPGs. It is well written sci-fi, mature, extremely depressing at times, heavily inspired by our real world religions and philosophies, all created by a man and his beloved wife. Anyone who enjoys a good story should play that game, and if you enjoy what you read in the game you can also go read the Perfect Works book, because yes, that game had enough lore to fill a book. Xenosaga was a prequel trilogy that also expands on the deep lore of Gears. And Xenoblade is pretty much just a whole new series that only borrows some of the original Xeno lore, but funny enough at the end of the third game they make very clear references to Xenosaga lore, so maybe the next game they make will really go back to it's roots.
i love working and having videos like this playing in the background while i decorate pastries :>>> keep it up !!
Glad to hear you are enjoying!
Wow I didn't know that Q-Anon was basically fnaf fanfiction
I thought the same thing when I first heard about Pizzagate. I was like “welp the FNAFers have invaded Q-Anon”
It’s 5 am and I can’t sleep thank you so much
Got you 🔥
😂 sleeping viewers are key
3:27…..welp looks like the mere mention of a something deadly being made in a “Chinese research lab” is a new trigger for me….thanks Covid lol. Great vid btw I live for lore
Glad you enjoyed it! And ya deus ex made some wild predictions lol
Love the Prey shoutout. Whenever i get asked for an underrated game that can be purchased for dirt cheap Prey is always my first answer.
Such an amazing game, and thanks for watching!
Very happy to see some Warframe Lore love, its not what got me into the game but its definitely what keeps me around.
Ya wanted to get a variety of games warframe was one that had to be there for sure
Wow. This really makes you think back on the past 4 years
I just wanna say all your videos make my work go 10x quicker and I get to learn so much info I never would have thought about even looking into I salute you sir
At 27:10 we now know, that the mice lost their mind because, while having enough food and space, there was no way for them to entertain themselves. They literally lost their mind because they were bored.
I don't comment on videos that often but this is definitely one of the best videos I've watched in a while, I love this video essay style great job man!
Really appreciate that! You might like the recent one too similar to this
It's me, the nerd who spends too much time thinking about Myst. Just wanted to correct your line at 58:41. Gehn is Atrus' father, not his son. Atrus' grandfather is named Aitrus, however. So Gehn is Aitrus' son, but you never encounter Aitrus in any of the games. Atrus is the main character that you help in Myst 1-4.
As a follow up: it is disputed in the lore, but the generally accepted theory (the one held by Atrus) is that the Art connects people to existing worlds that they describe. Gehn holds the position that practitioners of the Art create worlds from scratch, which fuelled his god complex, but the lore seems to side more with Atrus' position than Gehn's.
Final note: Myst itself has been remade and remastered many times, and it's sequel, Riven, just had a remastered version released in June that is compatible with VR.
I freaking love the lore to these games. Watching my dad play Myst impacted me so much as a child. I’ve been addicted to the lore and the music ever since
Dang. Acting like the FNaF lore is set in stone is wild to me. If you're not part of the community of theorizers, please know that 99% of what is being said is conjecture or just extremely dressed up for drama rather than what is for sure what happened. The community can't even agree on what year any of the deaths occur in, let alone motivations or typical daily lives of characters.
Yep, it's an insult that FNAF was included there as a lore game when what little lore there is, is super vague and incoherent, fanbase can't even agree on basic things, and no matter which theory you like, all of them are just so basic in comparison to DX or Fallout lore.
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Nice video! I definitely would add the lore of the „gothic“ games … gothic 1 released in 2001 is about a prison mining colony which was sealed under a magic dome but was eventually taken over by the prisoners who split in 3 different camps … absolutely a must play and the community still releases mods and updates
Gothic would have been a great addition for sure will have to talk about it in the future
@@FranklyGaming I‘m from Germany, here these games are very famous and I always wonder if people in other countries also notice this „treasure“🤔
It’s was pretty bugy tho but the atmosphere is sure one of the best
@@johnnyk.3635 i'm from spain and I still play Gothic 2 sometimes. Even with all its flaws, the atmosphere and lore is so cool
@@Astridwarhal dam right better than some modern RPG 🙈 unfortunately the developers get bankrupt a few weeks ago 😢 but I am very curious about the remake of gothic 1
Torment: Tides of Numenara is but a shadow of Planescape: Torment. Like, literally.
Ya I thought about putting planescape torment since it’s the OG but I like sci fi lore in numenera more than the planes in DND
Ahh wonderful topic for a video. Saved to watch later :)
@@DanteHellDrive hope you enjoy!
As someone really into the Myst series, I gotta make a slight correction to your lore. The antagonist of Riven Ghen (Atrus' father) indeed believes that the D'ni are like gods capable of creating the very worlds they link to. However Atrus has a different world view. Atrus believes the art of linking doesn't create the world but rather creates a gateway to a world that used to exist, currently exists, or will exist. Its difficult to say which one is actually correct. On the one hand, modifying the linking book has a direct affect on the world that people within the world can see happen and can stabilize or destabilize it showing an aspect of creation. However if there are significant modifications, the world seems to be on an entirely separate timeline which leans towards Atrus' theory of linking to preexisting universes.
*Spoilers for the prequel book below*
In the book Myst: Book of Atrus, it describes as Atrus and his father Ghen explore Age 37 (Ghen never gave his ages any names or used the names of the natives). One of the major features of the age was a giant wall of mist surrounding the island due to the warm temperature of the water around the island colliding with the cold water of the ocean. Ghen, annoyed at the native's superstition of the mist wall and trying to reinforce his image of being a god to the native residents of the age decided to make the ocean water warm to remove the mist. This did change the age, though it was rather disastrous by significantly reducing the ocean level and causing a drought. After arguing with Atrus about it, Ghen tried to "fix" Age 37 by striking out a bunch of the parts he had added rather than figuring out the underlying cause of the issues. When Atrus linked back to it after the "fix", he found it as if he and Ghen had never been there at all. None of the residents remembered him and were back to speaking their native language rather than D'ni as Ghen taught them. Basically by striking out the passages he did, Ghen linked to an entirely different version of Age 37 which gives credence to Atrus' theory that the books linked to preexisting realities.
So hard to say who is actually correct as there exists evidence for both positions.
As crazy and cruel Fallout is it's not even half as cruel as read human experiments done during WW1 and WW2. (Very few of the scientists responsible got punished)
Humanity is capable of so really crazy evil
I loved the video! Incredible work! I would love too see a part 2 (I would love too se destiny in there, is my favorite game and the lore is INSANE)
@@sofithies9987 really appreciate that! And ya want to do more of these eventually I have a destiny iceberg you might like
@@FranklyGaming i’m seeing it right now LOL! incredible work again !!
I got to recommend the cryptic lore of Rain World. It has a similar grand civilization lost to time as some of the other titles in this video but with some spiritual and alien elements.
Interesting will have to check this out
BioShock should've been in this list.
You know what would be great is if a Chinese developer made the Chinese side of the fallout universe and play in something like fallout China.
Bro I love how I already knew everything halo related, I’m the lore guy in my friend group and yet I still enjoy hearing the halo lore again
Deus Ex predicted Covid-19. XD
Dude, this is frigging great. Happy I found your channel!
Thank you! Glad to see you are enjoying the videos
I don't know how the Aether Storyline in COD Zombies wasnt mentioned
Almost included it but cut some things in the end otherwise I would have had another hour
Legit checking out some of these games you’ve mentioned! Haven’t heard of like 40 of these and am looking forward to a lot more things in my library
Think you’ll enjoy them a lot! Thanks for watching
Also on the witcher and Ciri thing theres hints that Ciri visited Night City in Cyberpunk 2077
I can't figure out why you don't have more subscribers. The videos are all really good and there are so many of them
Appreciate it! Will get there one day about to hit 100k which is cool. More just focused on making the best content possible
I listen to this while doing homework
Thanks for watching!
Talking about indie games with gem of a lore, project moon games: lobotomy corporation, library of ruina and limbus company, all set in the same Universe are extremely well written and interesting.
What a fantastic work. Have you ever played Oni by Bungie? That and Hostile waters: Anteus rising were my favourite games because of their lore
Glad you enjoyed! And I’ve never tried will have to check it out
this needs to become a series amazing work bro
Appreciate it! Definitely want to dive into more lore too, the video I have coming this week is very similar will be about gaming mysteries
Oh my God, I did not expect a mention of Caves of Qud
Great video. Nice to see a good few of my favourites in there. Some other great game worlds with good lore I've enjoyed are: Greedfall, The Fable Series, Divinity: Original Sin, Dishonored, Kingdoms of Amalur, The Outer Worlds, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Enslaved: Journey to the West and The Darkness. So many great game worlds have been created and so many I've not yet got to enjoy.
Will have to check out some of these I haven’t hear of, thanks for watching!
The Legend of Heroes and Dragon Age too
Loved the lore of all these games. Control is another game with interesting lore. The mystery of that world really draws you in and makes you want to know more.
I just noticed a minor Warframe mistake, in that the synthetic Orokin creations involved in jumping to the Tau system were Sentients, not Sentinels. Sentinels are ally drones like what was shown in your pic.
Whoops lol
So funny....i was doing something on my Playstation and this video popped up on my phone and started playing in the background. I am playing Prey, and I recognized your voice IMMEDIATELY from a Prey video you did.
Needless to say, I stopped what i was doing and rewound the video so I could give it my full attention. I really enjoy your videos. Thank you.
S.O.M.A was insane horror - single player game. Its a pretty complex story, but it essentially danced around the idea of copy pasting your conscience.
Love soma I talk about it in my “most profound questions asked in games” video
In the Myst books the main character comes to think they don't "create" worlds through writing. He thinks theres a multiverse of infinite possibilities and their writing connects them to the existing world they specify.
The bad guy thinks they create the worlds theough writing and has quite the god complex about it.
The Nedes ancestors of the Nords didn't enslave the Snow elves, the Nedes beat them in a war, the Dwemer enslaved the Snow Elves as they were long time rivals.
Yokuda isn't actually the homeland of the Redguards or Lefthanded elves it is where they first landed when they came in from another time and places, they lived on Yokuda for a time until their war with one another caused it to sink into the sea, the Redguards finishing their genocide of the Lefthanded Elves, built a fleet and their leader threw a magic hammer Eastward and where it landed would become their new homeland, Hammerfell.
Kinda surprised not to see the lore of Battletech/Mechwarrior on the list.
Easily tied with Mass Effect as my favorite sci-fi universe! Just as, if not even more, grimdark than Warhammer, also with decades of stories sunk into an ever-expanding and extremely dense/historied universe.
Amazing video though! I'm a new subscriber, so forgive me if it was covered elswhere.
I’ll have to check out mech warrior lore didn’t even think to check since I haven’t played the games sounds cool. And thanks for supporting the channel!
My favorite elderscrolls tidbit is Pelinor Whitestrake, the time traveling cyborg paladin who killed so many elves he almost single-handedly destroyed an entire empire.
Good gameplay is great. Good lore rules.
Couldn’t agree more, thanks for watching!
@@FranklyGamingthank you for creating this content!
Assassin's Creed is a favourite of mine when it comes to lore, i realised just how much i loved the lore just after AC 1 because i really wasn't a fan of the gameplay of the first game at all but i was completely captivated by it and couldn't wait to play more just because of how interesting the ideas were, and despite the drastic shifts in quality across the series, the concept of the Animus is a phenomenal Sci Fi concept that has infinite potential, and has kept me interested in seeing what's next even during the worst moments in the series
I agree that JRPGs and their unique perspectives or characters can get a little hard to get behind, but the Drakengard/Nier series has some of the craziest lore for real. Each game has a beautiful story on its own but the loose connections between them are a huge cherry on top.
10:50 FNAF went off the deep end after 3, Scott admitted he was just making things up as he went along. It should've been a simple story of possessed animatronics, with them finally granted peace in 3 after dealing with Springtrap. But no, greed ended up ruining everything until Scott was kicked out of his own franchise for wrong think, how appropriate.
Ya the lore gets just nuts 😂, appreciate you watching the video thanks
Can't blame him for everything, people wanted more and whose he to say no?
I remember playing Myst and Riven when I was a kid
Then I watched earlier this year a 4-5 hour long video with the lore, including things from the novels. It was amazing
By the way! RealMyst is a remake and this year they released a remake of Riven!
someone else who loves prey! it’s a game i recommend to so many and yet i know no one who’s ever played it😭
FINALLY! a lore list that included W A R F R A M E !!!!
I got you 🦈
An iceberg video of Warframe would be amaaaazzing!!
Me hearing about tyranny for the first time and noticing so many similarities with the lore of Genshin... Since I started understanding genshin some years ago, I started noticing how many games pull from Gnosticism xD
Interesting haven’t dug into the Genshin lore at all
Congratualtions on 100k frankly keep it up now im gonna get back watch the video
Appreciate it!
You made some mistakes about the Warframe lore.
The Orokin created and then fought the Sentients not Sentinel.
After the Old War the Tenno didn't get betrayed by the Orokin, it was the opposite. The Tenno was the reason for the Orokin's downfall. The Tenno was but into slumber by Lotus to heal their traumatic experience from the war.
This popped up on my home page thank you RUclips 👊
Hope you enjoy!
Hmm a biochip, like neural link? Hmm maybe Kingsman 1 plot did have a lot going for it, that and the church scene with free bird goes wild, I’m talking about the plot from deus ex where the bio chip makes people turn into monsters, and tbh I wish the subplot with the Peralez in cyberpunk was a lot longer as that’s the kind of quests I want a lot of in the sequel games if we get them
I deal with autism yet would never let my brain be “modified” as JC Denton says if I remember correctly
And that’s why it’s so sad everytime I boot up Night City all I feel is the dreams part and not the city.
Wait... that deus X pre gane timeline kinda shockingly close to real world events for anyone else. You think we gonna get ai internet mods soon?
Great job on hitting 100k Subscribers!!
appreciate it! Thanks for helping me get there
Damn, I really need another Mass Effect adventure...
Really hoping the new dragon age and especially mass effect after it are amazing
@@FranklyGaming fingers crossed
At the end of the kirby portion, you said something about the game lore and it making you play the game more. That is so me
A few honourable mentions would be DOOM, half life, BioShock and portal
To be honest I’d kill for a game that works like setup to Tyranny. It’s the exposition and lore dump done right
Yes there’s Suzerain, but it’s not this kind of fantasy.
Haven’t hear of Suzerain but ya I hope one day we get a tyranny sequel for sure, thanks for watching!
Suzerain is basically political story with (literally) gameplay similar to the setup you’re doing when starting new game in Tyranny. It’s a sort of kinda world similar to post-war Europe. It’s pretty interesting
If you're looking for a JRPG with good lore, try any of the Ivalice Alliance games
In my opinion, they've got the best lore of any fictional world
Never played a Xenoblade game and now I feel like I'm missing out on a master piece
i respect you putting caves of qud
Really cool game glad I found it hadn’t heard of it before
Wild that you included Torment: Tides of Numenara, and not its predecessor with a far more fun and interesting philosophy Planescape: Torment
Philosophy was super good in planescape but the actually lore of the world (theme of video) I found way cooler in tides of numenera.
I’ve always found forgotten realms and D&D lore to be super boring
You should defenitely check out the lore for a few games
Final Fantasy XIV (yes i know you said you don't like jrpgs but trust me on this one) has an insane lore where and old world with highgly advanced creation magic faced a total apocalypse and ended up being shattered in 14 pieces, with the souls of the old civilization being reborn as one of those 14 pieces of soul that was separated, some of those managed to retain their memories and went on to create an organization hellbent on making the fragments of worlds to rejoin one another, a process that would utterly destroy the worlds affected, it is said that everytime a big calamity happened in the main source world it was the result of one said rejoining, caused by the massive energy influx that comes from an entire fragment of the world being trusted back into the source.
Megaman
As weird as it sounds, the lore of this franchise is absolutely amazing, while some games later break the intended continuity and it has a lot of holes we will never be sure will be filled, the progression from the advanced robotics that created the original robot masters all the way to a barren land where no humans exist anymore is a fascinating tale. All because the silly and weird villain Dr. Willy eventually decided to create a computer virus that would infect thousands of robots and trust the world on a neverending war for literally centuries.
Genshin Impact
What sounds like the most generic self insert begining of a game actually later develops into a complex tale about witnessing the truth of a world rulled by an advanced dragon society that was invaded by alien gods and terraformed for humans, you will come across thousands of years of lost civilizations that were whiped out because they got too close to the truth that none of the gods rulling this world trully belong there, you will find that theres a kownledge and power that's so corrupt it will literally infect living beings and make them toxic to be around, you will see how a single civilization who defied the heavens was then cursed to become monstrosities from the abyss, hellbent into destroying all that exists and oppose the gods, and how the world has been trapped into cycles of time that are unescaping and eternal, each era defined by a being with the will to rival that of the entire world descending uppon it from beyond the stars and changing it forever, not only that but you will also find out that you, the main character, are this world's 4th of these "Descenders" and is bound by fate to change it forever, wheater you want it or not, and maybe, just maybe, this will be the last time.
Is this your Kirby gameplay? Bruh.. there's a shield literally telling what you have to do^^
Good video
a sign, not a shield. "shield" wäre Schild im Sinne von Rüstung, nicht Schild im Sinne von Informationstafel.
@@svgarpaws dritte Sprache. Danke für die Korrektur
1:48:21 the elder scrolls music in the background 🥰
Referring to the souls games lore as riddles or absurdly vague feels like a gross misinterpretation of their storytelling. There is a universal narrative in them that everyone predominantly agrees upon. People wouldn’t emotionally respond to them so heavily if all they had to deal with was question marks.
And I certainly wouldn’t consider them more vague than FNAF or Scorn. Heck, Scorn is so abstract that it practically has no lore.
Ya I get that for sure scorn is a good example where it also is even more “wtf”. I guess just in general the from soft games while they have awesome lore how it’s presented makes it hard for me to get as into it as other games
i hope you do a part 2 and add in assassins creed 🙏🙏🙏
Not putting bioshock in this is criminal
Saw STALKER and Tyranny back to back
good sign.
Both are so good 🔥
If an automaton is given actual human consciousness from a year of a humans live, is it human? If not, what makes something human?
Exactly a question the game asks really enjoyed the philosophy in numenera
@FranklyGaming I've always loved questions like that. Nier made me think long and hard about that exact question. I didn't know Torment even existed so imma have to check it out
Im really enjoying this video but Geiger wasn’t a psychopath dude. He was a sweet, soft little man with a heart full of love and who loved his mother very much.
Control always made me think of an SCP AHS
did you really put FNaF here? ☠☠
Waiting for part 2 with hollow knight and dead cells. Cool video 👍
cod zombies needs to be mentioned in one of these
Ngl that T-51B animatronic in your thumbnail sucked me in 😂
Midjourney doing work lol
i had to pause and j sit w my jaw dropped after hearing the kirby lore
That star allies gameplay was painful to watch lmao
Torment one of my favorite games I have to finish it crashed wen I was in the dream world
Torment is one of the goats for sure
It’s weird to see FnaF on a list celebrating lore when the story is so utterly broken. The story is filled with too many plot holes to possibly count and each game only further creates more. Even the lord and savior of FnaF fans GameTheory fully admitted to create a complete timeline he has to ignore plot holes and just straight make shit up. It’s very clear the writers do not have any real answers they just make a bunch of vague mysteries and let the fans do the hard work for them. It’s lazy and it works every time. The series is horribly written.
Ya I always base it for myself more around the ideas which I think the base ideas and lore in FNAF is wild. Honestly a lot of good lore is so convoluted or messy (every fromsoft game for example) which sometimes is part of the fun
@@FranklyGaming I don’t deny that, but take a FromSoft game as an example then. In those games the story is the farthest thing from spoonfed right? You really have to put in work if you want to know what’s going on. But for the fan who do put in that work they are able to create a very solid story they all agree is absolutely what happened. There are little bits here and there people debate over, but for the most part there is a solid structure everyone can agree on. With FnaF there are going to be people who think just the little summary you provided is wrong. What should be the most basic simple details are debated. No one can agree on almost anything because the story is such a mess. That’s why the series irks me so much. None of the games you listed are perfect in the backstory, but the lore they contain is way more thought out and connected down to the tiniest details. I’d like to see FnaF improve.
Yooo thank you for the great work on this vid! I'm only two games in and it's already awesome, and there are so many mores I have played (maybe 75%) I'm looking forward to hear about :)
If anyone wants more, I can suggest Doom: Seems like a game where you just run & gun, but it actually has a pretty complex story and worldbuilding ^^
Really appreciate the kind words! Glad you are enjoying
TENNO STAND UP!!
I'm surprised the Metal Gear series isn't on this list.