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Furry Chat => Furry Freezer => Topic started by: anoni on September 19, 2013, 12:44:10 PM
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What's your favourite setting and story? It could be a book, a video game, a tabletop game, a movie, whatever. What lore makes you the most interested?
My personal favourite lore is the Warhammer 40k lore, because it's so detailed, so bleak and intense that it makes it very interesting to read over things. Each character is immensely powerful and the "battles' aren't between hundreds, but millions, so everything seems a whole lot more intense and dramatic.
This would be followed by the Fallout Lore just cause of how quirky, yet philosophically stimulating, and epic, some of the lore is. How all these events echo's through a destroyed and barren wasteland.
What's your favourite?
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Hard to tell, The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is pretty awesome, but its kinda just grey and white there. Alagaesia, the world of Eragon was one of the first fantasy places I really became a huge fan of.
The Norse world is also epic... Its hard to tell ^_^
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I've always loved the lore for fallout, it's what keeps me coming back to the games.
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I'll be the corny fox to say... Star Wars, I can't get enough and I have yet to read all of the books. Nowadays people think Star Wars is lame. :S
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1. Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
2. Kingdom Hearts (essentially just Disney,I suppose).
3. Star Wars
4. Game of Thrones (I ESPECIALLY love the lore here. If you've read the books,you'll understand precisely how detailed and intricate it is).
5. Fallout
But my most favourite of all would have to be Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Good god is that game beautiful. So much color and magic and sparkles. <3
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Definitely Warhammer 40k. I love the story of chaos, the corruption of Horus, the rise and fall of the emperor, but especially how the whole Milky Way Galaxy is fighting and Tau are like "We can has friendship naow?"
And might I just add... For the Greater Good!
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OMG star wars, and kingdom hearts is great, too.
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I have to say that Metroid, by far, is my number one favorite. It's very interesting and actually makes everything that happens make more sense as it happens.
Fallout is also fantastic, as it is so diverse and deep. It's full of scandals and absolutely human wrongs and rights, heroes and villains of all types, and so much more. Along with everything Anoni said.
Star Wars is also fantastic. I mean, talk about delving deep into the history of something. There's just so much it's impossible to get to all of it. Politics and corruption on an intergalactic scale and an emphasis on ethics and the protection of life.
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Mirror Mask is mindbogglingly abstract, and kinda really awesome. So that's my answer I guess. :3
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Ooh,gotta throw Harry Potter into there.
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Ooh, gotta throw Harry Potter into there.
I have no idea how I forgot about that.
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Gotta love me anything Tamora Pierce <3
second is TES lore,
And third is Fallout lore.
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Hmmm, I think mine would be Half Life and Dead Space..
And I bet you all got ya lores from here xD
LORE - Dead Space Lore in a Minute! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9jWZxKpBc#ws)
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Yay for DeadSpace! And the LORE videos are always cool
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Half life has a surprisingly good and detailed Lore, Bioshock has a good Lore too.
Mass Effect has a detailed lore, but i never found the Lore all that interesting tbh.
Ooh,gotta throw Harry Potter into there.
Personally, I never liked Harry Potter's lore, while it is unique and interesting in it's own right, I found that too many elements in the story were disjointed with no clear "connection" between them. This allowed for a crazily complicated and continually interesting story, but had the side-effect of a messy and disorganized lore.
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They should do a lore video on Bioshock Infinite.
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Personally, I never liked Harry Potter's lore, while it is unique and interesting in it's own right, I found that too many elements in the story were disjointed with no clear "connection" between them. This allowed for a crazily complicated and continually interesting story, but had the side-effect of a messy and disorganized lore.
The problem - and also, I think, what makes it so successful - with Harry Potter's world building is that it's not really meant to be an intricate continuity. It's the same thing that makes fairy tales work: the world bends in accordance to what the story needs to say or do, rather than the story working within the realms of predetermined rules. It works because Harry Potter is wish-fulfillment fiction for its target demographic: there are enough blanks that they can be filled in with whatever the reader's imagination likes best, and that makes the story more personal. And if one should take it at face value, it works well enough that way, too.
Back onto the original topic: I'm shocked no one seems to have mentioned Lord of the Rings/The Silmarillion, still the singular foundation for High Fantasy As We Know It (tm)!
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I can't believe I forgot about Avatar! (not the blue people)
The latest episodes have been particularly awesome. I watched them twice. XD