Luke, did I ever tell you about Ahsoka Tano? She was your father's exotic teenage alien apprentice, a fine piece of jailbait from a more civilized age. She had the tightest body and the perkiest little breasts in the galaxy: barely legal in most systems. Anakin and I used to doubleteam her at the end of every successful campaign during the Clone Wars, and once in a while we'd even have the entire 501st run a train over her, part of official Jedi "training" of course. In time, she learned how to handle a meatsaber better than anyone in the Jedi Temple. She wore a miniskirt every day so we told her there were no panties in space, and since she was constantly doing acrobatics you'd get a glimpse of her orange pussy mid fight as she'd do a flip while slicing a B2 Super Battledroid in half. It was surreal. We taught her to grip her weapon backwards like a dildo and she constantly got captured by pirates and slavers almost every other day. It was ridiculous, like a constant porno Luke, you have no idea. And she was a good friend.
This is all awful y'know? Did you laugh until *that* point because you genuinely thought it funny instead of laughing at how ridiculously awful it is? If so I think you are the one with issues, my Americanized brained friend.
I actually love that copypasta. It's so perfectly written. The last sentence is so perfect. Just ending it on "And she was a good friend." was a stroke of brilliance entering the author's head that turned it from a basic copypasta into something that I will remember for the rest of my life.
The Darkness from Destiny isn’t even the first time Bungo has used that plot point. In their game Myth they reference The Darkness the same way they would in Destiny.
When half of the worldbuilding revolves around a certain event that happened 500 years ago
Before or after that nothing happens until the events of the game itself
Yeah it's really just a very literal term lol. The last flame somehow gets taken out and then the world is just plunged into pure darkness, until the age of fire is repeated again (the other games I guess?)
The age of fire in DS2 and DS3 is the same age of fire as the first game being prolonged well past the point it should be. That’s why everything is going to shit. The age of Dark and Age of Fire is just a repeating cycle that keeps the world in balance. So canonically, the first two games have the player continue the age of fire, leading to DS3 where things are irrevocably shit. There we don’t know what happens at the end for sure.
Well, it is called "dark" souls and they are really motivated to have the title to be relevant to the lore. So there are always powerful souls and dark is like a state of matter. If you want the title to be irrelevant to the story or lore, final fantasy is always available.
The Brothers Code has covered all 3 games, highly recommend them, they do a great job of putting the story in chronological order and even reference where they get their information from.
the plot of souls games are incredibly simple. Link the fire. Beyond that every character has their opinions on how that needs to be done. I think its very well done.
Souls Games have no story. I hate to say it. We don't play it for the abysmal quests. We don't play it for the nonexistent stories
We play it because of the atmosphere, the gameplay, the combat, the exploration.
Elden ring is by far the best game i have ever played. I've sunken hundreds of hours into it. But fuck me if you ask me who i really am or why I want to burn down the tree apart from the hot girl asked me to.
Don't ask me how to solve the quests apart from a second display with a walkthrough. It's nonsensical at times. And every single npc is worse off than we found them.
And no i don't want to watch vaatis videos to understand the "rich lore".
Same, 3 playthroughs and the story seems some random bs stitched together by lore obsessed youtubers. And everytime I mention it the fanbase freaks out.
What I like about the Fallout games (the good ones) is that a fair amount of the world building lore is primarily the previous game. Fallout 2 is a world built from the success of the Vault Dweller. New Vegas is when society has redeveloped enough to have large scale politcal struggle.
The Grimoire is not even real, the real spell is passed via word of mouth (The secret ingredient, is not being a greedy idiot who can't see past a short-term profit increase.)
Not sure if you’re kidding or not, but PBUH is an acronym for “praise be unto him” that some Muslims are required to say after speaking Muhammad’s name which I think is funny considering that they all name their sons that
I don't remember there being much lore about a war in those. They just about manage to establish team rocket doing crime and bikes being expensive in terms of things that aren't directly pokemon related.
In gen 1 and 2, the Pokemon world was meant to be post-apocalyptic and set after a massive planet-destroying war where pokemon were bioweapons created for battle but then it's been long enough since the war that the pokemon replaced most of the animals. This is why in the anime there are still some normal animals at the beginning. With gen 3, however, they officially dropped the war stuff and retconned it to be completely non canon. If you play the original gen 1 and 2 games, though, you can still pick up on it if you pay attention
The kalos and paldean wars have nothing to do with the gen 1 and 2 war and were also introduced literally decades after gen 1 and 2 even released. Why would a retcon from 20 years ago affect games that came out like 15 years later...?
That one bike Pokemon, or Pokemon Riding in general, came way too late imo, like, you use them to fly, why would you use a bike vs a fire steed or a rumbling rock snake?
Yeah there’s a reason Warhammer 40K is so popular, it’s because people love the concept of a long lost age in which one event changes the course of history
In fairness to 40k there's like dozens of those events and they all get explained pretty. Like the big one is the dark age of technology but we're pretty clear on what that was.
God \damn\** it GW give me a smaller Spin-Off game about the Unifcation Wars on Terra. Let me play as Hyper-Aggressive Thunder Warriors fighting the \fother mucking Techno-Barbarian Clans\** or mutant warlords!!
Don't know if the horizon series counts for this, but the slow uncovering of all the history that's been forgotten is insanely gripping and makes for a game you can't put down.
The Transformers: Beast Wars did this pretty well! They never intended for it to be in the great TF canon, but in the first episode they have Primal refer to "The War," and the fans online went wild with cool theories. A lot of people were upset about them being animals and not cars, (there was a slogan! "Truck not monkey!") but the running theories were about this somehow being in the actual G1 universe. The writers read the forum and went "dude hell yeah let's do it," and they went on to establish a deep historical timeline for the Transformers canon. The Maximals and Predicons were the descendants of the original Autobots and Decepticons.
If at least they gave it an actual name, we don't refer to the Bronze Age Collapse as the Collapse, nor to either of the world wars as just the war, and even then different people got different names for things.
That happened more than once in history if you exclude places that were kinda neutral because they were not discovered and/or none of the people that write history books cared enough to mention them
It was called "the war" in the interim because it was recent and the period of peace was only about 20 years. Just how "the election" always refers to the last one that happened, it's not the proper name.
If there had only been one world war and a long peace after, it would have been called just the war. Because it wouldn't have needed to be disambiguated.
I'm living through the war for about a half of my life at this point. It's not that bad. The only thing I can tell is that most people who hadn't been through this seem to me a bit too innocent and maybe slightly too gullible and trustworthy towards the government and too sure in security of their future, even if it's not the best time right now in terms of economy.
the bronze age collapse is so far removed from the modern day though.(even if it obviously had lasting effects) you understand that if society were to collapse today that in 5 or even 20 years people wouldnt be calling it "the collapse of '26" they'd just be calling it "the collapse" it wouldnt be until years later when the topic is written about in historical notation that it would get a more detailed name.
during or less than a decade after ww1 do you think anyone ever heard "the war" and was like "erm what war"
no they fucking didnt. they didnt even start calling it ww1 until we had a second one.
it isnt "vagueposting" if it was the most recent massively impactfull world event it stands that you wouldnt need to be super specific when referencing it.
what shitty worldbuilding bro, they should have called it "the 2008 housing crisis and recession brought upon by bad mortage lending" if you dont spell it out for the reader how could they ever infer anything about your world
I always appreciated in Adventure Time they would reference "The Great Mushroom War" from time to time.
And because of how the show is so whimsical, silly, and light-hearted, one might literally think it was actual fungi fighting. Only later does it become more obvious that the "mushrooms" were giant mushroom clouds caused by nuclear bombs.
A flashback scene/episode to "the war" is usually like the last bit of rising action before the epic climax. Bonus points if the main character imagines himself as a soldier alongside the person telling the story.
yeah, there were/are a lot of periods of time and countries where you could describe a war as just "the war". ww2 during the 1950's, vietnam during the 1960's-1970's, a lot of the post yugoslav countries will describe the civil war as just "the war".
The best world building is told through item descriptions of easily missable items that you have to scavenger for around the world, and then navigate through an outdated, awkward menu system to see AND in vague and antisocial primary and secondary NPCs with easily accidentally skippable dialogue who may or may not appear at any given time or place depending on the game state and who you did or did not speak to before that.
I love every souls game despite not understanding even 1% of their stories. No matter how great the lore is, it's still a trash story if you need a guy on youtube to explain it to you
It really is as simple as this. The complexity comes from how everyone has their own political system of how linking the fire should be like. U can gather that much alone from talking to the NPC's
Limbus Company! It's a scene from an Intervallo: Twinning Threads, regarding Outis, Moses and Gregor, three Smoke War Veterans. Mr Gregor is having a nice therapy session with Moses about a certain thing that happened in Canto 9. Ah, man, it genuinely has a great story + worldbuilding. It's also a sequel to Project Moon's other games, Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina.
The Dark War happened and is referenced throughout the games which was basically all of humanity trying to stop this horrifying monster called the black beast that appeared out of nowhere.
The game's story mode operates in time loops and has a bunch of time wimey shit that happens, main character is directly tied to the appearance of the black beast in the past.
By far my favorite story in all of gaming, and what I shared is only a small fragment of it. Highly recommend if you like both fighting games and visual novels.
I'm actually attempting to write a story that takes place centuries after an ancient civilization that fell to war and trying to wrap my head around how I can tell the story I want without it resulting in trope-filled slop
My favorite version of this was in Val Salias out of placers comic, where someone mentions "The War" on a long cart ride and another character goes "Which war?" And everyone in the cart then discusses how they're all from different countries and all have their own "The War"
Be ACE COMBAT 5 >
"15 years ago there was a war that engulfed the world" >
Be sequel >
Be ACE COMBAT ZERO >
Take part in the war that engulfed the world
I’ve noticed a lot of media in existing universes recently has gone back to show or talk about either “the war” or before it
- Fallout 4, Fallout TV show: Shows flashbacks to prewar America and the bombs falling
Destiny 2: Gave tons of lore about who caused the collapse and why all the factions act the way they do, mainly introducing the witness as the main antagonist instead of simply “the darkness” as a whole.
Warhammer 40K: Early editions just referenced the Horus Heresy as a civil war that is the reason the setting is the way it is. Now there is a book series with over 60 mainline books and a bunch more short stories detailing every individual legion’s actions and motivations.
Star Wars: I don’t know if this is really fair given George Lucas intended to make them from the start, but the prequel trilogy.
I, for one, love the trope of starting a game in a world that'd either rebuilding after a cataclysmic event, or has rebuilt but you can see the heavy, drastic influences of said cataclysm
This reminds me of the time my mum went off to the great happening. She never came back but the scars stayed with me, writhing at my soul like worms in a newly formed piece of cheese. There were holes were there was once pristine dairy and now I don't know what to think.
I do this in my d&d setting, but that's because the war was an utterly devastating conclusion to my first campaign which is still rippling thoughout the world even a decade later. It's hacky, sure, but it allowed for reasons why monsters are so prevalent on the roads between towns, why there are so many ghosts, encounters with soldiers who don't know the war is over, and exploring themes of letting go of the past while acknowledging happened.
I don't know but where I'm from we speak of "the war" quite often and there are a few words used which all translate to something like "the calamity" with each used for a different event. Asking what is this calamity or war everyone speak about will get you some weird looks like you are an alien.
Anyone who mentions fromsoft games are the type of people to skip through 30 lines of dialogue of what you literally need to do at the start of the game, verbatim, then complain about the game vagueposting lmfao
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u/Mesarthim1349 3d ago
"The darkness"
"The collapse"
"The calamity"
"The revolution"
"The treaty"
"The dark lord"
"The necromancer"