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What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? (lemmy.today)
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What games have what you'd call really good worldbuilding, and what in particular do you like about them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a backstory, flora, fauna, inhabitants, technology, and often if writing speculative fiction, different peoples. This may include social customs as well as invented languages (often called conlangs) for the world.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Do you consider it being "spoonfed" to you when you read a book and the plot and everything is just written down?

uh...no? the whole point of books is to read them

the whole point of games is to play them, if you want all the plot in your games to be reading...maybe grab a book instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Right, so if making the plot and lore obvious in a book is fine, it's also fine in a game. Using pejoratives like "spoonfeeding" criticises this without giving any reason.

    From games are particularly bad because most of the lore is on item descriptions that are often themselves locked behind random drops and easily missed questlines. This is not good world building, this is purposefully obscure world building. People mistake "hard to put together" for quality, but it's the opposite - making this stuff harder to get makes it worse, because players are less likely to get it! If you feel too communicate the lore to most players, that's not good!

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