Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?

rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Zanzibart, forgive me”.

  Nah, Fromsoft has great vibes. But the worldbuilding and story is all deliberately obscured because of Miyazaki’s love of sci-fi he couldn’t properly read. That makes it a trove for obsessives but it can’t really be called good.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s definitely good and it is done in a way that can only be done in video games. Too many video games depend on passive exposition instead of finding actual lore in the world.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So your reasoning for saying it isnt good is because you actually have to work to see it instead of it being spoonfed to you? Is that right?

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

      Do you consider it positive that you have to “work for it” if every fifth word is written in Chinese and you have to translate them?

      Making it hard to understand does not make it good. Making it easy does not make it bad. Is there an aspect of it you like that isn’t just that it’s hard to understand? Because that’s all you mentioned.

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      • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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

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• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope you don’t mean Baldur‘s Gate when you say Larian and BioWare.

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