Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?
IronBird@lemmy.world 15 hours agoDo 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
FishFace@lemmy.world 9 hours 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!