Poll: The best at medieval fantasy lore

[Random Fella]

I'd have to go with the elder scrolls
It has a whole world with 5 games based around the whole lore and has a very easy to understand main idea

 

[endtherapture]

Dragon Age has the potential to be really good, with the Chantry, the Mages and Templars, the Darkspawn, the Fade, Tervinter Imperium etc, but it hasn't been explored enough. If they could explore the lore it'd be really cool.

I want to know more about the First Blight too and the heydey of Tervinter, looks so cool.

Dragon Age pretty much has an awesome potential world but it's a shame we're hoarded into the same areas. Also DA2 wasn't dark at all. DA:O was incredibly dark at times and I fucking loved it.

 

[Naeras]

From Software beats all those three into the ground and makes a giant "THEY DIED"-death screen appear above them when it comes to making stuff feel medieval.

 

[Nouw]

I chose flare! Sorry, I just wanted to chuck that in there. My serious answer is Warhammer. To this day, I still have no idea if it's a satire like Warhammer 40K.

 

[Thaliur]

Of these three, I'd say Bethesda. I never played Dragon Age, though, so I can say for sure.

The most believable, probably working fantasy setting is the discworld, though.

 

[marurder]

NOT Blizzard. It's the same story every time with them.

 

[Cheesus333]

I absolutely love Diablo, but if this is for gameworld lore, how is this even a contest?

Elder Scrolls. Very, very easily.

 

[lRookiel]

Elderscrolls games tend to suck me into the story the most so yeah, bethesda gets that title.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

elder scrolls: best atmosphere and Lore.
Dragon Age (Origins): Best characters
Warcraft: most "magical", I suppose, hard to explain.

if it weren't for DA2, Dragon Age would have won this one in my opinion, although I love all three franchises.

 

[Puddleknock]

If I had to choose from those three then I'd say Dragon Age, warcraft setting is just a sillier version of the Warhammer world (as Starcraft is to 40k) and TES bores me. Though didn't vote for Dragon Age as I don't think its brilliant either, just better than those two.

I prefer the Warhammer setting or even FFIX if I'm feeling a little whimsical.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Depends, do you mean closest to actual medieval fantasy? In which case none, since Medieval stuff had a different set of values and look different from the presented examples. If you mean which one I prefer then... um, Dragon Age? Not Diablo or Warcraft but my opinion is split on the other two.

 

[CrazyJew]

My Sister and I LOVED the world of Elder Scrolls because it was different, starting with the lack of Dragons. Then Skyrim was announced.

 

[lionsprey]

out of the options TES with a close 2nd Dragon age (the first one haven't played the 2nd one)
although if i could chose between any game/developers it would be either DnD or Warhammer

 

[Darth_Dude]

I used to like Blizzard's Warcraft lore, but all that Bullshit in WoW (Killing off major characters, making things more complex in terms of factions etc.) really has put me off.

TES Lore has always been a bit 'off' to me, I cant explain this feeling to anyone actually, it's really strange. Not saying it's bad though.

But Bioware Lore (Dragon Age) is just insane, they've built up this fantastic world, and have so far only used a small, small, portion of it. There's just SO much in this world, I really really want them to feature more of it in future games (Perhaps a game set in Orlais, Antiva or Tevinter. That sort of thing)

 

[Sixcess]

I'd go with Blizzard.

Compare the opening cinematic of WoW to that of Dragon Age. Dragon Age is entirely generic high... dark fantasy that opens with a 3 minute monologue that tries very hard to sound grand and important but just comes across like the prologue of every sub-Tolkien epic fantasy trilogy of the last fifty years. WoW's opening sums up the entire story so far in the first thirty seconds then drops the narration to focus entirely on the strong, distinctive imagery of the world and peoples of Azeroth.

(Rift had the same problem. I was bored with that world before the opening cinematic had even finished...)

That said, Blizzard isn't doing the cohesiveness of their world any favours these days, with Cataclysm lurching heavily toward WH40K levels of 'rule of cool' and going overboard with the blatant pop culture references, in-jokes and parodies.

 

[Il_Exile_lI]

Elder Scrolls has the best lore, but Bioware is much better at actually telling a story within their lore. Even Dragon Age 2 (which admittedly had many problems) told a much more cohesive and compelling story than anything Bethesda has done.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Dark Souls

It's got the usual knights, castles, and dragons, but twisted and warped to such a degree that it becomes completely unique. In the world of games it has the most visually imaginative classic Fantasy setting I've ever seen.

I don't know shit about Blizzard and I don't care, but all I've ever seen from Bethesda and Bioware is standard mediocre Tolkien fare.

 

[The Last Nomad]

I think Bioware made the best medieval fantasy game with Baldur's Gate 2. It has the greatest Lore of any game I've ever played and its probably better than any of those games you mentioned.

But I couldn't give my vote to Bioware for that, although they probably made up a lot of lore for that game, it was all based on existing Forgotten Realms lore which they didn't create.

So my vote goes to Bethesda, seen as they actually created the universe and made up the lore entirely themselves even if its not quite as good as Baldur's gate lore, but a little better than Dragon Age, mainly because they've had more games to create the lore with.

Never played a Blizzard game and I don't intend to, so I can't say nothing about them.

 

[flamingjimmy]

None of them are really medieval, but I definitely prefer TES, it just seems a lot deeper than the other two.

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

I'd say Blizzard and specifically the Diablo universe, because its not the same stale old orcs, elves, dwarves, etc template.