I have played all soulslike games except the original Demon Souls and completed all of them except the first Dark Souls. I was familiar with how the lore is laid out in these games but I never found the lore compelling enough.

I think compared to Dark Souls, Elden Ring’s lore is much much more interesting. I say this as someone who never took interest in high fantasy settings like LotR, Game of Thrones, etc. But I really enjoy Elden Ring’s. Don’t know why. I feel it is mostly because of the plot is convoluted yet coherent. There is a sense of mystique because much of the world’s ontology is written rather than shown so it feels like reading a book or being told a story orally. It’s a really unique way of experiencing high fantasy fiction.

I had heard of VaatiVidya and watched all his Elden Ring videos. Then I stumbled upon some guys called Tarnished Archeologist and SmoughTown who I find much better. I have some tens of hours of their video in my backlog and I really enjoy watching them when I have time to unwind.

  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Welcome to the club.

    I also find Elden Ring’s lore to be more engaging than FromSoft’s prior stuff, although to be fair, the only prior title I’ve played for myself is Dark Souls. I think it’s because a lot more of Elden Ring lore centers around characters and character drama. Or maybe just a much wider array of significant characters, a lot more of whom are still around in the present. It strikes such a great balance between modern characters and historical characters and mysticism and eldritch figures…

    If you’re interested in live content, there’s a creator I like who’s working right now on “lorethroughs” of all the FromSoft games", in celebration of the Elden Ring DLC coming up this summer. She streams on both YouTube and Twitch.