[alt text: a semi-surreal meme image on a plain white background. Two characters from Dark Souls are saying, “My lord, we have absolutely ESSENTIAL lore information for the player. Should we make a cutscrene for it?”. They are looking at Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has the From Software logo emblazoned over him, and he is replying, “NO…Put it in the description of a COOKBOOK”. There are several cookbook item icons floating between the characters.]
…and the cookbook is in the DLC locked in a secret room behind an optional (but very hard) boss.
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.From is run by Vogons!
That would also explain why piecing the lore together gives me a headache. What sweet poetry
“Essential lore” is an oxymoron in these games
because all lore is essential, right?
You’re thinking of “redundant”.
I don’t always pay attention to the deep lore in games, and that sometimes hits me all at once. I’ll find myself thinking, “Wait, why did I come all this way down a giant tree full of monsters to kill this lady? What the heck did she do to me to deserve that?”
Riddle me this:
I never look online for game hints, I played ER for a while, got frustrated.
Looked at hints, they explained how you get tempest like it was the most obvious thing in the game to sleep in the church after level 5.
Wtf?!?!?!
I hate from soft games because they seem to expect you to look online.
And then the lore is the most generic. boring nonsense
That is just, like your opinion man.
If it’s boring and generic, how is it also nonsense? That seems contradictory to me, but maybe I don’t understand.
It’s nonsense because it is boring and generic.
You could have just not read it and it wouldn’t change a thing.
Is it generic? It seems pretty rich in Elden Ring when compared to most games.
I think they just mean that it’s not necessary for playing the game. It isn’t like if you know the lore then you can find a secret cave, that gives you access to extra content. It is there for its own sake.
The value add that it gives is entirely dependent on the individual. It would be nice if there was some gameplay reward for reading it.
Makes sense then that entire YouTube channels got big by explaining said “boring nonsense”.
I can’t wait to find out that Marika learned the ability to transform gender from Cap’n Crunch in the FromSoft x Quaker collab
