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    About a deep lore, no game can beat WoW.
    Lotr, and Swtor would be close to it.
    But these 3 have so much lore just because of the age.

    But about the storytelling itself in the game, WoW is more on the bottom end.
    I played WoW for the first time a few month ago and tryed to follow the story but when I reached max level I knew nothing about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Curisu View Post
    About a deep lore, no game can beat WoW.
    Lotr, and Swtor would be close to it.
    But these 3 have so much lore just because of the age.

    But about the storytelling itself in the game, WoW is more on the bottom end.
    I played WoW for the first time a few month ago and tryed to follow the story but when I reached max level I knew nothing about it.
    WoW's lore isn't even that deep, because they are constantly retconning and trashing the old lore to make room for whatever the current raid designer feels like doing. This isn't even a new problem, it goes all the way back to Burning Legion and the "lorelol" jokes of how they basically rewrote the Draenei on the fly and then had the Blood Elves stealing spaceships because "reasons".

    At this point it's a soup of stuff that is barely held together by any kind of common narrative, as shown by how the game lets you just skip almost all of it to get to whatever is new and current.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tridus View Post
    WoW's lore isn't even that deep, because they are constantly retconning and trashing the old lore to make room for whatever the current raid designer feels like doing. This isn't even a new problem, it goes all the way back to Burning Legion and the "lorelol" jokes of how they basically rewrote the Draenei on the fly and then had the Blood Elves stealing spaceships because "reasons".

    At this point it's a soup of stuff that is barely held together by any kind of common narrative, as shown by how the game lets you just skip almost all of it to get to whatever is new and current.
    It really goes all the way back to Warcraft 2 and 3, where the orcs were entirely rewritten from "generic evil army" to "noble savages corrupted by demons".

    And even that lore, including 90% of the backstory for Thrall, essentially the game's main character, largely depends upon Lord of the Clans, a game that was never even finished.
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