Best Gaming \'Fluff\'?

[supervike]

What game has the best back story to it?

Why?

(feel free to include video games as well)

Is there some gaming fluff you\'d like to see that isn\'t well represented?

 

[hestan101]

oblivion, with a few choice mods like the Lost Spires

 

[ScottRadom]

40k for me. Dark, gritty, hopeless, it\'s awesome!

I love the fluff so much I am frequently inspired to start armies for it, then I make the mistake of actually playing the game and I lose all interest.

Failing that, and this is probably cheating, how about Knights of the old Republic? Star Wars before mitochlorians and Jar-Jar? How do you beat that?

 

[alextheartist]

Is knights of the old republic any good becayse i have a copy which is my brothers and i havent bothered playing it?

Alex

 

[ScottRadom]

KOTOR is super fun. The first one is great, the second one not so much (Just because it\'s the EXACT same thing).

You get to pick if you\'re gonna be a good guy or a bad guy, build your own lightsaber etc. If you\'re a Star Wars fan then go get at \'er.

After you finish your Guardsmen of course...

 

[alextheartist]

Of course..

I cant be bothered with him at the moment, i have MAN FLU!

Alex

 

[CrookedEye]

I always like the Rackham fluff. The models were so characterful and the backstory did an excellent job of supporting the imagery.

Zach

 

[Gilvan Blight]

Knights of the Old Republic definately ranks up there.

I\'m a big fan of Uchronic stuff lately. Stuff like Tanhaauser and Dust.

I\'ve always had a soft spot for the Warhammer Fantasy fluff though I am sick of them changing it all the time. Things like the making Karl Franz the bad guy and killing him off then coming out with a new edition of WFB and having him as the Emperor again.

 

[Dragonsreach]

AD&D.

Forgotten Realms.......Think I read every book. (Sad git that I am, but they got me through some cr*ppy winter nightshifts).

 

[Amazon warrior]

Planescape: Torment was a beautiful, beautiful rpg.

KOTOR2 wasn\'t bad, exactly, it just fell very unfinished imho. I slogged through to the end, was duffing up some bad guy (think he was the main one or something), and the combat paused for him to say something daft like \"You\'ll never be able to keep this up!!\". I looked at my massive supply of medipaks, my decent health level and all the other shiny toys I had, said \"Yes I bloody well can!\" and handed his arse to him. But five minutes after that the game was over and I still didn\'t feel like I\'d been challenged. Not like the first one, where I really had to work to bring down evil chappie with my weedy Scoundrel/Sentinel dude.

 

[Gorog Irongut]

Like most of you I\'ve surfed through different game systems. My favourite hands down has to be Shadowrun. Even the accompanying novels were brilliant.

 

[hestan101]

oblivion?

 

[Aliengod3]

I do not know if anyone has heard of this game but Xenogears has an awesome story. It is real complex but is very intriguing and original.

Also the Xenosaga series has a good story as well.

The story for mass effect is good.

The star wars legacy of the force novel series has a cool story. I will not go into details because I do not want to ruin anything but it is great.

Is knights of the old republic any good becayse i have a copy which is my brothers and i havent bothered playing it?

It is an excellent game. Highly recommend it

 

[Mr Scream]

The hordes stuff was a good read as was VOR, but as much as I hate to say it for me, Warhammer takes the prize. Its just so deep and involved and most people probably know more about Old World history than real world

 

[TKNY]

Originally posted by Amazon warrior
Planescape: Torment was a beautiful, beautiful rpg.

KOTOR2 wasn\'t bad, exactly, it just fell very unfinished imho. I slogged through to the end, was duffing up some bad guy (think he was the main one or something), and the combat paused for him to say something daft like \"You\'ll never be able to keep this up!!\". I looked at my massive supply of medipaks, my decent health level and all the other shiny toys I had, said \"Yes I bloody well can!\" and handed his arse to him. But five minutes after that the game was over and I still didn\'t feel like I\'d been challenged. Not like the first one, where I really had to work to bring down evil chappie with my weedy Scoundrel/Sentinel dude.

It wasn\'t finished. A while back I read that the developers had a whole other planet planned for the game, but it got scrapped to meet the publishers deadline. The ending of that game makes no sense. Didn\'t stop me from playing it through twice though. Some really cool bad guys in that game.

 

[MPJ]

I\'m a big fan of the old AD&D Greyhawk stuff, great background indeed. :drunk:

 

[ScottRadom]

Hey, how about Gears of War? Never played it but it sure looked cool. And they had that wierd R.E.M. ad before movies around these parts.

 

[hestan101]

well, i only had gears of war 1 PC, which was buggy as hell. but this is the general storyline:
...........................

it didnt have one. you were rescued on lierally the suppsoed last day of the war, and you had to get some information in the tunnels to plant a bomb froma train. you did, game completed. for some reason you went to marcus\'s house, in which there is a lab(never explained) and there were some hints that his dad started the war (never explained) you went through the cities, found some people called the stranded(never explained) and Doms stated he was \"looking for somebody\" (never explained) there was fuel source called emulsion (never explained) and that figured in some way.

if you read any of the reviews you would have heard how the hollow(centre of the planet) was found to have emulsion, some uber fuel, in and that started a war between the humans. then the locust came out of the holow and attacked. now, i dont now how they knew this, cos all you get is the manual telling you that on E-day when the locust emerged, lots of humans died, and the rest whent to a place where the floor was made of rock, so the locust couldnt burrow up. somehow they did, marcus\'s dad died. he tried to save him and got imprisooned for disobeying orers.
howewver, it was a dman good game, best ever in fact, apart from number 2

 

[Amazon warrior]

Originally posted by TKNY

Originally posted by Amazon warrior
Planescape: Torment was a beautiful, beautiful rpg.

KOTOR2 wasn\'t bad, exactly, it just fell very unfinished imho. I slogged through to the end, was duffing up some bad guy (think he was the main one or something), and the combat paused for him to say something daft like \"You\'ll never be able to keep this up!!\". I looked at my massive supply of medipaks, my decent health level and all the other shiny toys I had, said \"Yes I bloody well can!\" and handed his arse to him. But five minutes after that the game was over and I still didn\'t feel like I\'d been challenged. Not like the first one, where I really had to work to bring down evil chappie with my weedy Scoundrel/Sentinel dude.

It wasn\'t finished. A while back I read that the developers had a whole other planet planned for the game, but it got scrapped to meet the publishers deadline. The ending of that game makes no sense. Didn\'t stop me from playing it through twice though. Some really cool bad guys in that game.

Ah. I vaguely remember hearing something like that at the time. It\'s a damn shame- would have been even better if they\'d finished it!!! I seem to recall that there might be a KOTOR3 in the works, which makes me wonder if you\'ll start it by actually completing what you were doing in KOTOR2 when all of a sudden the credits started rolling.

 

[TKNY]

I think Kotor 3 is going to be an MMO, no thanks those games are like crack!

Regarding kotor2 , I know people found assets on the pc DVD that made it clear secenes were deleted. http://team-gizka.org/ That site is a \"restoration\" project, modders trying to fix the game. I have no idea how much progress they made.

Sorry about the thread hijack