Weekend Hot Topic: Favourite video game world

metro.co.uk:

Readers discuss their favourite fictional worlds in gaming, from the deep lore of Skyrim to the comic book style universe of Darksiders.

The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Cosmo, who asked which game or franchise do you think has the most interesting fictional world? Is it because of its lore, its characters, its art design, gameplay, or something else?

With many franchises now having decades worth of lore behind them, there was no shortage of choices, although inevitably it was role-playing style games like The Witcher and Mass Effect that got the most mentions.

Best and worst A few years ago I would’ve said Halo, as the storytelling was great during the Bungie era and there were some really good novels too. As soon as 343i took over though everything went to hell and I neither know no care what is meant to be going on in Halo Infinite, and I doubt they do either.

I’ll tell you the worst though, which is Destiny. Because despite what I just said Bungie made a hash of that from the start. I hear it’s better now but when I dived in a few months ago it was still a mess of weird names and nothing approaching an actual story.

I’m tempted to say Bloodborne is my favourite now, but since that’s just a single game I don’t think it’s really in the spirit of the question. Unmatched atmosphere and lore though, even compared to Elden Ring

I’ll go for an outside choice though and say NieR/Drakengard. The connections between different games are small but they are there and I always enjoying seeing the little nods to previous and characters plot points. What’s real appealing to me though is how crazy and seemingly nonsensical the story is until it starts hitting you with some existential lefts and rights, and you