What games have what you’d call really good worldbuilding, and what in particular do you like about them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a backstory, flora, fauna, inhabitants, technology, and often if writing speculative fiction, different peoples. This may include social customs as well as invented languages (often called conlangs) for the world.

    • FishFace@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Do you consider it being “spoonfed” to you when you read a book and the plot and everything is just written down?

      Do you consider it positive that you have to “work for it” if every fifth word is written in Chinese and you have to translate them?

      Making it hard to understand does not make it good. Making it easy does not make it bad. Is there an aspect of it you like that isn’t just that it’s hard to understand? Because that’s all you mentioned.

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        1 month ago

        Do you consider it being “spoonfed” to you when you read a book and the plot and everything is just written down?

        uh…no? the whole point of books is to read them

        the whole point of games is to play them, if you want all the plot in your games to be reading…maybe grab a book instead?