10 Video Games With Unimaginably Complicated Lore

The first two Elder Scrolls games were some of the biggest games ever created, using procedural generation in a time before that was commonplace to present a landmass that could take days of gameplay to cross. The third game, Morrowind, is when the trend leaned more towards creating worlds with depth rather than shallow volume. The game world, while much smaller, became so much more detailed.

The factions that we were used to (Fighters' and Mages' Guilds) were joined by the political houses and criminal organizations that all had a very public place in Morrowind's unique culture. All could be joined by the player and slowly progressed through, in a much longer and usually more interesting storyline than later games.

But it's the books that set Morrowind and later Elder Scrolls titles apart. Looks at the history of regions, explanations of the Great Houses, examinations of the gods, books of riddles, racial tensions through the ages, archaeologists' adventures, even a story that can lead you on a treasure hunt if you follow its landmarks - there's so much in Morrowind that you can almost forgive the game for not introducing a certain Lusty Argonian Maid.