Do you want to know more about a game's lore?

[aileron]

Generally, do you want to know more about the world a game is set in to the point where you look for, even buy, additional information about the game's lore? Or is whatever's in the game itself enough for you?

[Doomie]

While I typically don't care for a story, I'm always interested in learning more about it. My favorite stories are the kind that seems to be miniscule at first glance, but the more you read into it, the more you can get out of it. Gets my brain working, haha.

[Merlin]

I think the real thing is, does the lore add to the story, or does it get in the way? Lore is exposed through story, but if you hit me in the head with the brick of lore, I will hate it. However when it just organically shows up, that is good. Many games don't have much in the way of lore, which is okay, but if it is just confusing to not explain something, then not having it can be just as harmful. Hide too much or give too much in the wrong way, and it can ruin things.

[Irritablesquid]

I bought the Witcher books and Metro books because of the games.
I bought Warcraft because of world of warcraft.

If I like the story I'll search for more.

[Flubbbs]

Yes. I love when games expand their franchise beyond just the game. Deus Ex does novels, comics, etc that add to the lore. Great stuff

[Garrett]

I like ingame worldbuilding where the information is conveyed to the player in a believable way, via media such as readables that were produced by fallible people, who might be wrong or untrustworthy, or via conversations with such characters. I don't want the game to tell me precisely how things actually are because history can be inaccurate, or lies. -And the worst thing that an interesting game world can do is tell the player everything. For example I like the lore in the Dishonored series, but I dislike the fact that they revealed the true origins of the evil god. Firstly, the official explanation was lackluster, and secondly what I had imagined was much cooler.

SPOILER: The Outsider originated from a human sacrifice conducted within The Void that made the subject immortal, omniscient, extremely powerful and amoral. The Void is just an alternate world that exists parallel to the mundane and regular real world. What I had imagined was that The Outsider is a self-anthropomorphized mental projection of the alien soul of an eldritch abomination originating from the depths of the ocean, hence the connection with the monster whales and the association with debilitating madness. Some kind of colossal Lovecracftian demon leviathan. And The Void is not just in a different dimension beyond a portal like it's the borderworld in Half-Life. The deepest reaches of the ocean don't actually have a bottom, but instead in the infinite depths of unimaginable darkness and cold, the laws of normal reality can no longer apply, and the water gives way for the void. It's in these unnatural corners of the world where natural philosophy can no longer comment on things that black magic exists and those who manage to reach into the dark and grab it will get access to its power to bend the natural world with the supernatural.

BUT still, I wouldn't have wanted this to be entirely explained. The characters in this world should have been left to fumble in the dark around subjects they barely understand and come up with a plan they didn't know to be successful. Your imagination is supposed to make what you don't know about the game into something much cooler than any official explanation could ever be. The true explanation in Dishonored 2 and its expansion made the lore infinitely less interesting. Like drawing an exact map of The City in the Thief games to scale and defining its borders. You just don't do that. ...and of course Eidos Montréal's Thi4f did exactly that by showing an aerial view with recognizable landmarks in scale. There really is no aspect of the game they didn't do 100% wrong.

[gbullock32]

I sometimes get sucked into a games lore, especially with Dragon Age: Origins, Warcraft, Fallout, and Bioshock.

[Astraea]

It's usually enough ingame, but there are exceptions. For example the Warhammer 40k lore is all i'm interested in, not the tabletop games, just the lore. In a game like Dark Souls they barely provide you with lore, but i'm always very interested to see the item descriptions. Those are completely optional to read, but it's interesting.

[lostaname]

I would usually love to know more. Just not if it is spread over multiple platforms, behind some form of paywall or presented in a way like in the dark souls series where the story is told more through ambiguous item descriptions.

[Captain Stardust]

Depends on the game, Horizon Zero Dawn for example, was very interesting to me and i really wanted to know more about the world, on the other hand Assassins Creed games are just too ridiculous to me so I don't care about its excuses for gameplay. If it seems like the lore is interesting, and the game takes itself seriously, I will want to know more, but in some games lore is lazily made up and gets changed as the franchise progresses.

[twidget]

I love the lore of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout universes.
I stated watching ShoddyCast, back before ESO was released, for their lore videos.
The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages are a treasure trove of game facts, the lore and history for all games, from the Dawn Era through to the Fourth.