Stories That Don't Want to be Told

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  @TheTaleFoundry · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @sleepingbee8997 · 2 years ago

  My first thought on this was Shadow of the Colossus. A game with no lore collectables, no audiologs, no diary, almost no NPCs to interact with, and not a single moment where someone turns to the screen and starts lore dumping. The characters act as though they&apos;re all fully aware of what is going on, so they never need to say it out loud for the player&apos;s benefit. If you want to come to a conclusion about what happens both during the events of the game, and what lead up to those events, you must play the game multiple times and traverse the game world all by yourself, observing the smallest of details and connecting the pieces.<br><br>The other games in the trilogy, Ico and The Last Guardian, are like this as well, but I think Shadow of the Colossus does it best.

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  @xoslav · 2 years ago

  The C programming language manual fits this description exceedingly well.

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• BA

  @balevoid · 2 years ago

  &quot;A well designed world can tell its story in silence.&quot; - Hidetaka Miyazaki<br><br>Even within the same world the experience of someone creates its own story and thus each perspective is a different story. The story that doesn&apos;t want to be told but experienced.

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• BL

  @Blessom · 2 years ago

  Is that the Moon Presence from Bloodborne in the thumbnail.

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  @elliart7432 · 2 years ago

  Not sure if this counts but a fun reccomendation is &quot;Ella Minnow Pea&quot;. It&apos;s a book comprised of letters from this fictional town that venerates a statue of the man who coined “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” which contains every letter of the alphabet and is written on the pedestal. One day one of the letters falls off, then another, then another, making them now &quot;banned&quot;. So as the book goes on you need to decipher the increasingly creative workarounds they&apos;re forced to use to communicate, with the last chapter containing only L, M, N, O, and P.

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  @djukor · 2 years ago

  Sometimes i wonder if the kill everyone route or as fans call it the &quot;&quot;Genocide&quot; route in Undertale is a story that does not want to be told.<br>As if the game tries as hard as possible to stand in your way of finishing the story of &quot;what if you killed every single major character&quot; in a video game.

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  @dicyanoacetylene6220 · 2 years ago

  There is one example I can think of.<br><br>There was this poet that had a piece of their work tattooed onto 20 different people, and nowhere else.<br><br>Their work only exists in their head and scattered across 20 different people.<br><br>When one of those people die, then the story will forever be broken.

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• LY

  @LycorisRadiata · 2 years ago

  erotic literature is my favorite genre of literature. <br><br><br><br>thank you auto-subtitles.

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  @tobiasnexusfurry · 1 year ago

  Dying a lot isnt just the challenge for Dark Souls and Bloodborne, ots actually a part of the lore. &nbsp;As a hunter, you can&apos;t really &quot;die&quot; until the hunter&apos;s dream is truly destroyed. &nbsp;Each death pulls you back to the dream to resume the hunt under Flora&apos;s control, which is why one ending is Gharman ending the hunter IN the dream to release them from it&apos;s cycle and waking up the next day.

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  @kivalous · 2 years ago

  I really like ergodic literature not because it forces me to work harder to read it, but because I enjoy the feeling of being genuinely lost in the pages<br><br>not just lost in the immersive sense, but lost in the &apos;hiking without a map&apos; sense.

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  @twotothehalf · 2 years ago

  Wait, so... history is ergodic literature. There is no grand narrative baked into the natural world, just causes and effects. Trying to piece together history requires going through materials that are obtuse, incomplete, or nigh-inaccessible, if it&apos;s even there at all. Great work has to be put in to translate the pieces of data into a coherent story. You can read compilations of these stories in textbooks, encyclopedias, scientific journals, but the actual play of history is just... life, and no one can ever live a hundred thousand lifetimes through the eyes of a hundred billion people to experience the entirety of it.

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