How do you feel about Dead By Daylight's lore?
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How do you feel about Dead By Daylight's lore? 20 votes
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i'll be honest. i don't care about the lore it literally doesn't matter the design, power, and overall strength is way more important than the lore
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I find a lot of the lore to be written excruciatingly poorly - as if composed and edited by middle schoolers.
That being said, I don't get to dig in and find more because the glut of interesting interactions are hidden in horrendously organized tomes with little short stories and animations buried underneath sub menues.I feel that unlocking tomes and such should unlock content that is viewable at the character menu.
I wanna look at David and see "This character has 8 paragraphs and 2 videos to unlock in the tomes" to encourage me to do the work, then come back and view it. Then the content would be centralized and experienced organically.
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I don't represent the majority here, but I kind of want to know as little as possible. I like to think of the lore as being, the match itself, the organic story that plays out between survivors choosing whether to go down saving the others, or abandoning everyone to save themselves.
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The lore for the early character were fine, where characters only got a short paragraph of info in their bio and then left most things to the imagination, and kept things pretty simple. Especially Survivors. Dwight, Meg, Claudette and Jake were cool. They felt like believable everyday characters. Meanwhile now every Survivor is feels like some terrible deviantart OC. Trying way too hard to be cool and interesting, but ends up just coming off lame.
I'd far rather have "Here's Cindy, she's a waitress. Now she's in the Entity's realm" or "Here's Tom, he's a plumber. Now he's in the Entity's realm." over "Here's Cindy, she's spirit medium, here's her 1000+ word backstory about how she already knew about the Entity and fought against it with her very special and cool powers" or "Here's Tom, he's a rockstar and is super rich and he's really awesome, here's his 1200+ word backstory about how he was best friends with the killer that came with his chapter"
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I like the lore of DBD (even if it's kind of corny and the whole "everything's a multiverse" thing being one of my literal LEAST favorite tropes), though I haven't really kept up with it since they completely butchered the Archives starting with Tools of Torment (the visual memories are just a waste of space, the stories are no longer titled and thus lost the grab they once did, and the once linear memory labels became so completely jumbled and out of order that they became meaningless).
What I HEAVILY dislike is the community surrounding the lore. Most people I've seen that claim to be knowledgeable about the game's lore haven't actually read it and instead get all of their information from the "lore content creators" like a certain Twins/Skull Merchant main (that I know lurks this forum). This wouldn't be an issue if it wasn't for the fact that these creators either inject their own biases into the lore, don't differentiate their theories from facts, or just spread misinformation to suit their narrative.
Some "highlights" include:
- The Entity is afraid of Myers of all Killers. You know, the slightly superhuman person with no real powers?
- Pyramid Head came to the Entity's realm to punish it. I've seen someone unironically claim to be an expert on DBD lore and state this, and then get torn to shreds in the comments by people who actually HAVE read the lore and not used Pixel's poorly-thought-out fanfiction.
- The Dredge is a baby version of the Entity. I have no idea where this came from, but I have seen it so frequently that I feel like I have to point out the Dredge barely shows up in its own lore. We don't know what it is.
- Nurse was a merciful figure in her base lore and experienced character assassination, becoming a eugenicist. Not only is this wrong, as her base lore neither shows her in a merciful and has always had the idea of "concepts of purification emerged inside her", but her archive actually makes her the VICTIM of a complete psychopath who planted those ideas in her. You'll never see anyone bring that point up though.
- Jonah is a war criminal. To put it simply, Jonah was doing his job trying to locate a terrorist group by intercepting and decoding messages they passed as part of a task force (between 3-10 people), gave their position to his higher ups who ACTUALLY called the drone strike, and only realized too late that the messages were decoys. What happened was a freak accident that he tried to atone for, but none of the content creators will tell you that part. Not only is Jonah NOT a war criminal (accidents aren't war crimes), what Pixel did was spread GENUINELY DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION that not only ruined Jonah's reputation, but also trivializes the actual atrocities committed by ACTUAL war criminals. I'm finally seeing some pushback on this one, but it's not enough.
There's many, MANY more, but this post is already way too long of a response towards the question of "How do you feel about DBD lore?"
TLDR: Enjoy the lore, despise the creators who discuss it.
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The lore is probably my second favorite part of this game, to me both the whole concept behind the lore and almost all of the stories in the lore are either good or great, with most of it being decently written as well.
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