You can play Skyrim without knowing a lick about the Elder
Scrolls series as a whole, but good luck giving a good goddamn about what
plane the Daedra come from, what the hell an Elder Scroll actually is or even
feigning interest as a too-talky Khajiit lisps its way through some half-assed
remembrances of Elsweyr. Of course, you could always try and get yourself up to
speed, but that would involve some combination of playing outdated, pixel-y
looking video games and/or collecting and reading fake books in a video game.
The only thing worse than collecting real books is collecting fake books, and
if I want to play a terrible looking game, I'll go to the iTunes AppStore,
thanks.
The
world of Game of Thrones is no less
expansive than that of Skyrim, but
its history is doled out on an as-you-need-to-know basis, and compared with
figuring out whoever the hell Barenziah was, wrapping your head around the Valyrian
Doom is an absolute dream. I could barely get through Tolkien's book of
painfully drawn out continuity and explanations of canon, what makes you think
I want to do that on a video game?
