An argument against Dark Soul's/BB's story telling

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As some of you might know, I recently purchased Bloodborne for my PS4, a risky thing considering I despise hard games, and it's the reason why I avoided playing Dark Souls. However, I fell for the hype, (A principle of mine that I broke) and bought Bloodborne.

And honestly it's quite a fun game, yeah it's still difficult, and I got my ass handed to me alot. But hey I managed to pull through and gott the game's True Ending, quite a feat to say the least in my case.

However this is what irks me about the game's story, this goes for all the Souls games as they follow the same basic formula.

All the games, lack a traditional way of story telling, there's no prologue, no beginning, middle, and an ending. No backstory as to why you're here killing all these monsters. None of that! 

It's up to you the player, to figure that one out for yourself. You'll get pieces of info about the game's lore from item descriptions or from NPCs you meet along the way.

And while some people prefer that kind of story telling, trying to figure it all out with your imagination, that's fine, in my opinion though that's an awful way to go about it.

I would love to know the lore of the world I am in, I want to know what's going on in it. Whose who, and why I should care about them or it. Leaving me to fill the blanks is kinda redundant. And it's pretty lazy writing.

And please the traditional way of story telling is not what you describe as a "spoon fed," or "shoehorned in plot" it's traditional story telling. So what every movie, book, play, or most video games with a plot spoon feed you it? Please that's a ridiculous thing to say. Experiencing the plot, the character development and the world's mythos the traditional way is not spoon feeding you it.

If you're a fan of Dark Souls, and prefer how they tell the story, then leave a comment if you want to have a discussion about it. I'm all for rational debates, and would love to hear your side of it. :) That is all.
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The items you pick up actually provide a great deal of lore in Bloodborne. In Dark Souls, all of the items including boss souls will share what's going on in Drangleic/Lordran.