Fans of PlayerUnknown's BATTLEGROUNDS have a new lore video to pore over, and it looks like the game's weirdest (but possibly greatest) one yet. There isn't that much story to PUBG, and most people who simply play the game for battle royale multiplayer combat would be forgiven for thinking that the title doesn't contain a plot at all. However, PUBG does have a lore and an over-arching story, it's just hidden in the game's background.
PUBG recently launched its seventh season, one which brought players back to the ice-covered land of Vikendi, and although there isn't nearly as much snow on the ground as there was before the map was pulled for revisions, players do now have access to a new transportation railway system and a (sort of) all-new weapon in the form of the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, in addition to being able to access the completely re-made Dino Park, now called Dinoland.
Now, the developers behind PUBG have posted a new lore video to their official YouTube account, and it just may be the most confusing (and greatest) video they've ever created. No stranger to enlisting Hollywood talent to help promote PUBG, this new video showcases a tragedy at Vikendi's recently re-imagined Dinoland theme park, and it's narrated by none other than former Star Trek: The Next Generation and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction actor Jonathan Frakes. Check out the video in all it's oddball glory below:
The video details multiple tragic events which occurred at PUBG's fictional Vikendi theme park, all of them focused around a character named Alex Lindh, son of Dinoland's owner Carl Lindh, who seemed to cause trouble wherever he went. Most interestingly, the PUBG Season 7 lore video ends by saying that, after the eventual fall of Dinoland, the whole island of Vikendi was bought by a mysterious new owner, and their name is listed as Unknown.
Frakes is a perfect choice for narrator, given the propensity of strange fictional stories he regularly recounted to viewers of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction in the 1990's, and he describes the downfall of Dinoland and its eventual sale in much the same fashion and candor as longtime viewers would expect. Whether or not this means PUBG is beginning to toy with introducing PlayerUnknown himself into the game isn't clear, but it sure looks like things may eventually move in that direction. Having each location in PlayerUnknown's BATTLEGROUNDS be a sort of publicized battle royale arena like the one in Battle Royale the movie is something which would be hard to justify, at least in legal terms, but in a world where hundreds of people kill each other for sport over and over again in various locations around the globe, anything is possible.
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May 07, 2020
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