ARIERI'S PROFILE

I think these things are good insofar as they are representative of player progress, in a way. Take, e.g. the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games - as the player progresses through the game, a lot of lore is actually uncovered. An example of how I felt it should not be done would be the (otherwise splendid) isometric D&D games by Black Isle (IWD, IWD2, to a substantially lesser degree BG and BG2), where random tidbits of lore were just thrown at you, with no connection to your location or narrative, in random books on random bookshelves in dungeons. I get that this was done to increase immersion, and perhaps it did, but it could have been done better.

On that note, I keep an entire wiki on the game world that was created as the basis of my games (and continues to emanate from them).