Adam Millard - The Architect of Games

EARLY ACCESS - How Videogames Make The Ultimate Sacrifice

Added 2021-11-11 02:59:51 +0000 UTC

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Sacrifice as a concept has been a part of human culture since the very beginning - and as the concept has evolved and changed, it's taken on a variety of forms: Personal, emotional, financial... as well as a few rather more grizzly varieties. But through our culture's long relationship with sacrifice, they've always been seen as emotional, dramatic and memorable moments that define a story... so why can't the same be said for videogames?

Despite getting a lot of mileage out of the aesthetic of sacrifice, very few videogames have managed to create ones as satisfying as the literary and cinematic greats. Videogame sacrifices almost always end up as unsatisfying, arbitrary distractions that feel bad to engage with - but why? The Architect is going to find out, even if it means venturing into spooky woodland cabins, more than one type of dystopic future and the worst, most poorly thought out bowels of the Fallout universe.

You Saw:

Fallout 3 - 2008

Left 4 Dead 2 -2009

XCOM: UFO Defence - 1997

Xenoblade 2 - 2017

Teardown - Early Access

The Iron Giant - 1999

Romeo And Juliet - 2013

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi -1983

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker - 2019

Dark Devotion - 2018

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim - seemingly every year lmao

Far Cry 3 - 2012