A Brief History And Look At 0451 (Patreon)

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2017-06-30 04:52:29

Imported:

2026-06

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Finally! This took a lot of footage capture (there's bits from Thief, Thief 2, Dishonored, Knife of Dunwall, Dishonored 2, System Shock, System Shock 2, Ultima Underworld, Firewatch, Neon Struct, Gone Home, Deus Ex, and more in here!) and went through a number of rewrites. But it's here!

And since this doesn't manage to delve quite as deeply into the individual games as I would have liked (and since the overall conclusions I can draw from looking at the lineage of 0451 games is a little iffy) it's also the start of a series I'll be running this summer looking at various games in the Looking Glass tradition! This won't be all I'm up to this summer - I hope to tackle a few smaller indie games as well - but it's going to be sort of this summer's big project, I think. And first up is Deus Ex, which should be up soon!

Also, reminder that you can get your Discord seekret Patron channel access if you want by editing your pledge and claiming the reward! Let me know if you have any problems with that!

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Mark Brown's Immersive Sim videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyTOAlhRHk The Warren Spector Master Series Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=don-oWbjq3E So let's talk about 0451! It's a number that shows up a bunch! For a reason, kind of, but also for no particular reason at all! Because history! Also spoilers for like a buttload of games. So this was a tough one. I wanted to do it after finishing Dishonored 2, then forgot that Prey was just around the corner. Then I finished Prey and had to run off to Sweden which threw off production for a bit. Then in the last days of writing the script I had a crisis of faith in the core idea but felt obligated to pull the trigger on it anyways. A *lot* of rewriting went into this thing, and I'm still not certain it all comes together. ---- This episode was made possible by generous support through Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/errantsignal ----