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How Videogames Make The Ultimate Sacrifice

Check out GiantGrantGames: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdHKiETyuMbV6a86GRK-MWA Support the channel on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/ArchitectofGames Follow me on twitter!: https://twitter.com/Thefearalcarrot 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 Fable 2 - 2008 Magic Arena - 2018 Warhammer Total War 2 - 2017 Fire Emblem Warriors - 2017 Fire Emblem Fates - 2015 Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn - 2007 Fire Emblem 3 Houses - 2020 Halo: Reach - 2010 Inscryption - 2021 Resident Evil 4 - 2005 Dark Souls 3 - 2016 The Binding of Issac: Rebirth - 2014 Darkest Dungeon - 2016 Unrailed - 2020 Outer Wilds - 2019 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - 2017 Pathologic 2 - 2019 LISA: The Painful - 2014 Unsighted - 2021 Mass Effect 2 - 2012 Mass Effect Remastered - 2021 The Hex - 2018 Xenoblade Chronicles DE - 2020 Nier Automata - 2017 Pokemon Emerald -- 2004 Rolled Out - Early Access