From my Grandpa's workshop. He helped design spacecraft for the satellite division of Hughes Aircraft when that was a thing. I think the 2nd and 4th corollary apply today...
DEERSTALKER! Sherlock Holmes wears a Deerstalker cap!.Show some respect for the fiction you fucks!. If it wasn't for Sherlock Holmes every literary protagonist would be a jock like Achilles or emo as fuck like Romeo. Yes I've been drinking It's Friday night give me a break...
Good job Austin, I've really been enjoying this column so far.
In answer to your question, I think the way The Banner Saga used permadeath and scarcity of resources to make me care about the characters is a good example. Or rather, how that made me not care at all. I usually try to be heroic in games that have moral choices but in my playthrough of The Banner Saga I was positively ruthless.
"You gonna open that gate for me? Or do you, me and my giant friend over there with the horns growing out of his head gotta tussle?"
Nice post Austin. That Times New Viking track is dope. You might like this Chastity Belt song "Joke".
So, for me, the game would be Elite Dangerous. I normally love space combat and customize-able ships and upgrade paths. But with that game something about the way activities payed off bothered me. Everything either seemed like a low stakes grind or super high-risk high-reward. The low stakes stuff was a bore and I'd end up losing my ship constantly in the high risk stuff.
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