Why Do I Love The Darkness?
I just started listening to this awesome podcast called Final Games. https://soundcloud.com/finalgamespodcast The format is this: He interviews a prominent game developer by asking them to choose 8 games that they can take to a deserted island. The reasoning for why those 8 are chosen leads to great analysis and design insights. Listening to this made me consider which games I’d take to last the rest of my life in seclusion. And this lead me to a small quandry I want to explore now. The problem is this: I really like dark, isolated, lonely-experience games. Games where the world is uninviting, ugly, scary, weird, grim and dark. Almost always dark. These are LAST kind of games you would want with you if you were never going to see another human again. Granted, you can take the 8-game-island scenario more or less literally. You could just list your favorite games. But I like thinking more seriously about it, wh...