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Part of why I adore walking simulators ( a genre which doesn't include games like Dear Esther, okay) is that they are free to show me a really, really big unreal place. Let me see very, very large places I will never see in reality.
Let me speed through the bloodsoaked heart of Heaven. Let me fly spaceships through megastructures in deep space. Let me trek across the surface of a comet towards distant ruins and watch pylons rain from skies on a desolate planet and run across many more of Connor Sherlock's wonderful and intimidating landscapes. Let me feel uncomfortable even looking at something gone wrong. Let me fight through vast cybernetic gardens grown by time-travelling robots. My gaming "power fantasy" is seeing a load of really cool big things which exist only in imagination. Watch on YouTube A really big unreal place I'd also like to drop a big note of praise for Dishonored's masquerade ball level, where you can purloin an invitation and everyone seeing your mask will assume you're some wag dressing up as the infamous murderer-right up until they see you acting weird. Picking identities that'll grant you access to certain areas, choking out someone wearing that identity and yoinking their clothes, trying to act the part, then scrambling to find a new undercover identity after you blow it.
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Hitman is perhaps the series which goes hardest on going undercover. Everyone's so friendly! I can stare at them up close! I can admire all their architecture! I can rummage around all their stuff! Okay but might I accidentally blow my cover or annoy them? Deus Ex gave me the fear alright with constant comments from the Men In Black that I was acting weird and they were keeping an eye on me. What a wonderful tension to be somewhere you know your character should not be, delighting in freely poking around and chatting to people while fearing that this can't last. Even when a game is explicitly designed to have you go undercover, it's against enough video game conventions that it can feel like you're getting away with something unintended. are friendly? For now? Maybe only for now? Oh no.
There you are, deep in the belly of your foe, standing before the intimidating statue where conspirators plotted in the opening cutscene, surrounded by heavily armed guards who. One of my favourite moments in Deus Ex is infiltrating the VersaLife Coporation offices and secret facility beneath. What's better: going undercover, or a really big unreal place? Going undercover This week, I'm asking you to pick between being out of place or being in an amazing place. The jacket only just won, and frankly I blame myself for gussying up the rat with fiction. Last time, you decided that a level 1 rat is better than Alone In The Dark's jacket inventory. With your help, I'm on a mission to answer the biggest question: what's the best thing in video games? With a wholly sensical face-off between two things each week, we'll surely soon discover the absolute best thing.
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