Showing posts with label The creepy allure of video game dungeons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The creepy allure of video game dungeons. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Eurogamer.net: October 31, 2019 at 01:00AM - The creepy allure of video game dungeons

"And now, as I still continued to step cautiously onward, there came thronging upon my recollection a thousand vague rumors of the horrors of Toledo. Of the dungeons there had been strange things narrated - fables I had always deemed them - but yet strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save in a whisper. Was I left to perish of starvation in this subterranean world of darkness; or what fate, perhaps even more fearful, awaited me?"

Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum.

If you're playing a lot of games, there's no escaping the dusty depths of dungeons. They are everywhere; their twists and turns and nooks and crannies filled with monsters, traps and loot form the spine of countless games.

Read more



from Eurogamer.net