Games as the Art of Epic Spectacle

By The Game Overanalyser

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Spectacle is often used by games to drive engagement, as well as sell new forms of technology to the masses. However, some games use spectacle to revel in the grandiose, to create a new form of epic. Support the channel on Patreon for exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/gameoveranalyser 0:00 God of War 3 4:00 Bayonetta 7:20 Asura's Wrath 10:06 Final Fantasy XVI Sources -The Society of the spectacle , Guy Debord -What is an Epic? https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-epic

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