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Nier Automata was The Architect's favourite game of last year. Not because of its gameplay, or even because of 2B's sexy thighs, but because of its groundbreaking approach to philosophy and the art of games.
In a departure from the norm, The Architect gives you a crash course on reading a game from a literary perspective. Yeah this totally what all the people who subscribed because of the 40k video wanted.
You Saw:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 2017
PUBG: 2017
Nier Automata: 2017
Metal Gear Rising: Revengance: 2013
Final Fantasy X- 2001
Intersting links:
Nier Automata Postmortem- gamasutra.com/view/news/316056/Video_Yoko_Taro_and_Platinum_Games_postmortem_of_Nier_Automata.php
Article on Yoko Taro's Writing Process- gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/11/24/yoko-taro-nier-automata-interview-game-informer.aspx
Superbunnyhop saying the same things as me in a third of the time- youtube.com/watch?v=ehM1m5-TG5g
Follow me on Twitter- twitter.com/Thefearalcarrot
Support The Architect of Games on Patreon- patreon.com/ArchitectofGames
Nier Automata was The Architect's favourite game of last year. Not because of its gameplay, or even because of 2B's sexy thighs, but because of its groundbreaking approach to philosophy and the art of games.
In a departure from the norm, The Architect gives you a crash course on reading a game from a literary perspective. Yeah this totally what all the people who subscribed because of the 40k video wanted.
You Saw:
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 2017
PUBG: 2017
Nier Automata: 2017
Metal Gear Rising: Revengance: 2013
Final Fantasy X- 2001
Intersting links:
Nier Automata Postmortem- gamasutra.com/view/news/316056/Video_Yoko_Taro_and_Platinum_Games_postmortem_of_Nier_Automata.php
Article on Yoko Taro's Writing Process- gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2017/11/24/yoko-taro-nier-automata-interview-game-informer.aspx
Superbunnyhop saying the same things as me in a third of the time- youtube.com/watch?v=ehM1m5-TG5g







![The Four Fundamental Quests
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Adventurer! Adventurer! My farm is under attack by level 2 spiders who dont seem to know how quests work! Watch this video and explain to six of them that there are really only four kinds of quests and they might leave us alone!
That Architect bloke was around here a while ago but he told me I wasnt real and to shut up he was recording some footage, I dont know about you but he doesnt seem very helpful.
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Oh just as a headsup, as much as I talk GW2 up in this video, that doesnt mean I endorse Arenanets recent firing policies but its not really relevant so Ill avoid creating a flamewar by discussing it further.
You Saw:
Final Fantasy 14: 2010
Nier Automata: 2017
Guild Wars 2: 2012
Minecraft: 2009
Runescape: 2001
Divinity Original Sin 2: 2017
World of Warcraft: 2004
Endless Space 2: 2017
Super Mario 3D world: 2013
Super Mario Galaxy 2: 2010
Yokus Island Express: 2018
Interesting Links:
Cool D&D stories without having to go to 4chan!:https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDGreentext/
A slightly psycholocially out of date book about the 7 different stories and what they mean, still pretty interesting though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots
An article about some stuff WOW has done wrong in its quests with insight from pre-overwatch Jeff!: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/113897/GDC_Learning_From_World_of_Warcrafts_Quest_Design_Mistakes.php The Four Fundamental Quests](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6luOrhlzvrc/mqdefault.jpg)


