PolygonFinal Fantasy VII Remake redesigns Midgar from the ground up. Today Simone is taking you taking a tour of one of the most iconic cities in video games, and examining the real-life architecture behind Midgar's new look.
0:00 About Midgar 1:47 Upper Sector 8 5:53 Sector 7 Slums 8:36 Sector 6 - The Wall Market 12:04 Upper Sector 7 14:27 The Shinra building 15:55 Memorable worldbuilding
Extra special thanks to Dr. Kit Brooks, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, as well as Dana Buntrock, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
How Final Fantasy VII Remake uses architecture from all over the worldPolygon2021-04-11 | Final Fantasy VII Remake redesigns Midgar from the ground up. Today Simone is taking you taking a tour of one of the most iconic cities in video games, and examining the real-life architecture behind Midgar's new look.
0:00 About Midgar 1:47 Upper Sector 8 5:53 Sector 7 Slums 8:36 Sector 6 - The Wall Market 12:04 Upper Sector 7 14:27 The Shinra building 15:55 Memorable worldbuilding
Extra special thanks to Dr. Kit Brooks, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, as well as Dana Buntrock, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
#FFVIIRemake #finalfantasy7You cant play the best FFVII remake #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-07-28 | Jamie Colliver spent three and a half years remaking Final Fantasy 7 in LittleBigPlanet 2, which means now my favorite game is in my favorite game and I can't play it.
Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comLets Play SLAY THE SPIRE: THE BOARD GAME | Overboard, Episode 45Polygon2024-07-24 | Slay the Spire is such an iconic video game it practically forged a sub genre: the roguelike deck builder. By merging the classic tabletop experience of drafting a deck with wildly rule-altering relics and the ease of a video game handling all the complicated math, Slay the Spire has inspired a litany of imitators. Now the game has come full circle, back to the realm of the physical, with Slay the Spire: The Board Game. Clayton Ashley, Patrick Gill, and Simone de Rochefort take on Act 2 of the game in this episode of Polygon's Overboard, and well... it rules.
#polygonoverboardFixing Elden Rings terrible co-op #shorts #gaming #eldenringPolygon2024-07-21 | This mod fixes basically everything that makes Elden Ring's co-op so annoying. Find it here: nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/510
#polygonoverboardAre you playing the Elden Ring DLC wrong? #eldenring #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-06-28 | Shadow of the Erdtree wants you running around looking for Scadutree fragments, not banging your head against bosses.
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0:00 Elden Ring's secret weapon 1:12 Make, material, and movement 2:20 How cloth makes monsters 3:46 How material tells stories 9:41 How cloth moves 14:16 Getting ready for Shadow of the Erdtree
Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comWhy are creepy games always set in Washington?Polygon2024-06-11 | The Pacific Northwest in video games is pretty uniformly creepy, dark, and wet. But how did it get like that? Polygon's Simone de Rochefort traces the history of the Pacific Northwest in media, from Alan Wake 2 and Pacific Drive, all the way back to Twin Peaks — and the new high-tech world that we live in now, dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.
0:00 The Pacific Northwest is always creepy 1:06 What is the Pacific Northwest 1:55 What video games am I talking about? 5:39 The setting 12:26 The people 17:56 The supernatural 20:43 Modern Seattle
Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comLets Play BEASTS OF BALANCE! | Overboard, Episode 43Polygon2024-05-30 | Welcome back to Overboard, Polygon's board game show! Today we're playing Beasts of Balance, a simple but challenging tabletop game where the players attempt to create a tall stack of creatures, without knocking it over. Pat Gill, XTina GG, and Simone de Rochefort are up to the task.
#polygonoverboardDo people age out of streaming video games? #shorts #gamingPolygon2024-05-28 | If you could stream games as a full-time job for the rest of your life, would you do it?
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0:00 What's Starship Troopers? 1:51 Critical response to Starship Troopers 3:11 What is fascism? 4:47 Why didn't people "get" Starship Troopers? 5:43 Part 1: the Book 8:47 Part 2: Missing the joke 13:22 Part 3: Missing the context 18:33 Part 4: The satire isn't perfect 22:11 Part 5: Bad guys love fascism 24:09 Why do we care?
#helldivers2 #gamingwe have to talk about tim curry in this video game... #gaming #shortsPolygon2024-04-30 | In the 2008 game Command and Conquer Red Alert 3, Tim Curry delivers the performance of the century.
Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comDragons Dogma 2 is lying to youPolygon2024-03-28 | Why isn't Dragon's Dogma 2 called... Dragon's Dogma 2? The missing "two" on the title screen is just the first of many ways that Capcom's fantasy RPG is girlbossing, gaslighting and gatekeeping you from the truth. What looks like a generic, Ren Faire-esque roleplaying game is much trickier underneath the surface.
*IMPORTANT LINKS* TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitch: twitch.tv/polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comWhat video games do that you wont find anywhere elsePolygon2024-03-21 | Once we’ve defeated the final boss and sat patiently reading every name in the credits, there’s a familiar phrase we gamers love to see: New Game Plus. In games ranging from Chrono Trigger, to Nier: Automata, to Starfield, game developers explore different ways to let you keep playing, even after the credits roll. Polygon's Clayton Ashley dives into some of the most iconic NG+ modes and what they bring to the game.
*IMPORTANT LINKS* TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitch: twitch.tv/polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comTekken is still weird and that’s what makes it greatPolygon2024-03-07 | Tekken is a celebration of mixed martial arts as it was for just a brief, magical moment. Sloppy, awkward, funny, and surprising. It's a combat sandbox for adult martial arts nerds longing for the days before Under Armor and rear naked chokes. A return to a world where you believed that if you grabbed a guy's wrist a certain way, he'd fall over. It was a beautiful dream, and Tekken is out here keeping it alive.
TikTok: tiktok.com/@polygon Twitch: twitch.tv/polygon Twitter: http://bit.ly/PolygonTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/PolygonInsta Facebook: http://bit.ly/PolygonFB Polygon Newsletter: polygon.com/pages/newsletter And for more gaming and entertainment coverage, visit http://www.polygon.comThe game you NEED to play if you loved Alan Wake 2Polygon2024-02-15 | Do you love Alan Wake 2, but hate all the shooting? Do you love roleplaying as a detective and solving mysteries a la Nancy Drew? Do you regularly find yourself emerging from a Wikipedia rabbit hole at 2 a.m. only to discover you've spent the last three hours learning about the ongoing lawsuits surrounding the popular '90s premium sparkling beverage Clearly Canadian? Do you own a fedora? If you said yes to at least two of these things, then HAVE WE GOT THE GAME FOR YOU.