The Quarry Proves You Can Never Predict The Future Of Video Games
We never really know what the future of video games holds. Unlike other artistic mediums, our biggest advancements have always been technological. The best game in any given year would have likely been impossible to make a decade before. While we're seeing new filming techniques developed in movies and new forms of recording in music, it's only gaming that consistently improves and, as such, never really knows where it's heading. There are some drawbacks in our obsession with technological advancements (we become embarrassed of our history, mired in remakes, and too easily dazzled by shiny pretty objects that we too rarely reflect on anything else), but it also makes gaming one of the most unpredictable and exciting mediums out there. Playing The Quarry, I feel the evidence of that.
The Quarry is a decent game, and like all of Supermassive's other offerings, it will be fondly remembered by horror fans but won't tear up any trees across gaming as a whole. It won't be in the mix for anything major at The Game Awards, and when we look back on 2022 in the future, it will be drowned out by the likes of Elden Ring,God of War Ragnarok, and even Horizon Forbidden West. It's just a good game that's kinda good, and that's all it needs to be. But if you described all of the games that have launched this year to someone 20 years ago, The Quarry would feel like the future.
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The Quarry is an interactive movie where you and your friends control each character, all of whom are played by major stars, and every decision you make influences the outcome of the game. Every character can die, and all can be saved - it entirely comes down to you. This sort of interactive
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