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.
