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Kingmakers is the glorious embodiment of one of gaming's most powerful rules, and I am here for it
Pondering why Kingmakers is such a breath of fresh air.
Over the last decade or so, alongside the bigger, fewer bets publishers have made - which has also often led to formula, to conservatism - an onward march in graphical fidelity means that a certain kind of game has become obsessed with the details. The fold of a cloth, that bluing of the horizon to represent distance that Leonardo was the first to discover, realistic flames, Baghdad's ancient wonders restored to us, the way a set-piece can unfold like a movie if a player can be coaxed into hitting their marks. Oh, I could end here by talking about Palworld and Helldivers 2, and a trend that stuff like Kingmakers possibly belongs to of scrappy communal fun and how double-A is staging a welcome comeback.
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