{"id":5365,"date":"2022-01-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-many-meanings-of-home-in-video-games\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:45:00","slug":"the-many-meanings-of-home-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-many-meanings-of-home-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The many meanings of home in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Games like to take us places, whether it&#8217;s space, hidden jungles or a bygone version of England. As much as I love these alternate realities of the real thing and the joys of video game tourism, increasingly they&#8217;ve made me think about the home, the place in the physical world where most, if not all, our gaming actually takes place.<\/p>\n<p>The home, or even just home in the wider sense, seems in many ways antithetical to the stories many games tell. Going on a journey means leaving home &#8211; RPGs in particular like to deal in permanent displacement. Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3 begins after your player character has been abducted by mind flayers, Divinity: Original Sin 2 similarly starts with your imprisonment and escape. JRPG classic Secret of Mana compels you to travel because you&#8217;ve been exiled from your village, and in Dragon Quest 11, the protagonist&#8217;s home is destroyed completely. This year, I loved Eastward&#8217;s mild subversion of this classic idea of displacement &#8211; here, the whole quest was about finding a home. The game takes its time to introduce us to its different towns and sprawling cities, because it wants to make sure that we see protagonists John and Sam build a life there with all that entails &#8211; helping out in the community, making new friends, even sitting down at the end of an eventful day and having a meal together. However, many players later told me that these lengthy segments felt slow to them &#8211; pulling them away from the adventure gameplay that only happens when a calamity repeatedly displaces John and Sam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-01-08-the-many-meanings-of-home-in-video-games\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games like to take us places, whether it&#8217;s space, hidden jungles or a bygone version of England. As much as I love these alternate realities of the real thing and the joys of video game tourism, increasingly they&#8217;ve made me think about the home, the place in the physical world where most, if not all,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5366,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[169,315,179,1323,676],"class_list":["post-5365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-games","tag-its","tag-like","tag-places","tag-take"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The many meanings of home in video games | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View The many meanings of home in video games for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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