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What Happened To Video Game Ambience? (YouTube Essay, bensmotel, 7min) (www.youtube.com)
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About 'ambience', 'atmosphere', and 'immersion' in games.

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 2 weeks ago

Replaying mass effect right now and feel this. You go to the boarding dock area and here mechanical buzzing and whirring with a distinct wheeeeee womp.. Womp... Womp...

Gives you vibes man

this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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