>>20657604Video games are great because they let you view the depiction from multiple angles.
>>20657610>Good references: the media references the architecture of the previous civilization, e.g. stone buildings, castles, etc ranging from the detailed and fanciful stonework to the current state of fractured, crumbling, and melted ruins.The Dark Souls games stand out both as visual masterpieces as well as examples of everything mentioned in this thread. The game worlds are full of elegant stone architecture and infrastructure; most of it is abandoned and in various states of destruction, decay, and even melt damage. They also feature many references to real world architecture, as well as aggressively hostile enemies which guard the remaining ruins.