Jacob Geller's Essays

A list of video essays made by Jacob Geller

Curated by: Jacob Geller (105 videos)

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Tracks in this Playlist

• Reality is a Camera Trick: Film, Bodycams, and the First-Person Shooter
• all the pixels in new york are freezing
• Why Does Everyone Think "1984" Agrees With Them?
• More Games That Save the Best for Last
• "I am Jesus Christ" and Other Games About Jews
• The Future is an Empty Room
• The Ten Best Games of 2025
• Silksong and the Biblical Apocalypse
• 3 Games / 3 Hours / 3 Cursed Computers
• How Well Can You Really Know a Game?
• Fantasies of Nuremberg
• Clair Obscur is an Endless Canvas of Grief
• A Video About Digging A Hole
• Indiana Jones and the Objective Existence of God
• Fear of Dark
• 11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games
• Games That Hide Their Own Sequels
• What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops The Line"
• "The Best Looking Game Ever"
• Nothing Ever Stops Existing
• Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them
• Games that Won't Leave the Dark
• Art for No One
• I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene
• Pinocchio is a Story About Art and God
• The Best Ten Games of 2023
• Three Specific Kinds of Terror
• How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?
• Art in the Pre-Apocalypse
• Staring into the Sun, and Other Ways of Capturing Transcendence
• Games that Don't Fake the Space
• Games that Aren't Games
• We're Not Remaking Horror Games, We're Chasing Nightmares
• The False Evolution of Execution Methods
• The Strangest Game of 2023
• Why God of War Challenged Fate, Then Did It Again
• The Conceptual Failure of Orbital Lasers
• The Top Ten Games of 2022
• The Single Best Gaming Moment of 2022
• Sekiro's Parry and Other Pursuits of Perfection
• Fixing My Brain with Automated Therapy
• Gross Games about Flesh and Stuff
• Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda
• The Real Villain of Resident Evil 4 VR is Meta
• How Virtual Spaces Can Influence Our Understanding of Real Ones | Jacob Geller | TEDxUCSD
• What's the Point of Taking Apart a Body?
• Why Does Metal Gear Rising Keep Getting More Popular?
• Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul
• Perfect Moments in "Bad" Movies
• Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation
• Fear of Cold
• The Top Ten (and a Half) Best Games of 2021
• Time Loop Nihilism
• I Do Not Understand Hotline Miami 2
• After a City is Buried
• Tetris Effect and Other Games with Immaculate Vibes
• The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities
• Dead Space 2 Still Feels Like A New Game
• The Game That Won’t Let You See All Of It
• The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love
• Games That Save the Best for Last
• The Golem and the Jewish Superhero
• Dark Souls 3 is Thinking of Ending Things
• A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest
• Searching for Disco Elysium
• The Best Games of 2020, As Decided By One Man With Imperfect Information
• Four Short Games About Pain
• The Shape of Infinity
• Art Restoration (and the Biggest Mod in Resident Evil History)
• Cities Without People
• The Future of Writing About Games
• The Intimacy of Everyday Objects
• Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
• The Strange Reality of Roller Coaster Tycoon
• The Politics of Final Fantasy 7's Architecture
• Why Do Horror Games Sound So Beautiful?
• Fear of Depths
• "Bad Graphics"
• The Emotional Peak of The Last Guardian
• The Soul of a Library
• An Uncanny Reality
• Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything?
• Artificial Loneliness
• Museum Theft
• Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence
• Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House
• The Decade-Long Quest For Shadow of the Colossus’ Last Secret
• How Does Mirror’s Edge Still Look This Good?
• Outer Wilds: Death, Inevitability, and Ray Bradbury
• Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot
• Who’s Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games, and Fascism
• APE OUT and FREEDOM
• Judaism and Whiteness in Wolfenstein
• The Brutal Joy of Ganondorf
• The Quiet Sadness of Mario Galaxy
• The Wonderful Pain of Daughters of Ash, Dark Souls' Biggest Mod
• Gaming's Harshest Architecture: NaissanceE and Alienation
• A Love Letter to Beat Saber
• The Seductive Nightmare of Bloodborne's Chalice Dungeons
• To Hate Another: A Red Dead Redemption 2 Analysis