Why are creepy games always set in Washington?

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The Pacific Northwest in video games is pretty uniformly creepy, dark, and wet. But how did it get like that? Polygon's Simone de Rochefort traces the history of the Pacific Northwest in media, from Alan Wake 2 and Pacific Drive, all the way back to Twin Peaks — and the new high-tech world that we live in now, dominated by Amazon and Microsoft.

0:00 The Pacific Northwest is always creepy
1:06 What is the Pacific Northwest
1:55 What video games am I talking about?
5:39 The setting
12:26 The people
17:56 The supernatural
20:43 Modern Seattle

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