What are some other 'explore a place' games?
Ones where you find new tools to access new places, not open world but not linear either, etc. This is my favorite type of game, it's immensely satisfying mapping the game out in your mind, familiarizing yourself with the world, etc.
umm it's actually called IMMERSIVE SIM because... it's uh.. immersive? and it umh... simulates... immersiveness?
There’s no such thing as an “immersive sim.” Deus Ex and System Shock are just RPGs with a first person perspective.
OP, the old school Resident Evil games (RE1-RE0) are very built around the idea of “explore to find the item you need to unlock more of the map, so that you can find more items to unlock more of the map.”
On that note, point-and-click adventures (which is basically what the old RE games are at the end of the day) may have a lot of what you’re looking for in addition to the various Metroidvania-style games.
>There's no such thing as video games. It's just pixels on a monitor.
This is how you sound like.
Don't be a moron
You hear RPG, you know it's going to be about running around and collecting bear tails for XP. You hear platformer, you know it will be about jumping around.
You hear shooter, you probably suppose it will be CIA-backed military propaganda.
You see immersive sim, you are certain it is about a dude who runs around air vents, punching 0451 into every locker and finding upgrades for jumping higher or punching harder in trashcans or office desks.
Immersive sim is a genre.
>this is the best bait he can muster
It's not bait. Were you to apply reductionism to every game genre just like you do with immersive sims, we'd end up in the "pixels on a monitor" spot. Is Forza a racing game in the same way Need for Speed is? Is Silent Hill the same as Resident Evil since both are about running around for keys? Is Max Payne 3 the same as Max Payne 2 since both are about Max Payne and are third person shooters? Is God of War the same as Devil May Cry? Is Starfield the same as Fallout 4? Is rape the same as consent? The answer to all of these questions is NO.
>I'm a normalBlack person buzzword consuming moron and I can only make disengenuous non-arguments when someone says something I don't like because my brain is fried
Honestly imsim is more like a descriptor similar to action or open world. Games where the aim is to give players a multitude of ways to solve problems
>There’s no such thing as an “immersive sim.” Deus Ex and System Shock are just RPGs with a first person perspective.
There is, but people a blindsided by games that earned this title.
List of games that are immersive sims but nobody calls them that
>minecraft
>botw/totk
>the binding of isaac
>dwarf fortress
What makes an immersive sim are in-depth interconnecting systems acting with somewhat realism beyond video-game logic.
how is boi an imsim?
Every item, pickup, currency (by currency I mean health, coins, keys, bombs), trinket, and even character-specific mechanics can interact with each other.
What people call "synergize" it's pretty much the same as two distinct mechanics interacting with each other in an imsim.
>System Shock
>rpg
kinda redundant term these days because so many new games adopted aspects of the the old "imersive sim" games.
it's also hard to nail down exactly what defines it as well because the different games known for being immersive in different ways, deus ex mostly for dynamic narrative, system shock/UU has a bunch of interaction and non linear levels, Thief doesn't have revisitable levels or any rpg systems at all but you can still consider it an immersive sim because of the interaction with the enviroment and AI
morons, immersive sims are when games have interplaying mechanics and systems that you don't break away from to navigate menus in order to engage with.
shit like using a bucket to scoop water, putting it on a fire and it boils, mixing dough with it and putting it on a fire, it turns into bread in-engine because it's programmed that way.
Metroid prime 1
ive tried prime a couple of times but couldnt really got into it. a bit too linear, like going through the motions.
one of my favorites
system shock remake is my goty
thanks for suggestions. at least i know im on the right track. imsim/metroidvania is 'my' genre.
That's called a Metroidvania, zoomie. Try Metroid or Castlevania (obviously). Can also try Axiom Verge.
>That's called a Metroidvania, zoomie
no it is not
Prey is not metroidvania though.
The map there is basically open world, it's mostly storytelling that keeps you on track, not keys and locks.
RE2 remake
Actually a good recommendation, though your tools will not allow you to go places but your resources.
Play it blind and on hardcore or it will be useless.
Hitman
Arx Fatalis is like that, though obviously somewhat dated.
Searching immersive sims will get you where you want to go, but you should be ashamed for acknowledging the immersive sim "genre". I know I am.
Everyone Akhan did and borrows from, obviously
>Bioshock
>Dishonored
>Deathloop
*Arkane
You might like the system shock 1 remake, or stuff like dark messiah and s.t.a.l.k.e.r.
Try System Shock 2. There are far less system interactions than Prey, which is going to be a running theme in this genre, but you get to explore a big ship. Unfortunately you started at the peak.
When I was playing Prey, I kept saying it was just System Shock 3. I think it nails the same feeling of a believable space where people lived and worked and goes off the hook with its environmental storytelling.
NOT A MIMIC
Got to play Prey from Amazon Prime this year - was pleasantly surprised
There is so much environmental stuff and emails to read. I love it. I'm already too preypilled so it doesn't tickle the same way, but I enjoy watching other people play the game and put together the pieces from notes and emails.
System shock 1
hows weird west?
DE:Human Revolution
Dead Space remake feels like an immersive sim.
Deus ex (mankind divided/human revolution) are great
Dishonored 1/2 are great
Vampyre is good
Can I get a qrd on blood west?
How does it compare to troonwood?