I wasn't expecting that ending and you have no idea how happy I am to hear you're going to do whatever you want. I love irregular video uploads and the cooking segments are based.
So glad to learn I'm not the only person hating the term "content", the biggest devaluation of someone's creativity both in games and around them I've heard in my life. A full shitter also has "content" but you don't spend a lifetime learning to create and then creating it. Screw that shit.
Just gotta add that Streets of Rogue 2 is coming in 2023 as well! It's incorporating all the immersive simm-y stuff from the original into an open world! Steam page is up right now with some screenshots and details. (full disclosure I'm the dev :D)
its a meaningless descriptor, and not a genre. Literally every game's goal is to be immersive and to simulate. Even if you go to the bullet-points from various websites that try to quantify "immersive sims" its literally bullshit fluff that can apply to any game.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 i explored the whole map in 60 hours including dlc shizz and.... there's really nothing left. that game is basically an app or mobile game, and about as full of content. BOTW is 1/10th the game skyrim was, and with botw coming out 3 years later that's hella uninpressive.
@@HoboHunterRik What? Oh I think I get it. You guys are anti-semites and anything you don't like is because of jews. Though I still don't know what the C word is supposed to be.. cunt?
@@edgepixel8467 so epic Mickey 1 and 2 erases his pedigree? Also you know it took a whole team to create deus ex right? People need to quit this whole game director worship nonsense.
Was about to start a legal petition for enforced reinstatement of your beard, but, damn. Ending touched my hardened soul, man. Thats how creator should feel IMO and thats what people should hear. You, sir, just got yourself a backer - there is alot of great entertainers out there, but few willing to speak up a worthy thought. Thanks. Cheers and hugs from Ukraine and happy holidays.
I'm not much of a commenter, but damn that end got me wanting to say this. Thank you for being yourself through all of this and making videos (that I only found two years ago so I'm late) that I look forward to every time you release a new one. I truly look forward to what you will continue to put out; sticking to your gut. Thank you again, and a happy Christmas and New Year's with your family.
Yay! New Charlatan! I'd been waiting for your last video of the year! Thank you and Merry Christmas! And thank you for being vulnerable and sharing about your mental health and staying committed to who you are.
@@CharlatanWonder True, but it is still going very strong and only seems to be growing year by year thanks to new games and content creators like you. You guys are an inspiration for future immersive sim channels, games. Hopefully, things will snowball from there :)
The idea of abandoning the word content and instead realising what you're doing is art is beautiful, only just found you and this makes me want to do what I do even more and not shove any reaction faces in my thumbnail due to fear of overdosing on bad sewage. I hope you go even further than you have and kick all of the dead eye smiles into a box you can safely keep locked away under some sort of wooden IKEA mattress.
100% agree on the hate for "content". It's so dehumanizing, and I'm happy for your fight. As soon as I get my first paycheck you'll get a Patreon sub from me.
I have to give you credit for putting your channel before sponsorship since turning down those deals must be hard from time to time. So many creators will take sponsorships since it TH-cam ad revenue doesn't make a lot of money for them and sponsorship deals give them the big bucks.
YEAH PERTPETEIA But now for real, the reason why Peri has been delayed was simply because they now had stable enough funds to make the game in the scope they have dreamt of. But then again, in my personal opinion I also don't think that it will come out next year, the game is massiv and fun as hell! But the scope is something never before seen, with gameplay never before tried in a setting left abandoned 20 years ago. I absolutly love it, but 2024 is more likely than anything else!
your easily one my favorite youtubers of all time, strictly with how real you are, I can safely say ive never seen a fake version of you and thats what i like. I hope you keep doin what your doin, cuz creators are dying off by the second by shilling themselves to corpos and algorithms. If you keep making videos, I'll send you money whenever i can because at least I know all of that is going towards making your shit better
I'm glad you're thinking about your mental health and having a healthy work-life balance! I hope your 2023 is even better than this year was! I'm a huge ImSim fan and I love to see your love for the genre, it's truly inspiring... so screw youtube man, you do you! We'll all still be here whenever you decide to upload a new video, cheering you on! :D
Hey champ. Amazing Video. I never saw any of your videos you were just randomly on my recomended tab. your ending was really moving. i'm in a similar mental state. i don't know why but it's a tuff winter. but tuff times never last. at some point we must embrace our suffering and live on for the sake of living. i wish you alot of strength and you defenitely earned a new subscriber. God bless you, man! And Merry Christmas (or whatever you may be ccelebrating) :D
The thing that jumped to me in gloomwood the most is that fancy-looking pistol isn't actually "less lethal" option but instead MORE LETHAL AND ALSO MESSIER OPTION. Fuck those "tranquilizer darts", they are fake anyway, instead you can SET ENEMIES ABLAZE.
I've always felt the word "content" is dehumanizing, but for art. It's an insidious brainworm, if you start thinking about the stuff you're making as "content" it's easy to just make it more generic and less interesting. I've seen several channels fall into the "okay I'm generic and popular and a pogging shill now" trap, each time I immediately unsubscribe. I watch TH-cam because I want to have a parasocial relationship to cool smart analytic people, not because I want to consume a mass-produced product :V
Crazy how, despite ImSims being more popular than they maybe ever have been, they're still giving companies a hard time. I really think studios should lean more into stuff like Gloomwood and Kenshi, "retro" games with crazy mechanical depth. It's just not worth the risk, especially with people putting out stuff like Stalker Gamma for FREE.
"But Charl', what even is an immersive sim?" Actual answer: "immersive sim" is a fad label used to describe a particular micro-genre of (usually first person) RPG. They try to provide the freedom of choice you get from a tabletop RPG, but they are typically single player instead of party-based. They usually include some form of character progression, but have less emphasis on XP and leveling. I'm sorry but when games like Weird West are calling themselves "immersive sim", it's just gone too far. If that is an ImSim, then I guess Fallout 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate, and Divinity: Original Sin are just turn-based ImSims? If a first person perspective isn't part of the genre, why does it matter if it's real time or turn-based? To be clear, I love the games. Just hate the undefinable, vibes-based fad label. It's not a genre, it's a natural progression of games growing deeper, more complex, and providing more player agency. Turning those characteristics to a particular subgenre doesn't make sense. Our obsession with shoving everything into a neat little box with a neat little label does more harm than good. No developer should set out to create an "immersive sim", they should set out to create games that are deep, complex, immersive, and full of player agency. This is the windmill at which I must tilt, and the hill on which I must die. It is fated. It is known.
thx for introducing CTRL ALT EGO to me. I realy need to cover more of your videos even if u either didnt like or just dont remember Deathpool. The Second good MCU Film franchise since 2004
Your speech at the end is inspiring and a breath of fresh air!! Creators need to be driven by passion and not fear of making money or an unfeeling algorithm!!
Shit I didn't know about Ctrl Alt Ego, looks fantastic fam thanks for having it in the video. Immediately purchased it, it's like 15 gigs as well so let's go!
I've been utterly seethed over the Immersive Sim tag on Steam, so I'm happy to have someone out here who genuinely loves the genre to help put these titles out there. Thanks homie!
I've been following your channel for a little while now, always loved the passion you put into your videos. It's become one of my favorites alongside people like Jacob Geller, and as someone who is also struggling heavily with depression, your speech about the desire to create art in the face of marketability cut a little too deep. TH-cam's greatest strength to me has always been about enjoying the shared experience of making some cool/funny/interesting shit, for the absolute fuck of it, because it's fun. Some of the most enjoyment I've extracted from this site was watching shoddily made Gmod machinimas, stick figure flash animations, lego stopmotion, youtube poops, wonderful covers of my favorite songs etc etc. You're touching on stuff that's much deeper than fighting an algorithm, stuff people like Nietzsche and Camus and Proust have clamored on and on about. Humans were never meant to be "products" or "brands", toddlers don't pick up crayons with the market in mind. Art is a sanctuary we create for ourselves, it has the power to color all aspects of life and that sense of humanity will always matter more than notoriety in the long run. And fuck what anyone else says, video games are art! I like to think this kind of stuff still matters to a lot of people, like myself, and we're rooting for you. I don't have the means to donate at the moment, but the minute I do I most definitely will. Keep up the fight brother
Hi !! I think you should really take a quick look at "Shadows of Doubt". It's a procedurally generated immersive-sim detective game set in a voxel-rendered city open world. It seems quite unique in its game design and the only thing I can think of to really compare it to is maybe the Blade Runner adventure game. And I find it criminally un-covered on the internet. The game is in closed beta as of right now. Also you should really check-out "Fortune's Run" as I am baffled by how little coverage it got considering how good its first demo is. It's an immersive-sim with fast-fps, melee, stealth and parkour with a relatively unique art-style using pre-rendered sprites and some of the best looking and stylish environments I have seen recently in a game of that scale and a great soundtrack. What I am trying to say here is that this game I think as a lot of personnality and potential and it would be a shame if it could not meet the end of its development. Right now, the devs are only working on it as a hobby since the very small team is not receiving nearly enough money to sustain themselves, let alone hire a new member. A solid demo is available on the steam page. Anyway that's all I wanted to say outside of wishing you good health and a great new year.
Excellent video! PLEASE check out Shadows of Doubt. Seems right up your alley with an AI Generated city and simulated population giving you mysteries and jobs to solve within it.
Damn bro, I love your attitude at the end of the vid! I've been watching you for at least two years now and gotta say you were the one who showed me that a specific kind of games I enjoy has a name - immersive sim. I used to backtrack your channel, searching new titles to check out. Man, I'm so greatful for VTMB, Pathologic 2 and Cruelty Squad. Keep up the great work, I wish you all best and hope the channel will grow against all odds. Merry Christmas!
I didn't see the last four or five of your videos because you TH-cam decided I didn't need to see them. I'm happy to see you're getting off the algorithm treadmill man. Good on ya. Happy holidays and happy new year man. Here's to another successful year on your terms.
Immersive Sims = If the game shows you a requirement and you find another way to do it and then wonder if the developers knew you might do this or you wonder if it is cheating. Currently playing through Prey and using my lvl 2 strength to throw lvl 2 furniture at lvl 3 furniture to knock it away from the doorway that it is blocking.
I've almost never commented on any TH-cam video, but as I was watching this on my phone I 100% realized that I needed to hop on my computer just so I can subscribe to you. you sir are an artist at work and have earned a subscriber
"Content" to me is like daily or weekly videos of a series, they're just there to be watched and forgotten about, mostly mindless entertainment. I would say videos like yours are more interesting than that, they're quite informative and speculative and I'm always interested to watch them. This isn't a "content" channel to me in the same way that Hbomberguy's isn't, dude does like 2 videos a year but it's always fun to see them and know that he's not been abducted by aliens yet. In general I don't think it's possible for anyone to truly game the algorithm and make a successful channel, you'll notice that when most people do get a trending video they tend to just make that one idea their whole channel and it never really works, you can't catch lightning in a bottle repeatedly and they key point for me is that they usually weren't trying when it happened. Just doing whatever is totally valid and should be way more encouraged than just endlessly pumping out content, it's so antithetical to the idea of being creative that it hurts my brain even though I currently create nothing.
But... But it's not hard to define an immersive sim! If a game simulates reactions of the world, and the player can immerse themself into the game by using intuitive (to the player) approaches for any given tasks, then this is an immersive sim. Otherwise, a game uses scripted reactions, or player have to employ the right solution in order to progress... or both.
I have been on TH-cam for many years, and its evident that what was once a video sharing site has become an insidious workplace where the people are all but removed and replaced with an unfeeling band of machines that do everything. The algorithm is just a glorified board of directors that favors one particular set of “content” over the videos that are filled with care, attention, and real humanity. Its not fair or right, but it makes millions.
That ending was fuckin amazing. Thank you so much for just being so open and down to earth about everything. I will forever and always watch any video you release, and look forward to the amazing videos you will put out in the coming years.
We all love you dude and im happy to hear that you're doing better. Fuck youtube, fuck the algorithm and power to you, we'll all still be here no matter what ❤️❤️❤️
The way I'd describe ImmSims is like this: "A linear game with set objectives and storyline while allowing, sometimes encouranging; players to solve the objectives in any manner, intended AND unintended by the developers; which allows players to play in as many ways as they can think."
I'd rather have less videos if it means ones you're passionate about, it'd just be better videos and less stressful for you, win win in my book, anyways merry Christmas dude, here's to another year of immersive Sims
I haven't played ctrl alt ego but i saw that game last month and immediately bought it. It's just a matter of time and clearing a little backlog before i will touch it.
You may not be my favorite TH-camr, but you might be the one I respect the most. The part where you said "there will be no RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" was God damn legendary
Love your vids man, keep up the good work. To all immersive sims fans out there, take a look at Shadows of the doubt”, it will release (hopefully) next year. Happy holidays everybody.
Hey good on you man for making the things that you're passionate about and using that passion as our fuel to keep going. I very muchly prefer watching your kind of art than the soulless, heartless nonsense. So hey, Ill be here for the next video and the next and the one after that
27:47 Glad to hear that you're getting out of the TH-cam "success" rut and feeling better. Always happy when people get help for themselves and are comfortable with talking about it, making it more accessible and less stigmatized. 32:06 This feels great to hear someone say. We're in such an expansive information era that all this wonderful art from creative people just gets categorized as something to consume, rather than appreciate, be it games or the videos about them. So long as you strive to make something you're proud of, people will recognize that passion and integrity.
"He offered to recreate my save" Jeez, now that is dedication. For a content creator, sure. But all the same, the offer to outright do work for the sole purpose of helping one player is confidence in your own work.
I think VTM:B 2 is so far gone at this point that I can't see anything decent being made, I'd rather cut my losses and just replay the first game for the 15th time.
Thanks for staying true to yourself and your work man. I really hate this algorithmic culture too. I hope things get better in the future, but somehow we need to get rid of youtube first.
Good luck next year! I salute your decision not to play the TH-cam game anymore. As someone who's had my fair share of experience with depression, I can imagine how emotionally and mentally draining that must've been. I got better (much better I'd say) only when I learned not to play certain 'games' and just go about life focusing more on what I wanted instead of what I felt was expected from me.
Oh man, it's so dope that DDS got featured, it's been one of the better games I played this year, even with just the hacking you got a ton of stuff to play and a ton of missions to do. I highly recommend it right now.
Hey, I just wanna say I really appreciate everything you've done. I'm glad you're getting the help you need, and I do really appreciate the cooking segments, they've helped me improve as a chef!
"went from-to"? Did you like...pay attention to the last 3 years? Marie was always a part of the project, and the project was always a DX-style 90s conspiracy roundup [eastern bloc edition]. The only thing that changed was how Marie looks uncanny in a good way now, like a kigurumi suit that went through a warzone, rather than just a weirdly dissonant 3d model of an anime girl - and that makes sense, because she's a combat doll. Her looking like that is part of the universe.
@@just_matt214 I guess I missed the completely out of place anime deviant art model in all of the previous screenshots and videos I saw and also that article I read online but I feel like that's something I would have noticed if it was present
@@PurpleIsALetter Yes you did lmao. I've literally played the *first* /agdg/ demo in a call with the game's fucking director (really nice, personable guy by the way) and a bunch of his friends and not only was Marie there from the start, but she actually looked much more jarring without the proper shading and layers of grime covering her plastic shell. I also just went and watched the "Revealed" trailer from 2 years ago, i.e. the first trailer ever released for the game, and lo and behold you can see her in her apartment in the last 30 seconds (edit. in her old model form). She was also *heavily* featured in *all* promotional art for the kickstarter, where she even appeared in the page's main banner (edit. as a 2d illustration, which she looks much better as honestly. But that's also true for JC Denton, to be fair). Also, that first demo i mentioned earlier? Yeah that had *third person mode,* so you could see what Marie looked like all the way back then (edit. you can very much still get that demo, along with the new one, and test for yourself). You didn't pay attention and that's ok, just don't act like you actually know what you're talking about next time.
@@just_matt214weird because the article I read on PC gamer described the protagonist as "living military surplus" which does not imply "poorly drawn anime fanart" and also did not appear in any of the screenshots. So allow me to amend my criticism: the deviant art anime girl looks like shit, doesn't fit the art style of the game at all, and I personally have no interest in playing anime waifu oc simulator 2023. I'm sure there are plenty of Deus Ex mods that already cover those bases.
@@PurpleIsALetter "hurr durr a poorly researched PC Gamer article irreparably influenced my view of an otherwise good game. I am very intelligent." Alright, you spectacular specimen of material density, you don't like the anime girl. That is also ok, i frankly don't give a shit about your personal taste, however shallow it appears to be. What i'm giving you shit for is implying that there was somehow an unadvertised or otherwise sudden change of direction, which there wasn't for the shopping list of reason i just finished explaining. All of the evidence i gave is easily researchable and easily verifiable, and i'm pretty sure Shodanon himself (the director) will be up to listen to your concerns if you @ him on twitter or something. You know, in case you felt like making more of an oblivious ass of yourself online. Like the thing or not i don't care, but implying dishonesty when there was nothing but clear and frequent communications (see: near-weekly devlogs & clips on various social media platforms) because of one shit article? That's where you'll find i get pissed off easily. So please, stop replying to me and go do some *very* easy research if you still care. This argument has been silly enough for long enough.
The original "Peanut" design was made by a Japanese sculptor who held the copyright to the work and the picture of it that was featured on the wiki. Everyone was cool with it for years but finally the people who ran the site decided it was time to retire it because the copyright situation made fanworks like games a minefield of red tape and 173 also stole away the original artist's intent for his work. As I understand it, it was an amicable decision.
I remember your video from about a year ago of you hoping for more immersive sim games. And now we have more of them. 😆 hopefully these games release fully sometime soon. Also, I loved your rant at the end of the video. I love the transparency about what TH-cam's up to bc others can also see their bullshit.
What matters to us is your mental health, Charl. Don't let The System get you down, and remember to give the Saucy Boi scritches. Happy Holidays. On the subject of Vampire: The Masquerade, I generally recommend the 20th Anniversary Edition over 5th ed. Partly because I just don't like the changes they made, both mechanically and in lore. But partly because, due to all those changes, older (and thus cheaper) books don't transfer over as easily to the new game. V20 is basically the culmination of all the previous editions, while being metaplot agnostic (except _Beckett's Jyhad Diary,_ which is "Oops, All Metaplot"; but it's also a really good book and one I recommend for a one stop shop collection of all the "goings on" in VtM). Moreover, V20 is closer to the VtM that people would be familiar with from VtM: Bloodlines.
That last part really hit home for me. As a musician people dont see what artists, animators, videographers, musicians, etc as art anymore. Its just Content to be consumed. Its really really sad that most people dont treat what people do with merit anymore and the systems you have to abide by to make money doing what you love are forcing people into paths they dont want do go down. Its sad and depressing but you cant give up on shit. I couldve probably hopped on a trend and gained a following by now but i didnt because that wouldnt be me. that wouldnt be my art. and it sucks to see people who are legitimately talented lose passion for their art because of the system and the content cycle. TL;DR MAKE YOUR ART MAN!!! LET YOUR BALLS HANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m learning I’ve had a very different idea of Immersive sim than everyone else. (Assumed it was a sub-genre too, like Deus Ex was an ‘Immersive sim’ RPG) I always took it as games that intertwine their game mechanics with their world, or use in world solutions to create an immersive sim-like experience without becoming ‘meta’. So I kinda wonder what these would actually be called. Like, apart from Deus Ex, prime examples to me are: Iron Lung or Carrier Command 2. Games that ask the player to interact with the world in ways that ‘feel’ realistic (not doing commands through hotkeys but having to interact with terminals and pilot your machines as if you were in the seat) and pull you into the game world. Far out examples would be like Cruelty Squad. I’d also say things like Nier Automata’s Menu being inter-grated into the gameworld in story and gameplay would be an “immersive sim” element, same with stuff like Signalis’ radio mechanic. I’m obviously wrong about what I thought immersive sim meant, but I really wish we had a word for games that blur the line between the game and world like that, because it really leads to memorable and immersive experiences.
I've lately seen an "Immersive Sim" tag on X-Plane 12 Steam page. This surprised me quite a lot because Laminar are huge nerds, and i'd expect them to at least know about Deus Ex and the term itself. Maybe it's a joke of sorts...
My dude, I don't really think you know what you're talking about when talking about the Vampire The Masquerade tabletop. Corebook is all you need. Yes, it's a lore dense game, but most of the characters in-game don't even know a percentage of what is going on in the whole World of Darkness universe lore-wise. No need to discourage people from picking up the game due to needing something like the Book of Nod to play (which is more of a prop to buy than anything)
as someone who is just discovering how much I love ImSims, I found your channel while searching for games to play. I found so so many gems to play and had a very good time. the outro about TH-cam, weirdly made me cry. I know this video is almost a year old but I really appreciate you and your videos and I am SO glad you are going to keep being you. I hope you are doing better, Love you
just wanted to comment that the ending segment was extremely truthful and very inspiring. i really do agree that when it comes to people and their creations, undermining yourself by becoming a so-called content creator instead of a true artist honing their craft (whether it be through music, or in this case a visual art such as video-making) just to pump out videos that pander to the masses instead of what *you* really want to create, really does diminish individuality, if i am interpreting the message correctly. i am very sorry for what you've gone through recently, and i hope 2023 is an excellent year for you! keep doing what you're doing man
I for one fell in love with your channel because you didn't do the POG face or ad shit. You can tell more and more who really are passionate in making videos now adays and who are just trying to make money. Keep being you Char and I'll keep watching.
As a person who struggles making art in general, the best advice I can give is make stuff that you're passionate about. Don't try to work for the algorithm; make the algorithm work for you.
To me, an immersive sim is a game where the world feels alive even without your involvement, where everything feels thought out enough to be a real things that could actually happen (in terms of things and systems making sense, regardless of whether they're sci-fi or fantasy or anything like that), where gameplay, game design, and the world itself meld together seamlessly into a fantastic experience that slots right in with the world you're exploring. An immersive sim is usually open world to some degree, at least in terms of being able to explore freely at your own pace and order, with gameplay that inherently is welcoming to your own ingenuity and ideas for solving issues and advancing through the game, with engines designed to facilitate that kind of openness. An immersive sim more often than not also pays special attention to sound design as well as graphics and atmosphere, not necessarily by being cutting edge, but by being in harmony with one another in order to give you the sense that you are in the game, hence immersing you. An immersive sim is a game that responds to your input in spite of being set in a world that functions fine even without you. Where your actions have consequences, and choices/methods you use are reflected in the rest of the game. These are just the thoughts at the top of my head when thinking of a definition of an immersive sim
I release so many videos that could be shorts, but I wont make them shorts. I wouldnt compromise the quality of my video and its watchability so it gets more views.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! There's always room in the discord if you wanna come by discord.gg/J59vxy6D
I subbed to you after that rant, it's nice seeing larger channels have the same feelings as I do as a content creator
To the "Talk shop" section, FUCKING AMEN!
I appreciate the organized timestamps on this vid
Man, the speech about not playing youtube's game was... one of the most inspiring things I've heard in some time!
You go king!
I had the biggest grin by the end of it.
I love this fucking channel and I love all of you guys too. Never forget that!
Absolute king shit, real human bean moment
Great speech! Amen :)
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I wasn't expecting that ending and you have no idea how happy I am to hear you're going to do whatever you want. I love irregular video uploads and the cooking segments are based.
So glad to learn I'm not the only person hating the term "content", the biggest devaluation of someone's creativity both in games and around them I've heard in my life. A full shitter also has "content" but you don't spend a lifetime learning to create and then creating it. Screw that shit.
Just gotta add that Streets of Rogue 2 is coming in 2023 as well! It's incorporating all the immersive simm-y stuff from the original into an open world! Steam page is up right now with some screenshots and details. (full disclosure I'm the dev :D)
Fuck yea more SOR
hyped for the new vehicle mechanics in particular, looks like theyll be a fun addition
Madguy you just made my day! Absolutely love SOR and can't wait to play the sequel
bro you are the true goat. SOR1 was insane. Super polished but still robust. Me & the wife put 400hrs into it.
We're dying for SOR. DYINGGGGG BROOO
so that was a fucking lie
Cruelty Squad really marked the genre's return to form for me
Too bad it burns my eyes.
@@Gatorade69 Skill issue.
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You get used to it
@@kasra8255 Nah dude, I'm a speedrunner but it doesn't help that by the end of the run my eyes are bleeding.
skill issue, no CEO mindset
At this point immersive sims is anything that after 5 playthroughs there's still thing that makes me say : "You can do THAT ?!"
So Breath of the Wild 👀?
Do the Gothic series and GTA SA count?
Then the souls/born/ring series is that, but instead of box stacking, it's buffs stacking
its a meaningless descriptor, and not a genre. Literally every game's goal is to be immersive and to simulate. Even if you go to the bullet-points from various websites that try to quantify "immersive sims" its literally bullshit fluff that can apply to any game.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 i explored the whole map in 60 hours including dlc shizz and.... there's really nothing left. that game is basically an app or mobile game, and about as full of content. BOTW is 1/10th the game skyrim was, and with botw coming out 3 years later that's hella uninpressive.
Unrelated: daily reminder that Warren Spector didn't start calling Deus Ex fans crazy until he started making Disney games!
What does that mean to you? Did Disney push him to make such statements?
what being a goofy fella does to a mf
@@HoboHunterRik What? Oh I think I get it. You guys are anti-semites and anything you don't like is because of jews. Though I still don't know what the C word is supposed to be.. cunt?
Or did the Deus Ex fans diss him for making crap Disney games and he took it badly?
@@edgepixel8467 so epic Mickey 1 and 2 erases his pedigree? Also you know it took a whole team to create deus ex right? People need to quit this whole game director worship nonsense.
Was about to start a legal petition for enforced reinstatement of your beard, but, damn. Ending touched my hardened soul, man. Thats how creator should feel IMO and thats what people should hear. You, sir, just got yourself a backer - there is alot of great entertainers out there, but few willing to speak up a worthy thought. Thanks.
Cheers and hugs from Ukraine and happy holidays.
Don't worry, the beards coming back. It's just a matter of time
I'm not much of a commenter, but damn that end got me wanting to say this. Thank you for being yourself through all of this and making videos (that I only found two years ago so I'm late) that I look forward to every time you release a new one. I truly look forward to what you will continue to put out; sticking to your gut. Thank you again, and a happy Christmas and New Year's with your family.
Just subscribed to your Patreon. I definitely agree with your stance against the algorithm
Love your end of the year immersive sim videos! Thanks for all you do! Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Yay! New Charlatan! I'd been waiting for your last video of the year! Thank you and Merry Christmas! And thank you for being vulnerable and sharing about your mental health and staying committed to who you are.
Charl starts his Joker arc and I'm all for it. Fuck the algorithm!
Keep doing what you're doing. We love it, and I for one am willing to pay for it.
You are the best immersive sim gaming channel on TH-cam!
I think I might be one of the only ones too. It's a tough niche to break into
@@CharlatanWonder True, but it is still going very strong and only seems to be growing year by year thanks to new games and content creators like you. You guys are an inspiration for future immersive sim channels, games. Hopefully, things will snowball from there :)
The idea of abandoning the word content and instead realising what you're doing is art is beautiful, only just found you and this makes me want to do what I do even more and not shove any reaction faces in my thumbnail due to fear of overdosing on bad sewage. I hope you go even further than you have and kick all of the dead eye smiles into a box you can safely keep locked away under some sort of wooden IKEA mattress.
100% agree on the hate for "content". It's so dehumanizing, and I'm happy for your fight. As soon as I get my first paycheck you'll get a Patreon sub from me.
Wow! Amazing video- thanks for the shoutout!!
I love your videos, and probably discovered you through those immersive sim ones. Thank you for doing what you're doing!
Well system shock remake actually did come out in 2023, so guess it’s not all bad
Good video! I think you should check out MONOMYTH, it's a mix of immersive sim and souls-like. There's a demo avalible!
There is nothing "souls-like" about it. It's a dungeon crawler similar to Arx Fatalis
"I want to spend Christmas with my family." Please do Charl! God bless you and have a merry Christmas! You've earned it!
I have to give you credit for putting your channel before sponsorship since turning down those deals must be hard from time to time.
So many creators will take sponsorships since it TH-cam ad revenue doesn't make a lot of money for them and sponsorship deals give them the big bucks.
Powerful ending my dude. Glad you are finding yourself in a good place. Love your work and your art.
YEAH PERTPETEIA
But now for real, the reason why Peri has been delayed was simply because they now had stable enough funds to make the game in the scope they have dreamt of.
But then again, in my personal opinion I also don't think that it will come out next year, the game is massiv and fun as hell!
But the scope is something never before seen, with gameplay never before tried in a setting left abandoned 20 years ago. I absolutly love it, but 2024 is more likely than anything else!
Man, that system shock comment aged like fuckin milk didnt it?
your easily one my favorite youtubers of all time, strictly with how real you are, I can safely say ive never seen a fake version of you and thats what i like. I hope you keep doin what your doin, cuz creators are dying off by the second by shilling themselves to corpos and algorithms. If you keep making videos, I'll send you money whenever i can because at least I know all of that is going towards making your shit better
I'm glad you're thinking about your mental health and having a healthy work-life balance! I hope your 2023 is even better than this year was!
I'm a huge ImSim fan and I love to see your love for the genre, it's truly inspiring... so screw youtube man, you do you! We'll all still be here whenever you decide to upload a new video, cheering you on! :D
I'm suddenly filled with determination and it wasn't the BIG SOUP I made last week. Keep up the great work Charl and stay saucy.
Hey champ. Amazing Video. I never saw any of your videos you were just randomly on my recomended tab. your ending was really moving. i'm in a similar mental state. i don't know why but it's a tuff winter. but tuff times never last. at some point we must embrace our suffering and live on for the sake of living. i wish you alot of strength and you defenitely earned a new subscriber. God bless you, man! And Merry Christmas (or whatever you may be ccelebrating) :D
The thing that jumped to me in gloomwood the most is that fancy-looking pistol isn't actually "less lethal" option but instead MORE LETHAL AND ALSO MESSIER OPTION. Fuck those "tranquilizer darts", they are fake anyway, instead you can SET ENEMIES ABLAZE.
I've always felt the word "content" is dehumanizing, but for art. It's an insidious brainworm, if you start thinking about the stuff you're making as "content" it's easy to just make it more generic and less interesting.
I've seen several channels fall into the "okay I'm generic and popular and a pogging shill now" trap, each time I immediately unsubscribe. I watch TH-cam because I want to have a parasocial relationship to cool smart analytic people, not because I want to consume a mass-produced product :V
Crazy how, despite ImSims being more popular than they maybe ever have been, they're still giving companies a hard time. I really think studios should lean more into stuff like Gloomwood and Kenshi, "retro" games with crazy mechanical depth. It's just not worth the risk, especially with people putting out stuff like Stalker Gamma for FREE.
"But Charl', what even is an immersive sim?"
Actual answer: "immersive sim" is a fad label used to describe a particular micro-genre of (usually first person) RPG. They try to provide the freedom of choice you get from a tabletop RPG, but they are typically single player instead of party-based. They usually include some form of character progression, but have less emphasis on XP and leveling.
I'm sorry but when games like Weird West are calling themselves "immersive sim", it's just gone too far. If that is an ImSim, then I guess Fallout 1 & 2, Baldur's Gate, and Divinity: Original Sin are just turn-based ImSims? If a first person perspective isn't part of the genre, why does it matter if it's real time or turn-based?
To be clear, I love the games. Just hate the undefinable, vibes-based fad label. It's not a genre, it's a natural progression of games growing deeper, more complex, and providing more player agency. Turning those characteristics to a particular subgenre doesn't make sense. Our obsession with shoving everything into a neat little box with a neat little label does more harm than good. No developer should set out to create an "immersive sim", they should set out to create games that are deep, complex, immersive, and full of player agency.
This is the windmill at which I must tilt, and the hill on which I must die. It is fated. It is known.
thx for introducing CTRL ALT EGO to me. I realy need to cover more of your videos
even if u either didnt like or just dont remember Deathpool. The Second good MCU Film franchise since 2004
Your speech at the end is inspiring and a breath of fresh air!! Creators need to be driven by passion and not fear of making money or an unfeeling algorithm!!
Shit I didn't know about Ctrl Alt Ego, looks fantastic fam thanks for having it in the video. Immediately purchased it, it's like 15 gigs as well so let's go!
I've been utterly seethed over the Immersive Sim tag on Steam, so I'm happy to have someone out here who genuinely loves the genre to help put these titles out there. Thanks homie!
I've been following your channel for a little while now, always loved the passion you put into your videos. It's become one of my favorites alongside people like Jacob Geller, and as someone who is also struggling heavily with depression, your speech about the desire to create art in the face of marketability cut a little too deep.
TH-cam's greatest strength to me has always been about enjoying the shared experience of making some cool/funny/interesting shit, for the absolute fuck of it, because it's fun. Some of the most enjoyment I've extracted from this site was watching shoddily made Gmod machinimas, stick figure flash animations, lego stopmotion, youtube poops, wonderful covers of my favorite songs etc etc. You're touching on stuff that's much deeper than fighting an algorithm, stuff people like Nietzsche and Camus and Proust have clamored on and on about. Humans were never meant to be "products" or "brands", toddlers don't pick up crayons with the market in mind. Art is a sanctuary we create for ourselves, it has the power to color all aspects of life and that sense of humanity will always matter more than notoriety in the long run. And fuck what anyone else says, video games are art!
I like to think this kind of stuff still matters to a lot of people, like myself, and we're rooting for you. I don't have the means to donate at the moment, but the minute I do I most definitely will. Keep up the fight brother
Hi !! I think you should really take a quick look at "Shadows of Doubt". It's a procedurally generated immersive-sim detective game set in a voxel-rendered city open world. It seems quite unique in its game design and the only thing I can think of to really compare it to is maybe the Blade Runner adventure game. And I find it criminally un-covered on the internet. The game is in closed beta as of right now.
Also you should really check-out "Fortune's Run" as I am baffled by how little coverage it got considering how good its first demo is. It's an immersive-sim with fast-fps, melee, stealth and parkour with a relatively unique art-style using pre-rendered sprites and some of the best looking and stylish environments I have seen recently in a game of that scale and a great soundtrack. What I am trying to say here is that this game I think as a lot of personnality and potential and it would be a shame if it could not meet the end of its development. Right now, the devs are only working on it as a hobby since the very small team is not receiving nearly enough money to sustain themselves, let alone hire a new member. A solid demo is available on the steam page.
Anyway that's all I wanted to say outside of wishing you good health and a great new year.
Excellent video! PLEASE check out Shadows of Doubt. Seems right up your alley with an AI Generated city and simulated population giving you mysteries and jobs to solve within it.
Damn bro, I love your attitude at the end of the vid! I've been watching you for at least two years now and gotta say you were the one who showed me that a specific kind of games I enjoy has a name - immersive sim. I used to backtrack your channel, searching new titles to check out. Man, I'm so greatful for VTMB, Pathologic 2 and Cruelty Squad. Keep up the great work, I wish you all best and hope the channel will grow against all odds. Merry Christmas!
I didn't see the last four or five of your videos because you TH-cam decided I didn't need to see them.
I'm happy to see you're getting off the algorithm treadmill man. Good on ya. Happy holidays and happy new year man. Here's to another successful year on your terms.
Immersive Sims = If the game shows you a requirement and you find another way to do it and then wonder if the developers knew you might do this or you wonder if it is cheating.
Currently playing through Prey and using my lvl 2 strength to throw lvl 2 furniture at lvl 3 furniture to knock it away from the doorway that it is blocking.
I've almost never commented on any TH-cam video, but as I was watching this on my phone I 100% realized that I needed to hop on my computer just so I can subscribe to you. you sir are an artist at work and have earned a subscriber
"Content" to me is like daily or weekly videos of a series, they're just there to be watched and forgotten about, mostly mindless entertainment.
I would say videos like yours are more interesting than that, they're quite informative and speculative and I'm always interested to watch them.
This isn't a "content" channel to me in the same way that Hbomberguy's isn't, dude does like 2 videos a year but it's always fun to see them and know that he's not been abducted by aliens yet.
In general I don't think it's possible for anyone to truly game the algorithm and make a successful channel, you'll notice that when most people do get a trending video they tend to just make that one idea their whole channel and it never really works, you can't catch lightning in a bottle repeatedly and they key point for me is that they usually weren't trying when it happened.
Just doing whatever is totally valid and should be way more encouraged than just endlessly pumping out content, it's so antithetical to the idea of being creative that it hurts my brain even though I currently create nothing.
But... But it's not hard to define an immersive sim! If a game simulates reactions of the world, and the player can immerse themself into the game by using intuitive (to the player) approaches for any given tasks, then this is an immersive sim. Otherwise, a game uses scripted reactions, or player have to employ the right solution in order to progress... or both.
I have been on TH-cam for many years, and its evident that what was once a video sharing site has become an insidious workplace where the people are all but removed and replaced with an unfeeling band of machines that do everything. The algorithm is just a glorified board of directors that favors one particular set of “content” over the videos that are filled with care, attention, and real humanity. Its not fair or right, but it makes millions.
That ending was fuckin amazing. Thank you so much for just being so open and down to earth about everything. I will forever and always watch any video you release, and look forward to the amazing videos you will put out in the coming years.
I think i just found a gem of a channel
We all love you dude and im happy to hear that you're doing better. Fuck youtube, fuck the algorithm and power to you, we'll all still be here no matter what ❤️❤️❤️
SInce you didn't mention it, I think you should really keep an eye on the game called Shadows of Doubt. Shaping up to be a stellar game.
The way I'd describe ImmSims is like this: "A linear game with set objectives and storyline while allowing, sometimes encouranging; players to solve the objectives in any manner, intended AND unintended by the developers; which allows players to play in as many ways as they can think."
So the original far cry?
@@saisameer8771 Not the worst example.
I think Ctrl Alt Ego core mechanic might have been inspired by 2000 video game Messiah.
I'd rather have less videos if it means ones you're passionate about, it'd just be better videos and less stressful for you, win win in my book, anyways merry Christmas dude, here's to another year of immersive Sims
Piked up Ctrl Alt Ego by your advice, played an hour and I'm already loving it, thank you
Never seen a video of yours before (I don’t think), this one and it’s ending rant was a guaranteed subscribe though. 👍
So no more anti-sponsers?
Well the ending rant was pretty based.
Nah them shits still somehow get into my inbox
I haven't played ctrl alt ego but i saw that game last month and immediately bought it. It's just a matter of time and clearing a little backlog before i will touch it.
I think RAID: shadow legends could be considered an immersive sim
You may not be my favorite TH-camr, but you might be the one I respect the most. The part where you said "there will be no RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" was God damn legendary
4:49 That is not isometric rendering, it's just a top down view using perspective rendering.
Best part of the video is the rant at the end. Totally unexpected, but amazing.
Love your vids man, keep up the good work. To all immersive sims fans out there, take a look at Shadows of the doubt”, it will release (hopefully) next year. Happy holidays everybody.
Hey good on you man for making the things that you're passionate about and using that passion as our fuel to keep going. I very muchly prefer watching your kind of art than the soulless, heartless nonsense. So hey, Ill be here for the next video and the next and the one after that
27:47 Glad to hear that you're getting out of the TH-cam "success" rut and feeling better. Always happy when people get help for themselves and are comfortable with talking about it, making it more accessible and less stigmatized. 32:06 This feels great to hear someone say. We're in such an expansive information era that all this wonderful art from creative people just gets categorized as something to consume, rather than appreciate, be it games or the videos about them. So long as you strive to make something you're proud of, people will recognize that passion and integrity.
Don't you count Redfall as an ImSim? It's set for early next year.
Honestly I have no idea at this point. Arkane's been a little off lately.
@@CharlatanWonder Hmm fair. It's the team that made Prey though so if it's even half as good as that I'll be happy.
"He offered to recreate my save"
Jeez, now that is dedication. For a content creator, sure. But all the same, the offer to outright do work for the sole purpose of helping one player is confidence in your own work.
Yeah, like for reference I never mentioned I did and sort of video stuff. Dudes just dangerously based
im not big into immersive sims, but the thoughtful way you talk about games and making art is so refreshing, you've got a sub from me.
I think VTM:B 2 is so far gone at this point that I can't see anything decent being made, I'd rather cut my losses and just replay the first game for the 15th time.
I don't think the epicness that is old world of darkness can exist in this woke reality
Makes me happy that Immersive Sims are returning :)
Thanks for staying true to yourself and your work man. I really hate this algorithmic culture too. I hope things get better in the future, but somehow we need to get rid of youtube first.
Good luck next year! I salute your decision not to play the TH-cam game anymore. As someone who's had my fair share of experience with depression, I can imagine how emotionally and mentally draining that must've been. I got better (much better I'd say) only when I learned not to play certain 'games' and just go about life focusing more on what I wanted instead of what I felt was expected from me.
Ctrl Alt Ego is an unbelievable game. It's a crime it's only got a few hundred reviews on Steam
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At this point you are the king of the immersive sim.
Oh man, it's so dope that DDS got featured, it's been one of the better games I played this year, even with just the hacking you got a ton of stuff to play and a ton of missions to do. I highly recommend it right now.
Hey, I just wanna say I really appreciate everything you've done. I'm glad you're getting the help you need, and I do really appreciate the cooking segments, they've helped me improve as a chef!
>System Shock 3 in hands of tencent
misery
You'd like Tex from the BPL.
Man, Perepetia went from "this might be the next Deus Ex" to "look mom, I inserted my anime waifu OC protagonist into Deus Ex" *real* fast.
"went from-to"? Did you like...pay attention to the last 3 years? Marie was always a part of the project, and the project was always a DX-style 90s conspiracy roundup [eastern bloc edition]. The only thing that changed was how Marie looks uncanny in a good way now, like a kigurumi suit that went through a warzone, rather than just a weirdly dissonant 3d model of an anime girl - and that makes sense, because she's a combat doll. Her looking like that is part of the universe.
@@just_matt214 I guess I missed the completely out of place anime deviant art model in all of the previous screenshots and videos I saw and also that article I read online but I feel like that's something I would have noticed if it was present
@@PurpleIsALetter Yes you did lmao. I've literally played the *first* /agdg/ demo in a call with the game's fucking director (really nice, personable guy by the way) and a bunch of his friends and not only was Marie there from the start, but she actually looked much more jarring without the proper shading and layers of grime covering her plastic shell.
I also just went and watched the "Revealed" trailer from 2 years ago, i.e. the first trailer ever released for the game, and lo and behold you can see her in her apartment in the last 30 seconds (edit. in her old model form).
She was also *heavily* featured in *all* promotional art for the kickstarter, where she even appeared in the page's main banner (edit. as a 2d illustration, which she looks much better as honestly. But that's also true for JC Denton, to be fair).
Also, that first demo i mentioned earlier? Yeah that had *third person mode,* so you could see what Marie looked like all the way back then (edit. you can very much still get that demo, along with the new one, and test for yourself).
You didn't pay attention and that's ok, just don't act like you actually know what you're talking about next time.
@@just_matt214weird because the article I read on PC gamer described the protagonist as "living military surplus" which does not imply "poorly drawn anime fanart" and also did not appear in any of the screenshots.
So allow me to amend my criticism: the deviant art anime girl looks like shit, doesn't fit the art style of the game at all, and I personally have no interest in playing anime waifu oc simulator 2023. I'm sure there are plenty of Deus Ex mods that already cover those bases.
@@PurpleIsALetter "hurr durr a poorly researched PC Gamer article irreparably influenced my view of an otherwise good game. I am very intelligent."
Alright, you spectacular specimen of material density, you don't like the anime girl. That is also ok, i frankly don't give a shit about your personal taste, however shallow it appears to be.
What i'm giving you shit for is implying that there was somehow an unadvertised or otherwise sudden change of direction, which there wasn't for the shopping list of reason i just finished explaining. All of the evidence i gave is easily researchable and easily verifiable, and i'm pretty sure Shodanon himself (the director) will be up to listen to your concerns if you @ him on twitter or something. You know, in case you felt like making more of an oblivious ass of yourself online.
Like the thing or not i don't care, but implying dishonesty when there was nothing but clear and frequent communications (see: near-weekly devlogs & clips on various social media platforms) because of one shit article? That's where you'll find i get pissed off easily. So please, stop replying to me and go do some *very* easy research if you still care. This argument has been silly enough for long enough.
25:50 Why? Why did it needed to be changed? Help me understand why do you feel the design of SCP 173 had to be changed. I simply don't understand why.
The original "Peanut" design was made by a Japanese sculptor who held the copyright to the work and the picture of it that was featured on the wiki. Everyone was cool with it for years but finally the people who ran the site decided it was time to retire it because the copyright situation made fanworks like games a minefield of red tape and 173 also stole away the original artist's intent for his work. As I understand it, it was an amicable decision.
The real peanut will always be in your heart
cease from the cringe. Never do *that* again.
You forgot Fallen Aces, Monomyth, Core Decay, Synther, Filcher, Terminus Cyberstar, Safe Not Safe, Sorceress, and Imprisoned Hyperion 1 and 2.
I remember your video from about a year ago of you hoping for more immersive sim games. And now we have more of them. 😆 hopefully these games release fully sometime soon.
Also, I loved your rant at the end of the video. I love the transparency about what TH-cam's up to bc others can also see their bullshit.
What matters to us is your mental health, Charl. Don't let The System get you down, and remember to give the Saucy Boi scritches. Happy Holidays.
On the subject of Vampire: The Masquerade, I generally recommend the 20th Anniversary Edition over 5th ed. Partly because I just don't like the changes they made, both mechanically and in lore. But partly because, due to all those changes, older (and thus cheaper) books don't transfer over as easily to the new game. V20 is basically the culmination of all the previous editions, while being metaplot agnostic (except _Beckett's Jyhad Diary,_ which is "Oops, All Metaplot"; but it's also a really good book and one I recommend for a one stop shop collection of all the "goings on" in VtM). Moreover, V20 is closer to the VtM that people would be familiar with from VtM: Bloodlines.
That last part really hit home for me. As a musician people dont see what artists, animators, videographers, musicians, etc as art anymore. Its just Content to be consumed. Its really really sad that most people dont treat what people do with merit anymore and the systems you have to abide by to make money doing what you love are forcing people into paths they dont want do go down. Its sad and depressing but you cant give up on shit. I couldve probably hopped on a trend and gained a following by now but i didnt because that wouldnt be me. that wouldnt be my art. and it sucks to see people who are legitimately talented lose passion for their art because of the system and the content cycle. TL;DR MAKE YOUR ART MAN!!! LET YOUR BALLS HANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m learning I’ve had a very different idea of Immersive sim than everyone else. (Assumed it was a sub-genre too, like Deus Ex was an ‘Immersive sim’ RPG)
I always took it as games that intertwine their game mechanics with their world, or use in world solutions to create an immersive sim-like experience without becoming ‘meta’. So I kinda wonder what these would actually be called.
Like, apart from Deus Ex, prime examples to me are: Iron Lung or Carrier Command 2. Games that ask the player to interact with the world in ways that ‘feel’ realistic (not doing commands through hotkeys but having to interact with terminals and pilot your machines as if you were in the seat) and pull you into the game world. Far out examples would be like Cruelty Squad. I’d also say things like Nier Automata’s Menu being inter-grated into the gameworld in story and gameplay would be an “immersive sim” element, same with stuff like Signalis’ radio mechanic.
I’m obviously wrong about what I thought immersive sim meant, but I really wish we had a word for games that blur the line between the game and world like that, because it really leads to memorable and immersive experiences.
I've lately seen an "Immersive Sim" tag on X-Plane 12 Steam page. This surprised me quite a lot because Laminar are huge nerds, and i'd expect them to at least know about Deus Ex and the term itself. Maybe it's a joke of sorts...
My dude, I don't really think you know what you're talking about when talking about the Vampire The Masquerade tabletop. Corebook is all you need. Yes, it's a lore dense game, but most of the characters in-game don't even know a percentage of what is going on in the whole World of Darkness universe lore-wise.
No need to discourage people from picking up the game due to needing something like the Book of Nod to play (which is more of a prop to buy than anything)
Immersive sim is when game make you smart
as someone who is just discovering how much I love ImSims, I found your channel while searching for games to play. I found so so many gems to play and had a very good time.
the outro about TH-cam, weirdly made me cry. I know this video is almost a year old but I really appreciate you and your videos and I am SO glad you are going to keep being you.
I hope you are doing better, Love you
just wanted to comment that the ending segment was extremely truthful and very inspiring.
i really do agree that when it comes to people and their creations, undermining yourself by becoming a so-called content creator instead of a true artist honing their craft (whether it be through music, or in this case a visual art such as video-making) just to pump out videos that pander to the masses instead of what *you* really want to create, really does diminish individuality, if i am interpreting the message correctly. i am very sorry for what you've gone through recently, and i hope 2023 is an excellent year for you! keep doing what you're doing man
I for one fell in love with your channel because you didn't do the POG face or ad shit. You can tell more and more who really are passionate in making videos now adays and who are just trying to make money. Keep being you Char and I'll keep watching.
As a person who struggles making art in general, the best advice I can give is make stuff that you're passionate about. Don't try to work for the algorithm; make the algorithm work for you.
As much as I appreciate you introducing me to Ctrl alt Ego, I think you went overboard being aggressive to other TH-camrs for not covering it.
To me, an immersive sim is a game where the world feels alive even without your involvement, where everything feels thought out enough to be a real things that could actually happen (in terms of things and systems making sense, regardless of whether they're sci-fi or fantasy or anything like that), where gameplay, game design, and the world itself meld together seamlessly into a fantastic experience that slots right in with the world you're exploring. An immersive sim is usually open world to some degree, at least in terms of being able to explore freely at your own pace and order, with gameplay that inherently is welcoming to your own ingenuity and ideas for solving issues and advancing through the game, with engines designed to facilitate that kind of openness. An immersive sim more often than not also pays special attention to sound design as well as graphics and atmosphere, not necessarily by being cutting edge, but by being in harmony with one another in order to give you the sense that you are in the game, hence immersing you. An immersive sim is a game that responds to your input in spite of being set in a world that functions fine even without you. Where your actions have consequences, and choices/methods you use are reflected in the rest of the game.
These are just the thoughts at the top of my head when thinking of a definition of an immersive sim
Wow. Super proud of you, dude! What you said at the end of the video must have been a long time coming, but most importantly, hard. Massive respect!
I release so many videos that could be shorts, but I wont make them shorts. I wouldnt compromise the quality of my video and its watchability so it gets more views.
Without implying anything other than shear force and carnal will-power, your speech gave off "I'M A PIONEER! I'M AN EXPLORER! AND I COMIN'!" vibes.
Putting Bloodlines 1/2 on this list is a big strech. Realistically, it is just a good adpatation of TTG books in a video game format.