The History Of Immersive Sims | Part One

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  @TafferKing451 · 7 years ago · pinned

  I've been working on a Thief/SS2 spiritual successor with David Szymanski (the designer of DUSK). If any of you folks are looking for something that quenches that immersive sim thirst, the game is called Gloomwood. Here's hoping it doesn't kill our studio lol

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• NP

  @npc6817 · 6 years ago

  game in the 80&apos;s: bleep bloop<br>society: SUCH VIOLENCE!

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• KA

  @KalleVilenius · 7 years ago

  The one genre I truly admire despite never having actually beaten a single game set in it.

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• TH

  @TheOnlyRise · 7 years ago

  I hope you&apos;ll talk about the future of the immersive sims in the next video, because we need to give this genre some support when the industry doesn&apos;t.<br><br><br>Pathologic 2 *cough cough*.

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• DA

  @damazywlodarczyk · 7 years ago

  This is still the most ambitious game design, which never really took off, but should be a standard.

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• PA

  @patrickmccarron2817 · 4 years ago (edited)

  God the original thief really takes me back. I had a friend growing up who’s Dad worked at Bethesda doing concept art, so he had a huge PC game collection. I just remember playing an early copy of Morrowind and the thief games nonstop, good times.

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• BI

  @BinaryDood · 7 years ago

  Thief, especially the the Metal Age, is such a masterful game that manages to look amazing despite polycount due to incredibly well placed shadows, has probably the best audio I have seen in any game despite how old it is... and made levels gigantic whilst still making them feel like real places.

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• AM

  @americ1800 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Games where imagination were our graphics, and paper were our user interface.&quot; What a line

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• FR

  @FrenziedRoach · 7 years ago

  Thief will always hold a very special place in my heart. Hell, I even named one of my son&apos;s Garrett. I still install it every year and do a playthrough on it.

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• IA

  @ian_b · 7 years ago

  I&apos;m 53 and sometimes it just amazes me how much of the human experience has come into existence during my lifetime. Things no human ever did before. Entire genres of experience, rather than just specific things. Like RPGs. I started playing D&amp;D with some friends in around 1981 I think. It didn&apos;t even exist when I was born. Nobody had ever played a role playing game when I was born. That leaves me feeling amazed sometimes.<br><br>Also other minor things like man on the Moon, the internet and oven chips.

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• MO

  @morganometry · 7 years ago (edited)

  Fittingly enough, I&apos;m watching this right after having just recently started Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines for the first time. I&apos;m really glad immersive sims are coming back into the public eye, and thus far (I&apos;m only about 20 minutes in) this video seems to be a pretty good crash course on their history

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• QU

  @quantumpotato · 7 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osfg_eahDOo&amp;t=54">0:54</a> when you swing the explosive sword

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