>>11892249
Completely agree with all the anons about "immersive sims", I understand that what Warren was getting at (and he keeps insisting it was Doug Church who came up with the term) was their approach to designing games. It's not a genre. It's a translation of the freedom of ttrpgs to 3d video games. These guys were all tabletop chads and understood that numbers and dice rolls are just tools for adding balance and risk to player decisions, but that playing an rpg is eventually about your decisions, the numbers are just there to keep things engaging. Autists didn't get this and started making rpgs for computers where the numbers are the only thing that matters.
Also, I never heard anything described as "immersive sim" bitd. We called games after what you were doing in the games. Me and my friends called Thief a stealth game or sneak game, we saw it as the next level of what Tenchu had done. Deus Ex was a shooter for us but we unironically believed that this degree of interactivity and player freedom was the future of fps (holy fuck were we wrong about this).

>>715191753
No.

>>713764003