Comment on What is immersion to you?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 day ago
Immersion is tricky, because it is an incredibly subjective thing. At the end of the day, what immersion means (I think) is that the “veil” separating you from the game is incredibly thin and transparent. Think of it as wearing glasses: if a game is un-immersive the lenses are dirty and scratched. You can still see whatever is in front of you, but you’re constantly aware of the fact that you’re wearing glasses. An immersive game is like wearing perfectly pristine glasses: you forget you’re wearing glasses at all and can just take in what’s in front of you.
An immersive game to me is something that successfully manages to both suspend disbelief and sustain the illusion of a living world, letting you mostly forget that it’s a pre-programmed game you’re interacting with. I always found something like the STALKER games great for this, with their dynamic A-life AI scheduling really selling the whole living world feeling.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Stalker is great, I have some good stories in EFP with some rando NPC have a journey together, but he died to a Monolith trap in a The Red Forest meat grinder, and I barely got out alive, that was one of the most terrifying battles I’ve had when there are mutants from the south, and they are advancing from the North, seemingly shooting from every direction.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 15 hours ago
I didn’t realise you were an Anomaly enjoyer! I love that game too, between the mood and the atmosphere, the hunger/thirst/sleep system along with the FDDA animations and of course Alife I think Anomaly is one of the most immersive games for me.
I’ve actually been working on a mod lately that uses AI to produce dynamic dialogue for NPCs in Anomaly, which leads to even more immersion.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, old stalker here, I stopped playing just before GAMMA came out. Still biding my time to return to the zone someday, still waiting for GSC to fix the second game. Meanwhile, I will miss my hunting trips at Darkscape until a blowout starts when I am in the middle of nowhere and crap my pants.
The mod sounds nice, sounds like it will give more flavour to companions, will Hip get more dialogue? xD
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
Well, that’s the nice thing about using AI for this, she can have unlimited dialogue - as can anyone else in the game. You can talk to anyone and have full conversations with them, and they have a working memory too. Your companions have unique personalities and unique random backstories and even some character development.