Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Diablo, Fable, Mass Effect
Somewhat mostly off topic, but it's kind of mystifying to me that no one seems to ever describe Japanese ARPGs as ARPGs. They usually break out that old catch-all adventure. The basic combat of shit like Dark Cloud and Diablo are basically identical even if they are very different games in a lot of ways. Then again a lot of people seem to ignore that ARPGs are just real-time roguelikes.
Immersion is another way of saying “stupid time wasting bullshit.” I’m literally reading this thread while cooking in red dead redemption 2 because it’s dumb as hell and requires zero actual attention. I don’t care if it’s “immersive” I have to hunt down, watch Arthur slowly skin an animal for meat, then slowly cook it over a camp fire, to eat it to fill up meters.
At least in MGS3 you get rations instantly (I remember thinking the needing to eat feature being pretty cool and novel when it came out) and the and can skip the dumb cooking cutscene in BOTW. I don’t need to see Arthur hold his knife over a fire 10x in a row. And BOTW adds some strategy to recipes and being necessary to navigate the environment. Red dead you make small, medium, and large restore items.
Just buy food, money comes easy post-chap 3
That's not what immersion is to me. To me immersion is usually things you don't notice- characters not walking into walls, wolves and rats not dropping $50 bills on death. If anything, things like crafting take me out of the game since it's drawing attention to the stupid gameplay things. So to me it's typically used incorrectly by game reviewers trying to sound smart.
Fight N Rage? Guilty Gear Izuka?
