Anon01/23/26, 12:13No.3914366
Well it isn't an immersive sim... like at all. So RPG it is (maybe FPS-RPG specifically? I don't fucking know.) Immersive sims are the old Looking Glass studios games from the 90s like Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Thief (and then other games that followed that design path after Looking Glass went broke like Deus Ex, Dishonored and Prey.) And yes, the name is shitty and everyone hates it (it should've really been Looking Glass-like or something I dunno) but it's the name that stuck so what can you do?VTMB isn't from that line - at all. It's actually a Troika game and continues on from Arcanum/Fallout but started their transition from Isometric to full, first person 3D (which then went nowhere cause Troika almost immediately went out of business after publishing it.) VTMB does somewhat superficially resemble Deus Ex but not its immersive sim elements, there's some confusion because people think the term 'immersive sim' was created to describe Deus Ex - it wasn't, it dates back to Ultima Underworld from 1992.And besides the real test of immersive sims tends to be (semi) realistic, systems-driven emergent behavior and VTMB doesn't really do that, at all. Pretty much every problem that isn't solved by shooting is a dialogue option that the devs pre-programmed OR a dialogue option being unlocked from a skill check which is an RPG mechanic AND pre-programmed by the devs and not emergent behavior from the game's systems interacting in unexpected ways
