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Anonymous01/22/26, 08:48No.3913704
So is it an immersive sym or an RPG?
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Anon01/22/26, 08:54No.3913705
It's a first person point & click action adventure with RPG elements
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Anon01/22/26, 08:57No.3913707
It is real time thus not an RPG. Immersive Sims are a type of ARPG so probably that. Still it is pretty barebones in that department.
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Anon01/22/26, 12:03No.3913756
its a good game
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Anon01/22/26, 12:20No.3913763
It's a first person action RPG
It's not like imsim elements are a real thing anyways. Spector just made it up because he needed a term for his simulation elements, but in my opinion, those are integrated as default in most rpgs
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Anon01/22/26, 14:46No.3913815
it's a hack n slash first person shooter
not an rpg and immersive sims aren't real
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Anon01/22/26, 15:10No.3913822
whats with the brainlet's hyperfixation on categorization?
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Anon01/22/26, 18:24No.3913926
Bloodlines is not an 0451 game.
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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
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Anon01/24/26, 17:28No.3914955
Neither, could barely even be called a video game really.
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Anon01/24/26, 21:03No.3915041
There's not really a lot of roleplaying in it other than just picking your ending and deciding to do quests or not, and the depth to builds is basically pick only two between melee, guns, and disciplines if you want the game to be easy (unless you carefully manage your exp and you can get them all).
I'd still call it an RPG, but it's not a strong example of one since there's a lot of other genre's elements at play. It's just a good game in general.
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Anon01/26/26, 20:31No.3915950
Imsim/RPG hybrid.
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Anon01/26/26, 21:14No.3915962
fuck im installing it
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Anon01/27/26, 23:47No.3916642
I'm ambivalent about the immersive sim term but I don't understand why people keep calling vtmb one. You can't move around shit to climb over walls or blow up doors or whatever so no it's not an 'immersive sim' - if anything, Arcanum has more of that kind of stuff, but it isn't first person I guess
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Anon01/28/26, 06:48No.3916906
I just came here to say that Ventrue are the best clan and LaCroix has given so many people a poor idea of what they're actually like.
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Anon01/28/26, 11:31No.3917000
Larian DOS1/2 and BG3 are closer to imsim design philosophy than VTMB is. Just because VTMB is a first person action RPG doesn't make it an imsim.
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Anon01/29/26, 00:24No.3917399
Its not.
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Anon01/29/26, 07:16No.3917512
Try not to take this too hard, redditors, but.. That super cool niche genre you can't define? It's actually just ARPG. Yes, the most popular and mainstream genre.
>Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a 1992 action role-playing game
>System Shock 2 is a 1999 action role-playing survival horror video game
>Deus Ex is a 2000 action role-playing game
>Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a 2004 action role-playing video game