What's immersion ?
This is starting to make a good case for la durée ...
vivre dans la durée s'est faire un effort presque héroïque pour s'arracher au temps des horloges et revenir au temps vivant
La durée n'est pas seulement une quantité de temps, c'est l'expérience de la réalité du temps.
(read more : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-pourquoi-du-comment-philo/comment-vivre-dans-la-duree-5681322 )
Maybe, uncle Albert, you need to re-consider the relative experiencing as a concept in a universe that doesnt have a hi school degree and certainly doesnt count numbers, which are a human construct and "maybe" some aliens might use them too, but there's no guarantee they do , is there, after all you can perceive and understand almost anything in systems without numbers
(they had a scuffle : read more : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/bergson-versus-einstein-une-dispute-temporelle-qui-dure-2599200 )
wish i could say language doesnt matter but as great as google search is after 30 years of billions, thus it fareth in translation a lot ... tho the giste should be clear and there should be tons of english articles about it .. the guy was french tho
but
immersion ????
photorealism ?
lots of (true) gamers will tell you today that this photorealist fad isnt really helping and plenty are grabbing for elder games b/C the new ones just dont do it
In comes this thing out of nowhere (well never heard about it living here on the dark side of pluto until last week) after 15 years of development and i must say
THIS IS THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD AND RUNNING WATER !!
nah ... okay maybe not but thinking back to "a game that had me sit down and play while the world fades .... " i have to grab back to Ark evolved in its early days (when we actually played with other humans online often ... WAY WAY before that we even had guilds in mmo's and all that ... imagine that : this one being a guild leader in an mmo huh ???)
well
things change only dead things don't so maybe we're dead now b/c we seem to be stuck
This thing is a solo d&d with so many mechanics and tidbits in 800 mb of huge world it just sucked me in right up ... the fact that a game has permadeath in 2025 ( equals : you die : your character gets DELETED ... no load from save unless you save-quit and reload while you were living , there's a weakling and a lamer mode ofcourse for mobile gamers but who wants that)
Truly and really - in a time in a life thats over for a good 25 years with no way out and no future, all exits blocked and all options killed off - this must be a mercy from a benevolent goddess who pushed it through after the others stuck me in hell for whatever we did in past lives (maybe one of us was Hitler or something, tho today a lot of folk are making a good case for the guy to come back from the dead and restore Europe ... -
ahem
well not me, personally we read a lot about everything and the nazis were built on Goebbels and Himmler (and some less known names) a lot more than they were on the little WW1 corporal - the guy had fire and the others used it but the idol they created gained its own power over time ... which probably is why we aint speaking all german today here - the fact that the great leader went bonkers and attacked everyone at once ...
Churchill AND the russians on two fronts turned out to be a bad idea,im sure a few will have tried to tell that but by then the figure was so all-powerful and godlike no one could stop the decrees ...
today they wann rip off the poor to give the money to defense ... i hear b/C trump said "europe is on its own" ... last time we checked when the americans "helped" was in 1945 btw ... so who are we defending from ? The aliens perhaps i didnt know we were under attack and at the current advancement rates the russians will be in brussel in about 106 years from now so by then the mines are dry and brussels will have very little to offer ... ANYWAY ANWAY ...
the game ... yea, since ARK and the orginal dark souls i dont think i been this drawn in ... the fact that you can just turn the screen and get eaten after 4 or 5 levels and your character's gone just makes it all the more SUPER GRANDISSIMO and excellento fabulo
had bout 10 or 12 chars by now most never saw level 2 .. the marsh taur seems to have a bad thing when wading through salt water as its some kind of toad mutation that dehydrates from it b/c it drinks by pouring liquid over its skin .. ( .. duh?)
the slinger killed the whole town so i think he's fubar for the game unless i know a town where i can loot bullets with the last 68 i have AND find a blueprint to make more but id have tokill the whole planet
as alluring as that sounds its probably not something for "new players" to do
This druid-type herbalist esper with a masterchef degree went gud and careful for a while but then due to his low constitution got instagibbed by an exploding plant (which he summoned to block the other stuff) which he set on fire with his ray of fire ability, after a few turns the thing exploded and as the guy just happened to have received a few hits it was a goner
So the farting tortoise ( ?? lol ??)
seems to be the best char yet (not counting the slinger b/c murdering the npc's was just an accident and follow-up so not sure how it would fare in the game vs quest and mobs as i dont know if flying will work in an underground dungeon (yet ) ))
Despite that after going through the surrounding marsh fields of Joppa and carefully killing all .... dunno some kind of cyberfantasy future pumpkin and fish that glow in the dark (so you can see them at night)
after 4 levels and finding out i need 1 more willpower to get mental fasting (50% slower thirst and hunger - in the post-apocalypse id think a good trait to have) i move north to the rock to check out the quest trader Mehmet gives to help the local farmers
I decide to walk instead of travel across the worldmap ... get some more encounters and xp , however
turns out they have something called chitinpumas(? ithink) which are worth about 300XP (the other plants before were 25 each) so suddenly there's two, travelling by night , the UI on a 4K hdr screen is made so you CAN see them but barely , and thats only b/c this tortoise character with the sleeping gas (they all have benefits) who cant wear armor b/c he has a shell (tortoise) on his back and no helmet b/c he has HORNS (which give a chance to gore an opponent on hit) ... they all have drawbacks ...
has an ability that allows detection of enemies, or lets say "entities" in x squares around (which can level up too, like almost everything i see so far)
... using all my healing waffles i can take down one so i see 300xp and immediately know the second one will take me down , so i turn on "sprint" but ofcourse
pumas run faster than sprinting tortoises
eL-MAO flol ror
i think this can keep us immersed for a while and rooting for the devs to keep expanding, more npcs, more encounters, MORE LORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
more traits, perks, benefits, curses drawbacks and
other than selling corpses to merchants i still havent found how to get sweetwater yet
"fresh" water
which is like the alpha and omega in post-apocalypse after the post-post apocalypse world
But "la durée" certainly showed itself the night was twice as long