Episode 104: Is the Immersive Sim Dead?

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We’re trying something different with the Friday episodes of Waypoint Radio. One, Danielle is the host! Two, the discussion is framed around a single topic. That doesn’t mean we won’t talk about games we’ve been playing (or big news), but generally, this is the new format. In the future, we’ll be announcing topics in advance, so you can weigh in with questions. On today’s episode, the future of the immersive sim genre (aka Deus Ex, Dishonored, Prey) is explored by Danielle, Rob, Austin, and Patrick.

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0:00.0	Waypoint Radio is made possible by Google Home, your at-home voice assistant.
0:04.3	Well, we got when we wanted.
0:06.8	Immersive Sims returned to the world from 2007 through the 2010s, but it turns out that
0:12.7	no one else ever asked for this and all the games apparently did not resonate with a larger
0:18.1	audience.
0:19.1	So let us look up and bear witness to the passing of this great age and mark the second
0:23.5	death of the Immersive Sims genre.
0:27.3	So that was Robert Yang writing on his radiator design vlog in a post called
0:33.4	Very Appropriately.
0:35.3	The second death of the Immersive Sim 2007 to 2017 and a dark prophecy for Third-Wade
0:42.3	Immersive Sims.
0:43.3	I'm Danielle Riendo and I am joined by my wonderful co-host here on Waypoint Radio.
0:51.4	This is also episode 104.
0:52.4	I should tell you that and that was a point of contention going in making sure that we
0:56.8	have the number right.
0:57.8	That should be the right number.
0:59.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:00.8	Do we have an episode zero?
1:02.8	Oh, God.
1:03.8	Do we have an episode zero?
1:05.8	I don't think so.
1:06.8	I think it was episode.
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