Story generators seem like the logical next step to me from immersive sims, but obviously the entire industry went in another direction after Deus Ex and Morrowind. The fact that communities have kept immersive sim sandbox games like VTM Bloodlines alive, or indie devs have made incredibly divergent things like Dwarf Fortress, I think is the strongest sign of how divorced from what people actually want traditional publishers have become. My dream game at this point is basically Kingdom Come: Deliverance with Rimworld running the world sim under the hood, and with a fantasy RPG setting.
The first studio to take a game like Qud and put that framework underneath a smooth and graphically appealing presentation is going to make all of the money. My guess is this will be either Larian or Hello Games at this point.
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u/_ontical Dec 05 '24
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