I’d add on that the expectation in an individualist society like the US is to become independent and move out. Those ideas are used synonymously in a lot of contexts. Someone who hasn’t moved out can be seen as lacking independence. Of course that isn’t necessarily true, but it’s the perception.

For a young person growing up with these ideas as the standard, there can be a certain safety in forgoing that independence. That was my situation for years, where I was financially independent, but moved back home after my roommates moved away. I was in my mid twenties before I moved out for good.

• Enter The Matrix [Ties Into The Matrix Resurrections]

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora [Co-Exists With The Avatar Movies]

• Ghostbusters: The Video Game [Acts As A Sequel To Ghostbusters II]

• Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) [Exists In The Spider-Verse]

• The Thing [Takes The Mystery Out Of The Movie’s Ending]

• Saw: The Video Game [Saw’s Creators Contributed To The Game]

• Mad Max [Introduced Furiosa’s Main Villain]

• The Lord Of The Rings Online [Expands The World Of Middle-Earth]

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [Part Of The Star Wars Timeline]

• Kingdom Hearts 3 [The Toy Story world is meant to take place before Toy Story 3 in the canon timeline of the movies.]

Some of these are a stretch, imo

You were trying to be profound, but you sound like crazy Alfred from Bloodborne.

That’s even better than what the article said, great news!

For 30 minutes, but yeah. Still very exciting!

Cool, so I’ll wait to pick this game up until it’s $10 on a steam sale in 5 years, and play the community’s modded version.

“What kind of games do you like?”

“I like G’s.”

Not at all, please read my comment again.

Good job. I have never felt the need to Google that since I never had a reason to question what I thought it meant.

I want to thank you for asking this question, and also explain why for the, “just google it” crowd.

I have believed for the last 10+ years that this meant combat-rpg. My ignorance would never have been fixed if someone hadn’t asked the question in a place like this; I never would have googled the answer to a question I didn’t have.

How many more serious questions out there would benefit from more discussion, rather than individual research?

Alright, take my soap box from me.

The old adage is relevant here:

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

So, is “immersive sim” just a vaguely plot-driven game in a setting with good world building?

Pointing to a franchise that has been incredibly stale and unimaginative for years now and using that to condemn video games as a whole is pretty misguided, I think.