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I never really understood how BioShock got this tag. What about it is an immersive SIM exactly? Bioshock is a linear first person shooter action/stealth game. There’s no other mechanics. You don’t have to survive in any way with food or water. There’s no deep mechanic specific to the world that you need to tend to and maintain. Literally the only thing that comes even close to being that sort of mechanic is the hacking? Is it an immersive sim simply because you can hack things and lock pick? Because I do those things in Nancy Drew games as well, but I’m pretty sure those are just point and click adventure games. I think BioShock is an amazing atmospheric first shooter RPG, but I’ve never understood how people think of it as an immersive simulator.
Lmao i bet he was like “fuck those phone companies”