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Disco elysium and all the other walking simulators.
You don't understand what a 'walking simulator' is.
it's really more of a shuffling simulator
I would say the opposite. It's an RPG with the combat removed, the part that always ages the worst. It's also fully voice acted.
Inshallah we will see in ten years.
Planescape Torment is still celebrated and it's a similar narrative heavy game
Torment has a functional ad&d engine.
It’s not a walking sim by any measure.
Also speaking as someone who played torment four times, including when it first came out, it’s possibly the worst infinity engine game unless there’s some weird mess hidden in the mists of time.
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Regarding Disco Elysium.
Walking simulators were poorly received from the start.
I kinda think the genre as a whole is spinning its tires.
walking simulators already had their "aged poorly" moment, and their "comeback thanks to an example with really good writing" moment, and now they're a niche genre that occasionally get something notable like The Looker.
I feel like the walking sim aging poorly moment is rolling. Once any of em gets enough years to have a person check it out again it’s suddenly aged poorly.
I’d be interested to see one that has aged well outside of that “janky but possessed of grim foresight” way that a lot of old stuff has.
i have no idea what you mean. it's literally the same people who wouldn't have liked them on release. Gone Home is still good. Tacoma is still good. Proteus is still good. The Beginner's Guide is still good. Firewatch is incredible. Probably the worst one that was critically acclaimed on release is Dear Esther, but that always had a hack premise. Find me a single person who will say "yeah I used to be really into games about going places and looking at things but I'm not any more."