So I watched the entirety of Skill Up's interview with Ken Levine, and I'm not as disappointed or worried about the game being procedurally generated, because it won't at least in terms of how we understand. Levine calls it pseudo procedurally generated, in the sense that the game has a pool of content to draw from that is put together reactively at runtime. It changes and curates content based on a variety of factors like where you are, where you're going, making sure you're not seeing things you've already seen recently to keep the pacing and combat interesting. The game will tune itself if you've been too combat heavy, or if you're playing stealthy a lot the game will pick up on this and get trickier. NPCs will try to swing you in narrative directions based on your decisions and will even try to incentivize you with inventory items that they know you're short on or need. It's an intriguing take on procedural generation.
In regard to the game being roguelite, Levine calls it a Judas simulator, whatever that means. Dying won't just be a shift in gameplay perspective but a narrative one too. It will have a narratively rewarding gameplay loop. They refrained from discussing it because of spoilers, but the Skill Up guys seemed quite wowed by it.
I'm still looking forward to it, just hope Levine isn't lying to me!
So not an immersive sims uh?
Lost almost all the interest i had.
It might actually be the most complicated and interesting immersive sim ever made. Please be excited.
