My major desire is to see something with the same level of care, detail, and more 'realism' in a fantasy setting. Wanna do magic? Learn to read, do these hard trials, cast your first most basic spell which has like 5 steps to it etc, etc. Much easier to be a swordsman or archer, but well worth the effort.
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There's nothing more realistically cozy in gaming than being in a well stocked up cabin in TLD, with a fire roaring in the stove while a blizzard is howling outside.
I work at a nuclear power plant, and we have certain jobs that are super crucial that they be done right with no room for error. They have some of the tasks recreated in VR so people can practice it before doing it IRL. It was really weird to walk in one day and see some guy wearing an HTC Vive and everyone in the lunch room was just watching what he was doing on the TV screens lol.
@UOA Plays Thats so cool! I remember seeing a segment on one of Thrillseeker's Tuesday Newsdays about the overlay with vr. They wete talking about how a mechanic can just teach people how to fix their car from the shop just by wearing their headset and using an app that ocerlays their hands with passthru. Some wild wild shit, and youre right, slowly but surely were getting ro that matrix style learning. No longer needing to spend thousnads of debted dollars in school when you could quite litterally replicate the movements of professionals. Insane.
Thank you for mentioning theHunter:CotW! Sometimes I just turn off all the HUD, walk around and listen to the ambience and watch the trees gently sway in the sunlight. After working all week, it puts my mind at ease - I love it a lot, and it's GREAT for relaxing!
I have not played Call of the Wild, but I have spent entire irl days just wandering around RDR2 hunting and fishing, taking in the nature. That game is next level... I can practically smell the forest dew at sunrise and the tar of the railroad tracks in hot sun. The animal AI scripting is better than most games enemy AI. 😂 Ubisoft... looking in your direction.
@@Spongeboobie People live in cities too you know. And I also go outside, but I can't really go all over the world just to hike... Still, I love the mountains and forests here, that's why I also love the game.
I have a love-hate relationship with project zomboid. I love the game but whenever I play with friends I suddenly start lagging to no end. As in a part of the map goes black when running and I then can't go past that part of the map, and if I am in a car when they drive, I lag out of the game. But solo is amazing.
Something about Kingdom Come Deliverance just works. Bugs aside, the game has me locked in. Learning how to use a bow felt so satisfying (on PC)! Selling Game, just to get a decent set of armor. Although the fighting could be better and it was enough to keep me engaged... I can go on forever about this game. 9.5 out of 10 for me.
I haven't played a game that's really nailed amazing feeling yet complex first person melee combat. There are some games that are far more complex, but they feel far worse than KKD. There are some that feel great, but they're simpler than KKD. Seems like there's just an unbreakable spectrum of choosing somewhere between complex or fun. I will add one caveat to say that some VR games are coming close. E.G. Blade and Sorcery feels amazing, and on your end is basically as complex as your real body movements are. What holds them back is that the AI doesn't remotely hold up to that. They fight back like a five year old child with a broken tree branch.
Eleven Table Tennis both kept me sane during the pandemic and allowed me to perfect a couple of serves that I had had trouble with for years. Great game.
KCD devs basically confirmed they're working on a new game set in medieval Europe. They advertised for a job looking for someone to animate and edit both funny and dramatic scenes. Very excited. Also you guys HAVE to try the gliding in MSFS, I've never seen gliding done with such detail in a game before and it's just awesome, it's not perfect, there's a little jank but it's a really chill experience.
I am a bit of the opposite, I dont like too much realism since life is hard enough already, I dont want to feel stressed playing games when games are supposed to let you have fun enjoying them lol
Kingdom come I’ve bought twice to play in both systems. I originally gave up. And then gave it another chance. So glad I did. Amazing game. One of my favorites of all time
I actually play Hunter as a walking sim and enjoy a bit of the sense of getting out into nature that the game provides. A lot of the factors that make it such a detailed hunting game end up making for a better walking sim than any other I've found. I don't like the idea of hunting and haven't killed a thing in the game, but I love just being able to follow trails from campsite to campsite. When the fires in the mountains were getting bad and I couldn't get out into the real mountains, it was a decent substitute
I think I'm gonna download Hunter now. Everytime I see Hunter on gamepass library when I browse games, I am having this urge to download it but I resist myself. I want to experience to venture out in the wild through games with realistic graphics and mechanics. But I don't want to hunt animals. Base on your comment, I'm gonna give it a try.
@@macaeangelius3183 I used the game as a walking sim as well at the beginning. It was really impressive at first. I would like to see some wild animals in real. Did not see a lot of them, and in the game you don't cross them a lot as well, so a lot of walk, but beautifull landscapes and lights effects
I think DCS World is a great fit for this list. Just as realistic as Microsoft Flight Sim with things like radar systems, different kinds of weapons, all the Fox missiles callouts are there some some more.
Dont compare mfs with dcs. I am a huge fan of mfs but dcs is just leagues and leagues ahead of mfs. MFS is for the casual simmer. DCS is for those people who prefer nothing less than perfection in their fighter plane simulation. I tried playing with mouse, I couldn't. I think it requires joystick, playing with mouse is impossible.
@@DogRozan Yeah. I have just 2 questions. Can we put flying hours in some kind of professional grade version of dcs? (No no, i am not trying to fly random planes like in top gun maverick last scene, just asking 😊✌) Also, if there any news of a new version coming? Because i think the current version runs bad on my laptop. I dont have dedicated gpu, but only integrated iris xe, but still at lowest settings, it gives 10-15 fps only.
I'd say some of the shortcomings of Green hell from what I saw in the gameplay of it is that its healing system can be hyperspecific, for e.g. to remove a larva growing under the skin you need fish bone or bone needle, while really you could use any sharp object for that including knives you keep using for crafting...
@@RaneBoDasch Yeah but if you go for realism you need to take into account a certain level of improvisation that goes into survival in the wilderness, including using different kinds of tools for different things maybe making some sort of penalty for using a worse tool (like for e.g. bigger wound after the operation), as this kind of hyperspecific treatment feels kinda out of place in a game trying to be realistic this much
I dont care about realism, if i ever find myself lost in a jungle and i have larva growing under my skin, i will find some kind of a needle or something that can serve as tweezers. Will absolutely not imprecisely cut open my arm or a leg with a knife...naah, no way, even with a needle it would be difficult but with a knife, yeah you will remove the larva but you will make a terrible wound.
Kingdom come Deliverance is the most immersive open world historically accurate game mankind has ever witnessed... KCD takes the best features from elder scrolls series and puts them in a real medieval timeline... I have over 300 hrs on KCD and still it impresses me like no other game... the alchemy minigame is the most perfect... here you don't have a menu... instead you physically combine herbs and boil them and pour them in vials in specific amounts and sequence to get a desired potion or medicine... the immersion is so satisfying and next-gen...
It's funny I started playing PC Building simulator a couple of years ago, and my wife came in and asked me what I was doing and my brain went "I'm working" because in real life I do desktop support. Haven't picked it back up since that moment when I realized that in my free time I was pretending to do work.
Oooh, I love Green Hell. It's up there on the list of my favorite survival games. I love all the attention to detail, how you have to manage your inventor, treat your injuries. The brutal nature of the game actually makes it pretty fun...even when you're losing. As maybe an honorable mention, I'd say the Car Mechanic Simulator line is pretty good, especially CMS '21. While it's not 1/1 on the realism, it comes pretty close. I mean, other than where to put the oil and the gas, I knew very little about my own car. But after playing CMS '21, I could pop the hood and knew what each part I was looking at was or where certain parts were that I may have been looking for in particular. It's definitely a nice little chill game for car enthusiasts or maybe someone looking to get into some sort of automotive/mechanical trade.
Green Hell is awesome, but I actually like the Long Dark a bit more. Green Hell is a bit more realistic but the art style of Long Dark is just something so unique, and it does have alot of the survival stuff that Green Hell does minus the hardcore dietary standards and insanity.
A heavily modded Project Zomboid is even more fun. Especially if you add hygiene and bladder/poop mods. People often forget the hygiene aspect of the apocalypse and how likely you're going to crap yourself from fear the first few times. It's fun cos you can push the game to be too realistic with mods.
I would add Car Mechanic Simulator (basically any version). If you want to learn how in general cars are assembled and what parts go where it's worth trying it out
Been playing the hell outta CMS' 2021. And outside of maybe changing the oil and filters on my car...I know next to nothing about mechanical stuff like that. But after playing CMS, I was able to pop my hood and I understood what each part was I was looking at or where to look if I was trying to find a specific part in particular. A really good game and decent chill time waster imo.
I actually enjoy RDR2's Hunting/Fishing elements. So much that I play it almost exclusively for the Cowboy Outdoorsman experience. I have upgraded everything there is to upgrade in the camp and Trapper except for a couple Talismans because some Legendary Animals/Fish are available only in Chapter 4 or something and Im just at the part where we just arrived in Horseshoe Overlook.
PC Builder is real fun when you try to push benchmarks as high as possible while making ultimate gaming rigs, glad this game made on the list (and a bonus for it being on the top)
I played PC Building Simulator for about 30 minutes, got major flashbacks to having worked in IT for a living for over 10 years, and haven't touched it since. That's how good it is :)
Project Zomboid kinda blew my mind when I played it and realized you could end up with a deaf character and not get any audio/noises from in-game haha. For a game with such simplistic art and graphics, it really is quite in-depth.
One of my favorite posts I’ve ever read is how this woman plays with her husband, and she always plays a deaf character. They’ll be looting houses or cars and every now and then she will see her husband bolt and it takes her a second or two to realize an alarm went off. There’s so many great moments in that game 😭 it’s really great
What you left out about Call of the Wild, is that you control the genetics and health of the animal herds in the game by selective hunting. For example, if you just go out and shoot every big young buck you see, throughout the game the sizes of the deer will get smaller because the large deer genetics aren't being passed on.
It makes me so happy to hear Project Zomboid get dome love. None kf my youtubers talk about it, and i wish more people did. Its so fun to play with friends
Green hell is my favorite survival game, just saying that was old footage of green hell the game doesn't look like that anymore its absolutely beautiful
Just went on a binge with DayZ for the first time. I put about 400 hours into it and now I have a love hate relationship with this game. It's absolutely amazing in terms of realism. There's even a blood transfusion mechanic where everyone has a blood type. Also there are about 8 different diseases that all work differently. That being said though, the game is lacking support in content. There are permanent bugs in the game. And not a whole lot of tools for interacting with real players. But it was definitely a journey getting teams together and having moments of arresting someone in a police station and having them drink gasoline.
Shoutout to Hunter Call of The Wild, I picked it up during the pandemic in 2020 and the consistent updated and new maps have been keeping me hooked ever since!
PC building simulator needs a swear button because sometimes there are moments in PC building that just require cursing to accurately simulate the experience
So glad to see Eleven get some love! It's wild too, that there's more in-depth realism in it than covered here, like setting up your paddle different ways that also dirrectly translate to real-world. First time I played it, it was a bit uncanny at first, but soon was so comfortable that I spent way too much time playing that first session. Bonus: no tracking down the ball!
Way of the Hunter has a bit more realistic hunting mechanics. It’s not a perfect game and has some bank, but it’s a good time and a worthy competitor to Hunter COTW.
About the BeamNG Drive graphics, those are outdated footages and graphics been much better since 0.27 update last year. Not to mention people change lighting and more in World Editors
I would say Call of the Wild is more of an arcade hunting experience and does not try to be a simulator. If you're looking for a more realism based hunting sim, i would say Way of the Hunter is your best bet.
I'm a little shocked that Way of The Hunter wasn't mentioned in this, but Hunter CoTW was. While CoTW is a great immersive hunting game, Way of The Hunter is way more in depth than CoTW. It actually takes you back to the basics of hunting with bullet power determining the penetration power it takes to cause internal damage, the detail of air bubbles in the blood when you hit an animals lungs, the paths that animals take, Bullet drop, zeroing in your rifle to the distance you're shooting from to hit what you're aiming at. All of that isn't included in CoTW.
fun fact with PC building simulator - it actually helped me with building a real computer... I had some older parts I wanted to use for the new computer, and I was searching for a case, and with the game I was able to look through few cases, tried to put in the parts I owned and see if it will fit and how it might look... Now the PC sits on my nephews desk :)
It's not a rare chance to find animals on call of the Wild.. you just have to not run all over the place or you'll scare off anything before you see them. You have to walk and look at wind directions and find all the need zones where they drink, eat and sleep and knowing what times animals will be there and you'll be running into animals all the time.. it's finding the albinos and big trophy scores that are rare.
@@skiddzjust1389 but he is right though. Except for the physics and other semi realistic miscellaneous stuff, the game has many unrealistic mechanics such as bullet time.
My uncle taught me IFR landings in MS FS X. We used real life approache plates with the sim for Greeley/WeldCo airport in Colorado. That was MS FS in 2004. DCS is another popular super realistic flight sim, but unlike MS FS, it can simulate air combat.
PC Building Sim seems like it wouldn't be much fun, but if you know anything about building, it's actually really cool. Your uncle leaves you a shop, and then you have missions to complete
Suggestion: unexpected moments in video games that satisfied our nerdy side like when they track some super obscure stat, or go way too deep with the lore, or animate something mundane with insane accuracy
The way of the hunter is much more realistic than COTW. I play both. Kingdom Come Deliverance is a masterpiece. Difficult combat but super fun. If someone misses KCD try Medieval dinasty. Is a hidden gem.
I live off-grid in rural Alaska. I started out in a tent on an empty patch of land on the side of the road and now i have a pretty elaborate 2 story house and a powerful solar power plant and an abundance of resources. I wouldn't call it realistic but i recently picked up subnautica. And the process of going from being stranded in a lifepod to having your own under water habitat with submarines and various resources reminded me allot of the process i went through. It's very simplified in the game and there's no simulating sleeping on cold ground for months with moose eating grass right next to you (the subnautica equivalent would probably be curled up in the lifepod with those creatures that shoot ink popping their heads through the dive hole) but it kinda gives you a bit of the gist of it. BTW. I am glad you didn't include red dead redemption 2. That's a mess of an attempt to simuate anything real.
Way of the Hunter is more realistic than Hunter Cotw. But what I love about Cotw is that it supports any sort of playstyle. You can have a realistic hunting experience by tracking and stalking.. But you can also have a more fast paced, arcade-style experience of trying to get the games rares by grinding the lakes on your map. Because the way that the animals are always at the lakes at the same time every single day is not realistic. But that means that if you keep shooting them over and over there you can spawn in rares eventually.
Yeah, I’m surprised way of the hunter didn’t make the list. I play both games and I like to think that COTW is a more arcade type of game, while WOTH is more for realism. I think COTW is a bit more fun but that’s my opinion.
In the same idea of MFS you could say Run 8, it might not be as known as Train Simulator Classic or Train Sim World but when it comes to realism when driving and managing trains and routes it is unparalleled.
As someone who has sunk an embarassing amount of hours in The Long Dark (like, 7k over multiple platforms), I got unreasonably excited to see it on this list 😂
i have to agree with #1. Played PC Building Sim for 2 years then finally built my wife a PC and the process was smooth as butter, the game also helps you understand compatibility 10/10 recommend
I never want to defend the argument of video games looking and/or performing "too realistically". I won't die on that hill. I'm borderline "old" (I was 1 when Mario invaded the US, do the math) so I can objectively say that I've witnessed the craft of video development evolve. I can admit to attempting full commitment towards a game (or several. RDR2 in particular broke me) that I've perceived as being too much. Again, I love progression. Keep pushing.
Yeah Kingdom Come: Deliverance is so fun, but it's super difficult. I got stuck on the part where you have to fight the really strong guy in the burnt up village for literal days, I beat him finally and then my game glitched out and gave me no choice but to load back to the old save and I haven't played since. But besides the frustration, I love that game, all the stats and realistic combat is perfect.
