okay so
"virtual nature walk" BUT STAY WITH ME HERE
the thing is it's an EXTRAORDINARY nature walk: tons of procedurally generated content, birds engaging in all forms of bird behaviors, wild animals that avoid the player but can be snuck up closer to, etc.
a procedurally generated path, a procedurally generated forest that goes in all directions if you go OFF the path (because you COULD do that, you could make it so it will make more forest until you run out of RAM)
@sydneyfalk I want Naturalist/Birding Simulator 2k18.
Which is maybe that Walden game? IDK.
I wouldn't even put 'birding' on the title, it'd literally just be Virtual Nature Walk
and then the blurby stuff would be all "you can go birding, just like in real life"
@sydneyfalk My big gripe with the current crop of scenic exploration games, though, other than the excessive focus on resource exploitation as a central mechanic, is that animal behaviours are so flat. I want to play the game today fixes that.
I think I kinda do too, honestly. Which is weird, because REAL nature and I just don't get along at all.
But 'virtual' nature, I could imagine spending long periods of time in sometimes.
(And I'd have to anyway to test it, of course.)
@sydneyfalk Yeah, I love actual nature, EXCEPT that I have a paralysing fear of flying insects that stops me from actually enjoying it. :( So I desperately want a video game that recreates all the exciting serendipity of a nature walk without the chitinous hell-beasts.
@tobascodagama
this too
I fucking despise mosquitoes
I KNOW THEY'RE TRYING TO FEED THEIR KIDS BUT IT'S MY BLOOD GODDAMN
like
that's the line
you wanna feed 'em with my toenail clippings? sure, have at 'em
but my BLOOD?
well
fuck that nonsense