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It seems like Bioshock, MassEffect, Fallout, RDR2 are all gonna be on PS4 and ostensibly not Switch, so even tho DiscoElysium's coming out on Switch soon, PS4 might be my best move.Disco Elysium looks cool. I would need a Windows bootcamp partition for a mac to play it though.
I think someone like you would gain a lot of insight going into gaming with the sort of analysis you do. I more or less grew up with it, so I;m sure you will spot things that I'm too accustomed to to identify properly.
Anyway, I would recommend Bioshock, any of them, as that franchise is probably the one I admire the most. Less addictive in the ways I was describing Borderlands and Fallout, but also a far more interesting world.
Minecraft is among the best games of all time, in my opinion. Marvelously singular and influential, and also conducive to intelligence in ways that most other games are not. You can design logic gates and build elaborate machines in that game.
That is another point in favor of Fallout, Borderlands, etc: they require intelligence to be good at. A ton of stats and numbers to keep track of, stacking various conditional multipliers, etc.
My friend who is pushing the Switch direction is really into the interpersonal dynamics, doesn't care about graphics or world immersion. I haven't played much but like you Stan, it seems like world immersion is one of the biggest things for me.
I tried getting into Minecraft and just couldn't... care? Not sure why.