Is Wynncraft Supposed to be Immersive?

I heard from someone on the forum that Wynncraft's immersion is important to setting it apart from other Minecraft Servers...

...But I don't feel too immersed. Am I missing something?

Spoiler: Some entirely immersed moments I experienced

"You want ME, a Warrior running Spellspam, to QUIETLY assassinate someone? Fat chance in the Nether."

"...Nobody heard ANY of that? Not even the five War Screams I cast?"

"Don't warn me about Arakadius, or however you spell that oversized spider's name. I've squashed her 5 times in a row today, and I'm about to make that seven."

"How did the second half of that enemy's Multi-Hit strike me AFTER I died to the first half? Wouldn't that kill a fragile build a second time?"

"You want me to kill this Corrupted guy even though I'm a Fallen Warrior?"

You feel pale. "No, I don't."

"Oh, I lost two Soul Points. Where can I find the impossibly-well-hidden secret that explains this arbitrary, pace-killing mechanic?"

"So am I just not allowed to have a say in my character's fate during this Quest?" bonk You were knocked out "...Okay, good to know!"

"Who put this chest here? Why did it respawn in this exact position every time?"

"...So not even a Mythic Weapon can destroy a Level 1 Oak Tree? It has to be a Foraging Axe?"

"How does literal TNT not go off when I use a fire attack on it?"

"...That's weird, does Ice Snake not freeze water?"

 

yup yup and yup it supposed to be somewhat immersive but anyway i super agree an-

OMG YES THAT QUEST I HATE IT MISADVENTURE ON THE SEA RIGHT?

 

Yep! Boy, do I love having a 1st-person role in the story when I don't have a say in anything that happens!

 

To be completely fair, none of these are really considered direct immersion in a game setting, this is just nitpicking small details. The example of Ice Snake not freezing water is actually pure play, TLDR: something voluntary that really serves no purpose other than entertainment or fun; A lot of other things that you listed are also considered pure play. Wynncraft on average doesn't do narratives very well, which makes it hard to feel properly immersed in some quests, which can also hurt replability. I'm not saying the actual stories and lore are bad, but a lot of them lack proper immersion because they play out like you're reading a book instead of playing a game.

Proper immersion is the combination of many different factors in a game's overall design. And a game doesn't need to be realistic or even make sense to be immersive. It's all about how the designers put together topics such as pure play, mechanics, narrative, progression, and much more.

Overall, this is a game, it's not real life. Not everything is going to make complete sense. And we can't give the option for the player to do whatever they want in every quest either. Why? Because it's literally impossible, yeah we could technically add branching options, even though that is a massive amount of work . But we can't add an option that covers every single player experience and shapes the story and gameplay specifically to what they desire.

 

I understand that it's physically impossible to write a quality story that allows every type of personality a player could have to be recognized and responded to by the story, but even something as simple as having two different responses to most situations would help. IE: "Yes," "No," and/or "..." (total silence)

I'm fully aware that any of this would be incredibly tedious to implement, given how many Quests there are, but this post is moreso about questioning the logic behind certain parts of the game's Quests.

Thank you for responding! I honestly didn't expect such a huge, well-detailed response!

 

Yeah, it's usually nice to have multiple dialogue options; Although some will make the argument that when the choices do not change the results then it doesn't matter, and actually retracts from the experience later on. But, I don't think either side in that argument is necessarily right or wrong. Some of our newer content has actually been doing multiple dialogue options, the festival npc-interactions are good examples. Also iirc it's not actually something we could do reasonably until a little while ago.

Also just to make it clear, my posts aren't like an official response or anything, they are just my opinions.

 

Yeah I kinda agree with this. I don’t really see the immersion in this game besides a select few quests and imo that isn’t what makes it special compared to other servers

As someone who plays genshin this is very true. The way it adds multiple dialogue options that only ever change 1 dialogue if at all is really annoying. It doesn’t increase immersion at all and only serves to be annoying by wasting my time by making me constantly my mouse over click it instead of just reading the dialogue with space bar.

 

Some newer quests have this now.

Honestly sometimes Wynn does better with nostalgia and lore then immersion. It has great combat tho.


Btw If you think that hypickel skybok is better then you wait just one minute that game has NO immersion and absolutely NO nostalgia.

 

its okay to have wrong opinions

 

its well made but unless u like to made a fool of, why would you like being knocked out and kidnapped with no say in your characters actions

 

Colossal rat

 

ah ok i get it