Something I've learned more about myself more recently going back and playing an old video game that wasn't voiced over is that my imagination works better when reading. You can show me your world in photorealistic graphics, but it still won't feel as real as what's in my head when I read about it.

Books have always been like gateways to other worlds to me. Probably why my favorite book ever is Myst: The Book of Ti'ana. One of the central things in Myst as a whole is that a race of people who lived deep underground developed a technique of writing books that were literally other worlds they could physically enter and explore. That particular book in the series has most of the world building and history of the D'ni and their books.