absolutely pointless things you do for immersion
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In Dragon Age: Origins, I'll often run up to a character I'm giving a gift to before giving it to them.
In Bethesda games, I may add a non-rigid sleeping and eating schedule for my character, so they occasionally go into the bar to eat and go home to sleep for the night. There's just something that feels so right about going to the bar, clicking on a few icons of beer, and then going home to tell the character to sleep for twelve hours after having spending twenty hours (game world time) exploring a dungeon.
In Bethesda games, I may add a non-rigid sleeping and eating schedule for my character, so they occasionally go into the bar to eat and go home to sleep for the night. There's just something that feels so right about going to the bar, clicking on a few icons of beer, and then going home to tell the character to sleep for twelve hours after having spending twenty hours (game world time) exploring a dungeon.
In third person shooters, I get into cover and check corners even when the area is clearly a safe space. And when I mean checking corners, I mean actually pointing my gun at stuff.
When I played Assasin's Creed: Black Flag, whenever I had to make sharp turns or were in a stressful naval battle, I would press down on the keys as hard as I could, as if would make an actual difference.
Wearing hoods when it's either cold or rainy - that's something I've done in Skyrim and DA:I. Not always, but enough to be a 'thing'. In Skyrim I'd tend to change clothing depending on which region I was in, which on console without Frostfall had no effect, but it improved immersion.
Also, I sometimes de-select/un-equip weapons when I enter a religious building or location in RPG's. I'm wholly agnostic, but even in real life I remove hats and wotnot before entering a church as a sign of respect, and so if it makes sense for my RP'd character in-game (and it usually does) I do likewise in virtual chantries and suchlike.
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Also, I sometimes de-select/un-equip weapons when I enter a religious building or location in RPG's. I'm wholly agnostic, but even in real life I remove hats and wotnot before entering a church as a sign of respect, and so if it makes sense for my RP'd character in-game (and it usually does) I do likewise in virtual chantries and suchlike.
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Ditto'd, and always in settlements. Again, it's another thing I do in real life, so when I see people in LP's never closing doors or gates behind them it kinda bugs me. A little.Hair Jordan said:
I honestly don't understand how any of this is for "immersion" purposes.
Anyway, this sounds more like "for roleplaying purposes." Is that what we're looking at?
Well, except that. Few things take me out of a game faster than a cat's claws in my groin.Baffle said:
Anyway, this sounds more like "for roleplaying purposes." Is that what we're looking at?
Sometimes, if the game allows, I'll have keepsakes.
Either in inventory or left somewhere in storage.
I prefer it when I can decorate my room with them like fallout, but sometimes with an armour set I loved the look of or an item I was particularly fond of, it'll just sit there in storage.
If the environment is something that's really captured my attention, I'll slow down sometimes.
Walk instead of that determined jog that seems to be the default movement speed for characters.
Take it all in.
Either in inventory or left somewhere in storage.
I prefer it when I can decorate my room with them like fallout, but sometimes with an armour set I loved the look of or an item I was particularly fond of, it'll just sit there in storage.
If the environment is something that's really captured my attention, I'll slow down sometimes.
Walk instead of that determined jog that seems to be the default movement speed for characters.
Take it all in.
I yell at old people, and occasionally beat them with sticks if they try to talk to me. Hence why I've never had a full play through with ghernam in Bloodborne. I'm sure his quest line was fascinating. I'll never know.
In Fallout I'll make sure to kill and dismember the villagers before gathering their remains in a big pile in the middle of town. Then I set the pile on fire.
I appreciate it when developers go the extra mile to give their game touches of realism.
In Fallout I'll make sure to kill and dismember the villagers before gathering their remains in a big pile in the middle of town. Then I set the pile on fire.
I appreciate it when developers go the extra mile to give their game touches of realism.
Sometimes, in RPGs, I like to think what the characters must say and think as they fight.
"Great move."
"What power."
"I could use some help here."
Or just mini-conversations.
Yeah, it's odd, but I do it. And I did it more when I was younger.
"Great move."
"What power."
"I could use some help here."
Or just mini-conversations.
Yeah, it's odd, but I do it. And I did it more when I was younger.
I make sure to always close air-vents that I'm leaving, regardless of whether or not the NPCs notice them. I know that there's some other things I do just because it's realistic, but I can't think of any others right now.
Sadly, I had to stop it when I kept inadvertently nicking other people's things.
The first couple weeks I played Skyrim I did that. It was so much better of a way to play the game. I took out the cloth map that came with the game and used the direction of the flow of the rivers to find my way around. This was after getting terribly lost.Bombiz said:
Sadly, I had to stop it when I kept inadvertently nicking other people's things.
I often do this in BioWare games. Or, actually, I may do it in any game that gets me really invested in the characters and constantly shows the whole party. Sure, sometimes they do have conversations with each other to fill the silence, but it is almost always a handful of pre-recorded lines and/or general conversations about life and values. That's not to say I don't appreciate those little touches of character (I often stop moving to listen), but it is nice to imagine how they would all discuss something that just happened.Saltyk said:
In fallout 4 I actually try to make my buildings look like places people live. Does absolutely nothing. Put chairs near the bar, and my citizens just stand in one huge mob around the bar, never sitting.
OH! And I put items on shelves. Bottles, trophies, weapons, doodads, etc...
Again, 100% pointless in every sense of the word.
And the mans I assign to defense, I like to kit them out with recovered Raider armor and pimped out rifles or something. Nothing to it, honestly. Here I am lvl 30 with multiple settlements and not a single one has ever been attacked.
OH! And I put items on shelves. Bottles, trophies, weapons, doodads, etc...
Again, 100% pointless in every sense of the word.
And the mans I assign to defense, I like to kit them out with recovered Raider armor and pimped out rifles or something. Nothing to it, honestly. Here I am lvl 30 with multiple settlements and not a single one has ever been attacked.
In shooters I'll shoot a guy after he is dead to make sure he is dead. I have resident evil to thank for that.
I had a habit of apologizing to citizens in the city in The Last Story. It legitimately seemed like I was being rude by accidentally bumping into them while rushing to my next destination.
In Starcraft, the original, I had a strange habit in human vs. comp matches where I would return units to my base as if they were refueling.
In Starcraft, the original, I had a strange habit in human vs. comp matches where I would return units to my base as if they were refueling.
In most racing games (tend to be sims), I usually tense up in corners, as if I'm expecting to feel real G-forces (I also tense up if I'm about to crash, which happens a lot in DiRT Rally).
Quicksave before a hard bit, just like in real life.
Read the cartoons in newspapers dropped by slain enemies.
Call the PC's mom every so often and lie about his eating habits.
Go into therapy everytime I kill a demon from the endlessly deep and dark beyond.
Read the cartoons in newspapers dropped by slain enemies.
Call the PC's mom every so often and lie about his eating habits.
Go into therapy everytime I kill a demon from the endlessly deep and dark beyond.