Has immersion ever made you do something extremely retarded??

[Robin_Lyon]

At a time I was playing WoW and GTA San Adres (spelt wrong) at the same time. Between the two, whenever I was walking around in public I would see every person with a health bar floating above their head and looking at cars thinking "Man I bet I could get some good air off the wharf if I stole that."

 

[YuheJi]

After long hours of playing Spy in TF2, I got excited and my fingers started twitching whenever someone had their back to me in real life. I started clicking an invisible mouse and hoped that they wouldn't turn around. Or that no one else was watching.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I'm fairly certain I have. I know at the very least I've annoyed other Tekken players by calling out my move names ("Stop saying 'Shining Wizard,' already!").

Well this might not be immersion, but certainly addiction. I played WoW for a few years and once in a while, when I go outside (lol), I sometimes link some ordinary plants/herbs to herbs from WoW. I remember seeing peaceblossom next to a bank...

I remember once when I was in Japan, eating a sandwich and drinking tea outside a small Zen temple in Kamakura with a couple other students, looking out at the scenery and noticing an interesting-shaped crevice between two hills.

Me: "Hey, that looks a lot like Shadowglen!"
Them: "..."
Me: "You know...the spot next to the cave? With all the giant spiders?"
Them: "What?"

 

[Amarok]

The craziest thing immersion has made me done so far is actually find Fallout 3 to be terrifying. Not just the usual suspects like Deathclaws, I mean everything.
"Oh God, Raider! Their bullets can pierce my weak flesh and kill me! Eeeeep!"

A few hours in though I started to notice that I could soak up bullets as if they were shooting marshmallows at me, and that faded

 

[Yegargeburble]

This isn't stupid actions so much as paranoia, but since playing Condemned, I instinctively reach for a 2x4 that isn't there when I see a homeless person.

EDIT: Also, when I heard someone say they were thinking about going to DC, my first thought was "Man, the Super Mutants are gonna rip them apart!"

... I love Fallout 3.

EDIT 2: Almost forgot this! I have started to adopt my Godfather character's way of speaking when he extorts people whenever I get angry. You know, that "I'm gonna kill you if you don't give me your money" voice?

 

[Daedalus1942]

Not me particularly, but a friend of mine has the Metal Gear Solid codec sound as his ringtone, and once in the middle of the city, he answered with "Snake here, what's the situation Colonel?" I bust my gutt laughing my arse off and haven't let him forget it since.

 

[Zildjin81]

One time I was playing an FPS on my PSP and someone started to yell at me so I turned towards them and pressed the fire button.

 

[Ozkilla]

One night of drunken Tekken 5 we decided we had learnt enough from the game and "We could do that!"
Went outside for Round 1. I dont remember there being a round 2 .

 

[Timotei]

The first hour or so of Deadspace was plyed with the light on.

That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[lostclause]

When I turn during a driving game I tend to tilt the controller and if I get carried away my whole torso. Not only do I look like an idiot but I'm sure I'll fall off one day.
Not gaming but after a very good doc who episode late at night I spent half an hour locking doors and peering out of windows at the slightest sound.

 

[Zand88]

I'm not sure what this legendary brand of immersion everyone keeps talking about is. The most I get is just caught up for hours without stopping. The most it affects me is I start to play a game in my dreams.

 

[Mindblow]

After a while of playing diablo 2 I realised I that I had a small rip in my shirt. I spent the next 5 minutes hitting my shirt with a hammer, trying to fix the tear.

 

[scotth266]

I'm fairly certain I have. I know at the very least I've annoyed other Tekken players by calling out my move names ("Stop saying 'Shining Wizard,' already!")

I have a similar affliction, though I can never remember the move names. So I always yell "FACE KICK" or "REVERSE PUNCH" or something like that. If the combo is complicated I'll just say it out loud sometimes... funnily enough it doesn't really change much

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I didn't eat for 2 days. I don't remember what game it was and I seriously don't want to. I hate my old self :S

 

[Totally_Legit]

When I was playing Fallout 3. I quit playing because I has to go shopping for groceries.
from the moment when i was paying to the moment I got home, I had this feeling I forgot something.
I walked in the door, saw the television and yelled, in front of my mom, my dad and my brother, "Damn, I forgot my stimpacks". I went to my room and didn't came down for two days out of sheer humiliation.

 

[Madshaw]

The first time I played a horror game (I think it was silent hill) and something popped out at me, I screamed like a little girl and threw my controller at the TV in a feeble attempt to kill the monster.

I did that to on my first run of [insert horror game here] and welcome to the escapist, don't flame or drink the water
[sup]*grumble* no one ever welcomed me[/sup]

Welcome to the escapist!

I nearly shat a brick in F3 Broken Steel in the passage when a deathclaw snarls and drops a body form above you.

After long bouts of COD online I find myself sizing people up funny as I turn corners...

you should see what i'm like walking around town at night after playing condemned, its dangerous

 

[I III II X4]

One time I was playing an FPS on my PSP and someone started to yell at me so I turned towards them and pressed the fire button.

Haahahahaaa!

I love that, man!

Anyway...nothing game related comes to mind, but get this. Lilly (she's a scottish terrier) had been barking, so, in an attempt to quiet her, I picked up the TV remote and hit mute...I only realized what I had done after the fact that it didn't work.

 

[pwk2]

Hi yo peeps Im new to these parts (just to bring attention to myself here)

Anyway as for the immersion thing after playing some generic RPG a while back for waaay too long without moving I got up to go to the fridge, halfway there I tripped on a step and fell over whacking my head. The first and only my brain respondind with was:

"What the hell I can't fall down, that isn't how this works!"

Evidently it was wrong....