How immsersed do you get in games?

[Snotnarok]

I can get very into the story. I get VERY annoyed if an achievement suddenly appears while I'm playing because, for me, it completely ruins the atmosphere. I like to lose myself in the game world so I rarely play multiplayer on most games.

You can turn those off, or at least you could, I did it once for a while.

 

[wench]

I get pretty heavily immersed in games - usually to the point where when I finish a really good one, I have a day or two where I just can't bring myself to play anything else. If I push it too far, I get dreams about the game as well.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

Very.

I remember one afternoon spending hours just wandering around the capital wasteland, just... staring. I get so lost in that game.

In Mass Effect 2, the scene where

Spoiler

you control Joker as the ship is attacked

had me shaking and going 'oh no... no no no!' out loud like a big fool.

Heh, same here. I was all "shitshitshit" right along with him.

As for getting heavily immersed in a game, that's how I know that I'm playing a keeper: if, while playing a game, I can almost forget that I'm playing a game, then I know that the game is awesome.

 

[Flames66]

I can get very into the story. I get VERY annoyed if an achievement suddenly appears while I'm playing because, for me, it completely ruins the atmosphere. I like to lose myself in the game world so I rarely play multiplayer on most games.

You can turn those off, or at least you could, I did it once for a while.

How do you do that in Steam? This will only help if I can do it for specific games.

 

[piez13]

I get very immersed into good games. I've often found myself speaking out loud to characters or verbally reacting to situations.

Like in Mass Effect 2. I spent over 250 hours (crazy, I know) with the Normandy SR1, so to see my wonderful spaceship being destroyed was very distressing.

Spoiler

At the end, after the Human-Reaper was destroyed and Garrus, Tali and I were falling, I was very, very concerned. Garrus and Tali are my favourite characters, so if they were dead under the rubble, I would have restarted the entire suicide mission.

I have jumped at the smallest of things while playing Fallout 3.

I talk to Alyx without even realizing it.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

I can get very into the story. I get VERY annoyed if an achievement suddenly appears while I'm playing because, for me, it completely ruins the atmosphere. I like to lose myself in the game world so I rarely play multiplayer on most games.

You can turn those off, or at least you could, I did it once for a while.

You can?! I've been trying to figure that out forever. Please tell me how...

 

[Wigglyman]

When I start debating the choices to the tv and seriously considering the consequences, like I did playing Fallout 3, then I'm immersed.

Or when Bioshock I'm smiling ear to ear enjoying the atmosphere, only to then to jump out of my skin as something attacks me out of no where.

 

[CouchPirate]

I love the collective look of dread on my friend's faces when I tell them I've bought a new game. Then, after time has passed, them calling to say how no one's seen me in 2 weeks.

Still, I suppose I have to congratulate myself on actually having friends to abandon in the first place...

 

[LordMoose]

So immersed that i've fallen in love with Tali'Zorah Vas Normandy Nar Rayya.
She's everything i could ever want in a girl, cute, funny, can speak her mind, and has just a little bit of self confidence issues that'd i'd like to work through her with. She's more real, and more different then any girl i'll ever meet.
Especially because, she's an alien.

 

[CommyGingerbreadMan]

Mass Effect 2. Talking to squadmates often had me making up things I was saying and that they were saying back. I would have full on conversations with myself during a battle. . .

 

[Snotnarok]

I can get very into the story. I get VERY annoyed if an achievement suddenly appears while I'm playing because, for me, it completely ruins the atmosphere. I like to lose myself in the game world so I rarely play multiplayer on most games.

You can turn those off, or at least you could, I did it once for a while.

You can?! I've been trying to figure that out forever. Please tell me how...

I did it before the big xbox update but I couldn't find it now, maybe a trip to google would help ya, I tried looking on the 360 and got nothing.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I tend to notice the frame around my laptop screen very often. So I don't get very immersed.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I'll tell myself "I'll just finish this section and then I'll go to bed", only to forget all about my pesky biological need for sleep and end up playing all night. For the 4th night in a row.

I'm taking full advantage of my "between games" state to play things I can compartmentalize and not get sucked into until I'm resenting every moment I can't be playing the game some more curse the constraints of reality!

So yeah, a lot, that's the answer to the question.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

On very rare occassions.

The Ocarina of Time certainly made me very emotional when you leave Kokari Forest... I had dreams about returning there as an adult once

And in Half Life 2: Episode 2...:

Spoiler

When Alyx Vance gets stabbed through the chest, I felt complete shock, like "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" kind of shock.

It's Kokiri forest with an "i".

OT: Depends on the game.

 

[Konfusion88]

Fallout 3 did it to me. Sneaking around the Dunwich building at 4am and actually checking behind me for ghouls...

 

[Bloody Crimson]

When I get awfully attached to the characters, usually when they're super lovable. When you see one die in a cutscene it feels terrible. When you see them in their first relationship in a cutscene, it's cute.

Also thinking a little to strategically and like a cruel ruler when playing Age of Empires. I have no respect for human lives in that game.

 

[Hollock]

Really, Really immersed, if it's a great game.

 

[.Ricks.]

Game immersion hits me deeply. When I'm playing a game such as Bioshock Rapture feels like home, when I'm sneaking in MGS I get tense as the guards peer at me. ME2, DA:O also made me feel like I was in their world taking part in it's shaping and development.

 

[bassdrum]

A few days ago, I was playing Bioshock when I heard someone whistling like one of the splicers. It scared the shit out of me for a few seconds (not just a moment or two, it was a good 2 seconds before I realized what was going on).

 

[Agrael]

Yeah, once my friend, (after a marathon COD spree) actually checked all the roofs for snipers when walking down the street

MAN, I know how that feels

Personally.. I would also go with the ME2 Normandy crash landing spot...
..I miss Presley