Most immersive game you've ever played?

[Beartrucci]

Probably Fable 2 for me. I played that game for like 10+ hours a day for about 3 days when I got it.

 

[Arisato-kun]

I've never found myself getting bored with Persona 4. It doesn't matter how many time I've played it, it just stays fun.

 

[Prized Cup]

Dead Space. I've read reviews of it being repetitive but it was just so vast and cold. Simply awesome.

 

[Axolotl]

Title says it all, I can't expand on it much, but what is the game that sucked you in and milked you for all the time you had? What game made you play every second with enthusiasm and delight?

Fallout 1 without a shadow of a doubt. The game just hooked me in and pulled me in to it's cynical distopian future making me feel more with it's story setting and characters than any other gems I've played.

 

[Nazulu]

Ocarina of Time, Super Metroid or Starcraft still for me.

 

[DP155ToneZone]

Thief 2, easily. Well... actually maybe the first Thief because I played that first. When I completed the first level I didn't keep going, I just reloaded it and played it again because I couldn't believe how awesome the game was. I still can't.

Morrowind, even though most the immersion happened in my head.

Thief2, because it is just so full of awesome.

System Shock 2 - oh the terror

Don't forget

Deus Ex. You feel like a total badarse who could do anything whichever way they want.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Its a Vampire game where you ACTUALLY feel like a Vampire.

 

[Jenova65]

Mass Effect and Dragon Age Origins (plus most Bioware games, tbh)

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Fallout 3, if they had keep makeing DLC I would have kept buying them.

 

[vorlors]

uplink was very immersive you really get in to it on the high lvl systems and lans

 

[Vek]

Most of the Battlefield series, on PC at least.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl.

And ET: Quake Wars.

 

[AoGenius]

ultima online owes me about 6 years of my adolescence. I actually matured playing that game. Played on every platform and even learned to script on some of them.

But UO is not a real game. Civ4 is a lot bigger and I must be playing it for over 4 years now.

 

[rossatdi]

Probably Deus Ex in terms of ever. I got really upset when I couldn't save Paul (and then found out you actually can and when back to save him).

Recently though Condemned 2 was brilliant at it.

 

[dududf]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R clear sky had me by the balls all the way though. Also I'd say half-life 2 epi 2

I've been playing hte russian copy of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat.

Yeah.

I came rainbows.
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Probably...Assasins Creed 1. Followed by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of pripyat followed by Fallout 3.

 

[Tyrannowalefish_Rex]

Easy. Thief. 1 or 2 is not important, because it's basically the same. I admit that it can wear off over time and in certain levels, but all in all the Thief series was immersion-perfection.

Deus Ex and System Shock merely touch on this, imho.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Morrowind and Mass Effect have been the games that had me immersed the most.
Also, Thief 3... The Cradle is the most immersive level that I've ever played.

 

[bobknowsall]

Don't forget

Deus Ex. You feel like a total badarse who could do anything whichever way they want.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Its a Vampire game where you ACTUALLY feel like a Vampire.

I would say Deus Ex is fun, but not necessarily immersive. The crappy graphics just stop me from getting really absorbed by the game.

I'll have to agree with you on VTM:B, though. One of the best RPGs I've ever played, even if the ending levels sucked like a turbo-charged hoover.

OT: I'd say S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl or the stealth mission in CoD4: Modern Warfare That might just be because Pripyat is a stunningly eerie place, though.

EDIT: Ninja'd for typos.

 

[Diserasta]

Persona 4 was extremely immersive due to the way it's built, but the game that got me my highest ever clocked hours on a game due to the fact I never got bored was SO3. I got 200+ hours down, maybe 300 by now since I've been going around doing random shit like powerleveling crazily. I honestly wish that game went on for another 50 or so hours. Stupid finite existance.

 

[Cheesezorz]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, and perhaps Penumbra: Black Plague.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Bioshock, Resident Evil 4, Batman: AA are some recent ones. I remembered playing RE4 so much when it first came out for GC that my family gave me shit for playing it so much. I can't remember the last time I got that complaint.

 

[thom_cat_]

Half life...
I have to say that the entire world is so epic.
http://www.members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/timeline.htm
and that doesn't even cover any backstory.
From the way antlions make caves and the vortigaunts harvested them, non of which are mentioned in there.

The story and mini-characters make it immersively immersive.