The last time you felt immersed in a game.

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

When I tried "Dead Space" the other day. I found myself actually yelling action movie cliches at the necromorphs, such as "YEAH! COME ON, YOU UGLY SON OF A *****!" or "WHY WON'T YOU FUCKING DIE??!!"

Now, I NEVER do this in games, especially not single player. NEVER. It was very...odd. Yet satisfying.

 

[4173]

KotOR and Arkham Asylum come to mind for me.

 

[Mr Thin]

Bioshock, as was mentioned earlier, is I think the most immersive that I've ever played, but the one that's gotten to me most recently was Mass Effect 2.

Specifically, the intro to the game. I went all tingly when Shepherd died.

(I know that's not much of a spoiler by this point, but I like to be careful).

 

[x0ny]

WoW, Fallout3, GTA series, Metal Gear series, RE4 and 5, Tetris HD.

 

[BioHazardMan]

Both Bioshock's were the times I felt most like it was ME, but Silent Hill and a few others really get me into it.

 

[Racecarlock]

Prototype, at that park in the east in the middle of the map. Hunters and military units (or at least just hunters, although they do attack me rarely at that location, but don't transform when a tank is around) ignore me there, so I go there to watch them fight. Something... happened. I started to admire the hunters and how efficient they are at killing humans. I was examining them as though I WAS alex mercer. That shit's powerful.

 

[Tanis]

Probably Fatal Frame 2/3 or Silent Hill 2/3.

Some kind of game that's more on atmosphere than anything else.


Most games are too 'flash bang' or turn-based and remove the immersion to me.

 

[Dwachak]

When I tried "Dead Space" the other day. I found myself actually yelling action movie cliches at the necromorphs, such as "YEAH! COME ON, YOU UGLY SON OF A *****!" or "WHY WON'T YOU FUCKING DIE??!!"

Now, I NEVER do this in games, especially not single player. NEVER. It was very...odd. Yet satisfying.

Same thing happened to me, just with dead space extraction demo on the ps3.. after it ended and I got my mind back, I felt really weird.. in a good way Thats the most recent any way, but the list is long.

 

[blazearmoru]

My votes goes to Dota and L4D1

 

[xI Master Z Ix]

Metro 2033

 

[Dodgeboyuk]

to be honest i cant think of a recent time when i have noticed i have become immersed in a game because it happens so often my mind goes blank trying to think of one

lots of people sometimes think i am wierd that i get into my games so often

but i beleive it happens most when i am encouraged by the game to forgive any flaws a game might have

 

[Arkley]

Probably Mass Effect 2. I've been chasing that same feeling of immersion and commitment to a story & cause ever since, but haven't found it yet - even in replays of ME1 & 2.

New Vegas just disappointed me - I would probably have been more immersed in it, but everything about it just looks and feels old. the shoddy mechanics and poor graphics, awful voice acting and terrible animation were just constant reminders that I was playing a video game and not exploring a world.

Dead Space 2 came close, but after I was done playing it I realised that I hadn't really been immersed in a believable, almost living universe. It had been a great distraction, though.

I hope ME3 doesn't get delayed.

 

[garoose]

I seem to become easily immersed into games with detailed enviroments and in depth stories:

Dead Space 1 and 2, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Half-life 2, and, most of all, Amnesia: The Dark Descent (since becoming immersed is actually the goal behind the game).

Immediately after a long session of playing one of those games I'll often feel like I suddenly ripped myself out of the game world and back into reality (or something)

 

[Netrigan]

Alan Wake, anyone? That game just sucks you in!

Idk, i found that game fairly bland, basically waving a flashlight around to defeat enemys, not saying its a bad game, just not my type to suck myself into the game

Every time I was in danger of getting immersed, Alan would supply a bit of helpful narration like, "the bridge was out, I'd have to find another way to get to the lighthouse."

Hmmmm, last time I was immersed to the point of thinking I could do parkour moves on the way to the corner store would be Assassin's Creed II. That would seeped in pretty good.

 

[Azaraxzealot]

Fallout 3... could. not. stop. PLAYING!

 

[spartan231490]

Last week I was running through Far Cry 2, innocently running over zebras and attacking camps, the usual. But then someting happened. Something exploded...and I flinched. It occured to me then how remarkable it was that I had been so lost in the game for such a while. I actually felt like I was part of the game world, exploring the jungles of Africa. So tell me, when was the last time you were immersed in a game, or any moment or game that stood out in particular.

Almost any time I play. Honestly, it isn't the moments that I'm immersed that stick out, but the moments when immersion breaks. Like in Dead Space. Every time a monster appears out of the wall with no holes in it(every time they show up), or when you learn that cutting off their limbs does more damage(an interesting mechanic, but so obviously a mechanic/gimmick that it broke immersion for me). Every game has them, it's finding a game that has the fewest.

 

[PPB]

Mass Effect 2, when I played through it for the first time last winter.

I've felt immersed in WoW in the past (mostly when I started playing), but that feeling died off over the years.

 

[Littlee300]

Dragon Age Origins, usual case for any Bioware game.

This.
Except when I really got into a conversation and know what I am going to say I don't see a option. Also it is pretty linear. How did I get immersed in it?

 

[northeast rower]

Far Cry 2 and Fallout: New Vegas were both very immersive. However, when you play Dead Space 2 with the lights out...

 

[Musette]

Horror games have a bit of an advantage because they NEED to be immersive in order to effectively incite fear. Personally, I am easily immersed by just about any horror game, but I do not typically play them.

Recently, I became incredibly immersed in the world of Shadow of the Colossus. The open/sparse world really creates a sense of loneliness and isolation that definitely unnerved me from time to time.
During the Colossi battles, I had a tendency to place myself in Wander's shoes, whether I was freaking out as a colossus would attempt to flatten me with earth-shattering force or feeling my pulse rise as I cling desperately to a colossus's weak spot as I saw the world move around me as the colossus tries to shake me off while I try to stab the sigil.