The last time you felt immersed in a game.

[kardar233]

Dragon Age: Origins, for about 15 minutes of the City Elf Origin. Then the new characters became dull and uninteresting.

Before that? Morrowind. All of it.

 

[timeadept]

Minecraft. When you spend so much time building your secret underground lair, only for some green incarnation of evil to explode, killing you and spawning you so far away you might never find it again, you feel a genuine sense of loss...

Exactly this, only luckily I built a monumental lighthouse to guide me back every time.

that was the first thing i built, after that it was the skyway that i would ride back home whenever i died.

 

[dibblywibbles]

Dead Space 2 has me hooked into it right now... I love it. especially stomping on the bodies I feel as angry as Isaac does when you just keep pounding their faces in with your boot. "Die you ************!"

 

[GoBologna]

Minecraft is definitely mine. I actually get pretty scared when I get lost deep in an underground cave. When you actually get that kind of feeling from a game, you know that it's truly immersive.

 

[purf]

I read this thread and had to think about it for a while... immersion is big in my book

"The last time" ?
AC2 had its moments, where it invited me to be in-character with indicators like me riding on horseback through the country rather than using the quicktravel-agency.. but I certainly have to go with Minecraft. You. Are. Minecraftdude. This guy has no whatsoever story or objectives and no meaning - until you give him the desire to survive the first night. But Minecraft doesn't even tell you that you should do so. So it becomes actually your own desire - this guy becomes you. And you start to care. A lot. Which wraps up the brilliance of that game.

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Now, for me Immersion means when a game dissipates the gap between you and your character AND gives you the freedom to make something out of that - to walk in your character's shoes... or have the character walk in your shoes.
How one single person could possibly mention Bioshock in a thread like this, is completely beyond my grasp.

 

[I Max95]

i was immersed in Far Cry 2 once
but then my stupid brother sold it and didnt tell me

as to the question it was Ratchet and Clank a crack in time
i lived and breathed that game for like a week

its probably going to end up being the last proper R&C game, so it was when i said my goodbyes to the game series that was my favorite as i child

 

[mornal]

Red Dead. Probably helps when you're playing through a game set in the desert and there's a heat wave in real life.