What game made you feel most immersed and "in" the game?

[mip0]

Easily World of Warcraft, first few times I played it that is.

 

[CheckD3]

As someone else said, the first 15 min of Bioshock were REALLY good, so I was scared shitless then. Heavy Rain also did it to me, and I know it's over used, but it's okay because that's the point of the game. I found myself freaking out and

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shooting Nathanial when he went to pull out his cross because I saw the QTE to fire and freaked out

Fallout 3 was another game that I got into. Just so fantastic.

 

[Always_Remain]

Oblivion. It was my first RPG and it was just so huge. Then was effect and Mass Effect 2. And probably Fallout 3 a little. EVERYTHING EVERYONE HAS SAID.

 

[Nomanslander]

Nothing came close to FO3.

WoW, although for all the wrong reasons....0o

 

[Doc Cannon]

RPG: Oblivion and Fallout 3.
FPS: Chronicles of Riddick EFBB and Far Cry 2.

 

[Phoenixlight]

Final Fantasy X, I loved every minute of the game. I initially started playing expecting an average game but my mind was blown after watching the initial cutscene and I was just sucked into the game world.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Golden Sun 1 and 2, it felt so good when i

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reunited the families after defeating the doom dragon

 

[Beardon65]

Half-life. Oblivion. Fallout 3. Killzoze 2. The list goes on. I do my best to immerse myself in games because it'll normally have me try my best not to get slaughter'd.

 

[Patinator]

Vampire:The Masquerade Bloodlines and original World of Warcraft, before the expansions where everything turned into a
giant number crunch.
You need x defense to be immune to critical hits on bosses. You need y agility to have this much +crit. Stopped playing because of that and the rep grinding.

By-the-by, anyone else miss 40-man raids?

 

[Lullabye]

Oblivion, Heavy Rain. Only two game I've actually stopped myself from killing somone because I fetlt it was wrong.

 

[jubosu]

Fallout 3 because i would wake up in a dream and be in my house in megaton

 

[ciancon]

First person really helps in the immersion. But the surrounding environment is vital i.e. little details that everything is not as it seems (e.g. Portal). Or just some really vast expanse to show how (almost) alone you are (Shadow Of The Colossus).

 

[Julianking93]

Hm....probably Heavy Rain.

It did such a good job of making me feel like I was the characters in the game.

Fallout 3 comes close even though I didn't like it nearly as much as Oblivion.

Oblivion just has such crazy glitches and technical fuck ups that it breaks immersion pretty quickly.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

I gotta say, Dead Space with 5.1 in the middle of the night really took me "there". I even looked behind me (as in irl me) when the masterfully mixed sound made me think that something was lurking behind me time after time.

 

[Iwata]

Killzone 2, both Bioshocks, both F.E.A.R.'s (not counting the sucky expansions to the first game. Reborn is pretty cool, though) and playing as the xenomorph in AvP.

Oh, and Echo Night: Beyond. King of immersion.

 

[Ultress]

Oddly enough Persona 3, the social sim aspect and the silent MC really helped draw me in.

 

[Ray De Ation]

A few hours of Bioshock before bed would have me dodging dream-splicers all night.

 

[XMark]

Dead space on Hard mode with headphones. I had gone through on regular difficulty before, but on my hard mode playthrough I had to stop after the second level because of a genuine fear of continuing.

 

[Shaegor]

I consider myself immersed as soon as I actually find myself caring about what I do in the game, and so far the only game that has truly done that is KotOR 2. Mass Effect 2 comes in close second but it felt somehow lacking that something KotOR had.