Let me make that opening statement clearer.
What game made you forget that you and the character you were controlling were not, in fact, different people. When was the last time you didn't just feel like your character, you WERE your character. Did you catch yourself worrying about NPCs or feeling true terror at the prospect of injury or defeat?
My only truly immersive game is Uplink: Hacker Elite. You play as a hacker-for-hire and follow missions for money. Most of these missions involve attacking servers, stealing files from databases, editing social records and more.
There was one point in Uplink that I had been searching through various computers trying to look for signs of a specific company's secret project, a secret project that had killed two fellow Uplink agents. I was getting closer to finding some valuable information when I recieved a sudden Email. I was not expecting an email at the time so I dropped everything, covered my tracks, and checked it. As I read it, I began to sweat and a deep-seated dread filled my heart. The Email was from the very company I had been hacking seconds ago without threat of discovery. Somehow they had tracked me down without a problem, something no government or private trackers had ever managed to do. I was truly afraid of this faceless, murderous company.
Then I realized that I was just playing a game. The company didn't exist. I wasn't really a hacker. Yet I was still shaking.
What game made you forget that you and the character you were controlling were not, in fact, different people. When was the last time you didn't just feel like your character, you WERE your character. Did you catch yourself worrying about NPCs or feeling true terror at the prospect of injury or defeat?
My only truly immersive game is Uplink: Hacker Elite. You play as a hacker-for-hire and follow missions for money. Most of these missions involve attacking servers, stealing files from databases, editing social records and more.
There was one point in Uplink that I had been searching through various computers trying to look for signs of a specific company's secret project, a secret project that had killed two fellow Uplink agents. I was getting closer to finding some valuable information when I recieved a sudden Email. I was not expecting an email at the time so I dropped everything, covered my tracks, and checked it. As I read it, I began to sweat and a deep-seated dread filled my heart. The Email was from the very company I had been hacking seconds ago without threat of discovery. Somehow they had tracked me down without a problem, something no government or private trackers had ever managed to do. I was truly afraid of this faceless, murderous company.
Then I realized that I was just playing a game. The company didn't exist. I wasn't really a hacker. Yet I was still shaking.
