What was the last game you felt completely immersed in?
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Both Mass Effect games, Fallout 3, Dragon Age II and surprisingly Alpha Protocol. I was very close with New Vegas, but I accidentally finished it too soon without doing a majority of the side-quests. I need to replay that game...
I had not experienced true immersion before playing Mirror's Edge, and have not experienced it since. There's something totally real about just hanging out on a desolate rooftop watching the city take its course and listening to that incredible ambiance around you.
(After a long hard think)I'd have to say Fallout 3 and before that system shock 2 and before that FF7(the character in earlier FFs are kinda blank slates that you can project you self onto.
Alpha Protocol amazingly enuf, Oblivion sucks me in, modded or not, to this very day, and all the Fallout games. Yes that includes the first and second.
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl, It was the most immersed I've ever been in a game and it scared me shitless. The sequels didn't really do it for me, but i can't wait for STALKER 2
Thief III, the Shalebridge Cradle. I normally avoid horror games, but this level came out of absolutely nowhere. It almost made me cry
That was the most recent one, before that it was when playing portal, the feeling of surviving GLaDOSes attempt to kill me (on the first attempt) was something that no other game I've played has been able to pull off.
when i found out that the cradle now remembered me and that i might never leave.
That was the most recent one, before that it was when playing portal, the feeling of surviving GLaDOSes attempt to kill me (on the first attempt) was something that no other game I've played has been able to pull off.
Agree with the OP. No game has ever so successfully immersed me as Uplink did. It's strange, because the game is pretty simple once you "learn" how all the hacks work, but before you know what you're doing it can get quite intense. The devs did a very good job at committing to the experience right off the bat. I remember I was nervous even about doing the initial registration with Uplink in-game.
Just Cause 2 (during long treks away from quests. Sometimes, I'll catch myself thinking of grappling routes when walking around)
Fallout 3 (rushing into the Anchorage memorial, dodging Mireluks just so I can get that extra bonus, planting an observer, and turning into a Mireluk hunter. Running for my life, popping stimpaks and dog meat, or taking down raiders at 100 yards to fry some slaves.)
InFamous (sliding on powercables, jumping off into a crowd of reapers, switching on polarity wall, then using precision from behind cover, only to turn to see a mob coming after me...)
Republic Commando (No game has filled me with so much panic at seeing a squadmate fall. Or filled me with quite as much satisfaction as having my carefully placed squad target a single enemy, with deadly precision)
S.L.A.I (PS2 game that is still one of my top 5) (Jumping across buildings, running for my life from a Hartman as fast as my Proton can carry me, or working out the best combination of weapons. Or hiding in a corner with camo on, just to hit a boss with a well placed shotgun blast to the back...)
Fallout 3 (rushing into the Anchorage memorial, dodging Mireluks just so I can get that extra bonus, planting an observer, and turning into a Mireluk hunter. Running for my life, popping stimpaks and dog meat, or taking down raiders at 100 yards to fry some slaves.)
InFamous (sliding on powercables, jumping off into a crowd of reapers, switching on polarity wall, then using precision from behind cover, only to turn to see a mob coming after me...)
Republic Commando (No game has filled me with so much panic at seeing a squadmate fall. Or filled me with quite as much satisfaction as having my carefully placed squad target a single enemy, with deadly precision)
S.L.A.I (PS2 game that is still one of my top 5) (Jumping across buildings, running for my life from a Hartman as fast as my Proton can carry me, or working out the best combination of weapons. Or hiding in a corner with camo on, just to hit a boss with a well placed shotgun blast to the back...)
Assassins Creed and Assassins Creed 2, all the way. I loved brotherhood, but it didnt seem to have the whole "developing as an assassin/person" thing that that Altair and Ezio had in those games, maybe that was supposed to be Desmonds turn.
Other than that, Mafia 2, I cant remember a point where i put the controller down while i was playing that.
Other than that, Mafia 2, I cant remember a point where i put the controller down while i was playing that.
Without sounding like Yahtzee too much as its the older games for me it got to be F.E.A.R. 1, Modern warcraft nearly sucked me in but the health system just kills it all, like yahtzee said hide in a corner and wait till the jam drops off your vision.
But the first FEAR, love the game still play it now and again, but only with the lights on. Before that the original unreal. When your in the starting corridor with no guns the lights go out and the dogs eyes appear.......
But the first FEAR, love the game still play it now and again, but only with the lights on. Before that the original unreal. When your in the starting corridor with no guns the lights go out and the dogs eyes appear.......
Currently I'm pretty immersed in this free game called "don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story.
http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory
It's a Western visual novel so doesn't have all the crap those games usually seem to contain.
Biggest source of immersion throughout my gaming life though was Planescape: Torment, where my Nameless One and I were interchangable, closely followed by The Longest Journey games.
http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory
It's a Western visual novel so doesn't have all the crap those games usually seem to contain.
Biggest source of immersion throughout my gaming life though was Planescape: Torment, where my Nameless One and I were interchangable, closely followed by The Longest Journey games.