What's the Most Immersive Game You've Ever Played?

[Jacob Haggarty]

Fallout 3, the game that ruined about three weeks of my summer holiday. It's the sort of game that becomes addictive the more you play it.

Closely followed by skyrim. Its still under the amount of hours i poured into fallout 3, but it's beaten everything else.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Have to agree with the people saying Baldur's Gate and 2. Those games really drew me in for some reason.

Also the Fallout games and possibly Skyrim. I always jump out of my skin when something discovers me in stealth so I must be pretty into it.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Red Dead Redemption. When you go to see your family after doing all that stuff the G-man wants, I was feeling genuinely happiness and eagerness.

also 'Your hands upon.....a dead mans gun and your, looking down the sights.'

 

[pavaoc0p]

Civilization 2, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Exoddus, Final Fantasy 5, Starcraft: Brood war, Heroes of Might and Magic 2. I could probably go on, but these ones popped up in my mind first.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I've been sucked entirely into the STALKER-games for hours and hours without noticing the real world before.
I have also been super-immersed in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, and then we've got Metro 2033.

But for 2011, I've got to say Skyrim, as I've got an impressive hour count since the day before yesterday..

 

[Lucyfer86]

Let's see, there are quite a few; Mass Effect 1 & 2, Half-Life series, Crysis 1 & 2, Minecraft etc etc.

 

[Rzepik]

Tetris.

 

[Angry Camel]

Chrono Trigger. I played SNes games for hours at a time, but CT kept me reeled in like no other. For my teenage years, Ninja Gaiden on XBox kept me hooked. The most recent one for me would have been Batman AA and AC.

ALso recently, Slient Hill 2. ot a copy a while ago, and what little I've played had me right in the mood (as well as scaring the crap out of me).

 

[Ramare]

I'd have to go with no doubt a bunch of other people and say the Stalker series. Everything, EVERYTHING in those games blend together if you have the right set of mods and textures, to really make the Zone come to life. The only thing that could make that game more atmospheric would be a large continuous world a-LA Bethesda RPGs. Even more so, since there would actually be transitions from the swampy marsh to the comparatively lush and green Cordon, and from the Cordon to areas that are higher in radiation, and closer to the NPP; and thus more dead and gray.

The only more immersed in the experience than that I possibly could be in a game, would be playing any game in virtual reality. To me, that is the perfect gaming experience. However, Stalker is as close as I/we can get. It's pretty immersive.

 

[rayen020]

gta san andreas
Morrowind
kingdom hearts
harvest moon 64

I consider myself immersed when i don't notice the weather outside or else think the weather on the game is the weather outside and am surprised when it isn't.

 

[RedHighwind07]

Red Dead Redemption and Majora's Mask. I spent hundreds of hours in both worlds and really became attached to all the characters in both games. Arguably FFXII, except the main protagonist was a twat mackerel which kind of put me off.

 

[Athinira]

baldurs gate triology, gotta be

Baldur's Gate only had two games and two expansions (not including the abysmal Dark Alliance games which shouldn't bear the Baldur's Gate name).

Since Throne of Bhaal finishes the storyline, it's considered the third game in the series.

 

[PatrickXD]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl was the most immersive of the trilogy.
Just the way the screen bounces and turns as you move really does a good job of sucking me in, that the later games couldn't mirror.

 

[Naqel]

I'm pretty sure it'll be Morrowind for me.

It's so good, I never got around finishing the main plot.

CAUSE THERE'S JUST SO MUCH STUFF TO DO!

 

[Vrach]

Any of the TES games, Morrowind being the highpoint. I love Oblivion and Skyrim, but Morrowind really had a sense of immersion you couldn't beat, at least for me.

 

[Archangel768]

Final Fantasy X probably. Closely followed by Final Fantasy VIII.

Even during this?

Yea, admittedly it was less immersive than other parts of the game though and a little awkward.

 

[adamtm]

The Fallout series - when i play it i feel the same way when i read a really good book. Its hard to describe but I sort of relax and really sink into the experience.

 

[JamesStone]

League of Legends.

Aha, gotcha!
Seriously, the 3D Fallouts did a great job in the immersion bussines, and Mass Effect 1 and 2 are great as well. Skyrim now has the honor of sitting in the same throne room as those four games.