What's the Most Immersive Game You've Ever Played?
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DumpsterHumper said:
yes, the game that started it all was definatly an inovation!
Other than that, I would say eternal darkness, it scared me by deleting all my data!
Life. The craziest game there is...
OT: I have gotten into final fantasy 7 and 9 pretty deep and when I was a kid damn near every game I was in my own little fantasy world...I miss those days.
OT: I have gotten into final fantasy 7 and 9 pretty deep and when I was a kid damn near every game I was in my own little fantasy world...I miss those days.
Oblivion - when IRL you scootch down to pick up a flower that looks like an alchemy ingredient, you are immersed in the game.
Amnesia, it wouldn't scary if it wasn't immersive.
The Witcher 1 & 2. I just felt a connection with the world and the characters choosing to kill someone because you hated him/her wasn't as easy as you would think, they were people too, and who am I to decide whether they or die?
And I don't think I'll have stronger feelings for an ingame item than I have for Aerondight
Mass Effect 1. The story is just delivered so beautifully I couldn't help but feel I really needed to save the galaxy and fast! On my first playthrough I almost did none of the sidequest, because I was busy saving the galaxy!
The Witcher 1 & 2. I just felt a connection with the world and the characters choosing to kill someone because you hated him/her wasn't as easy as you would think, they were people too, and who am I to decide whether they or die?
And I don't think I'll have stronger feelings for an ingame item than I have for Aerondight
Mass Effect 1. The story is just delivered so beautifully I couldn't help but feel I really needed to save the galaxy and fast! On my first playthrough I almost did none of the sidequest, because I was busy saving the galaxy!
Either Morrowind...or Thief: Deadly shadows. I really can't decide as they both made me feel like I was really in that world. THough Thief tips the scales lightly because it's a fantastic stealth game.
This. Not ashamed to admit i cried at the end. The story is so enthralling and fastpaced, total masterpeice.DumpsterHumper said:
OT: Tie between Half Life 2 and Skyrim (Would have put Oblivion here a month ago) 2 games that i have caught myself talking to on various occasions, Usually just "No" and "damn it" alot, but still.
In no particular order:
Mass Effect 2: I am Commander Shepard.
Demon's Souls: I tried to take a break from it with another game, which lasted all of five minutes. There's always a way forward, and until you figure it out, it'll drive you nuts.
Minecraft: Wait, what time is it?
Mass Effect 2: I am Commander Shepard.
Demon's Souls: I tried to take a break from it with another game, which lasted all of five minutes. There's always a way forward, and until you figure it out, it'll drive you nuts.
Minecraft: Wait, what time is it?
From top to bottom, I'd say:
1. Skyrim
2. Oblivion
3. Fallout 3 (and New Vegas)
4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
5. Deus Ex
6. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (the Sanity mechanic sometimes breaks suspension of disbelief)
7. The Myst series
8. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (even with fan patches applied the game still sometimes feels irrevocably broken. Neil Ross as Gary Golden makes everything alright, though)
9. Red Dead Redemption
10. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
This is just a personal Top 10, which means that even the two SMGs are extremely engrossing in their own right. I'd have loved to include Minecraft in that list, but the fact that you're made directionless from the get-go and that your generated worlds have no lore or sense of place tends to break immersion for me. I'm always pulled back into the fact that Minecraft is a simulation, owing to its mechanics. Oddly enough, more focused experiences like Deus Ex do a heck of a better job at fostering immersion. HR paints a pretty clear portrait of Adam Jensen's 2027 and the initial Deus Ex of... well, whenever the story takes place. I forget.
VTM:B makes the cut because it's clear that despite the fact that they were working with an already outdated version of Source (a beta build, actually!), they worked as hard as they could to turn what's predominantly an FPS engine into something that supports a deep RPG experience.
Now if only the guns were worth a damn in these types of games... I sincerely hope the endangered CCP WoD project fixes that issue. Mortals can be taken out with a few shots; that's fine, but most vampires are on the other end of the spectrum, even the fledglings. Redemption and Bloodlines nerfed firearms to follow the idea that you're a badass vampire who can survive what humans can't, but that becomes problematic when the later enemies you face are all undead and you made the mistake of specializing in firearms...
Still, Gorgeous Gary Golden for the win.
[insert luscious and graven purring sound]
1. Skyrim
2. Oblivion
3. Fallout 3 (and New Vegas)
4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
5. Deus Ex
6. Amnesia: The Dark Descent (the Sanity mechanic sometimes breaks suspension of disbelief)
7. The Myst series
8. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (even with fan patches applied the game still sometimes feels irrevocably broken. Neil Ross as Gary Golden makes everything alright, though)
9. Red Dead Redemption
10. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
This is just a personal Top 10, which means that even the two SMGs are extremely engrossing in their own right. I'd have loved to include Minecraft in that list, but the fact that you're made directionless from the get-go and that your generated worlds have no lore or sense of place tends to break immersion for me. I'm always pulled back into the fact that Minecraft is a simulation, owing to its mechanics. Oddly enough, more focused experiences like Deus Ex do a heck of a better job at fostering immersion. HR paints a pretty clear portrait of Adam Jensen's 2027 and the initial Deus Ex of... well, whenever the story takes place. I forget.
VTM:B makes the cut because it's clear that despite the fact that they were working with an already outdated version of Source (a beta build, actually!), they worked as hard as they could to turn what's predominantly an FPS engine into something that supports a deep RPG experience.
Now if only the guns were worth a damn in these types of games... I sincerely hope the endangered CCP WoD project fixes that issue. Mortals can be taken out with a few shots; that's fine, but most vampires are on the other end of the spectrum, even the fledglings. Redemption and Bloodlines nerfed firearms to follow the idea that you're a badass vampire who can survive what humans can't, but that becomes problematic when the later enemies you face are all undead and you made the mistake of specializing in firearms...
Still, Gorgeous Gary Golden for the win.
[insert luscious and graven purring sound]
Saints Row 2, my personal favorite RPG and 5X the game that Grand Theft Auto is, and I do mean any grand theft auto game
I'm not exactly sure. There are games that I thought immersive originally but which had that feeling slowly degrade. Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, for example, is highly immersive for the first portion of the game. Then you get a gun and everything stops being scary. You can actually eliminate the element of fear at that point, your character stops being helpless and, most immersion-breaking, your characters injuries, which pile up rather quickly at that point in the game, despite requiring sutures and bandages and what-have-you, still are entirely solved after applying whatever healing equipment to them. Normally this wouldn't be a problem for me, but in a game that had, up to that point, been so immersive, it completely broke that illusion for me.
Other games I feel could be immersive if I didn't feel the need to look at guides due to the overwhelming obscurity of all the extras in the game. That's kind of how I feel with Dark Souls, right now. I love the game, and I'd be totally into the mythology and world, if it weren't for the desire to not die coming along and making me check the wiki for item locations almost every session. That, of course, is my fault.
I suppose stealth games tend to be what I find most immersive. There is an intensity there that isn't in other games. That moment of "Oh SHIT, oh shit, gotta hide" is something that I don't get anywhere else, and provides genuine adrenaline, for me.
Other games I feel could be immersive if I didn't feel the need to look at guides due to the overwhelming obscurity of all the extras in the game. That's kind of how I feel with Dark Souls, right now. I love the game, and I'd be totally into the mythology and world, if it weren't for the desire to not die coming along and making me check the wiki for item locations almost every session. That, of course, is my fault.
I suppose stealth games tend to be what I find most immersive. There is an intensity there that isn't in other games. That moment of "Oh SHIT, oh shit, gotta hide" is something that I don't get anywhere else, and provides genuine adrenaline, for me.
This. I was totally enthralled in that game. It was awesome.Vangaurd227 said:
Oh, and the first time I played WoW. Man...there was nothing like logging on Vanilla Wow for the first time in your life...