Has immersion ever made you do something extremely retarded??

[Galigain]

Mario-and i set up cardboard boxes in cauldasac and jumped on them result: one broken ankle

 

[TheDoctor455]

The dumbest thing I've ever done?
After going through the ENTIRE Myst series (Myst, Riven, Myst 3, Myst 4, and Myst 5) in one weekend (just to see if I could), I went to a bookstore with my family and I just sort of shuffled around the area on auto-pilot until I found a book that had a very realistic illustration of an island on its last page. I touched it, waited a few minutes, touched it again, and then remembered that I was back in the real world and that touching that illustration was NOT going to transport me to another world (or Age as they are known in the Myst series... as a matter of interest, by all accounts, our world happens to be "Tohmana" in the Myst series)

 

[GrandChristian]

yeah same here lol ^_^

 

[shockandawe95]

i was watching a shooter movie today nd was wondering why they werent using V.A.T.S.

 

[Skwesheh]

um... after my first week or so of playing Silent hill (1,2&3) I was walking to school on a really foggy day, already scared shitless just because of the fog. Listening to my Ipod, some song by NIN comes on that starts with static and I jumped into a alley way and picked up a pipe afraid of what was coming after me.

._______. god I am an idiot...

 

[Zulu-Echo14]

Yeah, that was retarded. Fallout 3 isn't even immersive.

 

[The_Prophet]

i have a few (these are all true btw)

one dead weekend i stayed in playing fallout 3 all day on my stealth/melee account and right in the middle of this intense, almost 3 minute sneaking up behind a supermutant fest my friend bursts in and asks if i want anything from the shops ... i immediately pause the game and go **aggressive whispering** "SHHHHH!!! THEY'LL FUCKING HEAR US YOU FOOL!!" .... confused he leaves .. and i just realised my retardation

another time after an assasins creed fest i go over to a friends house and instead of knocking i decide to climb in from his window .... little did i know he wasn't home ... just his dad ... he was pissed, in fact he was SO pissed he pretended not to know me when the police arrived (he didn't call them the neighbour did) LOL these days we just laugh about it

oh and long ago there was a blackout while i was playing silent hill 2 and i screamed like a *****

what about you guys?

Hey, there was a blackout when I was playing Condemned. I screamed like I've never screamed before. Woke up half the neighbourhood.
EDIT: OT In HAWX when I'm close to the ground or in a tough situation I always say "Come on baby.... haaaaang on." or "Whoaaaaaaah that was close" and pull the mouse and my entire body backwards.

 

[Lopunny]

Once, while playing some game based off of Star Wars ( I can't remember the name.), I was at some desert planet. Whenever I would walk on the sand, a huge worm or something would pop up out of the sand and eat the character. So, this lead to me trying to hop across chunks of destroyed ships. After a while, I decided to stop playing and turn the light on. I was standng on a chair, reaching over to the light switch, afraid of the ground because of a damn giant worm-thingy.

Jedi Knights: Jedi Academy for the X-box? I loved that mission I once been playing Left 4 Dead for hours at night, and before I went to bed, I opened the door to go to the toilet, and cringed cos I was expecting a hunter, im so ashamed XD

 

[Lopunny]

Back when I used to play WoW back in high school, I would stay up so late at night with so little sleep that I'd start hearing sound in-game sound effects in class.

In my government class, I heard the sound of an arrow flying, and rapped my friend in the shoulder (who played a Hunter) and asked "Did you fucking hear that? A few times I would hear the sound of a Rogue going into stealth, and I'd frantically whip my head around and look for the fucker.

That sounds a bit like me, as sitting watching TV with my sister really late at night and kept imagining I was hearing the witch from L4D nearby I was so freaked out...

 

[The_Prophet]

Once, while playing some game based off of Star Wars ( I can't remember the name.), I was at some desert planet. Whenever I would walk on the sand, a huge worm or something would pop up out of the sand and eat the character. So, this lead to me trying to hop across chunks of destroyed ships. After a while, I decided to stop playing and turn the light on. I was standng on a chair, reaching over to the light switch, afraid of the ground because of a damn giant worm-thingy.

Ah..... Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, yeah I remember that terrorizing me as a kid

 

[The_Prophet]

When I turn during a driving game I tend to tilt the controller and if I get carried away my whole torso. Not only do I look like an idiot but I'm sure I'll fall off one day.

Same here, especially in H.A.W.X

 

[fer1wi]

I once was completely unaware of a wasp flying around my head because I was playing Metroid Prime and thought there was just a War Wasp around somewhere. Then I realised they didn't spawn in that room.

That happened to me once.
After defeating the Hive Mecha, I thought I was done with wasps for a while. Later that day, out in the park with a couple of friends, a wasp was circling me. One said to me, "What the f*ck are you doing?" while motion ing to my hands. I look down, and realize that I have my hands wrapped around an imaginary Gamecube controller, repeatedly tapping a non-existent A button...

 

[kitsunema]

i havent done retarded things but i said them while in my immersion

 

[TheEnglishman]

When playing Pokemon there was always this unwritten rule that if you pushed the B button after being attacked your damage take would be reduced, of course that seems like a stupid idea now but when you find yourself yelling to a stranger, PUSH B DAMN IT! you relaise that it's a stupid rule.

I also yelled at the cartoon series for its ludicrous portrayal of the game but by this time I'd been yelling at the TV for sometime so no one noticed.

 

[Lord Thodin]

After playing L4D for about 5 hours straight, i had to get up to let my sister into the house. Just then a car alarm went off outside, and i slammed the door shut so fast and hard that it woke EVERYONE else in the house up. My sister quickly said, "What the fuck was that for?!"

I was so embarassed that i didnt answer and ran to my room

 

[Salem_Wolf]

The first time I played a horror game (I think it was silent hill) and something popped out at me, I screamed like a little girl and threw my controller at the TV in a feeble attempt to kill the monster.

I did that to on my first run of [insert horror game here] and welcome to the escapist, don't flame or drink the water
[sup]*grumble* no one ever welcomed me[/sup]

No one welcomed me either...but Welcome to the Escapist! (Yes you are 1000 posts into your welcome, sue me. )

One time I was playing World of Warcraft, and I wanted to say something to someone so I tried to /w him...then I forgot I wasn't at my desk anymore. D'oh! Stupid invisible floating keyboards not working like they're supposed to.

 

[Dottie]

The first time I played a horror game (I think it was silent hill) and something popped out at me, I screamed like a little girl and threw my controller at the TV in a feeble attempt to kill the monster.

Wow now a days that would be an expensive mistake they don't make them like they used to XP
I never thought I'd hear myself say that

 

[Piorn]

I start switching between languages in conversations.
I'm from germany, but due to the heavy censoring, I play a lot of games in english. Most of the time, it's only a few words, but it still sounds retarded.