Okay, seriously, that's the funniest fucking thing I've seen all day.ZeroMachine said:Immersion is when you...
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Immersion is when you screw up in life or on a test, you try to reach for a "Reset" button.
Immersion is that hesitation you experience when you reach out to open a door in a dark room leading to an equally dark room.
Immersion is when you become terrified of little girls with black hair.
Immersion is when you run into fields of tall grass with a blade of some sort expecting money and inventory items to pop out.
Immersion is when you hesitate to enter a field or the wilderness in general for fear of running into a random encounter battle.
Immersion is when you cherish any kind of glass bottle, yet dispose of anything made of plastic.
Immersion is when you believe that you can manipulate the elements, weather, and time of day with just the stroke of a paintbrush.
Yeah, immersion is a lot of things. :3
Immersion is that hesitation you experience when you reach out to open a door in a dark room leading to an equally dark room.
Immersion is when you become terrified of little girls with black hair.
Immersion is when you run into fields of tall grass with a blade of some sort expecting money and inventory items to pop out.
Immersion is when you hesitate to enter a field or the wilderness in general for fear of running into a random encounter battle.
Immersion is when you cherish any kind of glass bottle, yet dispose of anything made of plastic.
Immersion is when you believe that you can manipulate the elements, weather, and time of day with just the stroke of a paintbrush.
Yeah, immersion is a lot of things. :3
my most immersive experience was quite some time ago, well, not really, it was last year =P
I decided to dust off my old Famicom with Disc System and hooked it up with my tv on my Gaming Room, put it on the badass hd tv, and the new surround system I had, also, I was using headphones, you know, I tend to be a gaming freak =P
so I popped in good old Legend of Zelda, and in that version of the game, you use the second controller's mic to scream in to kill the Pols Voices, now, thing is, not only you kill them with that, but when you do it in dungeons, it echoes around, and with the surround system, it was epic
now I moved and no longer have a Gaming Room, since I had to sell all my good shit for important purposes
now, in my opinion, it's First Person games the only ones that can achieve true immersion, since they put you literally inside the character
I decided to dust off my old Famicom with Disc System and hooked it up with my tv on my Gaming Room, put it on the badass hd tv, and the new surround system I had, also, I was using headphones, you know, I tend to be a gaming freak =P
so I popped in good old Legend of Zelda, and in that version of the game, you use the second controller's mic to scream in to kill the Pols Voices, now, thing is, not only you kill them with that, but when you do it in dungeons, it echoes around, and with the surround system, it was epic
now I moved and no longer have a Gaming Room, since I had to sell all my good shit for important purposes
now, in my opinion, it's First Person games the only ones that can achieve true immersion, since they put you literally inside the character
to me, a truly immersive experience would be like, a game in First Person perspective, with a system like Half Life or Metro 2033, where you never leave that perspective, not even in the cutscenes, the character you play as must have no name (so you dont feel like it's someone else everytime an npc talks to you) and must not speak at all (again, you can give him your own voice or come up with one) and also must have all skin covered (this is more personal, once I was playing a game I was really immersed in, but the immersion was always crashed everytime I saw the character's black skin, and since I'm not black, it kinda took me off the character =P*)
I know I pretty much described Half Life there, but yeah, that one came real close to my idea =P
*shit how racist that sounded =P
I know I pretty much described Half Life there, but yeah, that one came real close to my idea =P
*shit how racist that sounded =P
The key to perfect immersion is music. When a game has a great soundtrack (great, not just appropriate, so not just epic music for a fight scene, sad violins during a sad scene etc etc), that's when immersion works. So when I walk around playing a random soundtrack on my mp3 and it makes me feel like I'm in that particular game again, that's a good soundtrack. Doesn't happen too often since most soundtracks are uninspired, boring and predictable (coughhanszimmercough), but soundtracks like Assassin's Creed II, Mass Effect or even Halo are welcome exceptions.
TRUE immersion is when you are not only sucked into the environment, but when you are also so familiar with the controls that you can move about just as effectively as you can in real life. Of course, this means that console fps games will never be TRULY immersive.
Whenever I stop playing PC games for a bit, I find myself thinking that I could basically do anything I wanted if I just had a quicksave button.
Well, whenever I close my eyes, i can see StarCraft 2, but I think that's because it's simply burned into my retina. I know when I'm immersed when I realize that I haven't eaten all day. Man, I'm not really painting a good picture towards games...
Yeah...
After I played Heavy Rain I began seeing the QTEs whenever I would do anything.
First thing I did was play more Heavy Rain.
God, I love that game.
After I played Heavy Rain I began seeing the QTEs whenever I would do anything.
First thing I did was play more Heavy Rain.
God, I love that game.
Immersion, because there are zombie games.hittite said:
Take into account the disrepair and possibility of some routes being blocked.
Here is what immersion is for me. At this point I don't think that anything I write here will be a major spoiler for anybody, but if you haven't played Mass Effect or Mass Effect 2, I'll warn you up front that I'm going to be citing from those games.
For me, this is what it's all about. Running into Ashley on New Horizon and being so damned happy to see her, and then getting completely chewed out, and practically spit on by her for siding with what she considered the enemy before I could barely get two words out. I felt terrible after that, not felt bad for my Shepard, but felt bad for myself. Seriously, I went back up to the Normandy, and roamed the ship for a time, and then just stood in the airlock because I didn't know what to do. For me, it wasn't like she'd gotten angry at the character I was controlling. I'd invested so much time in that universe, and in those characters, that it felt like she was talking directly to me. To top it off, when I finally ambled my way up to the personal cabin, I learned right then and there that your fish die if you don't feed them. When I looked at the lifeless floating fish in the tank I practically threw my hands up in the air.
For me, that's immersion. When a game can trigger, in you in real life, the feelings and emotions it's triggering in the characters.
For me, this is what it's all about. Running into Ashley on New Horizon and being so damned happy to see her, and then getting completely chewed out, and practically spit on by her for siding with what she considered the enemy before I could barely get two words out. I felt terrible after that, not felt bad for my Shepard, but felt bad for myself. Seriously, I went back up to the Normandy, and roamed the ship for a time, and then just stood in the airlock because I didn't know what to do. For me, it wasn't like she'd gotten angry at the character I was controlling. I'd invested so much time in that universe, and in those characters, that it felt like she was talking directly to me. To top it off, when I finally ambled my way up to the personal cabin, I learned right then and there that your fish die if you don't feed them. When I looked at the lifeless floating fish in the tank I practically threw my hands up in the air.
For me, that's immersion. When a game can trigger, in you in real life, the feelings and emotions it's triggering in the characters.
Immersion is when you jump off the second story of a building to save time, and are surprised when you take fall damage.
It's when I am running around outside and I think about how much longer I need to do it to increase my Athletics skill.
Immersion is when you coast for a mile in your car and think "I should get an achievement for that..."
EDIT: and a previous poster is correct. Immersion is becoming so involved in a task that you think of or notice nothing else. So what we are talking about couldn't really be called immersion, unless we're immersed in real life.
EDIT: and a previous poster is correct. Immersion is becoming so involved in a task that you think of or notice nothing else. So what we are talking about couldn't really be called immersion, unless we're immersed in real life.