I think I have yet to be truly immersed. I wish I could play an Elder Scrolls game while taking it all in, sitting in the inn and just listening to the music. Instead I just run around doing stuff...

I guess for me it was Fallout 3/NV, I used to actually miss the wasteland when I wasn't playing it.

I couldn't really say. I'm not even sure if immersion works like that for me. There's levels of immersion, and if I were to delineate them, I'd say: 0- not immersed at all; 1- invested/engrossed; 2- total immersion, where the outside world becomes more than just mute--it just stops existing, and your world becomes the game's world.

Games that have achieved that level 2 immersion for me include Wind Waker and Super Metroid, and to a lesser extent, Half-Life 2 and Fallout 3. All the loading times in those games just kill the immersion for me, but I still had a lot of fun getting lost in their respective worlds. Mostly Half-Life 2, despite being linear.

That's a hard question to answer

I'd say I haven't been TRULY immersed in any game, just moments where you don't think about anything around you and just focus fully on the game. Not about the mechanics or anything like that, just the visuals, story and world.

Multiple games have done that for me. Dark Souls, Halo, Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, KOTOR. Just some of the games that just put you into the moment.

Elite: Dangerous or Halo 3: ODST

Fallout 3 or Dark Souls 1

Republic Commando

Mario 64
N64 Zelda
Halo 2

Dirt Rally is fucking insane with a FFB wheel, people are probably tired of me talking about it but its the fucking bomb

when i first got a wheel i was doing several hours of hotlaps on an empty track by myself thinking I can keep getting a better time, if there's any kind of game you can feel completely into, it's a simulator with the controls to match

dirt rally has crazy FFB, it always feels so intense and involved, the co-driver calls (or pacenotes) are really important for getting good times - you have to listen to your co driver tell you where the next turn is while trying to anticipate the information going 100 mph in a thick forest full of jumps and hairpin turns

this isn't DR but it's also a great track sim


Here's at real rally driver playing DR - you can't tell from the video by how he reacts, but he's really enjoying it and just flies through the course topping the leaderboard, the game emulates the reality so well that even without the external forces the driver is able to play it well. (There are VR + motion rig setups for as close to the experience as you can get). The FFB was designed using feedback from actual rally drivers who have playtested the game. DR is just amazing, they're usually short 5-minute-ish courses, but for that amount of time you devote your attention to the task at hand and what your co-driver tells you, it's just such a pure experience


There's no FFB sticks for Elite which is a shame, but I have sim controls for that too, it feels good just to fly the ship and I've already clocked over 700 hours on it mostly flying around aimlessly

Quote from: Callous on July 11, 2016, 11:04:29 AM

Dark Souls so far is the most immersive game I've played. Probably because it's the first RPG I've ever enjoyed.

now you get the hype

The best part is that even when I finish DS3, I still have Scholar of the First Sin, Bloodborne and Nioh (Japanese samurai variant coming out in the future) still on my list.

And I'm not even halfway done DS3.

The series isn't finished, right? There'll be more entries?

I hated the demo of nioh I played

What didn't you like about it?

There's talks of them remastering Demon Souls for PS4 (the original) but the series is essentially finished.

Why did they go from Demon Souls to Dark Souls?

Quote from: Callous on July 11, 2016, 05:11:07 PM

Quote from: Tyger on July 11, 2016, 05:08:47 PM

I hated the demo of nioh I played

What didn't you like about it?

it just felt like it tried too hard to be dark souls without hitting the same notes. Also the difficulty felt kinda cheap.

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There's talks of them remastering Demon Souls for PS4 (the original) but the series is essentially finished.

Why did they go from Demon Souls to Dark Souls?

  demon souls was a failing project that that got shoved into Hidetaka Miyazaki (who at the time was just an employee at From) and they basically told him, do whatever you want this game is a failure anyway. It was a cult hit, so he created Dark Souls and that was truly his baby. He's now the president of the company.

Awh, man. I love the setting of Nioh.

Is Demon Souls worth remaking?