Jokes aside, I remember watching a video where some pro gamer (Starcraft maybe?) showed off where he learned to play, and it was basically sideways on a crowded credenza in the kitchen.
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Zomboid, for me personally, is one of the most immersive games. It’s a life sim with such in depth mechanics i feel like my character is an actual person growing
I kinda know what you mean, but I come from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, not Zomboid. I lost my first character when I was happily siphoning gas from cars. At the same time, I was too relaxed and bumped headfirst into a gang of giant wasps, can’t fight or run because I was carrying a steel jerrycan, RIP. That was a month of work with this character. xD
You can objectively measure it by asking a person playing for a fixed amount of time how much time has passed and measuring the discrepancy. Games that lately immersed me the most are Intravenous (1/2) and Riftbreaker. Also, Streets of Rogue coop with kids.
how much time has passed and measuring the discrepancy
By this metric, Oblivion was right in the top 3 slot for me. Started playing Friday straight after work, and ended up being late for work Monday morning, no sleep.
In that period also nearly burned my house down - got hungry, put noodles on pot, went back to play for 5 minutes while they cooked. Got hungry, went to put noodles on, saw that I already did that and they were on fire.
Nothing takes me out of immersion more than pointless exposition. Stop talking to me, the player, and keep the conversation normal for my character.
Probably why I love soulslikes, especially the mainstays by From. They only give you terms of the world and don’t explain anything to you because you are part of that world and should know this shit.
Immersion is tricky, because it is an incredibly subjective thing. At the end of the day, what immersion means (I think) is that the “veil” separating you from the game is incredibly thin and transparent. Think of it as wearing glasses: if a game is un-immersive the lenses are dirty and scratched. You can still see whatever is in front of you, but you’re constantly aware of the fact that you’re wearing glasses. An immersive game is like wearing perfectly pristine glasses: you forget you’re wearing glasses at all and can just take in what’s in front of you.
An immersive game to me is something that successfully manages to both suspend disbelief and sustain the illusion of a living world, letting you mostly forget that it’s a pre-programmed game you’re interacting with. I always found something like the STALKER games great for this, with their dynamic A-life AI scheduling really selling the whole living world feeling.
Stalker is great, I have some good stories in EFP with some rando NPC have a journey together, but he died to a Monolith trap in The Red Forest meat grinder, that was one of the most terrifying battles I’ve had when there are mutants from the south, they are advancing from the North, seemingly shooting from every direction, I hop from a tree to another desperately looking for cover, found a pile of corpses around the campfire in the forest, I barely got out alive, only then I realized my companion did not follow me. The AI can really range from stupid to insanely good.
I didn’t realise you were an Anomaly enjoyer! I love that game too, between the mood and the atmosphere, the hunger/thirst/sleep system along with the FDDA animations and of course Alife I think Anomaly is one of the most immersive games for me.
I’ve actually been working on a mod lately that uses AI to produce dynamic dialogue for NPCs in Anomaly, which leads to even more immersion.
Yeah, old stalker here, I stopped playing just before GAMMA came out. Still biding my time to return to the zone someday, still waiting for GSC to fix the second game. Meanwhile, I will miss my hunting trips at Darkscape until a blowout starts when I am in the middle of nowhere and crap my pants.
The mod sounds nice, sounds like it will give more flavour to companions, will Hip get more dialogue? xD
Well, that’s the nice thing about using AI for this, she can have unlimited dialogue - as can anyone else in the game. You can talk to anyone and have full conversations with them, and they have a working memory too. Your companions have unique personalities and unique random backstories and even some character development.
Well, I guess Hip is a named character so she will have a fixed, lore-accurate backstory.
Don’t get me wrong, I am currently playing planescape torment and love it but seeing everyone else’s response is actually blowing my mind a bit. I mean like, I love me my disco elysium’s and factorio-like games, but the thing that really sucks me in and gives me a shit ton of adrenaline are fps and boomershooters.
Something about chasing people down, watching all corners, and/or running for cover is just addicting.
I really wish I could get the same level of immersion with rpg’s but I guess I’m not that type of person ;_;
They could make shooters better again but don’t really care to do so. The bigger franchises are so that you need less skill and easier entry for casual players.
A thing that annoys me a lot is the soundscape in modern FPS that somehow makes it impossible to hear if someone is right behind you.
You need more indie titles to hear footsteps in tactical FPS.
I am actually surprised that shooters and chill game people are not in this thread. You are the first one to bring up shooters. The rest are quite within my guess.
When the digital world is cohesive and interesting, it becomes a believable world to exist in. It requires excellent writing and good visual/sound design. Some games I’ve gotten immersed in: World of Warcraft, Skyrim, SOMA, System Shock 2, Prey, Outer Wilds, Breath of the Wild, No Man’s Sky
Oh hell ye. I‘ve been eyeing this game for a long time. Imma ask you how you like the game once you‘ve clocked in more hours. Are you planning to 100% it?
I picked up a steam deck just before the holidays and this was one of the first few games i played on it and across 4-5 weeks i put nearly 50 hours into it. It’s so fun/addicting i couldn’t put it down.
One of the best parts, for me, is under accessibility settings you can turn off damage and magic drain making you immortal wth endless magic in the combat side of things. As someone who isn’t the biggest rogue-like fan this was perfect. As couple stress free dives for resources and advancing the story then right back to my silly little farm for hours.
I was considering 100%ing it, at least as far as Steam Achievements are concerned. I find they’re a good metric to measure whether you’ve explored all the interesting sides of a game, at least when they’re done right. I saw though the DLC achievements are bundled in with the main game. It’s trivial but it has kind of put me off 100%, at least until i get the DLC that is
Yeah, that DLC thing is custom for Steam, they‘re ALWAYS bundled with the main game, there’s no way for devs to not to, it‘s the biggest downside to hunting on Steam.
Fair enough, some people don’t care for shooters in general and some people don’t care for how Slow paced Halo can feel, especially the first 5 games which don’t have a dedicated sprint. I will keep having fun though, thank you!
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