most immersive game..

Unknown

what do you guys think is the most immersive game to date?  One that makes ya feel like your actually in a different world while playing.  This could be due to graphics...community...player based things like crafting..etc...

 

Slampig

Not since the launch of the original EverQuest have I felt totally immersed in a gameworld. The closest since was probably Dark Age of Camelot.

we3ster

With the great graphics, spooky effects, amazing dungeons and voice over's, for me, it's DDO.

shae

SWG at release did it for me, I don't think a game has sucked me in as much as it did.

Lineage1 was my first MMO and what got me hooked on the genre, huge 10 hour castle seiging has to count as some sort of immersiveness .

As of late, I don't find any of the MMO's very immersive, alot of them almost seem to go out of their way to prove to you that your just in a game and nothing you do really matters in the long run.

Gameloading

For me it was Ragnarok Online and World of Warcraft.  RO was mainly because it was my first mmo, and WoW because its enviroment was done very well.

Unknown

Eve although I don't play it anymore.  It really is a simulation, games like WoW/EQ are clearly not simulations.  Games like EQ try to be but the rest of their design is contrary to "real" stuff.  Look no farther than the various travel vs content design debacles of EQ to see the difference.

Mars505

Lord of the Rings Online , I'm a bigger nerd then I thought

shae

Originally posted by Mars505

Lord of the Rings Online , I'm a bigger nerd then I thought

Nerds are hot and don't ever let anyone tell you different !

Unknown

I'm playing WoW and Lotr online right now but neither seems that immersive.  Dont get me wrong ..they are fun and all...but not a true feeling of being part of the environment. 

Faur

I think it's Eve for me, since there is no "real-time" representation of your character, it was much easier for me to imagine that my character was alive and walking around doing stuff while I wasn't watching. Kinda like how a book can be more immersive than a movie, because of your imagination taking over where the visual input stops.

I don't really strive to get immersed into mmo's and I'm not a roleplayer, so it's not really a quality I look for.





As for non-mmo's though? Steel Batallion, no contest. It's the only game I've played since my snes and genesis where I would flinch and duck in my seat, bracing myself from incoming fire.

nomadian

EQ/DAoC. Both had pretty nice environments.

Unknown

I've never actually felt immersed in a MMOG



Maybe it's a kid thing? I don't know...I don't think the quality of MMOGs is anywhere near good enough to induce a good, solid immersive experience.

Amarao

PSO for the DC, only because it was my first.

Recently I have been attached to any and get bored in a  month or less.

nomadian

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Maybe it's a kid thing?

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A kid thing? immersion? You've never felt immersed in a book or a film or a solo player rpg?

Unknown

I'm confused ..you have to be a kid to feel immersed in a game ?  I'm 38 so i guess im SoL...

iddmitri

Asheron Call 2 was great but it had some visual glitches at release which should have been fixed but the game was sold to Microsoft and it was basically over with fixing and updating. The game could've been great but $$$ rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M. get the money $$ bill

Unknown

Originally posted by nomadian


 



Maybe it's a kid thing?

A kid thing? immersion? You've never felt immersed in a book or a film or a solo player rpg? Sure I have...when I was a kid.

paulscott

wurm for its community and crafting.

sempiternal

what do you guys think is the most immersive game to date?

Originally posted by Gameloading

For me it was Ragnarok Online and World of Warcraft.  RO was mainly because it was my first mmo, and WoW because its enviroment was done very well.

 Quoted for future reference.

Ragnarok:

MajorBiggs

I'd have to say the cyberpunk mmo Neocron. It was my first and i've never played anything that was as immersive as that.

Elapsed

Asheron's Call. There are no zones on the landscape. There are no static loading screens. There are doors on buildings that you can open and close and walk in and out of freely. The players are all human or human-like so I don't feel too far from reality.

modjoe86

SWG at release. Its the only game where advancement didn't dictate my actions. I'd just go sit around at the cantina and enjoy the music and talk to people, and when we went grinding, it actually felt like a hunt. We would find an isolated mob and kill it, start a campfire at night and sit around. It was cool.

Torak

Good question I think the replies are interesting because no one has the same game...to bad more people havent answered.

I would have to go with Asheron's Call. It was my first MMO. I played it when there where only 3 MMO's on the market (AC, EQ and UO) it was the first game I played with 3d graphics and the entire idea of MMO's was awsome. Just the idea of running around in an open seemless would with all sorts of locations and the ability to do whatever you wanted to try to do was great. The future was bright back then and the community wasn't "jaded" yet.

After that I don't think I really ever felt "immersed" in a game for a long time until I played Lineage 2. Since leaving L2, I still haven't run into anything that I can really say has been "immersive" for me.

Outside of that, MMO's for some reason just do not drag you into any sort of immersion like other game types do. I think its the focus on the math that screws them up. All everyone cares about is how fast it takes to level to cap, raids, how many kill task the game has and uber loot.  No one really talks about the worlds, experiences or stories anymore its all about the numbers or why X game sucks, which totally destroys any immersion. The MMO community has changed alot in the past 5 years as have the games.

LordCaptain

Originally posted by poopypants

Originally posted by nomadian


 



Maybe it's a kid thing?

A kid thing? immersion? You've never felt immersed in a book or a film or a solo player rpg? Sure I have...when I was a kid. With the name: Poopypants... your trying to tell us you aren't a kid? :P



Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG



What can I say? SNES RPGs were the greatest. Still is the best system with the best games, IMO...



MMO? City of Heros is the only one that had me longing about the lore and how great the universe was and really got me back into Comics as a whole. I started picking up all sorts of Batman and Superman I had missed over the years.



Star Wars Galaxies technically made me think about it all the time... but just about how much it could be better... and the NGE... was just a step in the opposite direction (Obviously)

nomadian

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Sure I have...when I was a kid.

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I'm not quite sure you understand what immersion means:P

LordKyellan

Not since Asheron's Call, for all the reasons listed above and more.  Dereth was and is to this day still set up like an actual world. Before they had the giant torches put in defining the 'newbie zones' there were no barriers, invisible or otherwise. High level content was sprinkled in areas all around. You didn't have to ride the rails from one place to another. You could go anywhere any time you wanted, and as long as you'd pumped up your run skill, you could outrun any monsters you saw fit to.



Exploration has not been the same since my time in Dereth in any game. Right now, Vanguard comes the closest for me in feeling like it's a place that actually exists, but even in Telon I can see the rails. They are better hidden, though.