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What’s the most immersive game you’ve played?
- Thread starter Multievolution
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Hahaha I don't think he'll do a 147 under 10 minutes in VR anytime soon!
Beat Saber, the mind is sometimes completely wandering while playing.
And when it comes to non-VR games it has got to be TLoU2.
And when it comes to non-VR games it has got to be TLoU2.
Probably Red Dead Redemption 2 when just exploring the world.
When they originally released, Bioshock and Skyrim were both incredibly immersive to me as well.
When they originally released, Bioshock and Skyrim were both incredibly immersive to me as well.
Half Life Alyx was so immersive it tripped me out of reality and it felt like my own hands weren't real when I took of the headset after a few sessions. Had to take a 2 day break to recover when I was about halfway through the game. Legit made me sad that I couldn't just gravity glove objects into my hands lol. But my god was it an incredible experience.
Any Bethesda game. I get lost in those for hours upon hours with my character creating whatever story fits. My Skyrim builds are so many hours long and each do something different in terms of gameplay, what they join/don't, what house the claim as their home and what stuff they collect for display on their journeys.
Half Life Alyx is it right now. VR games tend to walk a fine line. Yeah, putting the headset on and playing the games really put you in the experience but it's also easier to be taken out of it. Little things like an object not reacting like how you would expect or not even being able to be interacted with at all.
Alyx was the first VR game I've played where the seams don't show, the vast majority of things you'd think to do, you can, and items in the world react the way you'd think they would in real life. That all paired with extremely impressive audio and sound mixing and some truly impressive graphics and effects make for an incredibly immersive experience.
Alyx was the first VR game I've played where the seams don't show, the vast majority of things you'd think to do, you can, and items in the world react the way you'd think they would in real life. That all paired with extremely impressive audio and sound mixing and some truly impressive graphics and effects make for an incredibly immersive experience.
Classic WoW was incredibly immersive to me. Wish I had VR to play Alex because that shit would probably take the cake easy.
Never played VR but I need to. But yeah RDR2 made me feel like I used a time machine.
Portal 2, I was sucked into everything about it. The marketing stunt the lead up to the announcement was captivating. The story and gameplay were also great, just couldn't pull myself away from it.
Metroid Prime for me, and I believe it's because so much of the game is diegetic, and it manages to contextualise almost everything except ammo missile pickups and some upgrades. The 3D maps and health are holographic displays in her visor, scanning control consoles exists instead of non-diegetic "press A to interact" prompts, and so forth. It also had a lot of atmospheric effects like steam, frost, and raindrops on Samus' visor.
Any game that lets you act stealthy/sneaky and feel really bad when you get hurt/hit. I get that adrenaline fight or flight response and that regret from getting hurt at the same time.
BotW on Pro Mode and Metroid Prime games are pretty damn immersive too. Also the 3D in Ocarina of Time 3DS.
BotW on Pro Mode and Metroid Prime games are pretty damn immersive too. Also the 3D in Ocarina of Time 3DS.
VR is the only time I've ever felt immersed playing a game, I just can't get there when playing normally. Resident Evil 7 in VR though was some scary shit that really made me feel like I was in there.
How did I forget this? Yeah, this is absolutely up there. The movement system is revolutionary and will shape VR for decades to come.
Yeah, that's a great one. Also, all Souls for me. (many others too)
Persona 5, Zelda BOTW, and Ghost of Tsushima.
I was so engrossed in the world of those games. Very rarely did I feel what I felt when I played those games with others.
It's hard to choose the top one amongst those because they're all very different games, but if I had to choose, I'd go with Persona 5 because the choice of what I got to do every day in that game was reflective of how I wanted to immerse myself in that game.
I was so engrossed in the world of those games. Very rarely did I feel what I felt when I played those games with others.
It's hard to choose the top one amongst those because they're all very different games, but if I had to choose, I'd go with Persona 5 because the choice of what I got to do every day in that game was reflective of how I wanted to immerse myself in that game.
star citizen. Something about waking up in a space station, calling your ship, getting in, walking to the cockpit & taking your seat, and then flying to a planet's surface, to land, and then enter a mining facility. All seamlessly. Something about that makes it really immersive
Same.
It's not my favorite game, although I do love it. That game really sucked me in. I still think of it as a medieval fantasy simulator.
SOCOM that came with the headset on PS2. When they started talking to me in the headset even though the sound of the game came out of the tv, it blew my mind and instantly transported me into the game.
Lately, I've been getting completely lost in Assetto Corsa, especially the Shutoko Revival Project mod. I find myself just driving for hours at a time.
