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Immersion, Thou art a cruel mistress

Hello, Fellow Surfers. This is Mojo, Better known as FalconReaper, and I have A Question. Have you ever been fully immersed in a game that you've played? Ever? I'm gonna get alot of varying answers from this, But in my opinion, No. not 'til recently that is. The reason why I' m bringing this up is beacause I was playing my way through Dead Space almost a month ago. I'd never played survival horror before, and I've never seen its kind of game before ( I'm only 17 and have been gaming since the end of the SNES era and the early days of 3D). From the Introduction to the part where you go onto the Valor (that's as far as I've played before the disc bugged out). I Honestly felt like was the one in Issac's RIG (that's what your armor is called for the uninitiated), trying to survive against the Necromorph Horde. I nearly soiled myself while playing to be honest and the atomsphere was second to none (in my opinion at least).

I was fully engrossed in the world that the designers created, which is an amazing feat onto itself in my opinion. Never before was I so scared of a game, and it was all the more unbelieveable when it was broken (the aforementioned bugging out of the disc). It got me thinking, why can't all story driven games be like this? Of course, as time went on, I learned that only a select few games can do it properly. An example of this is when I played Assassin's Creed on the PC way back in January. With the help of a plot device, I honestly felt like an assassin in the Third Crusade. What I'm getting at is that games that go the extra mile in making you feel apart of it is a great game, sure its got problems , but there easily forgiven. now, I'd like to end by saying what games have you been fully Immersed in?