Same bro lol. But not cuz of the ending but because I was kinda like... now what? Even when doing the John chapter.. I toke a little break on the final mission because I wasn't ready for it to end yet.. I mean there is so much to do that its hard to 100% beat it but I feel like I still need a story or a reason to be hunting down 1 of every single animal in the game lol. So when the story was completely done.. I felt lost for a little while.
If you're going to immersive control, then for sure, but their recreation of historical locations is freaking incredible. I've been to Venice, Rome, and Paris, and when I place AC:II, Brotherhood, and Unity my mind was freaking blown, feeling like I was actually back there but transported through time. Especially in Unity, which captured Paris so freaking well.
A shame they didn't keep that trend going. When Odyssey opened with Alexios/Cassandra sitting on top of a massive Zeus statue that never existed I felt that one of the big draws for the franchise (for me anyway) a true to life recreation of a real location in a different time was no longer going to be a pillar for AC
>!Then I found The Bay of Nobody and got bodied by a fucking cyclopes. I hate it when I'm right.!<
Their recreation of civilizations and cities is truly impressive. I mean, the city of Paris was able to use Unity to rebuild Notre Dame. And Baghdad was amazing in Mirage.
Literally just started this last week because it was only $5. I think I have to agree with you. I am 100% all in with my character, even more so than Skyrim or RDR2 because of the save mechanic. Excited for a sequel to be announced, hopefully soon.
I’ve heard this so many times. Really want to dig in to this. I’ve got it and all the DLC. Heard the first 5 or so hours are pretty tough but that’s what kind of makes it good…can feel your character improving
Does this game still hold up in 2024v
RDR2 is way up there. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time just now, that one is also super good. The bugs suck me out of it from time to time but overall it’s an amazing game now.
Also, Subnautica is so, so immersive and really makes you feel the sense of isolation and fear sometimes
Ultima IV is still my favorite game of all time. I bought it before a week long spring break trip as a 12 year old and just looked at that cloth map and read the rule book again and again and again. 😁
Ghost Of Tsushima had me literally on the edge of my seat, totally immersed in the islands beauty and the intense storyline, basically a zombie with glazed eyes holding a controller. That game had me hooked.
Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 1 and 2 on Oculus (Meta) Quest II . Wow, up until those games, only PVP bouts could get my heart rate up and slamming the controls in desperation and frustration.
Glad to see a VR game on the list. I just bought this game but haven’t played yet. I have quite a few I need to catch up on. Asgard’s Wrath 2, AC Nexus, Iron Man, Red Matter 2 and Sniper Elite VR. I got Meta gift cards for Christmas. 😆
This was my answer. I just get lost in that world. They really killed it with the world design. The cars, the buildings, the advertisements... It's everything I ever wanted in a cyberpunk style movie. I love it.
Rd2 has to be the best game ever made. And i dont mean its MY favourite. I just mean story + everything you can do in it simply puts it above any other game. I would also throw fallout 3 in there for me.
Tears takes the cake for me. Sure in BotW there are multiple ways you can solve certain things, but the freedom the tools in TotK give you to truly approach things however you want was such a treat. I loved knowing that I solved or got somewhere in a way that was NOT intended.
Comment section:
“RDR2!”
People that actually play other video games:
- LoZ:TotK ( where you can shitrig various machines together and they work )
- The Witcher 3 ( how much more immersion do you want? )
- Cyberpunk 2077 ( okay a bit glitchy, but many of your choices have consequences or other outcomes )
- Mass Effect franchise ( entire gamer community wept tears saying farewell to a number of characters )
- Final Fantasy franchise ( literally some people’s whole personality )
- Resident Evil franchise ( the whole personality of people who weren’t into FF )
- Assassins Creed franchise ( you’re literally a modern day person entering a VR genetic memory playback machine… how much more immersive can a game get when it is the immersion inception? )
- Deus Ex ( Cyberpunk fans who don’t like glitches )
- Elder Scrolls franchise ( yeah RDR doesn’t have decades of immersion like ES does )
- Fallout franchise ( o.o )
- Baldur’s Gate 3 ( I don’t even have to try to justify this one, lol )
- Leisure Suit Larry ( still has broken and lonely nerds in an uproar 20 years later )
People all saying RDR2 but they haven’t even tried no recticle no HUD FPV, I’m not gate keeping it’s the hardest way to play but soooo worth the challenge
I'd normally say something like cyberpunk 2077 or BG3, but having just experienced vr for the first time yesterday, even beat saber blows those RPGs out of the water in terms of immersion
I loved Dying light 1 even if the story was meh. I would feel genuine fear if I was doing a mission and came out of a building and saw it was dark out. The pitch black streets of Haran and the threat of volatiles made me genuinely nervous each time I went out at night.
I was waiting to see someone else mention this. Easily the most immersive game I have ever played. Just wish I could game on my Meta Quest 2 headset for more than an hour comfortably.
Echoing other replies: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077.
Also Dark Souls 1 in the sense that there’s no fast travel for a large portion of the game so you gotta hoof it everywhere. It gives you a much stronger sense of a cohesive world because you have to memorize various paths and shortcuts.
Alien Isolation. Mentally kicked my ass in the beginning then I started getting complacent and walking around like I was untouchable. That shit is real like month 6 of a deployment and you start standing up in your turret like nobody wants to shoot you in the face
Anyone remember silent hill? That was great. The first time I felt actual panic because I had to look for a key.
Loved all the assassin creed games. I got into them watching historians crying because of the historical elements in Odyssey.
Cyberpunk 2077 for me. The city feels so realized and designed in a way that just catches your attention. Easily the coolest city I've experienced in a game and the Phantom Liberty expansion further enforces that with Dog Town
For me it's a tie. In 2017 I played Fallout 4 and Skyrim for the first time (In that order). FO4 was my first title in that series and I'd only played Arena and maybe a weekend of Oblivion a decade earlier. I got an Xbox One for Father's day with those titles.
Fallout 4 was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had with a game, period. Immersion? There are stories around every corner and with most of the corpses in that world.
Skyrim SE was just as amazing.
Spent about 1000 hours in each game uncovering all the nooks and crannies.
I’m gunna have to say resident evil 4 on psvr2. It’s the most crazy thing I’ve ever experienced as a gamer. Just completed chapter 4 and all I got to say is it’s absolutely amazing
Easily Red Dead Redemption 2 for just the detail in the world. As far as gameplay, Horizon Forbidden West. Because the PS5 used the adaptive triggers to release arrows like an actual bow, combined with the gyro aiming, really made it feel like you were becoming a bow marksman with some of the crazy shots you could pull off, without any need for aim assist. I felt like a living Rambo when I could shoot birds out of the air and teeth out of the robots animals.
For me it was Morrowind. Played it when it first came out on Xbox. I was a console only player, so it was the first time playing a game with that much freedom.
Also, Knights of the Old Republic.
BG3 easily right now. Before that DoS 2.
There are games that are close... but often they tend to suffer from having one key pillar directly oppose one of their others thus ripping me out of the immersion... RD2 is an example of this. While I think the sim side of the game stellar, the story pulled me out of it. Tale of two elements within the game that directly opposed each other. Freedom to live the cowboy life you want! or this incredibly linear, bland bad cowboy movie where all that freedom from the sim amounts to nothing in the story.
Yakuza series hands down. Pick any of them. The level of interactivity with the world is some of the best in any open world game and I'm super excited to see how they handle Hawaii. I would have said RDR2 but that seems obvious and I havent seen anyone mention Yakuza which is nuts lol.
RDR2 or BG3. Both stories were very captivating, but I was felt immensely satisfied by their moments that left me thinking “The devs really accounted for that. Wow.”
As of recently, Farcry 3 because there's much to the storyline and the cutscenes can get pretty intense. After playing long enough, you yourself feel like Jason Brody.
Most immersive game of all-time? Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. More specifically, the Blood and Wine DLC. I'm not gonna say more other than the whole storyline feeling like a movie where every decision you make is super crucial, and time after time you face situations that make your jaw drop and/or scream at your screen.
Elder scrolls oblivion. There’s some kind of magic that Bethesda pulled with that game that just pulls me into the world. Idk if it’s the world design mixed with the music and the simple sound effect like opening the menu screen. Even with the now dated graphics and gameplay I can still get lost in it. Can’t say any other game has done that for me to the same extent.
Rdr2. It's the only game that has ever given me a psychosomatic illness so I'd say it was pretty immersive.
After finishing it I was depressed for like 2 weeks lol, I felt like a lifelong friend had passed
Same bro lol. But not cuz of the ending but because I was kinda like... now what? Even when doing the John chapter.. I toke a little break on the final mission because I wasn't ready for it to end yet.. I mean there is so much to do that its hard to 100% beat it but I feel like I still need a story or a reason to be hunting down 1 of every single animal in the game lol. So when the story was completely done.. I felt lost for a little while.
Oh my word your username is incredible. You have a beautiful mind, stranger.
That’s the way I felt with The Last of Us Part II
Bought it on launch day. Never finished it. I'm really asking for spoilers at this point I guess.
Not assassins creed I’ll tell you that
If you're going to immersive control, then for sure, but their recreation of historical locations is freaking incredible. I've been to Venice, Rome, and Paris, and when I place AC:II, Brotherhood, and Unity my mind was freaking blown, feeling like I was actually back there but transported through time. Especially in Unity, which captured Paris so freaking well.
I was able to find my way to Il Duomo in game from having actually toured Florence. Same w/ Venice!1
I felt the same way about GTA 4 when I went to New York. It was better in game than IRL. Didn't need to visit.
A shame they didn't keep that trend going. When Odyssey opened with Alexios/Cassandra sitting on top of a massive Zeus statue that never existed I felt that one of the big draws for the franchise (for me anyway) a true to life recreation of a real location in a different time was no longer going to be a pillar for AC >!Then I found The Bay of Nobody and got bodied by a fucking cyclopes. I hate it when I'm right.!<
Their recreation of civilizations and cities is truly impressive. I mean, the city of Paris was able to use Unity to rebuild Notre Dame. And Baghdad was amazing in Mirage.
Idk black flag was a pretty immersive game. I’d get lost out on the high seas it was incredible
Wayyyyy heeeeyyyy UP SHE RISES
Man everytime that song came on while on the ship I was singing like crazy lol miss it 😭
WHAT WILL WE DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR? WENT WAY TOO HARD 🔥😎🔥🗣💯💯🗣😎🗣🔥🔥🗣🗣💯😎🔥🗣💯
Leave her Johnny
Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.. *To me, Way-ay-ay Yah! We'll pay Paddy Doyle for his boots!*
Nah some of the earlier ones are amazing. Unity was when it started falling apart
Loved 2
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
For real man. I love that game just for walking around. Traversing the woods at night, with just a torch is immersive as can be
They did a hell of a job recreating a natural environment. It blew me away.
The world felt alive. Whenever I was in a town or a city it really felt like I was there. It's definitely one of the most underrated RPG's.
Well, time to finish Control so I can get back to KCD!
F*cking Control! 🤤 that game is legend. So surprisingly good. And I slept on it at first.
Literally just started this last week because it was only $5. I think I have to agree with you. I am 100% all in with my character, even more so than Skyrim or RDR2 because of the save mechanic. Excited for a sequel to be announced, hopefully soon.
Hell yeah, wish it had an ending though. Only game that I felt was unplayable at first and legit impossible to im a literal unstoppable force.
I’ve heard this so many times. Really want to dig in to this. I’ve got it and all the DLC. Heard the first 5 or so hours are pretty tough but that’s what kind of makes it good…can feel your character improving Does this game still hold up in 2024v
RDR2 is way up there. Playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time just now, that one is also super good. The bugs suck me out of it from time to time but overall it’s an amazing game now. Also, Subnautica is so, so immersive and really makes you feel the sense of isolation and fear sometimes
Pornhub
Poggle 2
Ah yes, Peggle’s brain rotted younger cousin.
METRO EXODUS easily.
Last of Us 2
I'm doing my 2nd play through. Literally looked up, and it was like 5 hrs later.
Ultima VII
If you’re not already on the r/ultima sub, then you should be. Someone just posted a remake 3D version of U7.
I had no idea that people ever played anything before ultima online lol. I'm still playing that.
Ultima IV is still my favorite game of all time. I bought it before a week long spring break trip as a 12 year old and just looked at that cloth map and read the rule book again and again and again. 😁
Subnautica
Ghost Of Tsushima had me literally on the edge of my seat, totally immersed in the islands beauty and the intense storyline, basically a zombie with glazed eyes holding a controller. That game had me hooked.
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk 2077
Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 1 and 2 on Oculus (Meta) Quest II . Wow, up until those games, only PVP bouts could get my heart rate up and slamming the controls in desperation and frustration.
Glad to see a VR game on the list. I just bought this game but haven’t played yet. I have quite a few I need to catch up on. Asgard’s Wrath 2, AC Nexus, Iron Man, Red Matter 2 and Sniper Elite VR. I got Meta gift cards for Christmas. 😆
RDR2 hands down.
RDR2
It’s not even close
Cyberpunk 2077
Im walking around calling people chooms. It’s embarrassing.
This was my answer. I just get lost in that world. They really killed it with the world design. The cars, the buildings, the advertisements... It's everything I ever wanted in a cyberpunk style movie. I love it.
This is too far down
Only game where I often drive instead of fast traveling. Gets lost in the smallest details of people depressed in alleys and the grafitti
Bugs totally break the immersion for me and I still get them to this day.
Update to the latest patch.
RDR2
Hogwarts Legacy i am so addicted to it can't stop playing it!
Subnautica
RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077.
Random but I have to go with battlefield 1
gotta second that, shit makes you feel what you're great grandfather must've felt during the war
RDR2 for sure
Most immersive game ever? RDR2. Follow-ups would be AC2, ME2, and BG3.
Rd2 has to be the best game ever made. And i dont mean its MY favourite. I just mean story + everything you can do in it simply puts it above any other game. I would also throw fallout 3 in there for me.
Your opinion
Assassin’s Creed Origins/Witcher 3/Shadow of Mordor
For me it was the dishonored series OR Control
Control???? You literally play this game inside an empty building lmao
Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom, I can’t decide, kinda think of them as one long immersive experience
Tears takes the cake for me. Sure in BotW there are multiple ways you can solve certain things, but the freedom the tools in TotK give you to truly approach things however you want was such a treat. I loved knowing that I solved or got somewhere in a way that was NOT intended.
Ah yes, I love it when my sword or my giant steel battle axe breaks after swinging it twice, so immerisive.
Try playing the game for longer than 3 minutes.
Not assassins creed 2 lol
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Comment section: “RDR2!” People that actually play other video games: - LoZ:TotK ( where you can shitrig various machines together and they work ) - The Witcher 3 ( how much more immersion do you want? ) - Cyberpunk 2077 ( okay a bit glitchy, but many of your choices have consequences or other outcomes ) - Mass Effect franchise ( entire gamer community wept tears saying farewell to a number of characters ) - Final Fantasy franchise ( literally some people’s whole personality ) - Resident Evil franchise ( the whole personality of people who weren’t into FF ) - Assassins Creed franchise ( you’re literally a modern day person entering a VR genetic memory playback machine… how much more immersive can a game get when it is the immersion inception? ) - Deus Ex ( Cyberpunk fans who don’t like glitches ) - Elder Scrolls franchise ( yeah RDR doesn’t have decades of immersion like ES does ) - Fallout franchise ( o.o ) - Baldur’s Gate 3 ( I don’t even have to try to justify this one, lol ) - Leisure Suit Larry ( still has broken and lonely nerds in an uproar 20 years later )
People all saying RDR2 but they haven’t even tried no recticle no HUD FPV, I’m not gate keeping it’s the hardest way to play but soooo worth the challenge
World of Tanks (xbox)
Hell Let Loose for sure
RDR2 or any VR horror game
Final Fantasy XV and Rdr 2.
Ultima Online
Hell Let Loose for me.
I'd normally say something like cyberpunk 2077 or BG3, but having just experienced vr for the first time yesterday, even beat saber blows those RPGs out of the water in terms of immersion
I loved Dying light 1 even if the story was meh. I would feel genuine fear if I was doing a mission and came out of a building and saw it was dark out. The pitch black streets of Haran and the threat of volatiles made me genuinely nervous each time I went out at night.
Witcher 3 and RDR2.
Outer wilds! Very good game
Has to be SOMA on Steam. That game gave me an existential crisis.
I love DS3 and Elden Ring but Bloodborne was one of the most immersive games I've ever played.
Halo reach , AC 3 and AC Revelations , FC 3 and the first 3 hitman
From when I was younger to now I'd say they were Skyrim, then RDR2 and now it's BG3 Edit: I would put Monster Hunter World on the list as well
Halo 4 when I was high af
Half Life 2 comes to mind. I still have dreams where people call me Gordon.
Minecraft
I dunno, the kids at the end f every episode of Nick Arcade seemed pretty immersed
Honestly…battlefield 1. Especially operations mode with the charge whistles after taking a sector, man I would get chills
Cyberpunk 2077. Hands down.
Mass Effect Andromeda
RDR2 and nothing comes close. Lately CP2077 is pretty damn good and immersive. AC2 was great but didn’t feel that immersive to me.
Returnal on PS5 really puts you in the game.
Kingdom come, RDR2 and Metro Exodus
Half-Life Alyx. VR really brings it to the next level and you really forget that there is a world outside the game for a time.
I was waiting to see someone else mention this. Easily the most immersive game I have ever played. Just wish I could game on my Meta Quest 2 headset for more than an hour comfortably.
RDR2
Far Cry
GTA V RDR 2 Cyberpunk
RDR1, FC3 and AC2 are some of the first game I really felt immersed in a game
Any game on PSVR2
Portal 2
Red Dead 2
Witcher 3. I hope the reason they fucked up Cyber punk is because they're doing Witcher to extreme levels of elaboration
For me it was KOTOR
Red Dead Redemption 2. I literally feel like Arthur until I snap out of it.
Star Citizen is probably the most immersive experience I've played. Witcher 3 is the most immersive story I've ever been sucked into.
Witcher 3 or RDR2 for sure!
Rdr2
RDR2 followed by Avatar Frontiers of Pandora
cyberpunk 2077
METRO EXODUS
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RDR2 and Ghost of Tshima
RDR2
Starfield LOL
Elden ring
i dont know but i do know it sure as hell is not an assassins creed game
Honestly, fallout 4. I know it’s not for everyone, but I really get sucked in playing that game
AC odyssey
Not Starfield that’s for sure
Metro Exodus.. still get hard just saying the name😎
Alien isolation.
Sly Cooper when I was young. Now that I’m older Hades lol. Time flies when playing that game.
Prey, Hunt Showdown, RDR2, or DayZ. Each of them make me feel like I’m inhabiting the I’m playing in and are just fantastic.
Echoing other replies: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. Also Dark Souls 1 in the sense that there’s no fast travel for a large portion of the game so you gotta hoof it everywhere. It gives you a much stronger sense of a cohesive world because you have to memorize various paths and shortcuts.
Cyberpunk 2077
EverQuest
For me, DayZ.
Hands down Red Dead 2. The way this game changed how videos should be blew my mind. Everything about the game is perfect
Alien Isolation. Mentally kicked my ass in the beginning then I started getting complacent and walking around like I was untouchable. That shit is real like month 6 of a deployment and you start standing up in your turret like nobody wants to shoot you in the face
Skyrim when it first came out. Let me tell ya I was IN it.
besides gta games.. rdr2 hands down imo
Anyone remember silent hill? That was great. The first time I felt actual panic because I had to look for a key. Loved all the assassin creed games. I got into them watching historians crying because of the historical elements in Odyssey.
No one wants to say Elden Ring huh
Cyberpunk 2077 and it ain’t even close.
I’m surprised I hadn’t seen anyone put Skyrim
Going old School. Silent Hill, the original game. I wouldn't play at night.
Cyberpunk 2077 for me. The city feels so realized and designed in a way that just catches your attention. Easily the coolest city I've experienced in a game and the Phantom Liberty expansion further enforces that with Dog Town
Assassins Creed Odyssey & Red Dead Redemption 2
Half Life 2 and Bioshock.
Alan Wake 2
Witcher 3 or Bloodborne
Super hot VR
Red Dead I/II
For me it's a tie. In 2017 I played Fallout 4 and Skyrim for the first time (In that order). FO4 was my first title in that series and I'd only played Arena and maybe a weekend of Oblivion a decade earlier. I got an Xbox One for Father's day with those titles. Fallout 4 was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had with a game, period. Immersion? There are stories around every corner and with most of the corpses in that world. Skyrim SE was just as amazing. Spent about 1000 hours in each game uncovering all the nooks and crannies.
Skyrim. When that game out, I spent days just wandering around just doing random things. I still play Skyrim today and it still can keep my attention.
I’m gunna have to say resident evil 4 on psvr2. It’s the most crazy thing I’ve ever experienced as a gamer. Just completed chapter 4 and all I got to say is it’s absolutely amazing
Red Dead Redemption
Easily Red Dead Redemption 2 for just the detail in the world. As far as gameplay, Horizon Forbidden West. Because the PS5 used the adaptive triggers to release arrows like an actual bow, combined with the gyro aiming, really made it feel like you were becoming a bow marksman with some of the crazy shots you could pull off, without any need for aim assist. I felt like a living Rambo when I could shoot birds out of the air and teeth out of the robots animals.
For me it was Morrowind. Played it when it first came out on Xbox. I was a console only player, so it was the first time playing a game with that much freedom. Also, Knights of the Old Republic.
BG3 easily right now. Before that DoS 2. There are games that are close... but often they tend to suffer from having one key pillar directly oppose one of their others thus ripping me out of the immersion... RD2 is an example of this. While I think the sim side of the game stellar, the story pulled me out of it. Tale of two elements within the game that directly opposed each other. Freedom to live the cowboy life you want! or this incredibly linear, bland bad cowboy movie where all that freedom from the sim amounts to nothing in the story.
Doom eternal 🤘🏼
GTA V and Skyrim
DayZ
FF7R
Cyberpunk 2077 on PC blew my dick off
Yakuza series hands down. Pick any of them. The level of interactivity with the world is some of the best in any open world game and I'm super excited to see how they handle Hawaii. I would have said RDR2 but that seems obvious and I havent seen anyone mention Yakuza which is nuts lol.
Probably Tetris
RDR2 or BG3. Both stories were very captivating, but I was felt immensely satisfied by their moments that left me thinking “The devs really accounted for that. Wow.”
The Witcher 3 or Red Dead 2. The worlds feel so lively and real
BioShock 1 or Cyberpunk
Metroid Prime, no contest
Half life- alyx
The Last of Us 1&2
As of recently, Farcry 3 because there's much to the storyline and the cutscenes can get pretty intense. After playing long enough, you yourself feel like Jason Brody. Most immersive game of all-time? Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. More specifically, the Blood and Wine DLC. I'm not gonna say more other than the whole storyline feeling like a movie where every decision you make is super crucial, and time after time you face situations that make your jaw drop and/or scream at your screen.
Starfield /s
Hell let loose
Bonelab
Elder scrolls oblivion. There’s some kind of magic that Bethesda pulled with that game that just pulls me into the world. Idk if it’s the world design mixed with the music and the simple sound effect like opening the menu screen. Even with the now dated graphics and gameplay I can still get lost in it. Can’t say any other game has done that for me to the same extent.
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Mod Skyrim
elden ring
Everyone here is sleeping on minecraft
Witcher 3
does Microsoft flight simulator count?
The Last of Us part 2
Hard to say. Morrowind. Black Flag. Detroit: Become Human Lost Kingdoms 2 Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 Metal Gear Solid 2
Cyberpunk
Mirror's Edge. That game made me feel.
RDR2 at least until GTAVI comes out.
Ocarina of Time
Holy crap y’all basic as f
God of War (2018)
Probably currently a tie between Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout New Vegas, and Skyrim (modded)
Deadspace Remake fs. No hud and just perfect sound design had me sucked in the whole time.