Games where you just press a button and an action is performed (Half-Life) is more immersive than a game where you...

Games where you just press a button and an action is performed (Half-Life) is more immersive than a game where you press a button and a first-person animation is performed to complete the action (Outlast, Call of Duty).

Discuss.

Player agency is more important than realism. You're preaching to the choir.

An anal press in an anal press. You can't say it's only half.

I'm talking just about good old fashioned immersion, though. How much you can forget you're playing a game.

In games where your arms appear when you press E, you stop playing the game when the animation appears and you start watching a movie. It snaps you out because you're watching something happen, rather than doing it yourself.

ITT: game design tips from nodev losers

Literally a meme. People were immersing themselves in works of fiction just fine before hack game designers and reviewers decided it could only work by making you control a non existent protagonist. Learn about identification.

i get triggered by fags who think immersion is the be all and end all, too, user, but that's not what really what he was talking about. stopping the game to watch an animation play out is obviously going to detract from the experience.

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speaking of that, I started stuffing my ass with a bottle of wine since I'm still waiting for my vibrator to arrive. I really like it when I hit my ass cheeks on the bigger part of the bottle. I did just that an hour or two ago and when I pulled out (I did it really quickly), the condom I wrapped around the bottleneck had a lump of shit on it. I though of making a "chocolate condom" joke but I was alone and there was no way I could find a way to say that joke in a casual conversation. That is all.

The Washington Post is a work of fiction, but good fucking luck getting immersed in it such that you forget you're reading a (((news)))paper.
Meme or not, immersion is a measurable quality.

anal training pleb detected, probably lv. 1

now THIS is shitposting

immersion isn't real and is a sensation that fades once you turn older than 16.

discuss.

This is a meme and a red herring for muh realism or muh graphics.
As inhabitants of a laotian shadow theater aficionado image board, we should all be familiar with engrossing stories regardless of medium.
"immersive" and "realism" and so on is normalfag-talk for "I can't shut off the part of my brain telling me this is an ugly-drawing/fantastical/not-like-my-normalfag-life so I can't enjoy this and must be changed".

How's it feel to be depressed since being 16 user
have you considered meds

they won't help

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It's a trap, the drugs will destabilize you further until you kill yourself.

You're a fucking retard. Some pills work for different people depending on the fuck up in your brain. For example Citalopram didn't do SHIT for me except make me cry like a faggot and yawn all the time, but Venlafaxine entirely cured my desire to kill myself despite the fact that I've had chronic depression since I was at least ten. My first suicide attempt was 12. Bonus points I get fucking sweet vivid dreams all the time because of the drugs too.

So you can seriously take your "muh ebil pharma consbiracy :DD" horseshit and shove it right up your asshole where it came from.

That's fucking hot.

I solved my depression problems by fixing my diet. Was depressed and anxious for almost a decade since high school. Turns out that the standard american diet with loads of sugary drinks is bad for your GI tract and causes imbalance in the microbiotia there. I started eating fermented foods like sauerkraut and taking probiotics. First week was hell because candida in particular releases toxic byproducts as it dies off. After summoning the willpower and urge to kill it off I got over it. Ever since then I haven't had any depressive symptoms. Highly recommend it.

Or you can wait until your pills stop working for you and jump ship to a different set of meds and then get even more depressed.

Real talk, is there any way to stop this from happening?
It's gross and it turns me off when my Bruiser the Fusion gets shit on it.

I'd be careful user, soon the (((doctors))) will tell you the depression is from your wish to be a woman, soon you'll be a tranny fighting for trans-rights with the other brainwashed hordes.

You're supposed to put your dick in the bottle you uncultured swine

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Just remember goy, melancholy is a mental illness caused by chemical imbalances in the brain which you need pills from Dr. Shekelstein to fix.. But faggory/transsexualism is completely normal!

What the fuck do you mean?

Wooooooooooooow fucking QTEs

Obligatory Thief & Thief 2 response.

In Half-Life, when you walk up to a button in the game and press the interact key, you just hear the button go "beep" and it activates whatever it's connected to. In more modern games, when you walk up to a button and press the interact key, you often see your character physically pressing the button with his hand in the game, sometimes even snapping into a specific position in the in-game world before doing so for the animation to line up.

Ah yes, we must show those Bourgeoisie doctors a thing or too, am I right kamerad?

Like clockwork.

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Socialists such as you are all the same. Be ye National Pederast, or some flavour of Anarchical faggot, or a full-blown Jew. You want to take from the rich and give to the sniveling, diseased and drug-addled poor who deserve nothing.

That's not what's happening in that post, buddy

However the "key stat" for immersion isn't how clever you simulate reality like what so many devs seem to think now.
Often time immersion is dependent on the fluffier aspects of the game: theme, style, sound design, music, characterization, plot as well as the crunchier aspects.

Immersion is not a meme. Sure, it's a little pretentious for 'immsimms' to use it like they're a special breed.

It's not about that either (unless you mean modern normalfags). It's more to do with little added things that make the world feel like a living oneā€¦ but often add nothing to the gameplay.
And other shit like that.