Corpse Party.
Nevermind the fact that it's a top down adventure/horror game, but holy fuck it damn near gave me a heart attack on the levels that Amnesia did.
[QUOTE=ForDaNords;42496560][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Systemshock2box.jpg[/IMG]
The sound design behind this game is stunning, it shows just how much sound can be used in a game to completely immerse the player. Even to this day there's only very few games that are immersive as this game is.[/QUOTE]
This is what I was gonna post, surprised it was OP.
Red Orchestra 1&2.
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ARMA 3
Dead Space for one, I really felt immersed in that. Also with Half-Life 2, mostly in the beginning when you're in City 17. I was a lot younger when I first played it and I was actually pretty scared going through. This was before I knew anything about no clipping and seeing how the maps were made, but the world felt massive to me.
Those previous two have already been said so I'm posting Rage.
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It might not have the best gameplay and there's a problem with the low res textures (mainly up close) but the game's atmosphere and art direction is still impressive. Especially Dead City. There were a lot of spots that really freaked me out.
I've never played a game with as heady and surreal an atmosphere as The Void.
[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXmVSklkMg[/MEDIA]
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Myst, Riven and Uru.
These games catapult you into the world of Atrus, and it was amazing to just walk around and OBSERVE all the detail they had spent the time and effort including. The other games of the series felt to contrived, and it didn't help Aisha kept popping up at different times and lecturing the player.
Uru does this the best though, because aside from the Trailer Hobo, you do not see anything sentient for a LONG time.
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;42505744]
Red Orchestra 1&2.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Red_Orchestra_25Shot0239.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
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Rising Storm as well.
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Other great atmospheric games like Half-Life 2, the Stalker games, Bioshock and etc... are already posted so yeah[/QUOTE]
the swapper deserves to be a lot more popular than it is, it's a really amazing game. i've been stuck on this one part for a really long time though but i think that's more my fault than the games.
All of the STALKER games
Do mods count as well? If so, paranoia.
Dragon Age, Fallout: New Vegas, Mass Effect 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein anyone?
The 2009 one was pretty awesome too. Can't wait to see what the new one will throw at us!
:dance:
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This game will always have a special place in my heart.
[sp]RIP Agro.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Y'all.;42506172]the swapper deserves to be a lot more popular than it is, it's a really amazing game. i've been stuck on this one part for a really long time though but i think that's more my fault than the games.[/QUOTE]
I actually stopped playing the game for around half a year before I went back and finished it. The puzzles got really hard for me but it's a brilliant game and I was just crap at solving puzzles. Loved every second of it. Plus, the soundtrack was beautiful.
[video=youtube;ShPR4ABt0mk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPR4ABt0mk[/video]
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Bioshock
Half-Life
Morrowind
Dark Souls for me was the most immersive. Nothing in the game was force-fed to you. It taught me how to be observant on my own, and these observations created a realization so strong and so immense, that at the final boss I cried.
They were all telling me all along, most of them were lying, some of them were friendly, but most of all: I followed the prophecy blindly and indifferently-- as the mindless undead I was.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6sOhQan9Y[/media]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/xS0YxwN.jpg[/img]
Played this for the first time in a completely dark room after everyone else was asleep
When those gales whipped up, damn son
I have never been more immersed in a video game since I first bought Morrowind back in '03. Skyrim almost beat it out for me, but it didn't capture that feeling of my first few hours walking up the Bitter Coast to check out the fishing villages, not knowing where the hell I was going or what I was going to find. I wish more games had that mystery about them, instead of holding your hand the entire way.
[QUOTE=Insulator;42507058]I have never been more immersed in a video game since I first bought Morrowind back in '03. Skyrim almost beat it out for me, but it didn't capture that feeling of my first few hours walking up the Bitter Coast to check out the fishing villages, not knowing where the hell I was going or what I was going to find. I wish more games had that mystery about them, instead of holding your hand the entire way.[/QUOTE]
Morrowind's world was huge at the time too. It's too bad its combat system has aged horribly, because as a wee one I got a [I]lot[/I] of hours entered into that game.
Games with no or little background music like Stalker or GTA seem to pull me in pretty easily.
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This game will always have a special place in my heart.
[sp]RIP Agro.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Agro's actually revealed to be alive at the very end, when Mono wakes up and goes to the Garden. He limps a little, but he's still alive.[/sp]
And on that note...
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Atmospheric as shit. I think Ico and Yorda make the best little team, especially since they can't really talk to one another. I loved this game so much.
Not a classic game, but fairly new:
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I'm not complementing the story here, some people say the story is boring and almost non-existing and I agree.
But the entire game I had one thought haunting me- [B]"I need to get out of this place right now"[/B]
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;42506466]I actually stopped playing the game for around half a year before I went back and finished it. The puzzles got really hard for me but it's a brilliant game and I was just crap at solving puzzles. Loved every second of it. Plus, the soundtrack was beautiful.
[video=youtube;ShPR4ABt0mk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShPR4ABt0mk[/video][/QUOTE]
I still haven't bought this game :I
I should, as I even spoke with one of the devs.
Although he told me to just go ahead and yarr it.
The Walking Dead
I gotta say, I hardly ever cry, but at the end... ;_;
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Mafia 2 deserves it's place here as well.
Planetside 2 sometimes has its moments for me. Drop podding in the middle of a 3 way battle at The Crown really feels like I'm a war movie. Pushing uphill inch by inch with bullets, explosions, and death all around you is really exhilarating.
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