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We play a computer game and we get immersed. Many thoughts fly through our heads, solutions to complete the next section if you have been there before or wonder and caution if you haven’t.
Thought, caution and quick decisions are all required to complete a computer game, all of which will help you in real life. You pick up skills from games, you tend to gain some intelligence but the immersion doesn’t stop there. You soon become the game, you have feelings towards people, and each character is designed to create a certain perception about them. A dark character tends to represent a weird or scary personality but doesn’t make them evil. The ghost man from Zelda Ocarina of Time isn’t bad is indeed odd and scary and you are so immersed in the game that you feel apprehensive of him but not hatred.
Gannon makes you feel hatred, he has destroyed the one gorgeous market square, his minions have killed you many a time and you desire revenge and compelled to continue in order to get it. Malon the farm girl dresses in white already a sign she is good (ignore the Bowser broach). Her sweet voice, clear skin and child like appearance makes you warm and trust the character.
All of this shows how the game immerses us into the adventure, you feel for individual characters, think about the adventure ahead of you and have feelings such as fear and apprehension. Yet there is always tell tale signs that stops you from falling into full immersion. Graphics increase immersion the more realistic or lovely the graphics are the more we feel it is real. Fog (in the game sense of the word) which blurs your view and helps ruin the immersion (unless the Fog is a serious effect like that used in Drakes Lake – Wave Race 64).
Music that stands out and doesn’t blend into the background tends to effect the immersion and we can snap out of our transfixed state. But as gaming rolls the immersion we receive increases, Ocarina of Time immersed us but Majora’s Mask with it’s improved character interaction immersed us even more. I’ll put money on the next Zelda immersing us even more especially with the increase in power and graphical capabilities. First person shooters have a distinct immersion problem, we do get immersed into First person shooters as the perspective is realistic but the type of game is mainly set up in levels. Once you have finished the level we have this menu and we snap out of our Zombiefied state. Loading times are also a problem as when you are in the middle of a game and it starts to load you relax and are no longer immersed which is why the Gamecube system of loading 10 seconds at the start of the game and never needing to load again is useful!
Games suck us in and they try to keep us there as long as possible before they are forced to spit us back out again. As the future of gaming goes on we will be sucked in for longer and longer and the developers dream of full immersion in their games is getting closer and closer everyday.
Dringo
Thought, caution and quick decisions are all required to complete a computer game, all of which will help you in real life. You pick up skills from games, you tend to gain some intelligence but the immersion doesn’t stop there. You soon become the game, you have feelings towards people, and each character is designed to create a certain perception about them. A dark character tends to represent a weird or scary personality but doesn’t make them evil. The ghost man from Zelda Ocarina of Time isn’t bad is indeed odd and scary and you are so immersed in the game that you feel apprehensive of him but not hatred.
Gannon makes you feel hatred, he has destroyed the one gorgeous market square, his minions have killed you many a time and you desire revenge and compelled to continue in order to get it. Malon the farm girl dresses in white already a sign she is good (ignore the Bowser broach). Her sweet voice, clear skin and child like appearance makes you warm and trust the character.
All of this shows how the game immerses us into the adventure, you feel for individual characters, think about the adventure ahead of you and have feelings such as fear and apprehension. Yet there is always tell tale signs that stops you from falling into full immersion. Graphics increase immersion the more realistic or lovely the graphics are the more we feel it is real. Fog (in the game sense of the word) which blurs your view and helps ruin the immersion (unless the Fog is a serious effect like that used in Drakes Lake – Wave Race 64).
Music that stands out and doesn’t blend into the background tends to effect the immersion and we can snap out of our transfixed state. But as gaming rolls the immersion we receive increases, Ocarina of Time immersed us but Majora’s Mask with it’s improved character interaction immersed us even more. I’ll put money on the next Zelda immersing us even more especially with the increase in power and graphical capabilities. First person shooters have a distinct immersion problem, we do get immersed into First person shooters as the perspective is realistic but the type of game is mainly set up in levels. Once you have finished the level we have this menu and we snap out of our Zombiefied state. Loading times are also a problem as when you are in the middle of a game and it starts to load you relax and are no longer immersed which is why the Gamecube system of loading 10 seconds at the start of the game and never needing to load again is useful!
Games suck us in and they try to keep us there as long as possible before they are forced to spit us back out again. As the future of gaming goes on we will be sucked in for longer and longer and the developers dream of full immersion in their games is getting closer and closer everyday.
Dringo
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Why should i mind? If i don't win then it's fine and if i do then it is also fine... (not that i r eally want this to win or anything... not)
Hmmm, i'd better wait for about 4-5 days just in case it's too like yours. I promise I will not copy it. It will describe immersion, but for ONE certain aspect of gaming. I won't tell you which, 'cause there might be a few scavengers about ready to take advantage of my long-thought of ideas.
Dringo, with your permission, my future post will contain parts saying: "...immersion..." and music stuff. Will you be ok with me using these words almost ammediately afterwards?
I've had the idea for this 'future' post for a while now, although I hadn't got round to putting my ideas onto paper.
Sorry to be a bother - Shocktrooper.
I've had the idea for this 'future' post for a while now, although I hadn't got round to putting my ideas onto paper.
Sorry to be a bother - Shocktrooper.
erm no you ill be so immersed in the game you don't come out till it is over that is full immersion!
surly one day they will.
Personally i don't think developers will ever be able otg et full immersion just get closer and closer as each generation of consoles go on!
So you pop the name? Really? I'm proud of this i tried hard so do what do you think immersion will be like int eh future?
Hmmm. I wrote an immersion topic with the exact same title as this. I'll POP it.
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