Immersion?

When other RPGers use the term immersion, I...

  • Know what they mean, and I value it

    Votes: 37 69.8%
  • Know what they mean, but I don't value it much

    Votes: 10 18.9%
  • Don't get it, but I think I'm missing something

    Votes: 2 3.8%
  • Don't get it, and I think they're confused

    Votes: 4 7.5%


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Honestly, immersion is not the goal for me/us, it's a tool. We're playing a game/activity for fun/satisfaction, if whatever we're doing is fun/satisfactory, then we win. If that does not include immersion, that's fine. I'm also of the opinion, that while I know what people mean generally when they talk about immersion, everyone is different in how you achieve that. I do value immersion, but I also value chocolate, I'm just not eating that every second of every day...
 





As I learned years ago when MUSHing, there's something to be said for roleplaying in a purely text environment.

I was once sitting in the Lego Lab at the MIT Media Lab, playing on MediaMOO (ca. 1993), and the text came up "(So-and-so) walks into the Lego Lab." I actually looked at the door to see who it was.

Is that immersion?
 


I was once sitting in the Lego Lab at the MIT Media Lab, playing on MediaMOO (ca. 1993), and the text came up "(So-and-so) walks into the Lego Lab." I actually looked at the door to see who it was.

Is that immersion?

Maybe of a sort?

That's the problem as addressed earlier in this thread; people tend to have a couple different definitions at least: immersing your self into the character and immersing yourself into the game (if you get the distinction I'm making here).
 


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