immersion?

[Demacia]

"I don't want to see people jump around like rabbits, it's breaking my immersion so bad"

It's so much more realistic and immersive to have to walk all the way around a small little bush or rock or a 6 inches high fence, not being able to jump up a small little hill and having to walk around until you find a path getting you up that small hill...

and as thousands of games from every genre proved for decades, jumping is fun and can be use in many many ways.

so let's sacrifice another great feature for the sake of "immersion"

"I never wanna see my character swim, it's so unrealistic to think i could swim with a chainmail armor"

Yet it is much more realistic to carry 100 pieces of armor weighting a ton in a small big attached to your belt..... or invisible bag wtv...


" I don't want to see you carry around a sword with flames all around it, it's so bright it's breaking my immersion, go play WOW!"

It's probably better to have a plain ugly simple steel sword and yet be able to throw fire and ice out of thin air... much more realistic.... we sure don't want any FANTASY weapons and armor in a Final FANTASY game... right...


It's crazy how closed minded so many people are and how they are ready to kill any FUN idea for the sake of their absolute immersion....

Ohhhh so now we get to the REAL issue. That's all you had to say. For the record I disagree with flaming swords and torches on your shoulderpads because it looks stupid, not because it's fantasy. Jumping/Swimming idc about. I can live with or without it. What breaks my immersion is how shitty the game's world is.

[viion]

Oni jumping is not going to solve everything, sure you might get stuck on a 2inch high pebble but if you can jump why would you over a 2inch high pebble, it should just be fixed so you dont get stuck....on the 2inch...high..pebble.. Also not to mention people will just bitch they can jump onto a fire camp or jump onto a spiked fence or cannot jump up x ledge or down x ledge.

The swim thing, i guess so the glow thing is more of a problem with people. They think it will be like wow, and it wont, wow is old, uses old graphic styles and developers made glow look like x style, Tron has glows, but does it look anything like WoW? nope. Its linear, controlled and made to look like art. Even XI has Glows, GM's get them and now they've just added a new sword which has a glow. But it looks nothing like WoW's, Aion has glows, doesn't look to much like WoW. This is just a problem with the community not understanding how SE will develop it. Lantern shield glows but has no volumetric just luminance and no one is bitchin about that.

[Onidemon]

When I play the video game sure its for fun because I want to be wrapped up in the story and be taken on an adventure, its like when you see a film, you want to see something you'll get pulled into, but if you kept seeing wires or greenscreens or subtitles popped up because they didnt finish voicing you'd be pretty fucking annoying and it would "break immersion" because you would be to busy thinking "woah cant believe this film still has props lying around and a camera man stood behind Thor".

When a game becomes annoying and difficult to play and you're constantly reminded its just a game that is breaking immersion.

You are really comparing a movie to a video game? really?

[Demacia]

They can't. That would mean stepping out of their immersion for a bit.... that's just unthinkable!

Oh my bad pimp brah homedog. I better go play beer pong or something because spending my time after work on a weekday getting absorbed in a video game is for FUCKIN NERDS AMIRITE BRAH.

[Onidemon]

Oh my bad pimp brah homedog. I better go play beer pong or something because spending my time after work on a weekday getting absorbed in a video game is for FUCKIN NERDS AMIRITE BRAH.

So life is all about either being a Nerd or play beer pong with the homies?

[Wolfie]

Life is about friendship. And magic.

[Demacia]

So life is all about either being a Nerd or play beer pong with the homies?

No, life is all about arguing with strangers on a forum for a failed video game that nobody is actually playing.

[Anty]

I'm not saying i have a hard time getting immersed in the game. I don't want or care about getting immersed in the game. I'm not trying to feel like my character or pretend to be him.

What I'm saying is that I'm sick of all the whiners crying that everything is breaking their immersion as if they NEEEEED to be immersed in a virtual world to escape their sucky life.

Get over it people. This is a video game and we should stick to video game basics which is making it FUN.

If you want immersion that bad, buy yourself a 48 monitor eyefinity setup to cover all the walls of your room, a 7.1 sourround sound system and enough bag of chips to last for months... oh and dont forget the dippers!

its the same about movies... no matter if you call it immersion or not... if a movie is as bland as ffxiv currently is it also isnt immersive, that has nothing to do with real life or not. If im watching a movie and its very obvious that almost everything is made of paper and the settings look artificial and are not well done or better -the actors don't have voices lol- then there is no/or less immersion. Pretty childish post and obviously immersion is a word that needs more clarification...
And "fun" as you stated is one part of the immersion as well.

[Onidemon]

No, life is all about arguing with strangers on a forum for a failed video game that nobody is actually playing.

The immersion crowd sure is playing it.

[Demacia]

The blind fanboy crowd sure is playing it.

Fixed that for ya.