Here you go. It's a translation of the voiceover, so might not be exactly what is being said in english.

This was the joker’s diary. To blend in his role he locked himself up in a hotel room for weeks. That was typical of him. He immersed himself in his characters, but this time it was on a higher lever. The hospital scene is interesting, because when he was little his sister Kate liked to dress him up as a nurse. He looked really funny like that, as he does in the movie. This is a try for the make-up 8 months prior. Before the end of the shooting of the movie he wrote on the back of the page ‘Bye bye’. It was hard to read this.

Have you played The Walking Dead, yet? I thought it was a brilliantly made series. Very easy to play and get immersed in. I found myself much more easily absorbed by it than I am finding with Bioshock: Infinite. Sometimes classic adventure games can be annoying with how puzzles are solved, does not happen in The Walking Dead, such a great, heartwrenchingly, fun, fluid game.

I do not know why, maybe it is because I was playing Antichamber before Bioshock Infinite, but I find this latest Bioshock to be boring even though I realize it is a good game. Just cannot seem to get fully immersed in it.

I want one of these so badly. Imagine the sense of immersion, also imagine the terror of being absorbed in the game when suddenly a cat jumps in your lap or you get a tap on the shoulder...

While this may seem cruel, if the people doing it were suffering damage to their home from squirrels it may actually be more humane than the alternative. What is the alternative? That's what I asked the SPCA. The answer, trap them live in a cage and immerse them cage and squirrel in a barrel of water. Any form of termination was considered humane as long as it was quick. By the way, this came about after wiring in my attic shorted after having the insulation chewed off by squirrels.

All that the Archer/Assassin act in the middle needed was an Oliphant or two. And the elven female mage was HOT (yes, pun intended).
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What bugs me about this is it's where Bethesda's attention is going to go for the next four years instead of concentrating and putting out the next quality single-player chapter in what is all of a mature and proven franchise, a genre that they own, and a immersive play experience that they are the absolute benchmark in. MMO's where the money's at, sure, but they made a KILLING with Skyrim and its single-player sequel would have been an absolute sure bet to do same.

Makes me sad as they've been very consistent at releasing a new chapter every 5-6 years for the previous 3 chapters, and this means Elder Scrolls VI is now likely to be much further out than 2016.

I don't know how I'd feel sitting in one of those small immersibles face-to-face with a creature big and strong enough to take on most of the fish in the sea and has the intelligence to evade and outsmart man so well.

There is only one creture that can best this Squid - the Sperm Whale. (occationaly teams of sharks)

My balls also do this when immersed in anything but Dos Equis

Anyone else thinks that World War Z was a bad book?
For me, Brooks tries to give a serious global perspective of a zombie apocalypse, but his portrayal of different cultures and real world geopolitical forces falls flat.
I know it's pointless complaining about a lack of realism in a novel about zombies, but it ruins my immersion when the author seems to get his impression of the world from American news and the Karate Kid.

System Shock 2 is my #2 game of all time (only beaten by the original Half-Life) so when Bioshock came out, I was really psyched that I'd get to return to that FPS/RPG style of gameplay. I thought they did a lot of things great in Bioshock (the art style, the graphics, the story, the physics and mechanics of the gameplay), it's always the things that didn't make sense to me that stick in my mind first whenever anyone brings it up. Vending machines that sell ammunition? (That never made much sense to me in SS2 either.) Psychic abilities that summon......bees? They're little things, but it's always stuff like this that breaks the immersion for me. Anyone else like that?

>> ^shagen454:

I think hands down my favorite FPS ever is System Shock 2 with Half-Life coming close.
My favorite games ever are all tied though. Planescape: Torment, Bladur's Gate 2, Fallout 1&2 and Alpha Centauri. Half Life and SS2 close and Homeworld close by to there, Thief close as well.
They certainly don't make FUCKING awesome games like they used to, everything is hand fed to a stupid gamer populous. I don't remember the last time I was challenged and simultaneously immersed in a game.


SS2 is the first only time I've ever been truly freaked out by a game.

I was walking, creeping more like, into a large storage room, when all a sudden I decide to turn around and a head-slugged dude apparently, silently, followed me out of the corridor I had just "cleared" and screamed "KIIILLLLLL MEEEE!!!!!" and fucked my shit up.

I actually screamed.

I thought this was much better than NBC's until the background crew ruined my immersion 1:45

I think hands down my favorite FPS ever is System Shock 2 with Half-Life coming close.

My favorite games ever are all tied though. Planescape: Torment, Bladur's Gate 2, Fallout 1&2 and Alpha Centauri. Half Life and SS2 close and Homeworld close by to there, Thief close as well.

They certainly don't make FUCKING awesome games like they used to, everything is hand fed to a stupid gamer populous. I don't remember the last time I was challenged and simultaneously immersed in a game.

>> ^shuac:

Yeah, because Carmack never made a mistake. <cough>Doom 3<cough>Rage<cough>
>> ^Deano:
Isn't Carmack the guy to take note of? Apparently to impress him you have to be doing something right.



Carmack is a technology wizard. He's all about the engine, and I'm not sure there's anyone in the games industry right now who has anywhere near the same knack for the technical side of development.

1:55 - David Helgason: "I just tried the new prototype, and it was so immersive it blew my collar right off my shoulders."

It's been said before, but iD (read: Carmack) makes great engines, but usually mediocre games. He knows what he's talking about when it comes to tech, though.