ITT: Inane shit you've done to further immense yourself in vidya, or 'enhance' the experience

>ITT: Inane shit you've done to further immense yourself in vidya, or 'enhance' the experience

I'll start. I played through Arkham Asylum and City in 2 consecutive nights because that's how long it takes Batman in game to do it.

Not really inane but after Naked Snake loses his eye, I played the rest of the game with an eyepatch on.

> Not really insane
> Not doing this with VR instead by linking your phone to remoteplay with PSN, and playing 3 on remote play with Google VR and your phone strapped to your head, and blocking your view of one of the eye sockets.

You don't know true immersion.

pull out my headphones for once to stop listening to podcasts/music

but the game already does this in first person mode

So the same thing except really laggy

i unironically do this at the computer sometimes because one of my eyes is weaker and i don't wanna strain it

but you guys just seem like autismos

In no way is that insane, but I might actually try that myself. Sounds fun.

I don't care about immersion.

You've a good eye at detecting autismos user.

>played through Arkham Asylum and City in 2 consecutive nights
Batman and City don't take place in the same year faggot.

>Not waiting a year between games for maximum immersion.

I like eating or drinking (mostly drinking) something that is somehow related to the game I'm playing, such as vodka with Stalker and Czech lager with Mankind Divided.

>You've a good eye at detecting autismos user.

In RPGs I change into civilian clothes when I'm in a town hub and I only log off or use wait functions at beds or campsites.

Lately I also started banning myself from using fast travel in shit like New Vegas.

> Same thing.
> Can still see entire screen with one eye.

Nah, if you don't have shitty internet or a shitty phone, it's god tier.

I refuse to use fast travel in open world games because I feel it cheapens the scale of the world, and because fast travel doesn't exist in real life.

Fun way to play Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Ok, mine was pretty good.
> Be playing Warcraft 3 as Elves.
> Summon Demon Hunter.
> Play the rest of the game with tissue paper around my head for immersion.

In any RPG where you can rename the main characters I always changed the main heroine/love interest's name to a girl I had a crush on.

When I'm done playing an RPG for the night, I go rest at an inn and then go to sleep so I can have cozy in character dreams

>play this on 3DS
>first person doesn't become 2D after that
I was a little disappointed.

>want to space out the issues of Long Halloween and read them during the time of the year they take place

I always fuck it up though. Gotta wait until fucking july now but might just start at Halloween

I had a blast desu, doubly so since I calculated my start times right and didn't have the playthrough extend into sunrise, so the night sky in irl and in the game were similar.
It's still a bit inane though

I played Demon's Souls and Dark Souls with the HUD off and no healing items except for unupgraded Estus flasks

Walking.

Even if there's nothing stopping my character from running nonstop from point A to point B, even if distance to the next destination is huge, I'll have my character walk. Helps to take in the sights, too.

Whenever I play Symmetra in Overwatch, I develope high-function autism.

What do you do when there's a sense of urgency in the plot?

Mirrors Edge must have been a joy

Hitch a ride on something faster, if available.

When the mod for DAYZ first came out, I would only eat or drink the food or drinks I found if I found food or water at all. I nearly passed out one night due to dehydration.

I only played the Arkham games starting at 10pm and while I'm starting to smoke DUDEWEED LOL. Lights off when I'm more than halfway through.

Still some of the most fun nights I've had in my 15+ years of gaming.

Bought the collector's edition of Witcher 3, I wear the medallion every time I play it.
I also played Origins for the first time around last Christmas, not knowing the game took place in that time. Was pretty neat

> Weed smoking degenerate
> DC
> Batman

Like poetry.

I turn the lights on and off again depending on the day/night cycle.

I also turn the AC on when I go to snow or ice levels.

I played Silent Hill 1 and 2 during the summer, so I had the AC way up with my fan to the point where it was actually kinda chilly.

I'm not a big fan of DC or comics honestly.

I enjoyed the games though, sorry you're having such a bad day.

I joined the Marines before playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare for the first time for maximum immersion.

I like you.

Yeah, I kind of doubt you're the pinnacle of human achievement, user.

Kill yourself, murderer

I traveled to Pripyat while heavy into the Stalker games.

I got sick a few days later and thought I had radiation poisoning. I was fine though.

I don't believe you, you surely don't do this for every game

Whenever my character needs to hold their breath (underwater, poison gas, etc.). I try to hold my breath until they get out.

Also I haven't done it yet but next time it snows I plan to go outside and play MGS and Parasite Eve on my PSP.

Lad...

Got my PS2 and portable b&w TV hooked up to a power generator in the woods to play Silent Hill 3 with a few friends

Got myself wasted before playing STALKER

Played Silent Hill during a particularly hellish thunderstorm

Wore a bike helmet playing NASCAR Racing (I was young, fuck you)

And I can't remember anything else. Oh, I played Hotline Miami while on shrooms but that wasn't planned.

These threads make you all sound so fun, I wish you didn't all meme spout so hard and just were yourselves.

I only play a Deus Ex game at night.

I made a makeshift ninja mask out of a t-shirt everytime I wanted to play Mark of the Ninja. I looked like a dickhead but it was fun.

I play No Man's Sky in the cardboard rocketship my dad made for me!

works for some games
some games are just too big and make you bounce all over the map though

Sometimes I drive with the traffic, breaking at red lights, staying in the right lane, not speeding, that kind of stuff, though I'm not sure if really counts

i stood up and swung my controller around instead of just waggling

>I try to hold my breath until they get out
That sounds fun. And also a bit terrifying, considering how tense I already get with underwater sequences in vidya.

I like to turn off all HUD elements and prompts, including minimaps. I set the difficulty to the highest it will go, and use printed out map or a physical map that came with the game instead of any in game maps.

Not viable in most games, but for the ones where it works, it is super fun.

It sucks when the NPC drivers treat you like an anomaly in most GTA-like games. If you're waiting in line at a red light, they'll get right up on you, honk in excess and then try going around despite the traffic. Never designed to think you'll be a good citizen, just expecting you to blow through everything. Then again, maybe it's just the gamess way of suggesting that everyone is just a 24/7 road rage driver.

played stalker SoC in the middle of winter with a jacket next to an open window with the lights completely off with headphones at max volume chugging a bottle of vodka

Same series, i always try my perfect run:

>don't buy armor upgrades
>one life (or in other words, i don't continue if i get killed)
>one bullet hit me and game over
>don't "kill anyone" (no run overs with the batmobile, not throwing people off rooftops, not letting thugs throw grenades at eachother during predator fights, don't explode mines to takedown thugs, don't fail at saving hostages) or, you guessed it, game over

Until i get a good PC to play all the games in the same device, i'll try this perfect run with the whole series (if i fail, i start with Origins).

>boot up outlast
>do research on waverly hills sanitarium
>make up a backstory that im a freelance reporter sent there to investigate an abondoned crime scene that the police wont reveal deets about.
>disregaurd actual story and just make it about real life me trying to escape the place
>get bored of the game 20 mins in and remember why i never beat the game.
>uninstall outlast

Not even in my drunken autismal hypness could i get past the shitty run and hide, run and hide "gameplay".

That sounds like it'd take a lot of patience.
It'd make a cool playthrough but bloody hell

>one bullet hit me and game over
he's got kevlar in his suit as canon, so you could take a few hits

Good luck with that. Though if you were really Batman you'd also restrict yourself to one chance to do this since ingame he's doing this all for the first time.

That's the thing that gave me that idea: you only keep "canon" or obligatiry gunshots in the suit (from cutscenes, like Branden in Origins, Two Face in City and Gordon in Knight), not the ones you get in gameplay.

What do in meantime? Arkham VR?

Back when it was still something I did, I made sure to chew tobacco while playing Red Dead Redemption

Forgot to add: don't step in mines myself (but that's implicit with the gunshots), don't use the grappling gun and the vantage points in predator fights unless it's an emergency (for the noise aspect) and "fix" the combat (don't let thugs wait for me and don't do attacks from a unrealistic distance, don't allow thugs with guns in melee fights to try to shoot me. I love this combat system, i just wish WB devs allow the AI to be more aggresive, that would fix most of the complaints against it).

I need to get back to Outlast, found it pretty boring myself but kept thinking I need to stick with it

Can your friends join in?

Did that for Assassin's Creed but saving only the one kill for the target, and has to be Hidden Blade.

(Unless the game needs me to kill guards to progress.)

Some of the stuff here is pretty interesting

Im sorry man I appreciate your love for batman but do you have autism

During Metro 2033/LastLight runs, I played Ranger with the coldest temp I could have in the house.

It did cost me a pretty penny for the electric bill, but worth it.

Play Skyrim in winter with the window open, An animal fur blanket, a wedge of cheese and honey mead

killed my parents so I could feel batmans pain.

And he's Irish too.

Probably, sometimes i wonder that myself.

I do this in skyrim and walk everywhere, it's really nice to see and hear if you have a couple of enviroment mods

It disables 3D after he gets his eye taken out

Couldn't play Skyrim vanilla anymore.

Did an old man take you in?

I do this in almost every open world games. It's the only way to play them.

Played Shattered Memories on the wii only during rainy nights.

Listened to the Inicial D soundtrack while playing mario kart wii with the wiimote.

I like travelling, but sometimes fast travel is just too convenient to deny

I close Sup Forums

holy FUCK

I blasted Initial D music while doing Kiryu's taxi race missions in Yakuza 5.

Shit was cash.

I'm gonna stick a dildo up my ass while playing the new berserk game

To get the whole guts experience

I play games on at least hard difficulty.

RPGs
>make a character following a theme
>no min maxing
>has to have and use certain items and/or spells to fit the persona
>restrictive item upgrades, especially if they don't fit with the ingame appearance
Fighting games
>always try to KO on last round with flashiest, riskiest moves

Play RO2/RS with headphones at full volume to get the full immersion
If my ears aren't ringing with the sound of my rifles's bolt, artillery pounding, men dying, and the rapid fire of machine guns by the time I quit playing, it's not as fun, nor horrifying.

I pretend that I'm playing rhythm/shmups for a crowd and that people are genuinely impressed with my mediocre playing and that I'm playing with super-players.

Every time I do I realize how egotistical that is and feel ashamed, then do it again next time. The worst part is that it's not exclusive to video games and I do it with almost everything.

In preparation for the release of MGSV, I made a MSF uniform and replayed the entire series up to GZ in it.

I still have it, and regret nothing.

I broke my hand once after hitting it with a slab of wood since I had to feel the pain my character felt

Whenever I play this Dinosaur game whenever I call out in game I have to call out in real life like a dinosaur as well as normal dialog in games

And during times I play arma2/3 I only eat mre's for a couple of days for immersion.

But my most extreme is I hired out a soviet and Roman uniform to play with Rome total war 1 with mods and Red orchestra 2 and cooked meals which would suit them for immersion so some meats/spam with some vodka etc for the Russians and I made a three course meal styled on Roman elites with some wine. It was fun and immersive

>inane

You're not alone user.

Only played Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation v Zeon's space missions at night on the big screen tv in the den with the sound turned way down.

It was just me and my Guncannon in an infinite sea of darkness, facing the forces of Zeon at A Boua Qu.

you know inane is a word right?

well seeing as how he used "insane" i dont think he knows that.

He used inane in OP

you're thinking of the other user

Full length Daytona 500 in nascar racing 2003 on a hot day with a racing wheel and a fan blowing in my face

I would never used fast travel or the map, outside of immersive in-game maps that don't show your location. The compass had to go too.

Actually getting lost was pretty fun.