What are some things that really ruin your immersion in a game?

What are some things that really ruin your immersion in a game?

As for me:

>Fantasy game
>Every single kingdom's tax policy isn't explored and explained in-depth

Just seems dishonest to me if you want me to take the world seriously.

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>"Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water."

name three (3) games that do this.

Its this fat faggot dead already.
When it's the next book out anyway.

Now that's good writing!

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weebshit

I think it's sad that nobody is learning from what grrm demonstrated with GoT.
You don't need magic, flash n thunder or the bland good/bad fantasy thing to make a good story.
Magic reduced to systems the way it is in games is inherently less interesting than magic as an unknown just beyond the players understanding.
The worst is Martin isn't even the first to do it, Black Company did it ages ago. Explaining magic is always unsatisfying, adds nothing of value, usually opens a rabbithole of plotholes and usually ends with autistic singularity powerlevel crap.

literally fuck off

R.R. has said that if he dies the show will be canon, so we can just assume that the shows end will be the actual end because he's fucking 70 and not even close to end it.

>On a huge adventure
>Surviving on twigs and moss, occasionally a crappy meal from an inn
>Main character never, EVER squats in the grass and groans, taking a fat wet shit
Kills my immersion tbqh familia

>game doesn't have cape/cloak physics

Literally makes or breaks games for me

Name one game that does this

All you need is hot incest.

literally this
It's fucking magic, the whole point is you don't understand it. If you can understand it then it's not magic anymore, it's science.

>“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

REEEE/tv/ GET OOOOOUUUUUUTTTT

When the start of a game is a very obvious tutorial.

Either do a good job of designing the beginning of your game so you don't have to advertise the fact it's a tutorial or add a separate tutorial to the main menu.

>westeros is stretched britain
>essos is a giant rectangle
BRAVO MARTIN

this triggers dragonfags

The world map is based on old world maps where everything they didn't know about was just assumed to be a big rectangle with exaggerated features. Can't believe people don't realize this. It's also why faraway places have such low-effort/obvious names like "The Shadow Lands", it's meant to evoke a sense that those places are foreign and barely known about.

jew

CK 2 A Game Of Thrones

He'd rather let the ending be absolute shit, rather than let it be unfinished?

Everything the show has done diverging from the books has been horrible.

In your opinion. In my opinion the show has been great. The fact that some details are lost is sad and some of the subtleties of the books are lost, but that's just a fact of the difference between print and televised media.

Also, let's be honest, the books aren't exactly great works of literature, so if the show isn't perfect all the time it's not like they're shitting on a grand legacy or something. They can afford to take some liberties.

>Fighting against a supposedly evil empire/ruler
>We never get to see how life is for the average citizen there, we fight against it just because their military employs some ruthless strategies
Fucking gay if you ask me

Game of thrones is shit desu.

>We never get to see how life is for the average citizen there

Because their quality of life and standard of living is most likely ten-fold better and would ruin the "MUH EVIL EMPIRE" strawman theme

>Magic reduced to systems the way it is in games is inherently less interesting than magic as an unknown just beyond the players understanding.

Only in cases where it's infrequently used.
The more it gets used as a plot device, the more the consumer has to have a grasp of it, otherwise the author will inevitably trip over themselves and ruin the internal consistency.

Incidentally, this is nowhere near new. Fucking Tolkien of all people never used a magic system, so why you're giving him the credit is beyond me.

The only thing you can learn from aSoIaF is how to write a shithouse story and build a retarded world.

There's literally nothing wrong with that paragraph.

You should stop being a mindless tool and stop echoing all of the shit your 'bros' like to repeat like retarded parrots.

I'll never get over how retarded that quote at the bottom is.
It's a fucking Dragon; you don't NEED to justify it in real life terms.
Their mere presence indicates that biology and physics have decided to fuck off on holiday.

Is there anything wrong with saying "I think it looks better"? There's absolutely nothing wrong with that opinion.

This. The contrast between D&D and Martin's ideas is painfully clear. The last two seasons were two inmenses pieces of shit save for two or three episodes.

what character does this?

Daenerys after she drinks some intoxicated water while being in the middle of nowhere, courtesy of Drogon.
She gets better.

Endless Space starts in a place that is basically space USSR, then it gets invaded by a foreign empire and the protagonist gets jailed for 7 years. When the protag gang goes back to the space USSR they see that there are no more people with clear signs of malnutrition and the general populace is better clothed someone literally asks "are we really on the right side?".

Wait she gets better?!
THANKS FOR THE SPOILER ALERT YOU FAGGOT

>Kids with, at most, a high school education try to make fun of an award winning author and millionaire

>immersion

Careful user, they have FOOD ANALOGIES to counter you with.

>Knee high fence blocking way
>Can't jump over it
>Need to find another way around

>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

>The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.

>an award winning author
You mean, like Stephanie Meyer?

>I'm autistic

Season 6 was straight up a Marvel movie with how bad and blatant pandering it was.

I hope they show that haha

I really hate it when I read novels or manga and get really invested in the story and then the author dies halfway through the story.

First George RR Martin passed away, then the guy who writes Berserk died. RIP.

>shitting on the man who survived the battle of the fucking Somme for wanting a bit of hope in the world.
I agree that too many hacks over the years have ripped him off, but he can still fuck himself.