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Okay, it might have been a bit unfair to call eso unimmersive
As I continued to play eso... its an amazing and fun game in most respects, but there was always something that made the world not really connect like it does in a lot of mmo's. After replying to another post and suggesting as much, not wanting to ragequit i did log back in and in between quests tried to figure out what was going on.. In the end i did 2 things which dramatically changed the game for me:
- Disable the music
First i gotta say all credit to eso's sound desigers for having the nuts to have music continually repeating on loop, instead of the cinematic 'only when it feels like it' that seems popular in other games now... i like looped music a lot. Sadly it seems this idea only works when the soundtrack is a 10/10.. and for eso's soundtrack its more of a 3/10. Without this music.. the world seems to be a lot more present than with it.. and if you have headphones the sound effects and environment noises are really rich and detailed. Its awesome. Well.. it could just have been the effect of positive by removing a negative.. who knows.. but it definitely works for me.
- Play in first person mode apart from in combat
Not seeing your character makes the world the focus instead of you.. which somehow in my head completely transforms the effect it has... there's something really sterile about it in 3rd person.. in 1st person somehow this effect doesn't seem to happen. To enable this i made a macro on my mouse to press v+z with one button.. and switch in and out of combat that way. You need to tweak it as anything you interact with puts your weapon away but it works.
Playing in first person does take a bit of time to get used to but i can't go back now. When i log in and there's no music... i'm still feel this small but real little sigh of relief. Its a little more elder scrolls like immersive. The last part would be to get a flora and fauna mod for people who's systems can run it (maybe make wayshrines zip you over rather than teleport).. and it will be a great gem!!