Share your notable Immersion breaking moments!

Konstant_Tel_Necris

Bleakraven wrote: »

The absence of Race-specific dialogue, like argonians telling me I wouldn't understand something when i'm an argonian. Or dunmer not recognizing i'm an argonian and talking *** about argonians. At least this is somewhat happening less in Vvardenfell.

Actually there are such dialogues, but they are in small number, for example in A Question of Succession quest, orc character have additional choices in compare to other races.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjV6TfpEgTk

Mitrenga

In the early days of ESO where people were using Mara rings, we asked to attend a wedding. Couple makes /bow and stuff to each other, imitating a wedding scene. Two knuckleheads appeared and /bucketsplash them at the same time.

Wedding was fine until then, great after that.

DoctorESO

supaskrub wrote: »

Recently a Crown Store item did it for me, I'm not the "immersion" type of player but there was one hat that was for sale that resulted in line dancer/cowgirls almost everywhere i went.. I just thought it was trashy actually and spoiled the theme of the game a little more than my immersion.

That's the winter hats. Don't hate me, but I did buy one!

Hurbster

This also applied to Verandis' happy bunch of crazy funsters if you happen to be a vampire as well.

Hurbster

Konstant_Tel_Necris wrote: »

Be a resurrectable Vestige before sacrificed to Molag Bal and finishing Wailing Prison in Morrrowind chapter.
Why developers do this? Why not start in Coldharbour as usual and when escape Wailing Prison fall in waters close to Vvardenfell and then be taken on board of ship what was attacked by slavers from Morrowind beginning?
It will be the same as we start in other alliances before as we fall in water close to Khenarthi's Roost, Stros M'Kai or Bleakrock Isle.

There was that brief happy time when we were given a choice...

DieAlteHexe

supaskrub wrote: »

Recently a Crown Store item did it for me, I'm not the "immersion" type of player but there was one hat that was for sale that resulted in line dancer/cowgirls almost everywhere i went.. I just thought it was trashy actually and spoiled the theme of the game a little more than my immersion.

Huh, I thought it looked more like a 3 Musketeers type hat...swashbuckling. Cowboys don't tend to fold up sides of hats as they (the hats) are meant to shelter from the elements.

Shawn_PT

I think this whole thread should be reversed. 'Share your notable Immersion moments.'

Hard to take immersion seriously when I'm standing in Stormhold and there is a khajiit AD Grand Overlord covered in the mad Hist's sap (amberplasm skin), wearing nothing but a Nordic bath towel and riding by on a cyborg nix ox... and nobody cares. Not the argonian guards, neither the EP Vicecannons...

Hard to take immersion seriously when I walk into the Fighters Guild chapter wearing any of the daedric polymorphs and followed by a cadre of daedric pets and Merric just smiles and says 'greetings oh my comrade, taking the fight to the daedra I hope! We have to destroy them wherever we see them!' or something along those lines.

Hard to take immersion seriously when I walk around as a stage 4 vampire and all NPCs act like everything is fine. At the very least some of them would comment on how they didn't like my eyes on Skyrim. Here? I think they are all blind.

I could go on but I think the point is made. Immersion went out the window the moment ESO was made an MMO.

Acrolas

NOPE.

Hurbster

Well to be fair, no one gave a crap in Skyrim when I wandered around with my summoned dremora buddy.

DoctorESO

Shawn_PT wrote: »

I think this whole thread should be reversed. 'Share your notable Immersion moments.'

Hard to take immersion seriously when I'm standing in Stormhold and there is a khajiit AD Grand Overlord covered in the mad Hist's sap (amberplasm skin), wearing nothing but a Nordic bath towel and riding by on a cyborg nix ox... and nobody cares. Not the argonian guards, neither the EP Vicecannons...

Hard to take immersion seriously when I walk into the Fighters Guild chapter wearing any of the daedric polymorphs and followed by a cadre of daedric pets and Merric just smiles and says 'greetings oh my comrade, taking the fight to the daedra I hope! We have to destroy them wherever we see them!' or something along those lines.

Hard to take immersion seriously when I walk around as a stage 4 vampire and all NPCs act like everything is fine. At the very least some of them would comment on how they didn't like my eyes on Skyrim. Here? I think they are all blind.

I could go on but I think the point is made. Immersion went out the window the moment ESO was made an MMO.

Those examples are pretty funny!!

Ajaxduo

Whenever I hold block

Tandor

Most of the examples here are pretty typical of any MMO (or other CRPG), especially in relation to conflicting factions which really only the original EQ got right.

I imagine that if I used zone chat or voice chat I would find it hard to maintain any semblance of immersion, but without them the main issues for me are probably player names (no worse here than anywhere else) and dueling around wayshrines etc. On the whole, however, I find the sense of immersion pretty good and no different to the offline TES titles, where things like the inventory management (including handing loads of weapons, pieces of armour and sundry other gear to the young lady in Skyrim who is sworn to carry my burden) are as nonsensical as anything in ESO. I've played every TES title and people delude themselves with a lot of their put-downs of ESO in comparison to those games, every single game is just that - a game - rather than to be taken as seriously as real life itself.

Datthaw

The whole item set loot system kills it. TES was always about finding singular powerful daedric, or other magical items. While the farming is pretty normal for mmos it totally breaks immersion

jssriot

--One Tamriel
--players grinding in overland areas
--dolmen groups
--not being able to do the pve content in Cyro because it's in the middle of a pvp area where no cranked 1vx'er who hates your alliance gives a *** if you've let your guard down because you got caught up feeling nostalgic for Oblivion
--hitting maxxed cp and being op for most regular pve content
--other players, probably, especially if all they want to talk about if grinding or dps parsing

and now also

-- the level reward system, which makes me dread ever making a new toon again

supaskrub wrote: »

Recently a Crown Store item did it for me, I'm not the "immersion" type of player but there was one hat that was for sale that resulted in line dancer/cowgirls almost everywhere i went.. I just thought it was trashy actually and spoiled the theme of the game a little more than my immersion.

The cowgirl thing irks me too, and I admit it's partly because I moved to a part of the US where that kind of thing is consider classy and stylish by white "Speak English Only" racist types, so I do not associate it with things I want to see in my leisure time. And while I'm not here to kink-shame anybody, the obvious bondage themed outfits with the minotaur chests and argonian short leggings is a bit goofy. But I figured immersion is dead for me now and if you cant beat them, join them. So just wait until you see my goth-y, Trent Reznor-y outfit involving dyed slave shirt and pants plus selected pieces of armor. I put it on two different toons. I hope to inspire a trend.

VaranisArano

jssriot wrote: »

And while I'm not here to kink-shame anybody, the obvious bondage themed outfits with the minotaur chests and argonian short leggings is a bit goofy.

I always figured the Minotaur chest piece is more inspired by the "gladiator" outfits we see in movies because of the Kvatch Arena, plus the armor is ostensibly worn by creatures with a pretty thick hide.

ZOS_Edward

Zone Chat.

Immersion in MMOs has always been difficult to maintain for a variety of reasons. The sheer amount of people running around in Hot Pants in Star Wars Galaxies taught me that.

I applaud those who make the effort to suspend their disbelief in an effort to feel immersed, but at some point you have to accept you're in an MMO and go with it.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Hard to take immersion seriously when I'm standing in Stormhold and there is a khajiit AD Grand Overlord covered in the mad Hist's sap (amberplasm skin), wearing nothing but a Nordic bath towel and riding by on a cyborg nix ox... and nobody cares. Not the argonian guards, neither the EP Vicecannons...

I dunno, I think I'd probably do my best to ignore that too. They're obviously touched in the head by Sheogorath, and examining them more closely is like the Evil Overlord list admonition not to enter the cell with no chamber pot: no good can come from trying to take a closer look.

Voxicity

Lag in PvP

DragonRacer

Bleakraven wrote: »

The absence of Race-specific dialogue, like argonians telling me I wouldn't understand something when i'm an argonian. Or dunmer not recognizing i'm an argonian and talking *** about argonians. At least this is somewhat happening less in Vvardenfell.

Yeah, that kinda killed a few moments for me as a Khajiit player here and there.

I also find it mildly irritating as a werewolf that I often am forced to respond in shock or awe at other werewolf NPCs during some quest dialogues when it's like... dude, we're basically packmates.

Skua

Mine is pretty similar to a lot of people here. I always imagined the backstory for my Dunmer with her being raised in Vvardenfell around Telvanni mages. Then I actually get to go there and people keep calling her in her full Telvanni armor N'wah. I kind of had to edit my personal lore a bit so people are pretending not to know her. X3

gibous

Having 37 copies of Tythis Andromo running around is not only immersion breaking - it's annoying!

DoctorESO

Not being able to talk to ANYONE at Hammerdeath Arena, despite there being dozens of NPCs there.

D0PAMINE

That high knee German WWII Era run personality. Amazing what is censored here

Cadbury

Pretty much as soon as I first started ESO.

Granted, I find it very difficult to "immerse" oneself in an MMO.

klowdy1

The ones freshest in my mind are 20 minute load screens. I try to immerse myself, then I walk through a door, and time freezes, apparently. There is also being an outsider in vvardenfell as a dark elf, or running in place on the back of my mount.

Aliyavana

supaskrub wrote: »

Recently a Crown Store item did it for me, I'm not the "immersion" type of player but there was one hat that was for sale that resulted in line dancer/cowgirls almost everywhere i went.. I just thought it was trashy actually and spoiled the theme of the game a little more than my immersion.

that was a cavalier hat not a cowboy hat

WakeYourGhost

Me and my guild are just innocently running around looking for books wearing nothing but Tabards and some weirdo starts talking about Jesus and the 2nd Amendment in Zone.
Can’t a mix-race group of tabard-wearing naked adventurers punch tigers in peace while going on a hunt for glowing blue story books that are shorter than the script for a Steven Universe episode?

SydneyGrey

I was about to talk to a merchant yesterday, and an Orc rode up and sat his giant bug right on top of me. *Grumble-grumble*

SydneyGrey

WakeYourGhost wrote: »

Me and my guild are just innocently running around looking for books wearing nothing but Tabards and some weirdo starts talking about Jesus and the 2nd Amendment in Zone.
Can’t a mix-race group of tabard-wearing naked adventurers punch tigers in peace while going on a hunt for glowing blue story books that are shorter than the script for a Steven Universe episode?

Well, to be fair, Jesus was a strong gun supporter.

Radiance

I broke immersion to come write this comment...