SydneyGrey wrote: »

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.

Yeah, didn't he say something about "If someone slaps you, turn your gat sideways and unload on that fool."?

I don't know.. Not too up on my "New New Gospel"


I've also had countless moments where my pet moves in to a position where I'm looking at the inside of their skulls or times where I see a deer head sticking out of a rock...

I started playing in Vvardenfell when I bought the game; back then I was rather immersed in the story and really wanted to help out the floating blue/green guy. Then one time I went into his little palace thing and there were about 5 different duels going on at the same time.

Then I finally set foot in Auridon and Vulkhel Guard.

Then I went to Grahtwood.

Suffice to say I don't think there is anything that immerses me into the game now.

when keep doors won't open in cyrodil.

/rage

There have been a few, but my favourite is probably doing the Rivenspire storyline on a vampire.

Verandis: "This veil was designed to hinder vampires, so it shouldn't affect you and you'll be able to lead us through the ruins."

My stamblade, a vampire: ................

Maybe someone needs to get their eyes tested

Visual Context for the OP.

There's no wilderness. Everywhere you look there's a blasted structure or some crazy daedric thing.

Everyone in Tamriel has a problem. Everyone specifically needs YOU to help them. They chase you faster than your horse can sprint begging for help.

Everyone in the game is a vampire because it's the meta. I guess that's immersion breaking? Or not?

I would like to see more places like Gold Coast tbh... open space with wild things and no immersion breaking structures laying about.

Most common things that break immersion for me:

Stage 3 and 4 vampires entering civilized areas and no one cares about it, especially not the guards.
Verandis in Rivenspire completely ignoring vampire characters.
Suicidal bears, wolves and cats charging my characters when there are deer or other prey near them.
NPCs that are in locations they shouldn't be yet (this was introduced with 1 Tamriel)
NPCs and quests that presume a character being soul-shriven, despite not even having started the main quest (since Morrowind)
Bounties being known all across the factions.

Tandor wrote: »

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.

Yeah inventory management tends to be pretty unrealistic in any game. Starting with a character who appears to have no container larger than a pocket who is somehow able to carry 3 full sets of heavy armour, 5 staves (each longer than she is) and dozens of other items and still have both hands free to fight.

In Skyrim I ended up hanging onto quite a few useless (for my character) but valuable items because I got them early on when my speechcraft skill was too low to get a good price for them. So I stored them all in the chest in my bedroom, even though it was smaller than most of the items which were somehow inside it.

I also kept saving alchemy reagents, telling myself I'd look up a guide and learn all their properties sometime. That sounded boring so I kept putting it off and ended up with several thousand reagents all stored nearly inside a pouch about the size of my characters palm, on top of the alchemy station.

Elsterchen wrote: »

Lyranth, is a daedra one has to interact with in order to enter the Reaver Citatel (Main story line, last step prior to fighting molag bals army in coldhabour). As for now, I would not do this quest with my main, a templar of akatosh... who doesn't dangle with daedra. Back then however, there was no way around it. Either complete the main story or stay stucked in your fractions part of tamriel. I did try any and everything to get around talking to that daedra, tried to glitch into the Citatel without that few lines of monologue ... I even played cyro for a few weeks with that char. Started a new char (not a templar and with more ... moderate... views and opinions ). Just because I felt it was just wrong to ask my templar to do as much as talk to its sworn enemy (while I already had to put up with fellow vampires and werewolfs, the rivenspire storyline etc etc etc).

Point is ... for me it was really a hard decision: either stay stucked on my main or progress abandoning what I felt was a vital part of this chars "personality".

After a long debate with the support and beeing sick and tired of cyro, I give in and let my char take that nonsense talk with Lyranth. Once done I talked to Sir Cadwell who said something along the lines of: having a nice chat with your new friend ? ...


I think i jabbed cadwell for over an hour for giving that comment!

Well having to do things you thought you never would is sometimes a part of life, especially in extreme circumstances like trying to save the world from total annihilation, so it's not totally unrealistic. In situations like that I appreciate the game not voicing your characters lines because then I have the freedom to imagine how they say it. If that was my character they would have spoken to the daedra but grudgingly (maybe including looking for alternatives first) and been very abrupt - absolute bare minimum of dialogue to get it done. And Cadwell calling them friends would be a sarcastic response to their obvious distaste at the conversation.

The crown specials advertisement box that pops up on log in every few days letting me know I can buy a horse and 2 dungeons for $40.....

The character names...

People ruin immersion literally every second of gameplay with it But that's something you can't fix completely.

For me an immersion breaking moment was in beta, where I saw that ships in Cyrodiil, Shadowfen and Bankorai/Stormhaven basically could not get out of their ports without hitting a bridge or land (too few space to maneuver at all). I hope that if one day they decide to overwork original zones to bring it more in line with the DLC content, they will pay more attention to that.

Any time my mount hits a puddle of water and dismounts me.

Hurbster wrote: »

I'm talking to the sister of the new Green Lady. This ardent follower of the Green Pact is sitting there eating a loaf of bread !

bone marrow bread?

LadyAstrum wrote: »

I don't have a nice story to tell, but pretty much every time I see a name that's either rude or barely even a name: "ggbg" "Irockyoudont" "Boogercake" "HawtManz" and the best kind: "XxMegolasxX....etc. These are not real names btw (if they are it is coincidence), I simply use these as an example. People that can't be bothered to think of world-friendly names make me wish ESO had an RP server. I don't even roleplay in this game, but it's nice to see people actually take time to come up with decent names.

Most names make me laugh, however, some are quite clever, others very sweet.

Yeah, some names are pretty bad. I saw one claiming to be a recruiter for a certain terrorist organization, and another with the name of a racist hate group from World War II.

Immersion breaks when all doors of a building magically lock when in combat or being chased by a guard.