[therex]

Originally Posted by PixelPanic

When playing Skyrim at a friends house, I did one thing.

I jumped off the watchtower where you fight the dragon. At the peak of my leap, I opened my inventory and removed everything. Then I unpaused and zoomed out.

I saw myself fall to my death, in third-person, naked, and then immediately pelted by cabbages, as my friends laughed their asses off.

Suspension of disbelief is necessary in my honest opinion. It can end up pretty funny.

God why did I never think of this

[Flare4War]

Haven't played clear through it or anything but I got lost in it for like three days and ended up getting very little sleep. Some of the NPC's are so damned rude. I needed to be way strong so I could kill more of the smug bastards.

[Doulifée]

the elder effect, an epic biothesda RPG trilogy...

[Melbu Frahma]

Originally Posted by Doulifée

the elder effect, an epic biothesda RPG trilogy...

Now I'm imagining dragons in space. And it's glorious.

Honestly, for me, about the only break in suspension of disbelief (aside from bug-induced ones) is the ever-present problem of repeated dialogue. An NPC can only tell me the same thing in the same exact way so many times before I begin to think that they're addle-pated. This is a problem for me in almost all RPGs, though, and it's something I've come to accept.

[lazygecko]

A Bethesda/Obsidian collaboration would be both better and more likely.

[Blue Magic]

Originally Posted by Wacky

Also, I'm diving and I've been submerged in water for about 5 minutes now with no hint of drowning.

I believe there is a race that can breath underwater. (Those reptile people, I think.)

I haven't played in months, do I don't remember the names of the races.

[relyanCe]

Originally Posted by Emperor Charlemagne

You've been playing with the wrong Dungeon Masters.

feel free to refer me

[Gollgagh]

Originally Posted by Blue Magic

I believe there is a race that can breath underwater. (Those reptile people, I think.)

I haven't played in months, do I don't remember the names of the races.

oh right, Argonians can breath underwater as well (second paragraph)

[NegimaSonic]

yeah, might've been an Argonian/enchantment because I've certainly almost drowned several times in the game. Though if you wanna go on about suspension of belief, I totally picked a lock slowly underwater after I was almost out of breath. However, given they got rid of instant opening spells, the world sure better stop for me when I'm picking a lock >_>

Really, I'm not one of those guys totally big on immersion in these games. I like that they have the potential for immersion, but I mostly enjoy the game if it's fun. I'm not going to complain that I can pause the game to drink my health potions because I derped. Like the only issue I have with fast travel is sometimes I can actually run to a location faster than the game thinks fast travel would be.

Originally Posted by Flare4War

Haven't played clear through it or anything but I got lost in it for like three days and ended up getting very little sleep. Some of the NPC's are so damned rude. I needed to be way strong so I could kill more of the smug bastards.

Yes...stupid NPCs...my undead follower I carry everywhere to store extra stuff is not some dangerous magic and I don't need to be reminded of it all the time Sometimes I feel like...oh yeah, I'll show you some dangerous magic.

I don't have an explanation for the fire thing, I haven't been everywhere yet so I don't even remember a Jovaaskr, but I know all fires don't do damage like in Arcadia's Cauldron, or perhaps you have fire resist.

[Thalzon]

Guys, you're talking about breaking immersion in a game where some of the first things people did was get caught stealing by chickens and put baskets on bystanders' heads to murder people without getting caught.