We all become immersed with our favourite games or even new ones most of the time but there are times when you just don't feel grabbed by the game's world and you have that nagging feeling that it's missing something, this poses me with the question; "what do you do to immerse yourself within the game?".

What I tend to do sometimes (not all the time) is go about searching the SweetFX database to find a nice graphical present for my game, what this does to the game is spruce up it's vibrancy, sometimes make the image brighter which depends on the presents you choose that other users have created. Recently I started playing Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen and while starting my journey I got that nagging feeling that the colours felt a bit drab and lifeless. Paying a quick visit to SweetFX and choosing a present that took my fancy sorted that out for me, a good sense of immersion was gained due to the general colour tone of the atmosphere around me, nights became that bit darker, flames had more colour to them and colours in general were more rich (not too rich though).

There are more ways to immerse yourself than just added visuals, another way for me recently was throwing in some music I liked from various fantasy films like Lord of the Rings. During my playthrough of DD:DA I threw in a tune from the Shire when I was roaming about the countryside or within towns (the game's OST is a tad reptitive outdoors and within cities and can get on my nerves/break immersion). When I found myself in battles or knew one was upcoming along with taking a journey towards a main quest I threw in The Bridge of Khazad-dûm, though DD wasn't the only game I threw LotR soundtrack towards, I did the same with LotR War in the North which added a good deal of immerse and got the action going for me.

Then of course there is another key to immersing yourself, roleplaying that is, though I don't really do much of that because it's not really my kind of thing but it is definitely another way of immersing yourself with the game's world.

For reference to the mention of visuals, I have a link to the SweetFX presents of Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen if anyone wants to see what differences the presents make. THe second part I'll of course link the two themes I used.

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/game/1209/

Present I use: https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/5006/

So enough about me, what do you guys do to immerse yourself within a game?.

most plots/universes/worlds/whatever you wanna call it in games aren't very appealing to me/are shallow/are simply bad so I tend to make up my own universe and narrative around the game environment and gameplay.

i use my headphones

I was not able to immerse myself in a game since Fallout3 and Minecraft. I was about to give up gaming as for me gaming was about immersion. But I found a solution. Now if I want to immerse myself I simply put on an Oculus Headset.

I feel immerse in most of the games I play, if I don't then I stop playing the game for a while.

Smoke weed before playing

If I'm playing a game, I will be more likely than not immersed in the game.. if not, then I'm probably not interested in the game :p

I'm normally always interested in a game/playing a game, but when I'm immersed in a game, it's one of those games I can play for hours on end and not get tired of.
Good examples.
Xenoblade Chronicles X, I got so immersed in this game and literally played for 10 hours non stop. (Well.. food breaks and etc of course)
Whereas a game like Conception 2, I was interested in it and I enjoyed playing it, it never immersed me, so I never really felt in the mood to play it.

When a game is in the Conception 2 place, I generally just force myself to play it because I don't want it to clog up my backlog for the future, and if I ever get in the mood to play it again sometime in the future, I will. :D

That's how I see it anyways.

I drink a bottle jack daniels whiskey

I have trained chimps that hit me when ever Snake gets shot or receives a butt of the gun to the face while I'm playing Metal Gear Solid 5.

I've been to hospital 6 times but the immersion I get is priceless.