Immersion vs. Interaction: conflicting gamer tastes

[FJ-Warez]

swyggi said:

 

 

This has nothing to do with movie type games or whatever you're implying.  When a gamer is more into the game ITSELF, rather than having to think about what he/she is doing on the outside and the connection into the game is very strong, he/she has become deeply immersed.  Playing a game in a relaxed manner with a joystick is enough to get someone immersed, heck games have been like this for the past 20 years.   If you're interacting by moving your hands like shaking it or something, you will become tired (no matter how little tired, you wouldn't be tired at all if you didn't move your hands).  Thus making the gamer aware of what he or she is doing and taking away from the subconscious feeling you get while playing the game even if very subtle

 

  Heck, if you are not tired of playing the same game even with a regualr path, or mouse + keyboard you are a machine,  after a while you get tired, you are conscious of your movements, no matter whta kind of control you clearly made the action, is not part of the subconscious since you are responding to the game, the same goes for the wiimote, maybe you don't feel more immersion, but since I'm able to swing my arm like if I was playing tennis, is more natural and immersive than pushing the button and waiting for the player response...

 @Million you can go there and watch the same backgorund, trees, and ruins, but you have to look with your 1st person view, nobody has taken that kind of pic, but if you wan tomorrow I will show you the same scene from link eyes...