| I avoided FPS games for good many years only trying | | | | freely break my immersion in a really bad way. What |
| one out occasionally if hype had been strong enough. | | | | a Sherlock moment that was. I might be on the slow |
| Partly this was due to my time spent playing | | | | side but sure enough all the while I had been wondering |
| transferring more and more to the different consoles | | | | if the reviewers giving UC2 90-100 scores were |
| instead of PC - I genuinely thought mouse & keyboard | | | | playing the same game I was I had not realized that |
| were the only way to play an FPS. With Halo I tried to | | | | some players can simply ignore the restricted path and |
| make an exception but got bored after a few hours | | | | enjoy the scenery and plot. Unfortunately I can not |
| of game play and majority of the gripes I have were | | | | anymore. GTA4 & Fallout 3 spoiled me to only accept |
| not that prominently displayed in it. | | | | open sandbox where I can do as I please and if I feel |
| The next brief trial came with Gears of War and a bit | | | | like it also follow the intended plot. |
| later Bioshock. GoW tucked my heartstrings because | | | | Another recent example is Alan Wake and Red Dead |
| of it's apocalyptic theme and Bioshock had just the | | | | Redemption both of which I ended up playing very |
| right milieu to have my full attention. It took me year | | | | close to one another due to the release schedules. |
| and a half getting through GoW (I got stuck in 2 points), | | | | AW was alright but it was just a performance for me, |
| with Bioshock I had no problems getting through in a | | | | I performed from checkpoint to the next and waited |
| few days. When I finished GoW I had already played | | | | for chapters to end and ending credits to roll out. It |
| GTA4 and a few similar sandbox titles and felt the | | | | was completely different with RDR, I found myself |
| game play was somehow lacking the whole time - I | | | | immersed in the world playing poker hours at a time or |
| was unable to get immersed in both example games. | | | | just wandering around killing interesting animals and so |
| Then finally when I was playing Uncharted 2 and hated | | | | on. I was actually sad when I finished the game, it felt a |
| almost every minute of it I realized that scripted pipes | | | | great loss that it was over and it would never be a |
| and locked doors or alleyways where I can not enter | | | | new experience for me. |