Immersion isn't about escapism for me, and I don't play games for escapism. Nor for competition.
I was a stage actor for about a decade, and I never felt that I was the character I was playing. I'd frankly consider that psychotic. But I was immersed in that character: I enjoyed attempting to think in ways the character needed to think. It's not about becoming another person, it's about understanding another persona, about different perspectives. It's empathy. It's also a matter of searching yourself to consider what you would do in the same situation, and learning about yourself in the process.
Roleplaying is the same way, and it is something that applies -- to some degree -- to other game genres, as well.
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I was a stage actor for about a decade, and I never felt that I was the character I was playing. I'd frankly consider that psychotic. But I was immersed in that character: I enjoyed attempting to think in ways the character needed to think. It's not about becoming another person, it's about understanding another persona, about different perspectives. It's empathy. It's also a matter of searching yourself to consider what you would do in the same situation, and learning about yourself in the process.
Roleplaying is the same way, and it is something that applies -- to some degree -- to other game genres, as well.
‘I'M NOT LEAVING UNTIL WE ALL HAVE AIDS!’—The importance of calling them ‘mercenaries.’