Do games ever suck you in

When I play games even ones I have beat I somehow just get sucked into the game. Meaning I pretty much become the character and treat it like real life. So instead of running into a gun fight and dying and dying but knowing I have many chances I just take a strategic approach and try to do it in one go. I also end up getting too connected to characters feeling like were all on a real journey or mission. Like I get told to meet someone in a game I will not waste time but meet them ASAP I know I am likely the only one but hope a few at least know how I feel.

I find it just as easy to get sucked into video gaming as I do listening to music or watching TV. It's truly an addictive art form.

I sold my soul to Dark Souls a long time ago.

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I don't usually get sucked into games, but I still hate to kill innocent characters in games. And it's always sad when someone you like dies. Also I think most people take strategic approach instead of just rushing in, so that's what I usually do, too.
Space Station 13 is one of these games that feel real. That's probably because every character is another player there. I was really cruel to my targets and security though. I even burned a detective alive once. I left a body of my target in the incinerator as bait, and when the detective stepped inside to check the body, I just turned the incinerator on and walked away. My character probably could hear his screams in nightmares for the rest of his life.

Well I'm dating a gamer boyfriend, so yes...I get sucked in to video games a lot. He was the one that got me into Splatoon after all! He also got me into Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead again thanks to the many servers I've favorited. xD

PAYDAY 2 was my jam up until a few months ago. I really enjoy how crisp the game is and buying new stuff. Recently I have had to fight through the urge to play as I boycott the added microtransactions. Dirty money-hungry Overpay Studios.

Captain Ellie said:

I sold my soul to Dark Souls a long time ago.

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I think that was completely worth it.

I recently played Until Dawn. It's totally not the kind of game I normally play but I gave it a shot. I'm glad I did. I played through the entire thing in one sitting. A little over 7 hours straight. I couldn't stop. And since I was so sucked in I didn't even realize it had been that long. Really fun time.

umm i once got sucked into the dark souls series and for a good long while it really owned my soul.

I sold my life to Destiny and my soul to it's RNG system, before it was owned by basically almost any RTS game in existence...

Speaking of being sucked in, I believe that during my WoW days (2005 - 2008) I had more than a year of PLAYED time.

And similar for WAR, they virtually had to shut the game down in December 2013 to make me stop :)

Lost Odyssey sucked me in completely. Zelda games always do, too.

Ahhh immersion and suspension of disbelief combined. If this is what the OP user is referring to then the whole "sucking in" factor is pretty relevant when one is playing something as violent or as intense as Brutal Doom, a violent version of Doom. Sometimes, you just have to feel like you are the Doomguy and your mission is to kill all those demons by ripping their crotches out and teabagging them with their dismembered appendages. At least that's how i enjoy my experience whenever I'm playing Brutal Doom.

Also regarding the more competitive aspect of games, I remember reading about a piece about people being able to competently play a character very well because they simply like and relate well to the character. Say in Guilty Gear, i really relate to Sol Badguy, but people will tell me that if I want to be so pro in Guilty Gear (XrD) I have to use Eddie (like in all versions of Guilty Gear XX and even up to this day in XrD) or Elphett, but i tell them, screw that. In something like League of Legends, i like playing the champs Xin Zhao (hence my username here), Jax, and Jarvan IV because not only I play their skillkits very well, I also like playing as these champs since i "relate" very well to them. I can easily play carry games in solo queue far better with these champs compared to say having to play something like Elise, Gragas, Reksai, and some other top tier jungler.

I think i truly got what the OP poster is trying to ask of us.

Absolutely. One of the best things of games is how stimulating and interactive they are. If I like a game, chances are playing it is all I want to do. I tend to get engrossed in Pokemon games that I play (if I actually power through the sequence up til the first badge or so), and also Team Fortress 2 was a big part of my life from 2013-2015. There was a particular stretch in the summer of '15 where I had clocked in at 84 hours of game time over 2 wks. I was unemployed and a little depressed and TF2 was kind of my escape from reality, haha.

I tend to get stuck into games, one of them is PAYDAY 2 which I could probably play for like 5 hours straight without realising it.
But I think the one game I got lost in more than any other is Red Dead Redemption. I got so invested in it and since I got the game when I was 15 (after I had spinal surgery and was off school for 11 weeks) I played it for days on end, completed it, then started it all over again.

It depends on the game really, in RPG's like Pokemon or SRPG's like Fire Emblem, i get immersed, acting like if it's always the first time, wanting to do everything in one go, feeling to be the protagonist. It's great. In other kinds of games i feel like i'm helping the others but can't get "sucked in" as much like with RPG's

RPG's and MMO's. They are the bane of my existence. I completely lose it and I recently got myself out of the clutches of FFXIV, only to fall in love with Tree of Savior. SENDHALP.