Immersion is after playing animal crossing for many hours walking around your own town asking your friends if you can help them with stuff for money or wall paper.
Or when you get to second base with a girl you say in a deep voice Level Up!

Another story is when I was playing persona 3 for to long I decided what arcana my friends are and only talked to the friends which arcana I wished to improve. They both ended with me getting slapped in the face.

Immersion is when you stop playing a game at two in the afternoon and remember that you were supposed to go to sleep fifteen hours ago

immersion is when you turn off fifa only to grab the pad back in panic when you turn the channel over and a football match is on

Immersion is when you have played Doom 3, Condemmed and Left4Dead all weekend and you get up to go to the toilet and when your cat rubs against your leg you scream, run away and then sit under you cover crying for five minutes.

Immersion is when you finish a six-day start-to-finish Thief: The Dark Project bender, play Half-Life and are driven to distraction by the sound of the HEV suit's boots.

*clomp* *clomp* *clomp-SQUEAK*

It's also when you find yourself locating the nearest likely exits and dark areas while walking down a hallway, and unconsciously taking nearly silent steps as you move. I still scare people by unintentionally sneaking up to them.

Gurgle twich Condemmed.

Im going to play some right now, (fear for me).

Immersion is when you play Runescape and, while walking home, catch yourself wondering why you aren't just using the Home Teleport spell instead. On two separate occasions.

Not the best entry, but an entry nonetheless.

Immersion is roaring in victory after beating down an army of Daedra which you thought for sure you would die to.

(oblivion does have its moments, lvl 20 doing 'Battle of Kvatch' is crazy, 3 Frost Atronachs, 5 Spider Daedra! 3 XIVILIA! BWAAAAAHHHH!!!! ORC SMASH!)

Immersion is whispering when your doing a stealth section.

Immersion is hissing at the enemies on your screen, despite the fact they cannot hear you.

Immersion is when you're playing through a Zelda game, and you wonder why your cat's stopped meowing for food.

L.B. Jeffries:
I was pretty immersed in 'Tie Fighter' when I was driving in my car and found myself seriously wishing there was a match speed button in my dashboard.

Yep, done that before... Or trying to boost shields right before a collision... Or trying to switch to missiles to clear out traffic ahead of me (Ace Combat 5 for that one...)

immersion is when after you finish playing world of warcraft go outside and try to get your dog to attack the stray dog on the corner.

shatnershaman:

monostable:

Only someone who has played Warhammer will understand this (this one's not from me, or in fact from a video game, but bear with me), immersion is when you start having sex fantasies about Slaanesh (chaos god of pleasure).

Slaanesh? Khorne ftw! Blood for the Blood god!

On the subject of sexy daemons, Nurgle. Go ruminate on that for a while.

Copter400:

shatnershaman:

monostable:

Only someone who has played Warhammer will understand this (this one's not from me, or in fact from a video game, but bear with me), immersion is when you start having sex fantasies about Slaanesh (chaos god of pleasure).

Slaanesh? Khorne ftw! Blood for the Blood god!

On the subject of sexy daemons, Nurgle. Go ruminate on that for a while.

Your just disgusting.

Immersion is when in the second round of lazer tag someone asks if we still want to play teams and you ask if we can change levels.

Immersion is when you press "L1" during a cutscene in metal gear and stare at someone's gratuitous cleavage.

Prozoquel:
Immersion is when, after playing KOTOR, you make a real-life decision and then wonder to yourself how many Light Side or Dark Side points it gained you.

There have been times when I did things were I gave myself Dark Side Points... People at work looked at me like I was weird...

L.B. Jeffries:

I was pretty immersed in 'Tie Fighter' when I was driving in my car and found myself seriously wishing there was a match speed button in my dashboard.

in all seriousness though, i agree that Tie Fighter was insanely immersive. they balanced the right amount of monotonous (patrols and border checkpoints) missions against exciting attack missions. each patrol mission making you feel the taste of an Empire Pilot's daily grind without getting boring itself. i remember constantly being aware of the inherent frailty of my tie fighter and actually getting excited when my convoy was attacked because it was actually unexpected since nothing really happened on the last convoy mission.

it was like an RPG Space Shooter.

I have very seldom become very immersed in a J-RPG, that is until the other day when I found a used copy of Golden Sun for the GBA. Several of my friends have urged me to play the game, but I always dismissed it because I find it very difficult to get into them. I even found a copy of the Phantasy Star Collection, having had fond memories of Phantasy Star II from my childhood, and alas, I should have allowed those fond memories to fluorish in the back of my mind as a nostalgic footnote.

But when I saw that Golden Sun was only $5 used, I figured that even if it did suck, at least I'd only be out by $5.

So, here we break it down:

Typical J-RPG experience for me: "Fuck! All you do in this game is fucking GRIND!"

Golden Sun: "Ooh! I'm gonna go and grind some more!" *has character running around in circles, begging for a random encounter*

Now that's an immersive J-RPG!

I felt left out. Everyone else is in their own little gaming world (Immersed) but me. I am a sad sad panda bear.

shatnershaman:
I felt left out. Everyone else is in their own little gaming world (Immersed) but me. I am a sad sad panda bear.

That's what you get for being a robot ;p

Hahaha, Immersion is when hearing the Metal Gear Solid 3 theme song makes you unintentionally tear-up...

May The Boss rest in piece...

Immersion is when you have stayed up late playing KOTOR, and the next day you say something stupid while talking to a friend, and you try to go to last save so you can start the conversation over. I have done this, many times.

Immersion is playing GTA IV multiplayer and shouting the in game street names to your bewildered compatriots over Xbox LIVE.

Immersion is when you've spent a weekend playing Resident Evil 4 and try to peak inside trash barrels for herbs and ammo.

Immersion is when you're playing Ace Combat 6, or some other air combat game, and get motion sickness.

Immersion is when you start to play Mass Effect in the afternoon and eventually realize you need to be at school/work in 3 hours.

Immersion is when...

...you play morrowind then seriously consider taunting people so you can kill them legally.
...you play Dead Rising and start looking around for lead pipes.