When it comes to invisible water I blame it on those damned kids fooling around with Illusion magic...

I have yet to come across any flying creatures besides dragons so I'm still trying to figure out some thign to blame it on ... I would of blamed it on the telekenisis spell but even at 100 alteration I cant even make a dead animal move let alone a living one .-. tho this would probably be the most plausible explanation to give it

I dont try to role play it, i stop the game and try to fix it.

Roleplay? I laugh at it and then ignore it.

This is what you're looking for: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/fight-three-snow-whale-and-dirtbird

must be some magic jibber-jabber...

With as many random potions as I've drank, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ronald McDonald in the game.

Maybe that wasn't Blisterwort I was sampling...

My character suddenly stops and has a mind shattering revelation. "None of this is real!" he shouts into the sky, "My whole life has been a lie!"

I of course mercifully euthanize him to end his mental anguish.

The best way to keep immersion is not care too much about immersion.

Its probably those alchemy reagents Ive been taste testing.

1) I lolz .
2)get on the horse ( if alive) and try to find soemthing to kill.
3) go hunting dragons! (in already cleared places hehe yes I love to lure dragons).

It amazing when you see the horse shoot up to the sky and then find it dead far from where it happen..
/Sharai: are you following me around dead horse? /kick horse.. Lydia pick that up!
/lydia: am sworn to carry your burdens.

lol.

I don't roleplay it, I reload the game/find a mod to fix it.

This.

Comes across a missing water tile.

"Oh, look. A bug. Odd."

Shrug and happily walk on.


Honestly, I kind of miss the flying & rubber-banding corpses from Fallout 3. Those were hilarious.

I just take note of it, and then ignores it.

So this is good a topic about immersion and water, yet no one has made a important link.

How to not break immersion, jump into the big hole where water should be and duck down.
You'll still be immersed just with invisible water.

Honestly I play crazy characters. Stealing all clothing of every guard in Skyrim just to see them in just boots, dirty panties and gimp masks is a good day.
So crazy stuff never breaks character, just as playing crazy in game never is roleplay.

Blame it on the Skooma.

I just ignore it. Like the dead pixel in the middle of your screen. You can either OCD over it and have a bad time, or get use to it and have a good time. Next time you play that water will be fixed and you will have forgotten all about it.

i don't keep rping it. i restart.

I agree. Of all the very few bugs they fixed that had to be one

Gotta stop Alduin before it gets worse.

I ignore it, unless it actually affects my character. It is quite easy, though I expect it to be fixed.

I'm sorry and this is not just aimed at this thread but it's been driving me nuts so I have to ask...

What is it with the whole "immersion" stick that is so popular? Is it a new buzz word? Do people even know what it means any more? It is not some frail tangible thing that shatters like glass every time a dragon flies upside down. It's a connection to a character, a game world (or story), a blurring between the real you and the character you play in the game. It is the realization that you have just lost 4 hours of your life because you were chasing down Red Nirn Roots in Blackreath and lost track of time. It is when you yell at your followers out loud when they move into your line of fire just as you release a fire storm spell and their health is less than 10%. It is when a follower dies and you spend an hour arranging their body on a stone throne in some Dwemer ruin to show your last respects. It is feeling sorry for killing a Giant even though he was minding his own business and didn't even notice you. It is all in your mind and requires a good amount of imagination and empathy.

It is not something that just goes away because you saw something out of place. That is not immersion, it's just an excuse to criticize the game using a word you know nothing about because Todd Howard mentioned it about a 100 times and thus you feel obligated to use it. Real dreamers never wake up from the dream no matter how real it gets.

Realize he's in the Matrix.

Then Morpheus appears and drags him out of his dream world.

We battle the machines and Skynet together-I'm mixing up movies aren't I?

akanaro-

immersion has been used to describe rpg's for decades. howard has nothing to do with it, nor, have many ever payed attention to the man. when i think of howard i think of cuban, the owner.

immersion is very much at the heart of the issue for many people. not for me, since, i'm sitting in a room. but, for others it matters. respect it.

criticism of this particular game is well deserved.