I’m following my own line-of-thoughts here. Still about narratives, questing, sandboxes and so on.

This a comment I snagged from a forum, again:

Hetzer:
I dont need a shiny grafikengine (also it dont hurts either) i also dont need a game that can be played via Internet with thousands of players (i play pen and paper also, so what). I need a game where i know that i need cookies, chips, coffee and the number of the pizza service for the next weeks.

The Total Immersion. Where you are overwhelmed and when you turn off the PC the world outside doesn’t even seem real.

But an immersion that hasn’t ANYTHING to do with carrot-on-a-stick, dependence, artificial mechanics.