Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Please let me be immersed

The fact that the GM has the last word doesn't mean that word is right. The world is full of bad Game Masters.
In the end, we will all accept what Larian is going to choose (we have no power to change things if not through mods) but still, we are here to give feedback on what we think should be improved.


I'm sorry mate, maybe my mastery of English isn't good enough but I really don't know how to describe it better than I already did.

Question:
What breaks my immersion?

Answer:
Everything that doesn't look and/or work the way it is supposed to be in the setting.

Example:
Mundane weapons with no magical properties floating close to my character's back.

Question:
How these things break my immersion?

Answer:
Because, due to the quite understandable fact ("or at least I believed, foolishly as it seems..." semi cit.) that the human brain tends to notice and focus on things that don't make sense with the laws of nature.
The player/reader/spectator is able to suspend its disbelief and pretend that things that usually don't make any sense now are justified, since the setting explains them, but this suspension is broken when something that doesn't make any sense in the real world, doesn't make any sense also in the setting in which the story takes place.

Example:
Mundane weapons with no magical properties floating close to my character's back.

I really have no idea how to explain this concept better than this, I'm sorry.



EDIT: Of course, I understand that something must be sacrificed in order for a game to work/be enjoyable but this is not the case for a lot of things, this one included.
When something doesn't bring anything that improves the game and just subtracts from it (in this case, immersion) it's an unequivocally bad feature.