"I don't think I'll ever get these faces out of my mind."
This line made my eyes feel funny
During the beta I heard something that did something to me no other FPS has ever done. I could have been imagining it, but I swear that I heard someone say something along the lines of "Ilya are you alright? Ilya?.... Ilya?..." after a nearby team mate got killed.
The name isn't right, but I swear it was something like that. It made me feel like someone was trying to wake up my recently killed comrade, and starting to cry when he wouldn't.
My smile disappeared and I actually felt a little tug on my heart strings. That has NEVER happened to me in a game before. Even if it was just my imagination, it sure as hell felt like that was what someone should have been saying at that moment, based on what had just happened to us.
Nothing puts the smile back like "Tick tock, Fritz! Tick Tock!" I'm not sure about this, but the lines don't seem to be random, I only notice the tick tock one after I have just been on a rampage and killed several enemies within moments of each other. Maybe I only notice it when it makes sense given the situation, which makes it seem intentional, but when you get that moment when the line makes sense given the situation, it's incredibly immersive.
As I said that sort of thing usually doesn't affect me at all. In RO2 it does. Whether it's the lines themselves, or the whole package, this game immerses me in a war like no other ever has, and I've been playing FPS since Wolf3D.
In other games, a kill is just a kill. I get so many of them, none of them really matter. In this game, every kill is like a war of it's own. It may be over in under a second, but that second was the most intense I've ever had in a game. When I was running around BF1942, the unrealism around me prevented any immersion from happening. It was a game, nothing more. This really is more like a movie. You are actually experiencing the war through the words of the people around you as much as from the images.
Sometimes I just stop somewhere and watch the battle unfold. I never used to bother with screenshots, because once the kill is over, it's forgotten. But now, I'm taking trophy screenshots so I can look back on past glories.
This really is the best game I have ever played, period. Not FPS, GAME. I haven't played them all, but I am the happiest camper in the park, that's for sure. This game was worth 80 or even 120 dollars to me, and I only paid 40, it was a bargain of monumental proportions.