Shot Glass Thought: Total Immersion

So you're playing your favorite video game. The game is Resident Evil 4 because you're not a chode and you like good games. The game stops addressing Leon, your beloved protagonist and starts addressing you, the non chode that you are. The game honest to God stops addressing Leon and asks you, Marcus/Martha how your work day was. Well if this is your real life, then you probably just need to see a doctor about some anti-psychotics. But what if games and the characters therein could just interact with you and know you on that level. At any moment they could just get out of character and have a smoke break with you. That would be amazing. I think that we already play that sequence out sometimes in our heads when we are playing our favorite games. If Krauser wanted to smoke a virtual doobie with me then I most certainly would put our knife fight on hold so that we could roll one up. That's the level of immersion that will draw me back into video games. I won't buy a new console for myself until we hit that level.