Nope, instant immersion.

With which game?

Can't say I was. I loved C&C at the time, which is why I tried it. Fell in love with it right away. Granted I love 2, Tactics, and FNV as well.

Loved FO3 at first, but as I got further and further into the story I began to dislike it.

Started with Daggerfall, didn't enjoy it, tried Fallout 1, never beat it. Then Fallout 2 came out and blew my mind. Played (Play) it to death. Then Morrowind came out, play it still on Xbox and my Labtop. Waited for years for Fallout 3, played PoS and Tactics. Fallout 3 and Oblivion were good, something missing? NV blew my mind and I still play. Skyrim was the only game I've ever midnight bought. Played it for 4 hours and didnt pick it up for 3 months. Have 80 hours combined in Skyrim. Have 20 playthroughs in NV for a million hours played. Fallout 2, Morrowind and NV are my go to games.
Wish Bethesda would separate the 2 series more and add the depth of their previous games and take the core ideals Interplay and now Obsidian had/have when developing these titles.

@Stealth Sniper:

One thing all Fallout fans agree upon is the Burned Game never happened. Anyone who says otherwise will be hunted down. Even Bethesda doesn't acknowledge the game. It's best just to block it out of your mind.

It was hard not to be svcked into the intriguing atmosphere of Fo3. I felt uneasy from the second I saw the blood splatter, from the birthing process, all the way to first stepping into homebase in Megaton and getting a chance to finally exhale. Afterwards, I got into exploration mode and let the game unfold and present itself to me. It was brilliant.

I remember both fallout and fallout 2 wound up in the bargain bin before I even made it to the store;/ They were tiny compared to rpgs of the day and many complained they had taken graphics over substance... I was not impressed at the time . Still dang fun setting at least. They did grow on me later on when a dearth of rpgs made me replay older ones.. still no darklands or daggerfall or ... still something made me come back quite a few times.

Really? That's cool and I respect your opinion. But when I purchased Fallout Out 1 on day one back in '97 I was 17 then. What drew me into that game was the creepy intro with Ron Pearlman, and the atmosphere, plus music. Also FO1 was the first rpg that I played, that took place in a somewhat modern setting. I had never played the original Wasteland, so FO1 was a refreshing experience. I liked using guns over swords and magic. But yes, they were small games atleast I remember FO1 was. It could also be the reason why I have fond memories of FO1 is because it was the first CRPG I ever played. Before that I was primarily a console player and a fan of JRPG's (Mainly Final Fantasy.) Still without Fallout I never would've discovered Planescape.

You'd think... but it isn't though. A lot of people had never heard of Fallout. Fallout3 isn't so obvious as say... Lethal Weapon3, or Scream3. Did you perhaps think there was a movie called District8? At the time I wondered about the 9, but I was sure I'd not missed eight prior films... so it must have been [and was] something entirely new.

I'm fairly confident that there were plenty of players that had no idea that there was an earlier game. How many here know that http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/Neverwinter_Nights_28199129_Coverart1_zps34801011.png was the first pay to play online mmo ~back in the nineties; well before Bioware released their game of the same name?

Those first two films mentioned had had media coverage of their earlier films. Fallout had had almost nothing said about it for years and to some was simply known as the next new Bethesda game.

My initial reaction to District 9 was, "What happened to the other 8?" As for NWN I didn't know their was another game with the same name.