things in games that make no sense

[Sovvolf]

How you can sponge up bullets in shooter games.

I know, this is the whole realism vs. fun argument, but still, Yahtzee touched on it in one of his shooter reviews where he said you should be injured and go home as a hero of war.

I dont know, it doesnt really bother me that much (though I think it creates a bad image on impressionable minds that are on the lower spectrum of intelligence) but it pisses off my uncle and grandfather (both war vets, the former a Marine in his 40s, the latter an Army Ranger in his 80s) cause they constantly tell me that I could never do that on the battlefield.

Maybe you should try playing some realistic shooters like Operation flashpoint or rainbow six

Do you get dropped after one bullet? Lie up somewhere bleeding and having to visit the doctor to remove and sticth you up?

In Operation Flash point its entirely possible to die from one hit. If it hits anywhere extremely vital like the head... I can be a one hit kill. If it hits anywhere else, you don't drop straight away but depending on where you got hit, it'll effect your accuracy and your movement. If you don't get the medic to patch you up quickly, then you bleed out and die.

Its fairly realistic for a shooting game. Not only that, all the guns work by real physics, including wind, bullet drop, recoil and such... Probably about as real as you can get for now while still being playable.

 

[TheeBassMasta]

Where does Francis York Morgan keep all those ammo clips?

How can characters get hit with a sword and still keep their limbs?

 

[Professor James]

For me it's the helmet issac Clarke wears. How the hell can he see with that thing on? There are just three slits on his helmet and I also wonder how his tiny suit can hold so much air. It is almost skintight.

Well, his helmet isn't exactly medieval.
And then there's this magical thing called 'compressed air'.
What makes no sense to me is the fact that you point out things that are extremely easily explained, even with present day technology, but fail to even mention the telekinesis and time manipulation.
Or the necromorphs for that matter.
I mean, really?

well I haven't been playing the game but that long but so far I don't know a single place in the game or manual where it explains how he can see. And as for telekinesis, I think he changes the gravity of the object for something. But I agree with you on how he can manipulate time though.

 

[Au Naturel.]

Blocking. In fighting games. Boy, I sure do wish I could block everything by moving backwards.

 

[MetalDooley]

Why do guards forget about you if you hide for 30 seconds?
Similarly why do police call off the manhunt if you get your car resprayed?
How does eating food/drinking water heal bullet/knife wounds?
Why do you lose karma with a faction for things like stealing if no one saw you doing it?
Why will shopkeepers not buy stolen goods yet have no problem buying goods if you murder someone and take their stuff?
Why can highly trained special forces soldiers only run for about 15 seconds?

I could keep going but I think that's enough for now

 

[drbarno]

How come sonic, tails and knuckles can go round only wearing shoes and gloves while amy also has to wear a dress. Are all males nudists in STHverse?

 

[Delock]

How do people get around in RPG/Older Horror/Metroidvania styled worlds for a living? I really wanted an answer for this when Aria of Sorrow had a plot even happen in the weirdest of places (it was a place one of the people shouldn't have been in, both due to the fact that getting there required a ton of special abilities only I could use, as well as the fact that she was supposed to chasing someone who was supposed to be at the entire opposite side of the castle. Yes you needed an item from the area after that room to reach that part of the castle, but as I mentioned, only my character could use that item).

Also, who hides meals, money, and items around their homes? Why is it that a prophecy's first half will inevitably come true, but the second is all up to the characters?


And one that happens to relate to both games and every other media: Why do people still live in New York or Tokyo? Those are the first places where the shit hits the fan.

 

[GiantRaven]

Only thing that still makes me cringe and is now a long running joke between with my Hubby is falling in Assassins Creed. Mostly the idea of a person leaping from a 7+ story tower into a pile of hay and running off like it was nothing.

This was taken to most extreme in the past few games where not only can you leap out of a 10 story tall exploding tower into the pile of hay, Every single time I see it happen in the games it still hurts my brain.

This works because anything that takes place inside the animus is explicitly stated to not be real, so complete and utter breaks from reality can be accepted as it is merely just a game (A game within a game? I love it!).

If this was happening with Desmond in the future sections though (as it most likely will once we get the game set there), it won't make any sense at all, what with the animus aspect being completely discarded.

 

[MetalDooley]

If this was happening with Desmond in the future sections though (as it most likely will once we get the game set there), it won't make any sense at all, what with the animus aspect being completely discarded.

Doesn't he make a few leaps of faith in Brotherhood?

 

[Toaster Hunter]

After month's of questing, I am the scourge of the land. Enemies fall like wheat before a scythe, and the gods themselves fear me. None can stand in my way....except that stupid wooden door that somehow I can't break, even though I have:
A large axe
A shotgun
A flame thrower
Small thermonuclear warheads
Shaped charges
Explosives
Lock-picking experience
Functional legs that can kick and enemy to death, but a wooden door is too much to handle.

 

[GiantRaven]

Doesn't he make a few leaps of faith in Brotherhood?

I haven't played so if he has then I'm not aware of it.

 

[mireko]

Why the hell is the evoker in Persona 3 shaped like a gun? I know it's all symbolic and whatnot, by why a gun of all designs?

I think you just answered your own question.

Also, who hides meals, money, and items around their homes? Why is it that a prophecy's first half will inevitably come true, but the second is all up to the characters?

They don't usually have banks in these games, so where else should they hide money and items?

And personally, I always store tacos and steaks in my bookshelves. Keeps 'em fresh.

 

[Sam Eskenazi]

Only thing that still makes me cringe and is now a long running joke between with my Hubby is falling in Assassins Creed. Mostly the idea of a person leaping from a 7+ story tower into a pile of hay and running off like it was nothing.

This was taken to most extreme in the past few games where not only can you leap out of a 10 story tall exploding tower into the pile of hay, Every single time I see it happen in the games it still hurts my brain.

This works because anything that takes place inside the animus is explicitly stated to not be real, so complete and utter breaks from reality can be accepted as it is merely just a game (A game within a game? I love it!).

If this was happening with Desmond in the future sections though (as it most likely will once we get the game set there), it won't make any sense at all, what with the animus aspect being completely discarded.

... But if anything that happens in the Animus isn't real, how can the characters rely on the information gathered there as being truthful? I... don't understand.

Unless of course it's eventually discovered that

Spoiler

Desmond is has actually been in the Animus this entire time, reliving his reliving of the animus sessions duringt he first 3 games. Perhaps the speaking during the credits furthers this? Male voices ordering to get him back into to the animus as somethingh was going wrong, and Desmond saying "No..."

 

[GiantRaven]

... But if anything that happens in the Animus isn't real, how can the characters rely on the information gathered there as being truthful? I... don't understand.

Unless of course it's eventually discovered that

Spoiler

Desmond is has actually been in the Animus this entire time, reliving his reliving of the animus sessions duringt he first 3 games. Perhaps the speaking during the credits furthers this? Male voices ordering to get him back into to the animus as somethingh was going wrong, and Desmond saying "No..."

The way I see it is that the story events that occur actually happened in real life (well, the Assassin's Creed version of real life) but the way you go through those events does not correlate to how they actually transpired (the paths you take etc.)

Also, if that spoiler actually happened in one of the games it would easily become my favourite gaming series ever.

 

[Sam Eskenazi]

snip

Yeah, but wasn't the point of the full syncronization bonus in Brotherhood meant to be that you played along with exactly how Ezio went about his missions?

True, it would be pretty good.

 

[GiantRaven]

Yeah, but wasn't the point of the full syncronization bonus in Brotherhood meant to be that you played along with exactly how Ezio went about his missions?

True, it would be pretty good.

As I mentioned before, I haven't played Brotherhood, only Assassin's Creed 2. If things are different in that then disregard me entirely for being completely and utterly wrong. =P

 

[wolf thing]

why don the protoss make all there units invisible. dark Templars are, they have it on at all times so it clearly not a energy issues so why not all units. it not like it would hinder them in any way. also where do they warp troops in from. is it from a spaceship, is it from a planet?

 

[Kwaren]

How would a solid gold desert eagle work? Gold is really soft!
HOW DOES DOUBLE JUMPING WORK?
Like Yahtzee said, What type of cutting tool fires in short, non continious bursts?
WHY DO THESE PEOPLE NEVER NEED TO USE THE RESTROOM? (except Duke Nukem I guess...)
How do Mario's clothes grow with him when he gets a mushroom?
How do these nubby RPG avatars stay the same size on world maps as when in buildings?
How does one carry 20 weapons at the same time?
WHAT IS "OH MY COD!" SUPPOSED TO MEAN, BARRY?
Chainsaws are actually very impractical weapons.

I agree with all of your points except one. The golden desert eagle. Magnum research sells gold plated ones as well as other finishes.

 

[Mr36]

How come, in a sandbox game (I'm thinking specifically of GTA, but most other ones will work) when you have even a minor infraction of the law, lets say, I accidentally rear-ended a police car at slow speed, the cops first response is to dive out the car and start shooting?

 

[loc978]

...I don't have much to add besides dredging up something that has already been looked at somewhat extensively. The bulletsponge/healing factor in shooters is the worst offender as far as I'm concerned.
As for the realism vs fun thing... well, I have yet to find one of those shooters that's fun for any reason besides over-the-top action/comedy (and leave it to a parody of the genre to invent the most plausible reason for the healing factor: Duke's ego working as a shield). No shooter that claims any sort of realism should have an instant healing option, be it regeneration or health packs.

How you can sponge up bullets in shooter games.

I know, this is the whole realism vs. fun argument, but still, Yahtzee touched on it in one of his shooter reviews where he said you should be injured and go home as a hero of war.

I dont know, it doesnt really bother me that much (though I think it creates a bad image on impressionable minds that are on the lower spectrum of intelligence) but it pisses off my uncle and grandfather (both war vets, the former a Marine in his 40s, the latter an Army Ranger in his 80s) cause they constantly tell me that I could never do that on the battlefield.

Maybe you should try playing some realistic shooters like Operation flashpoint or rainbow six

Do you get dropped after one bullet? Lie up somewhere bleeding and having to visit the doctor to remove and sticth you up?

No but you can't heal yourself so if you're hurt, you stay that way for the rest of the mission.

Its still fantasy. you dont just start running when you're shot,a nd your body isnt good as new. If anyhting you should be fatigued even after and have difficult using that limb, especially int he kinda combat they do.

Actually, in the original Rainbow Six and in America's Army, that's pretty much how it works.
Take a round to the arm? You're dropped. You might get back up, but you won't have long, you'll be bleeding out. Take one to the leg? You're dropped, and you may be able to crawl for 30 seconds or so. Take one to the vest? You're staggered a moment, but you'll be fine. Take six to the vest? You're dropped. Head? Dropped.