Useful things you've learned from games...?

[Emilie Diabolica]

Last week i was locked out of my house for an hour cos i'd forgotten my damn keys inside. After checking all the doors and windows, I decided to try to break in. I had a few bobby pins and a pocket knife in my handbag, so I tried to pick the lock Fallout3-style. Needless to say I failed dismally, so had to wait an hour till another family member came home.

This, and all the time on my hands, led me to wonder whether i'd ever learnt anything useful (in the real world, at least) from all my years of gaming... I dont think i have, really.

So I ask you, escapists, what things have you learnt from games that have been useful to you in real life?

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

1. Sleeping in a bed for an hour heals all wounds, including crippling leg injuries, concussions, shrapnel wounds, and the like. (Fallout 3)

2. Even if no one sees you commit a crime, such as theft or cannibalism, your reputation will still suffer. (Fallout 3)

3. Food is not necessary for your survival. Neither is water. (Fallout 3, Oblivion)

4. Slightly tweaking your genetic code will let you throw electric bolts and fireballs. (Bioshock)

5. Friendly fire of all kinds is nonexistent and your allies cannot be damaged or hurt by your attacks in any way. (Mass Effect)

6. It's possible for a super-virus to reanimate your body and turn you into the living 'avatar' of a viral compound. (Prototype)

7. You can ride a huge hunk of metal from space down to Earth completely unharmed, but falling more than 10 feet in normal conditions instantly kills you. (Halo 3)

 

[AfterAscon]

I've learnt to save the world countless number of times; fortunately I've only had to do this once.

On a more serious side, they've improved my hand eye coordination, benefiting my awareness when driving and catching falling objects (which I usually knock over). Nothing too ground breaking.

 

[Booze Zombie]

When in trouble, drugs, drugs, drugs, drug, drugs.

Courtesy of the Fallout franchise.

 

[RikSharp]

if you go into the forest and repeatedly hit squirrels, they drop cash!!

EDIT:

5. Friendly fire of all kinds is nonexistent and your allies cannot be damaged or hurt by your attacks in any way. (Mass Effect)

i'm sure that you can hurt your allies in mass effect, also halo 3. takes a while, but just try repeatedly shooting sarge.
eventually he gets pissed and kills you.

 

[sanomaton]

Well something useful that I learned from games was English. Other than that, nothing really. Except that if you commit a crime and then hide long enough from the cops they will lose interest and stop searching for you (GTA). Oh~ And if you shake chairs and tables long enough they spit money out of them! (Lego Star Wars)

 

[Ren3004]

Oblivion:

Praying heals any injury, disease and makes you stronger.

If you are bitten by a vampire, everything's fine until you go to sleep.


80% of all FPS's:

If you stay hidden for a while, your latent regeneration powers will kick in.

EDIT:

5. Friendly fire of all kinds is nonexistent and your allies cannot be damaged or hurt by your attacks in any way. (Mass Effect)

i'm sure that you can hurt your allies in mass effect

No, you can't. Actually, they often stand in the way of your shots

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

8. Pills of any kind can keep you alive for hours, even with crippling injuries. (Left 4 Dead)

9. Regular pistols never, ever run out of ammunition, ever, but this only applies to the pistols. (Left 4 Dead)

10. As long as your health isn't below 1, you'll be perfectly fine and won't suffer any ill effects of low health. (Half-Life)

11. Switching weapons and using healing potions instantly freezes time around you no matter what situation you're in. (Oblivion, Fallout 3)

12. Even if your vocal cords are perfectly fine, you can never speak, even if you want to or the situation could be improved by it. (Dead Space, Half-Life, Bioshock)

 

[RetiarySword]

If nuked, I will not die, just turn into a ghoul. (Fallout 3)

If in trouble, I can pause the game and load from a previous point (Take your pic of games)

Hacking computers is just a hyped up version of hangman (Fallout 3)

 

[v3n0mat3]

1.If there is a big floating glowing '?' box above you, swat it and you can get various items such as money, mushrooms that make you big, flowers that make you shoot fireballs out of your mouth, etc.
2.Beating random people up makes their money fly out of their body and yell out random things like "Barf".
3.Random things with confront you at any time. At any place. They also apparently eat armor, weapons, and magic items.
4.Colored liquid closes your wounds faster
5.The more you age, the stronger you get.
6.If you make a sharp turn, spray paint your car, or change clothes, cops will forget that you ran over all those people, shot them, then burned them.

 

[Legion]

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression the OP meant real things that you learnt.

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression the OP meant [real[/b] things that you learnt.

You're right, I did. But then I dont think there are that many real things to be learnt =\

 

[Legion]

I may be wrong, but I was under the impression the OP meant [real[/b] things that you learnt.

You're right, I did. But then I dont think there are that many real things to be learnt =\

Aside from American slang, and some minor details in relation to weaponry I can't say much comes to mind.

I haven't learnt anything useful anyway.

 

[traceur_]

I've learned that swords are way more awesome than guns, though that's not really useful.

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

Don't feed the Yao Guai.

 

[Proteus214]

Look for a solution that takes the most skill to execute and practice the hell out of it.

 

[Jedamethis]

Sticking a watch, some copper wire, and explosives together makes a handy bomb with a timer!

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

1. no matter how much you try, you can never shoot that damn dog. (thats duck hunt (i think(see that?! brackets in brackets!!)) btw)
2. shotguns make you invincible
3. bad guys are thick and take cover behind red barrels (4. red barrels explode) and will stick their head out and wait for you to shoot it off.
Edit: 5. tread on first aid kits.

 

[Ristoril]

I've learned that swords are way more awesome than guns, though that's not really useful.

I have thought this my whole life. Swords of all kinds are amazing

 

[tomtom94]

Accepting gifts from strangers is a good thing (Animal Crossing)
Guns never run out of ammo. Ever. (Contra)
If they do, then bullets will magically transfer themselves into the right clip so that you always have a full clip of 30 rounds (every single FPS)
Driving an F1 car consistently for an hour and a half really is quite difficult (F1 06)

In terms of realistic things I've learned from games, growing fruit will never be a match for buying and selling turnips.
No, wait, um... well I learned from Nintendogs that dogs need love too, and that you have to feed them every day and give them water and make them go for walks.