What make a game "Realistic"?

[Last Bullet]

OK guys, let's "get real" here. Brown makes things realistic. End of thread, yeah?

Aw, ninja... I'm surprised there haven't been more claims of it, though.

 

[Geekosaurus]

It doesn't matter how unrealistic the concept of the game might be, if it engrosses you then it becomes realistic.

 

[oplinger]

Games are realistic when they ignore fun to be like reality. Except those rare games where they make reality fun....somehow.

Also for regenerating health, i just want to point out Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway. Is that not realistic? it doesn't technically have regenerating health, it's more of a danger meter as you never actually get hit. Just the worse it gets the more chance you have of being shot. What do we say to that?

 

[Twad]

Realistic is more how the world around the character behaves (like physics) and looks (graphical fidelity, models, motion). THings like HP regen are more about gameplay and "fun".

 

[Aux]

Good physics in my opinion.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

Health regeneration is more realistic than insta-heal health kits, when you think about it. Health could represent pain tolerance, and death is you passing out. And people do heal over time, but very slowly.

Yes but since when is hiding for 30 second made you perfectly healthy? and not all health kits are Insta-Health Kits.

It's an accelerated version of a real life process. Even the most realistic games accelerate things, for example, if you play a game for one hundred hours, how many shootouts will you see? How many people will you shoot? Even sims will have a ridiculously high number. A real soldier, in any given hundred hour period, might not have conflict of any kind.

Also, real life battles take hours, if not days. Ever seen that in a game?

And I'd say most health kits, even if they don't heal you much, take effect instantly. And in real life, medics serve to pretty much just stabilize you so you can get to a doctor, so them fully healing you isn't realistic either.

Call me old, but I still think that a health bar is more realistic than regenerating health.
OT: simple, take most the things from SWAT SOCOM

There fixed that for you. I remeber the old days when you had to actually plan your attacks well because you could die in about 4-5 bullets and there were no health packs or reviving health. Its a shame the new SOCOM is gouing the MW2 route. I would have loved it it went back to its roots and but made the game 2-4 player coop. That would be awesome.