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I know deep down my complaint will either fall on deaf ears or legitimately have the counter argument of balancing game mechanics, but....
Why is it more games these days select a theme give you this wonderful digitally beautiful world, and then bomb the cut scenes, item mods, and down right ignore the simple fix of asking someone in the field a few questions? All while nearly screaming in advertisements, and interviews with developers the claim its so realistic. They want you to feel like you are really there. Gentlemen and the few ladies, please understand that people who may not have been there but walked nearby will see glaring failures. I am sure I could read one car magazine and start picking some of the street racing games apart which brings me to my evidence.
Lets take car games. For instance through the years people have tweaked riveted and hammered on vehicles to no end which have, forums, magazines, and tons of semi-intelligent people who seem to realize, hey that can't go on X vehicle or X part cant go on that. My buddy did a little street racing before excessive tickets and he still love race video games. It's cheaper and while not as thrilling he has a kid and well hell he doesn't want to die. However he will be involved and they will botch something so hard he nearly stops playing. The worst part is he starts saying that and bam I just don't really want to play the new realistic and digitally inspiring race game....
For me the ones that really hit home are the firearms in games. I continually here the word clip, from soldiers and even worse special forces. Anyone who has been in the military knows that 90% of all modern weapons you play have magazines. Yes some have clips to load, but I have seen them say magazine for clip. (Face palm) Not a big deal you say.... no but to several people I know who are around weapons we constantly have to correct this, and it would be like someone calling Lisa Foiles, Lizzy Flows(no offense you just happened to be the last vid I watched). Yes the first time you hear it you chuckle the messed that up and correct them, then you hear it again, and again and again. "Isn't that brunette lady Lizzy Flows doing some funny vids on the scrapist website?", and maybe you can see my point. God knows poor Lisa and the moderators are probably getting ready to hit the delete button it burns so bad.
I wont even get into weapons doing things that they most certainly can't do, some of its game-play dynamics, but when you hear the wrong thing out some guy you expect to be the baddest of the bad. Well lets just say if he kept those failures through basic he would either look like the Hulk by the end or be stuck doing some minor job like lead MWR volleyball issuer. Frankly the people who like battle games many times ends up being the military. It never ceases to amaze me when you are walking into a tent, and you see a guy getting incoming mortars in a game and realize that what you were doing the night before. I am glad the games pull out the dumb crap like sitting in a bunker forever after a attack, but yeah.
Developers you don't have to pay someone tons of money, and you don't have to release your game to 1000 people, but ask around, find the good forums with gun nuts, historians and car gurus. Most of these people field idiot questions all day, and the majority will give you all the right answers for a few bites extra on a credit line at the end of a game.
