Healing mechanics you never understood

[Trivun]

Fallout 3. How in the hell does drinking out of an irradiated 200 year old toilet net you health points?

Wait, you mean radiation isn't healthy? Oh sh-

I quite liked it in Alone in the Dark, that is, the new one. It's not too far from realism, for a video game, in that you find actual health packs and bandages and have to treat the right area in the right way, and being hurt in a certain place has a realistic effect, such as limping and slowing down (damaged leg) or not being able to aim properly (damaged arm).

For silly ones though, Resident Evil is just plain stupid. I mean, they work on the assumption that herbs heal anything. Silly Capcom. Don't they realise dabbing herbs on you does nothing? Smoking them, on the other hand...

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

We've all seen it, games where you in some weird way regenerate health, but which is the weirdest of the weirdest? I thought the one in Battlefield: Bad Company was pretty interesting. You get your full health back by injecting some sort of syringe or something right into your heart.

I got a buddy in the Army who kind of explained that one to me. The thing he injects into himself does exist. It's basically morphine-like chemicals that you inject into yourself that numbs the pain and makes you feel better.

Yes, cause anybody can survive a bullet through the brain, as long as they're not feeling it. "Oh look, he cut off my legs, but it's okay, I can still walk by using the sheer power of mind." ;P Just kidding, but games will always have lingering feeling of unrealism to it. Like they're the Black Knight from the Holy Grail.

Hey I was just explaining the injector thing Didn't say the game's healing mechanics was as real as daylight.

 

[Xerosch]

So is there any game that has a healing mechanic that DOES sound logical?

"InFamous" lets you run 10.000 through you body. Logical and healthy (at least you'll be awake then).

 

[Archaeology Hat]

Any game, which is most of them, where your character is completely fine, up untill their last hitpoint goes and then suddenly they die. Refered to and expanded on in TVTropes.org's "Critical Existence Failure".

Related to this anything based on older editions of DnD:

This is Handwaved in some editions by the claim that hit points don't actually represent health, but the "ability to avoid injury" (despite the fact that they are recovered through bandages and magical curing spells). -TVTropes.org on "Critical Existence Failure"

So Plot armour can be restored by bandages?

 

[Darth Pope]

Metroid. Why do wild animals turn into health and ammo that your suit can process when they die?

 

[titanium turtle]

there is no such thing as a good healing mechanic- they are made to be quick to let you get back in, throwing a white box, injecting yourself, hiding etc. would not heal you from 10+ bullet wounds

if you want something realistic then be prepared for 4 hour medic surgery whilst they remove the bullets- more realistic than walking over a healthpack

 

[RobCoxxy]

Battlefield 2 - shock paddles heal teammates, kill bad guys. Med packs thrown at face = healthy time.

 

[titanium turtle]

We've all seen it, games where you in some weird way regenerate health, but which is the weirdest of the weirdest? I thought the one in Battlefield: Bad Company was pretty interesting. You get your full health back by injecting some sort of syringe or something right into your heart.

I got a buddy in the Army who kind of explained that one to me. The thing he injects into himself does exist. It's basically morphine-like chemicals that you inject into yourself that numbs the pain and makes you feel better.

yeah but it won't HEAL you- just make you feel better

 

[HannesPascal]

The most fucked up one is in inFamous. To get infinite xp (as evil) you shoot a policeman, heal him, shoot him again, heal him again (you get it, don't you?).

 

[Daveman]

pulling bullets out of yourself in farcry 2

why the hell would that make you feel better?

Could it have something to do with taking all that lovely, lovely lead out of your veins?

yes, causing you bleed even more profusely and further tissue damage and that's not mentioning the highly unsanitary rusty pliers used to do it.

 

[Crimcrime]

Respawning.

 

[Viva La Bob]

The Getaway on PS2 let you lean on a wall till the blood on your clothes disappeared


EH!!!

 

[Grayjack]

Sleeping in RPGs. I guess if you have a broken arm, you can sleep for one hour and it will be fully healed.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

We've all seen it, games where you in some weird way regenerate health, but which is the weirdest of the weirdest? I thought the one in Battlefield: Bad Company was pretty interesting. You get your full health back by injecting some sort of syringe or something right into your heart.

I got a buddy in the Army who kind of explained that one to me. The thing he injects into himself does exist. It's basically morphine-like chemicals that you inject into yourself that numbs the pain and makes you feel better.

Yes, cause anybody can survive a bullet through the brain, as long as they're not feeling it. "Oh look, he cut off my legs, but it's okay, I can still walk by using the sheer power of mind." ;P Just kidding, but games will always have lingering feeling of unrealism to it. Like they're the Black Knight from the Holy Grail.

Hey I was just explaining the injector thing Didn't say the game's healing mechanics was as real as daylight.

I didn't say you didn't explain, I was just joking around. ;P

 

[PhantomCritic]

How the characters in the Resi series' manage to use plants to heal themselves, also I never understood how that in Resi 5 they turn the herbs into a miracle heal spray.

 

[Orca87]

Actually, it is weird, but not un-understandable (couldn't remember the proper word)

Not using a double negative would help ^_^
"it is weird, but understandable"

Along with Sonic and Mario(in 3d games), I don't quite know why round golden things can bestow invincibility...

 

[walls of cetepedes]

So is there any game that has a healing mechanic that DOES sound logical?

MGS3, if you're bleeding, you have to clean it and bandage it up, otherwise you bleed out. And other injuries are done well.