Inconsistencies in Games
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ah well, it could be worse, its not like characters die and come back to life for no reason, oh wait. ps play fire emblem if you want consistancy if one of your characters die in that game there gone forever!!!
How do we know we aren't fictional? Come to think of it, how would video game worlds feel if they knew they were in a fake world? Even in WWII games, this year is 2008 and soon to be 2009. They're stuck in the past. Sorry, what was I talking about?AdjectiveAnimal said:
The humble master of the crying freezer would like to point out that despite being quoted four times, noone's yet corrected "grammer" to "grammar". Thanks for your time.
Finally, someone noticed. I was busy trying to figure out if it was a European variant or something.EpicFailGuy said:
I think you have the wrong definition of "inconsistant". You're describing realism, not inconsistencies. Either way, who cares about realism? Name to me one game that has every single thing about it that's real.
Or is it an inconsistency cleverly disguised as a game mechanic!?GeeDave said:
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Wow. That's him told. Video games sure are serious business.GeeDave said:
The biggest inconsistency in a JRPG is Sephiroth's Supernova. It's a long ass spell that, as I recall, causes the fucking sun to swallow the earth and everything on it. It does about 2000 damage.
Wait, something about fiction not needing to be logical?
Blasphemy! That's, "fiction needs not be realistic." All fiction should be logical. Otherwise we couldn't relate to it at all. For example, what about a world where flanking your enemy is a bad idea? Or what if being hurt actually made you healthier? All fiction needs logic. It's the realism that can be logically eschewed.
Of course, I like realism, too, but, that's an opinion.
As for inconsistencies in games... I don't know. I can't think of anything that doesn't make sense for the game.
Oh wait! Battlefield 2. All NPCs will always switch to their knives if they get close to an enemy. I don't really see how that fits with the concept of the game. (And it pisses me the hell off, because when a person gets a knife out, they're usually right next to you, so unless you want to be in a knife-duel, you have to walk backward and try to shoot them (and they constantly try to be to the side of your view, so you can't shoot them).)
Blasphemy! That's, "fiction needs not be realistic." All fiction should be logical. Otherwise we couldn't relate to it at all. For example, what about a world where flanking your enemy is a bad idea? Or what if being hurt actually made you healthier? All fiction needs logic. It's the realism that can be logically eschewed.
Of course, I like realism, too, but, that's an opinion.
As for inconsistencies in games... I don't know. I can't think of anything that doesn't make sense for the game.
Oh wait! Battlefield 2. All NPCs will always switch to their knives if they get close to an enemy. I don't really see how that fits with the concept of the game. (And it pisses me the hell off, because when a person gets a knife out, they're usually right next to you, so unless you want to be in a knife-duel, you have to walk backward and try to shoot them (and they constantly try to be to the side of your view, so you can't shoot them).)
I'm pretty sure it just makes your characters go critical (yellow HP). I remember Yuffie had like 600HP and it missed her.Decoy Doctorpus said:
Repeatedly....AceDiamond said:
He cast it like 6 times before I killed him the first time I played the game. I had none of the awesome materia. No mime, no KotR, no lvl4 limits. I was shocked when Cloud got his first lvl 4 break in that end "battle" with Sephiroth. The whole end-game was over an hour for me. I made sure to fix that on my second play through.
One amusing inconsistency I had was in Guild Wars. I was constantly skipping missions and just doing random exploring when I talked to an NPC and they said a main character NPC had died. Oops, spoilers. It was funny because I could go play the mission then and finally see him die.
Yeah, it always bugs me something fierce when games aren't internally consistent, as when you have dramatic character deaths in games where bringing people back from the dead is a common occurrence. Clashes between the "physics" of the game and the plot are the most horrible and noticeable to me. You can write any physics you want, but don't go and suddenly decide they don't apply for your stupidly contrived plot.