Poll: Man, Fuck Realism

[Supreme Unleaded]

i like realistic games because i have the patence (spelling?) for them. but I also like non realistc games as well like resistance 2, orange box and a few others.

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

if you want realistic get Operation Flashpoint. cause that game is 1 shot death and you have no HUD at all. So your gonna have to remember how many rounds your guns has and also you better know how to use a map and a compass so you can get around.

 

[Svizzara]

I like a mild amount of realism, the perfect example being the Call of Duty series. There is one exception for me though: the Gran Turismo series. Extreme realism (damage aside) is what makes that game for me.

 

[Player 2]

You do realize that some people do enjoy realism, right?

Those people should try going outside.

Do you seriously believe that what you see in say, ArmA 2 is something that you could see by simply going outside?

Depends where you are, and if not, it can't be that realistic then can it?

 

[suhlEap]

i get annoyed with games that are too realistic, ie ghost recon/rainbow 6 vegas. i played them both and agree it gets tedious. realism is all well and good sometimes, but i does get boring after a while. but if a game is good, it doesn't matter how realistic it is really.

 

[Dedtoo]

To say it this way: I LOVE Team Fortress 2, and Half Life, and i HATE counter strike.
So i prefer games with teleporters, where you can eat two rockets, get a guy to shoot lazoors at you and then eat some more rockets.

Also: FIRST POST!

 

[ArcWinter]

If it's fun, I like it.
If it's fun and innovative, I like it a lot.
If it's completely badass, I must play it.

Realism isn't really a factor in deciding what games are good. If you want realism, do it in the real world.

 

[funksobeefy]

If a RTS game has a unit that is not an actual tank that has more than 500 hit points then its not fun to me. Realistic RTSs are really fun to me, cause its more realistic and such.

For fps and all others they can do anything they want, all I need is a good story and rewarding gameplay and Im in.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Or not, I wanna ask you!

Personally, I just got (halfway) through playing Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and Jesus Christ on a reasonably priced motorcycle, it was TEDIOUS.

One-hit kills, enemies that see you as soon as you duck your head around the corner, and with enough accuracy to get some decent bloody headshots. Your squadmates have the attention spans of retarded butterflies. You try to run'n'gun, and you end up dead on enemy bullets. If you try to play tactically, your squadmates end up about three hundred feet behind you, and you spend more time telling them to catch up then you do actually completing objectives.

I guess what I'm saying is that realism is okay, and even good for a game, but not at the expense of fun. Take a game like Call of Duty (any one, I'm not particularly fussed). Okay, so you could take a billion bullets without dying, and apparently your squadmates were invincible (unless they didn't have any decent lines), but tactics were pretty good, and it's one of the more realistic series of games out there. Oh, and it was FUN TO FUCKING PLAY.

On the other hand, you've got games that just throw any premise of real-world physics and problems out the window, I'm looking at you, Doom. But Doom was hilarious shooting fun. Think about other games with no grounding in reality. little-to-no physics, enemies that take a dozen clips or units to kill, instant drowning. These can all lead up to player frustration that makes them stop playing, or just keep playing to get to the end of the game.

RTSs are no different, when it takes thirty real-time minutes to build a unit, and it has minimum health and hardly any firepower, it's just not fun.

Look at a game like GTA or Saint's Row: They're fucking batshit. You can run around with rocket launchers, blow up a few buildings, and then steal the police cars when they come to arrest you and Do missions to capture criminals in the police car you've just stolen, and earn money doing so (in GTA, at least), No, it's not very realistic, but damn if it isn't fun.

I dunno, mabye I'm just nitpicking because some games were just so boring that I feel like I've spent 30 dollars to give up a few gig on my hard drive and give up an inch of shelf space.

Anyway, opinions? Critsisms? Go nuts.

Personally I did not find any problems with GRAW on any difficulty but thats just me.

I think some games should be ultra realistic and others less so depends on the game really.

Like SC4 wouldn't be good if it was realistic for example.

 

[Pegghead]

Screw realism I just want FUN. I mean theres nothing realistic about a fat I talian plumber who jumps on thingsm or a mute scientist with a sweet beard and glasses bludgeoning aliens to death with a crowbar. But I guarantee more people are gonna remember mario and gordon freeman than anyone in say...first to fight.

 

[dark-amon]

Some genres and franchises wouldn't work with realism. Call of Duty, for example, where you heal from unrealsitic amounts of bulletwounds instead of blleding to death like you should. And almost all shootinggames would en after the first bullet hit you.

 

[Sev72]

Some games are good with realism, some are not. It worked well in CoD 4, but in Batman:AA it would have really sucked to be super realistic, it depends on the game and genre.

 

[KiiWii]

Realism where its needed, or where it contributes to the gaming experience making it more enjoyable. Not realism for realisms sake.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

While realism is good and proper, I generally prefer things to be wacked out and crazy. My willing suspension of disbelief is good enough to ensure that I can fully appreciate a world which just plain doesn't make sense if it allows me to, in Yahtzees words, "throw old ladies into jet liners."

In summary, the wackier and crazier the world, the more fun I'll have tearing things up with my eye lasers and rocket launchers.

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Only when it is appropriate. Don't want that one hit stuff in my Fallout, but will gladly have it in my Rainbow game. Mostly developers make the game according to the realistic level, and they know what to give and what to take away from the real world.

 

[timmytom1]

I prfer either complete realism (you die in one hit opponets react to your actions realistically) or the complete opposite (bouncy physics and guns that fire bunnies or some such)attempting halfway house gives me the impression the devs couldn`t decide what they wanted the game to be

 

[The Hairminator]

It all depends on what kind of game it is, if it fits in and most importantly, If it's FUN.
I don't want my alien killing on pluto- game to be realistic, because that would ruin it.