Mike Richards said:
Dango said:
Because games like The Last of Us are only realistic when it suits them, which yes, is a flaw in concept and design.
I'm pretty sure you can say that about every single game ever. Or every piece of creative media ever. We only make things that are real in the ways we want them to be at the times we want them to be, that's why they're fictional entertainment and not documentaries.
I suppose you could, however the best games and pieces of media are able to work within the boundaries of there own world design. Dark Souls, certain Final Fantasies, and even Mario games are able to do this flawlessly. There's rarely, if ever, something that doesn't seem to make sense within the world you're playing in (of course Mario eats flowers and mushrooms to gain super powers and no one questions the believability of it, because that's just how that world works). So when a game has an inconsistent concept of what is/isn't believable or possible within its world, I consider it a flaw in design, especially when it counters the players' intuition.
