Things Games Have Taught You.

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Auron555

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We've all played hundreds of games, but what have they taught us about real life? Be it rules of physics, laws of life, whatever, what lessons have you learned from games?
Post the game you learned it from, too.

Mine are:
Fists can be stronger than bullets. (Halo)
Townsfolk have incredibly limited vocabularies. (FF, WOW)
Stepping on ammo and first aid kits adds it to your inventory. (Tomb Raider 2)
If you're playing a concert, as long as you hit the big ending, the crowd will love you, regardless of how much you sucked. (Rock Band)
 

TheKbob

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Making a product with a game or mascot tied to it and then market the hell out of it until people who bought said product would throw themselves in front a bus just for it's sake to prove a point is, in fact, the best marketing plan known to man.

Later, if you can start "selling out" and appealing to another crowd, you can turn out less of said product, but once announced, will seem like the 2nd coming, but costing you less since you make less, but sell more.

Note: I feel all major brands do this.
 

Llil

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English. I've learned more from games and television programs than I did in school.
They do teach English a lot in school but besides some vocabulary, there has never been anything I did't already know in English classes.
I learned my first English words and sentences from the Space Quest series.

Probably not what you meant but actually quite useful thing.
 

pha kin su pah

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GamerHelp said:
1. When you're about to beat someone in a fight, they will rapidly flash between red and their normal skin tone.
2. Chickens are easy to pick up.
3. Tennis is really easy.
4. Hockey is almost entirely about checking and fist-fights.
5. Most people don't say anything of interest.
6. On any given day, a 16-year old girl can beat up a gigantic bear, or an old man can beat up a robot.
7. The best way to open a container is to destroy it.
8. When you enter a town, the person closest to the entrance will welcome you to the town and tell you its name.
9. When driving, a full 360 flip is routine, provided you land wheels down.
10. Pay attention to shiny things.
11. All ninjas will try to kill you on sight. Unless said ninja is a super badass ninja who refuses to talk. That guy will run away after saying "..." But beware--he'll be back.
12. Parachutes are standard issue for all soldiers, regardless of what they're tasked with on the Battlefield.
13. Food heals all wounds.
14. Eating typically takes one or two seconds, and can usually be accomplished by standing on top of food.
15. If you run out of bullets, you die.
16. Everyone, everywhere, at anytime is capable of jumping at least 5 feet straight up.
17. Eating mushrooms can make you grow taller. Eating flowers let you shoot fireballs out of your hand.
18. Female martial artists are either little girls in Japanese school clothes, or scantily clad vixens with ginormous boobies.
19. The Web was basically built for people to play puzzle games and tower defense.
20. Windows sucks.
21. Your thumb is your most powerful weapon.
22. Pokemon, though vicious fighting animals, will only attack other Pokemon. Even the biggest, nastiest Pokemon won't hurt a human.
23. Princess Peach really needs a security staff.
24. And so does Princess Zelda.
25. Most people don't mind if you wander into their house unannounced. They also don't care if you go rifling through their chests and barrels looking for items.
26. A large number of doors and gates are controlled by elaborate pulley systems involving statues and clay tablets.
27. Barrels with radioactive signs on the side will explode if shot.
28. Hemorrhaging head wounds can be healed by standing on top of any box with the red cross symbol on the side.
29. Bad guys and monsters tend to enjoy carrying around the same types of bullets your guns use, even if they themselves are not armed.
30. Big ass boobs are great. 3D big ass boobs with a proper physics engine behind them are even better.
31. Massive boobs do not, in anyway, interfere with physical and athletic performance.
32. Most cities, though appearing large, are composed of small alleys and single streets blocked off at both ends by garbage, fences, cars, or mysterious invisible barriers.
33. 90% of all doors are completely fake. They're just painted onto the wall.
34. Solid Snake's co-workers are completely incapable of shutting the f**k up.
35. Turtles come out of their shells if you press down hard on them. Additionally, turtle shells are really slick on the bottom, and thus they slide around on normal surfaces as though they were ice.
36. For the most part, jumping on something's head will kill it. If it does not, then throwing a dead animal at the thing will do the job.
37. All adventures will take the protagonist through an "ice world."
38. If you get poisoned, you won't die as long as you stay still.
40. Grenades are easy to locate in major metropolitan areas. And in fields. And in suburbs. And in airbases. And in hotels. And on the bus. And in schools. But if you find grenades in a military base, they're probably fake and don't really exist.
41. 95% of all computers, desks, tables and chairs are exactly the same.
42. Killing people makes you stronger.
43. When someone dies, their body will decompose within 5 minutes of death.
44. Dead people, after decomposition, tend to leave behind weapons, food, or keys.
45. Bad guys like to build elaborate mazes around their headquarters.
46. The head guy involved in anything is usually trying to destroy the world.
47. Bad guy managers are usually far stronger than any of their underlings.
48. If a bad guy is really really big, you'll have to flip a number of switches in order to damage him. These switches will always reset within 30 seconds of being hit, making Mr. Big Baddy invulnerable again.
49. The more you kill, the better the stuff you get.
50. All store owners will buy any old crap you have in your bag, no matter how much of it you own.
51. If in combat, your enemies will usually stand around and wait patiently as you go through your rucksack looking for your rocket launcher.
52. A knife in the back beats three bullets in the face.
53. When you go to bed at an inn, a 3-second jingle will play before you go to sleep..
54. Hedgehogs do not have blood flowing through their veins, but giant gold rings.
55. The greatest of warriors often communicates in childish aphorisms.
56. Clothing only comes in one size.
57. If you come across a locked door, you have to find the key, even if it's a brittle piece of wood that a grenade should be able to obliterate.
 

the monopoly guy

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pistol are shit
Hedgehogs will whoop you
plumbers are more likely to go postal then a mailman
Demons? no problem. Aliens? No problem, Ninjas? No problem. Wooden door? You worst enemy. Ever.
 

AlexanderAstartes

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Doors will only break for the exact right tool/weapon.

If you ever hear squawking in a mountainous region of Morrowind, flee and don't look back.

Any expanse of deep water is extremely dangerous.
 

mechsword42

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Things I learned while playing Halo:

1. Never hit my friends. Especially with rockets.
2. Share everything. Especially plasma grenades. Especially with the enemy.
3. Never take things that don't belong to me. This applies to: the enemy flag, Our team's flag, any guns and ammo that can give someone a one-shot kill, any gun my teammate wanted before me, the energy sword, the bomb, the skull, and most especially the only banshee on the map.
4. Always be aware of my surroundings. Specifically, the immediate surroundings that include an enemy tank, a rocket, an enemy with my team's flag, or an enemy with cloaking and a gravity hammer.
5. Look both ways before crossing the street. Mainly because three of my teammates have control of a warthog and have no idea how to drive it.
6. No longer allowed to drive a warthog.
7. No longer allowed to operate a warthog turret.
8. If someone is swearing incoherently at me, they are either an idiot or twelve years old.
9. The pistol does not have a scope and I should stop insisting that it does.
10. I should not dual-wield pistols and attempt to infiltrate an enemy base to "go John Woo style on their asses." It will always fail.
11. The shotgun is your friend.
12. Should not attempt to grenade jump twice in a row. It will always fail.
13. Should not try to stick myself with plasma grenades and run into an enemy base shouting "Smite the infidel!" It is tastless and will usually backfire.
14. Nor should I shout "Leeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiiiiiiiiiiinss!!"
15. "Fire in the hole" is not a euphamism for an STD and I should stop using the phrase as such.
16. Should not state that I will "pwn some noobs" when I myself have been killed about 15 times.
17. Should not claim that someone shot me "because I'm black." I am white as the driven snow and should stop insisting otherwise.
18. Nor should I claim its "because I'm a girl," "because I'm gay," or "because I shot you first."
19. Should not attempt to negotiate with the other team. They will always shoot me.
20. Should not shoot my teammates in an attempt to "join the winning side." All I will get is banned.
 

BallPtPenTheif

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* leveling up

that doing something repetitively over and over again will make you better at it. sure, i knew this before but RPGs really drive that message home.

* to be more active in real life

games that provide actual time tracking stats showing in "days" how long you've played the game depress the hell out of me. they make the volume of time you waste drastically apparent.
 

Bowstring

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The key to being a well known and legendary hero is to never speak.

Although trying that in real life lead to me being branded an ignorant bastard. Eh, swings and roundabouts.
 

QuantumDot

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monsters are incredibly polite - once one attacks you it will wait for you to attack it again before doing anything else...
 

Zombie_King

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Half-Life - Never go to the beach without a shotgun.

Drmortuss said:
Every time I enter the room after leaving it changes configuration. (Coded Arms)
Dude! /obscurePSPgamereference
 

Rshady

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If you are critically wounded, just find cover and wait for a few seconds.

When assassinating important figures in the past you'll have plenty of time to have a long, drawn-out conversation with them before the guards start hacking away at you.

If you manage to kill seven people in a row without dying, you get to call in a helicopter. :D

Said helicopters can shoot you through buildings :(

If you are low in health the edges of your vision will turn red, you may also hear a beeping noise.

If you encounter a dangerous creature, dramatic music will play.
 

gibboss28

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No matter what you think, other people are better than you at online fps's its just that they've got lag at the moment.
 

zilfana

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I agree to several of the previously stated observations, but i have come to realize there is a magical material in video games that is know only as "the magical video game material." Its the same thing that those un-openable doors are made of, what some cars or even the simplest of items are made of making them seemingly indestructible. It is even sum times completely invisible yet impassable, bringing us the dreaded "invisible wall." The first thing that made me realize this was the "zombie proof automatic sliding door." I was playing dead rising and i was in that plaza that has the hardware store with the large chainsaw and i was almost dead. So, running for my life for safety with zombies all around me, i stumbled into the fitness place with the automatic door. It took me second to realize my mistake, because it was an automatic door, but to my suprise, it closed right in the zombies faces! So this door could only be made out of the fabled "magical video game material." I thank you for reading through my rant and hope you find the realization of the godlike alloy.
 

Whoolpurse

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Actually, some of my friends were fighting for fun, and she kicked me, i grabbed her leg and kicked the other one of the ground so she landed flat back on the mattress, Like in bourne conspiracy. Please ote i have little martial arts training.
 

SecretTacoNinja

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If I fish in the river Severn in the summer at night, I can find a Piranha or an Arapaima. (Yes I play Animal Crossing shut up).
If I want to kill someone it will take two or three shots to the head.
If a rock is in my way, I can play a certain song and it will move.
Humans can take 50+ bullets without dying.