Video game logic?
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Killzone 2.
Garza got shot around 100,000 times. I would revive him with my taser-thing-that-disappears-in-cutscenes-and-doesn't-work-on-non-essential-non-player-characters, and he would be perfectly fine.
But then Rico shows up, starts spraying bullets, and hits him once.
Garza dies. After being shot so many times, after being revived over and over, he dies from one single bullet.
I hated this moment for 2 reasons:
One: WHERE THE HELL DID MY TASER THING GO.
Two: Garza was the only character I liked, since everyone else had a vocabulary that consisted of "FUCK" and "SHIT".
Garza got shot around 100,000 times. I would revive him with my taser-thing-that-disappears-in-cutscenes-and-doesn't-work-on-non-essential-non-player-characters, and he would be perfectly fine.
But then Rico shows up, starts spraying bullets, and hits him once.
Garza dies. After being shot so many times, after being revived over and over, he dies from one single bullet.
I hated this moment for 2 reasons:
One: WHERE THE HELL DID MY TASER THING GO.
Two: Garza was the only character I liked, since everyone else had a vocabulary that consisted of "FUCK" and "SHIT".
In S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you can heal yourself by eating bread. After getting shot, I always hide behind cover and suddenly start snacking.
I don't see the problem here. Hydrogen bombs (heck, ANY bomb that isn't nitroglycerine) tend to be stable. Kinda risky otherwise. Why would it explode just cos it's been shot?Demons_Bane said:
There are plenty of things in video games that do not make sense. But we gamers have such a strong suspense of disbelief that we generally overlook such things in order to enjoy the game. But alright, I'll play along:
- Why are hearts in Castlevania used as ammunition or currency? I mean, it doesn't make much sense for hearts to be health, but it makes even less sense for them to be ammunition or currency.
- Why do medpacks/painkillers in shooter games instantly recover health? Health kits are merely used for bandaging them and painkillers don't even treat wounds.
- While we are on the subject, how can characters in first-person shooters regenerate health so quickly? It takes days, if not weeks, for wounds to heal.
- Why are ruins and dungeons in fantasy games always filled with treasure? More often then not, you would more likely find objects from every day use rather then gold or jewellery. Infact, the longer a ruin has existed, the more likely it is someone had thoroughly plundered it long ago. Unless they are filled with hostile monsters...
- ...which brings me to another question. Why are there always hostile monsters in ruins and dungeons? Surely not every ruin contains something worth defending from intruders and that is even less likely with dungeons. And even if there is, why would they attack everyone on sight? It's not like everyone knows that those ruins or dungeon might contain.
- Why do random wolves, bears and other natural creatures attack you and even cooperate against you? They don't instantly have a reason to fight you and some of them might even be predators to the other.
- How can characters in most shooters carry so many weapons? Surely not all of them went to the Dungeons & Dragons dimension to borrow a Bottomless Bag or have access to Hammerspace.
- How can transformable mecha be faster and stronger then regular jet fighters? Fighter aircraft are usually more aerodynamically designed, so they should be able to beat half-fighters most of the time.
- Speaking of mecha, why are they usually so large? They practically beg to be shot in the legs and be quickly rendered inoperative.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture by now.
- Why are hearts in Castlevania used as ammunition or currency? I mean, it doesn't make much sense for hearts to be health, but it makes even less sense for them to be ammunition or currency.
- Why do medpacks/painkillers in shooter games instantly recover health? Health kits are merely used for bandaging them and painkillers don't even treat wounds.
- While we are on the subject, how can characters in first-person shooters regenerate health so quickly? It takes days, if not weeks, for wounds to heal.
- Why are ruins and dungeons in fantasy games always filled with treasure? More often then not, you would more likely find objects from every day use rather then gold or jewellery. Infact, the longer a ruin has existed, the more likely it is someone had thoroughly plundered it long ago. Unless they are filled with hostile monsters...
- ...which brings me to another question. Why are there always hostile monsters in ruins and dungeons? Surely not every ruin contains something worth defending from intruders and that is even less likely with dungeons. And even if there is, why would they attack everyone on sight? It's not like everyone knows that those ruins or dungeon might contain.
- Why do random wolves, bears and other natural creatures attack you and even cooperate against you? They don't instantly have a reason to fight you and some of them might even be predators to the other.
- How can characters in most shooters carry so many weapons? Surely not all of them went to the Dungeons & Dragons dimension to borrow a Bottomless Bag or have access to Hammerspace.
- How can transformable mecha be faster and stronger then regular jet fighters? Fighter aircraft are usually more aerodynamically designed, so they should be able to beat half-fighters most of the time.
- Speaking of mecha, why are they usually so large? They practically beg to be shot in the legs and be quickly rendered inoperative.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture by now.
Thanks for pulling me up on this but you are a bit late on it someone else picked up on it earlier again my bad.
GTA IV
Spawn helicopter, fly to roof of huge skyscraper. Spawn bike, ride of edge. A few feet before ground get of bike and your character's momentum is reset to just starting to fall instead of 500 wooshes a second. Then you land get up and do it 10 more times before even half your health is gone. Awesome game.
Spawn helicopter, fly to roof of huge skyscraper. Spawn bike, ride of edge. A few feet before ground get of bike and your character's momentum is reset to just starting to fall instead of 500 wooshes a second. Then you land get up and do it 10 more times before even half your health is gone. Awesome game.
i'm "that" friend too, don't worry. it just doesn't make sense!Dok Zombie said:
though it is fun to turn the machine guns on them. that's what they get for lurking...
You can be the most powerful superhuman in the galaxy.
Entire planets bow down before your might.
Your enemies tremble at the very mention of your name.........
But if you run into a locked door.....YOU....ARE.....FUCKED!
Yes that right, all the power in the universe means nothing to a locked door
that you don't have the key for!!
Entire planets bow down before your might.
Your enemies tremble at the very mention of your name.........
But if you run into a locked door.....YOU....ARE.....FUCKED!
Yes that right, all the power in the universe means nothing to a locked door
that you don't have the key for!!
Every single protagonist in an FPS nowadays can move out of harms way when hurt and magicaly regenerate their health.
Prototype: you can stealth consume as many soldiers as you want, and their buddies don't notice that there's a ton of guns lying on the ground? Also, in some cases, I've stealth consumed a guy WHEN SOMEONE IS LOOKING RIGHT AT ME. And another logic thing: why do the UAVs detect faster than the "normal" viral scanners? Also, why does it do more damage to hunters when I throw cars and shit at them, but NOT when I slice them apart with a blade-arm?! SENSE. DOES. NOT. MAKE.
Halo: Meleeing enemies kills them faster than shooting them with CONCENTRATED BURSTS OF PLASMA OR BULLETS. What.
Halo: Meleeing enemies kills them faster than shooting them with CONCENTRATED BURSTS OF PLASMA OR BULLETS. What.
I say Mass Effect 2 is a pretty bad offender.
YOU CHOKE IN SPACE (getting the worst case of decompression sickenss EVEN POSSIBLE, mind you), THEN FALL FROM ORBIT (through atmosphere, sustaining ram-pressure heating of ~4.000 degrees), AND THE THEY JUST F*CKING REVIVE YOU.
Seriously, BioWare, just clone Shepard, would you? Its the future, we'll happily suspend our disbelief.
YOU CHOKE IN SPACE (getting the worst case of decompression sickenss EVEN POSSIBLE, mind you), THEN FALL FROM ORBIT (through atmosphere, sustaining ram-pressure heating of ~4.000 degrees), AND THE THEY JUST F*CKING REVIVE YOU.
Seriously, BioWare, just clone Shepard, would you? Its the future, we'll happily suspend our disbelief.
in scifi and fantasy rpgs you can take a missles,rpg,bombs, giant lazers, and the whole universe being thrown at you(literally) in a fight but in a cut scene you get killed by a stray bullet or being stabbed by as sword or some sort of sickness, and you can't use heal to make u better
You just took 100 bullets and regen all your life to full yay!! enter cutscene!! OMG he got a gun!?!, get shot in the side, non fatal and roll around of the floor for hours