Video game logic?

[SuperGilfer]

Prototype. If the military sees you do anything remotely suspicious (including bumping into too many Marines), they go all-out trying to kill you with no regard to how many pedestrians they're exploding. I'd love to compare pedestrian kills by Alex with pedestrian kills by the Army.

But you can run 50 miles an hour down the street, run up a building, jump off, and start FLYING THROUGH THE SKY and the military doesn't get suspicious until you land, and that's only because you broke the pavement.

Subsequently, if you happen to bitchslap a random civilian then you'll be so full of holes someone could use you as a colander.

 

[timmytom1]

Prototype. If the military sees you do anything remotely suspicious (including bumping into too many Marines), they go all-out trying to kill you with no regard to how many pedestrians they're exploding. I'd love to compare pedestrian kills by Alex with pedestrian kills by the Army.

Not to mention the fact that the marines wouldn`t bat an eyelid if you emptied a room full of goons as long as you did it stealthily , or if they saw you running up walls, god knows how they contained the infection as well as they did

 

[Distorted Stu]

Why do ships have selfdestruct systems?

 

[TheTaco007]

"Hey! A button! I guess I have to push it if it's there."

 

[1066]

Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis

Spoiler: The core plot, once you find out what it is.

The main character turns out to be an artificial human with the ability to grant any wish, though he doesn't know he is one nor can he use the power consciously until the end. This power extends to him being able to restore three things to life during the course of the game: A tree, a cat killed by his teacher, and a classmate murdered by that same teacher.

He was created by a legendary, immortal alchemist. This guy tried to cure a young girl of a disease, and though succeeding, reduced her life to only a few years. He's so distraught by guilt that he creates this artificial human for the sole purpose of wishing for suicide.

Rather than, you know, wishing for the girl to have a normal life-span again.

Which would also avoid the problem of illogic #2, where the alchemist's lover, a teacher at the school, tries to kill the main character (a student) through a combination of general abuse, kidnapping, assault with intent to kill and outright murdering a student in cold blood to confirm if the lead is the created human (She wasn't sure until after she killed his cat). All of which the faculty becomes aware of, but she faces no punishment and is allowed to continue teaching.

Smart people in this world.

 

[dontcallmemuffin]

sims
spinning very fast will change your clothes

 

[ssgt splatter]

Standing in a shadow, in the middle of a room with no other cover around you renders you invisible. I should try that when I try to rob a bank or sneak in to the White House.

 

[Entropyutd]

Doors.

Apparently thins layers of wood can stop all known (and unknown) varieties of high powered ammunition and explosives.

Yet NO ONE wears wooden body armour?!
Idiots the lot of them.

And yet others splinter into a thousand pieces with one melee attack.

This helmet only boosts your gearscore to 4999 sorry you can't come with us.
This helmet is slightly better and boosts you to 5001, welcome to our group.

 

[1066]

The Morph-Ball from Metroid. I'm not complaining but...what...? Not only is it never really explained how it works, but why would you build a funciton like that into a suit of armour? And WHY are all the crevices too small for a standing person also conveniently Morph-Ball sized?
It's not that small, it's over a meter across, wouldn't it just be easier to belly down and crawl in most cases? Also why can't Samus punch aliens when they run up and try to eat her face? (and the knee-spikes on her suit, those things would be deadly if she thought to use them!)
Also how does Link carry so much STUFF?

This is actually brought up in-game in one of the Primes. A console has a readout about the Pirates trying to make a morph-ball option for themselves, and winding up with all their test subjects horribly mangled.

 

[AdamG3691]

some pokemon ones

1. Hi I like shorts, theyr'e comfy and easy to wear *Battle*
2. HEY you're not wearing shorts! *battle*
3. I am going to spread peace throught the world *battle* (... yeeaaahhh...)
4.*beats claire using lv 100 arceus* you're not strong enough for the league yet.
5.*beats rival using lv 100 arceus* heh, I don't have time for whimps like you

apparently shorts are serious buisness and shackling GOD to your will means you are not strong enough to beat the elite 4...

In fact, any game where you can sequence break can have WTF moments if you do it to a point where you are way further ahead than you are meant to

 

[blindmind]

Fable 2 - Spontaneous consciousness. No matter what kind of beating your hero takes, he/she will only give up bodily control and flop on the ground, only to wake up a moment later, ready to fight once more. The hero never dies! I'm pretty sure those were real weapons I got impaled on.

 

[Soxafloppin]

unassailable knee high walls.

Worst.Thing.Evar

 

[Spookimitsu]

Shooting assailants in the chest will not dissuade your attacker from advancing and stabbing you.



lol wat

 

[Spookimitsu]

oh yes and feet feet away from detonation of a grenade? Dead as fried chicken.

Seven feet? hurt a li'l, but you'll live. Go sit in a corner and tuck your guts back in, then get back in that fight, soldier!


...I still think the game is fun, but Thank Goodness more and more developers are including destructible environs. A wall shot with an RPG deserves to have a hole in it. And the guy on the other side? Most likely deserves to die.

 

[ALKATRAZACAZ]

Oh, i got shot in the head, let me eat this can of corn i just found on the ground and everything will be fine.
Oh... and especialy in Bioshock 2, how the hell do you get the food through that cooking pot you call a helmet ?

 

[Koeryn]

I guess I'm the first to say it and even though I'm absolutely in love with the series.....

[HEADING=2]METAL GEAR SOLID MAKES NO LOGICAL SENSE!![/HEADING]

And like I said, I'm in love with the series, and 4 is my favorite game of all time, but it still is completely ridiculous and illogical....and I love every bit of it.

I really don't get the point of the microwave corridor myself...

really?? but it was all "Painfull" and "Sublime" and a moment to remember because snake is ready to "die" and he hears his life flash in his ears...

and... popcorn mmmm....

Actually, it would smell more like hotdogs.

 

[Booze Zombie]

In games where you don't magically regenerate your health, you heal instantly with medical equipment or food.

The mind boggles at what kind of metabolism the main character has in these games.

 

[Swotboy2000]

Although you beat your rival literally every time you encounter him, he still manages to best the Elite Four before you do.

 

[longbowgr]

That magic door (which is locked for you - or you simply can't enter) or magic room that keeps giving birth to enemy soldiers (insert monsters if you want) if you decide to spend some time in a specific area.

(see MoH single player) that room should be filled with tons and tons of ammo/grenades/guns and so on - but you still can't get inside it,or it magically runs out troops and/or ammo/grenades/guns when you decide to move on.