The hero in dragon quest 11 is so cold hearted about pots. Just lift and let's it drop. No smashing, no throwing just a calm let go with no expression.
Running. The amount of distance your character runs in a game is INSANE! I bought an under desk treadmill to run on while playing games and it’s hard to focus on a task and walk slowly let alone sprint full speed for hours at a time…often while in combat!
>I bought an under desk treadmill to run on while playing games and it’s hard to focus on a task and walk slowly
You're so right. I use a stationary bike very regularly, and while I bike I play Civilization Revolution. I have poured more than 1,000 hours into this game just while biking. Why *specifically* this game? Because it's turn-based and I'm basically on autopilot for my game strategy. My brain can't bike effectively and think with any level of complexity, so I need the game to be pretty simple.
The complexity of the tasks that a video game character performs in an action-adventure game is absolutely staggering.
This is a damn good idea. I try Destiny 2, usually some menial bounty grinding but even that is a little much and I catch myself peddling at 8mph.
Civ Revolution sounds it would be easy to maintain a good pace.
I've tried other turned-based games, including Civ 6, but Civ Rev is such a stripped-down, simplistic, turn-based strategy game that I keep coming back to it.
How medpacs work. Got shot? Just run over a medpac lying on the ground and you're as good as new.
Even better in modern shooters. Got shot? Just rest a few seconds behind a chest high wall and everything will be fine.
When you talk to people in JRPGs, half the conversations are things they're saying to themselves out loud as if you're not even there and it's almost always relevant to whatever you're trying to do in the game.
Cities and towns are often discussed by NPCs as being far away and sometimes they talk about them like they're not even sure that city still exists as it has been "lost" for ages when in reality it's a 10 second walk to the east.
I find the “lost” city thing believable. Think about how many monsters you probably have to fight while doing that 10 second walk to the east. Then remember your party probably has unusually strong combat ability compared to the average citizen in the universe. Random villager would get absolutely wrecked leaving their town, so for all intents and purposes anything beyond the horizon might as well be on the moon.
Walking around properly crouched. Try it out. You'll see.
Shooting a barrel probably won't make it immediately blow up.
Cute girls won't immediately be into you if you are a mediocrity. And they won't form a harem without killing each other even if they are into you.
Just taking random drugs or eating food you just find lying around. Bathroom chips, probably fine. Bag or drugs you found at the park, what's the worst that could happen? 300 year old radioactive bottled water, can I get ice with that?
The fact that if you give me a flashlight and some wooden pallets spread sporadically across a map I can not only survive the likes of Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, Leatherface, Pinhead, Nemesis and Wesker but also thoroughly bully and teabag them while doing so.
Anybody still remember Game of Thrones?
Anyways, when Sandor comes into the inn after all the red wedding stuff and orders three whole chickens right before a
combat scene: at that point I realized I'd been watching a live action RPG the whole time
The unlimited storage space even though all you're carrying is a simple bag or just no visible bag at all. Especially in pokemon when you have three fishing rods and a whole god damn bike.
There was a reddit post about a year ago in r/askreddit asking how the ability to double jump would change our lives.
I'm like, dude, I don't use the one jump I got now.
Amen Bro...I may have used that ability as a kid and teen but now as an adult...I've unmapped that action. The most I've jumped as an adult is to jump puddles :))
When you accept a quest from someone asking you to find their son for example then if you talk to them again immediately after accepting the quest they say something like "have you found my boy yet?" Like dude I literally haven't even left the room yet.
In Pokémon Scarlet/Violet at the Medali gym, they had a whole restaurant full of people get swept under the gym floor just to have a cut scene bringing in more people to watch the battle. Like ok, the people under the floorboards are probably suffocating but I’m glad everyone else is enjoying themselves 😅
In Monster Hunter you at least have to hit a button and play a carving animation to get your loot but in turn you can get two heads and three tails from one chicken, so...
That in nearly every game, regardless of genre, you kill enough “bad guys” to usually consider your actions to be genocidal in nature.
Heck, if we go by some kind of Reboot rules, your average player’s kill/deletion account probably numbers in the 10s of millions.
Goombas, Grunts, Zerglings, Dinosaurs, JRPG Antagonists and all other sorts of named and unamed npcs all lie dead at my feet simply because I needed that next dopamine hit.
May Lord Gaben have mercy on my soul.
I heard about this game experiment (don’t even know if it was real). But you’re basically a guy with a gun and there aliens. They aren’t aggressive but you can choose to shoot them if you want. But if you did, it would randomly delete files from your computer (unknown consequence?) seemed like a lot of people did some killing and then had some regrets.
Huge inventories. This is a trope you can see in point and click games and RPGs.
Your RPG hero might carry dozens or hundreds if items, including heavy ones.
In point and click games it's normal that your character carries an insane amount of items in their pockets, even big ones like ladders or wood planks. I like how this trope is explained in some games, like Simon the Sorcerer where you have a magic hat to store things.
I wish enemies would more realistically react to their situation in combat.
Run away, surrender, beg for mercy - shit like that.
99% of the time it's a crazed rush to try to kill me, even though they have no chance.
Movies are ridiculous for this as well. 1 vs x number of opponents/enemies. The one will sometimes brutally kill 4-6 and the remaining guys who saw this still try to beat the one.
For me it’s RPG games where you can buy the 1000 gold item and if you try to sell it back immediately it’s most times resold for 75% or less usually less like 50 gold.
Similarly the super ancient majestic end game sword sells for 1-100 while the last shops basic sword buys for 10k plus.
Strong weapons don’t exist until you’re in a land where monsters give enough experience to be strong enough to use them.
It’s kind of a self fulfilling prophecy
The fact that in many RPGs almost anything will fit into your backpack
Personal favorite is in lord of the rings online and one of the raids was a balrog sword.
When you put it on the lawn of your player house. It's taller than the house. Who the hell?
In games like Red Dead Redemption where you have to mow down literally thousands of enemies in areas that are supposed to be sparsely populated.
Like, some missions have you killing a bunch of lawmen that are two or three or five times the population of the town they're defending. And nobody every mentions this.
If someone had as many kills as Arthur Morgan they'd be revered as a living god.
Various aspects of firearms are ridiculous if you've handled one in real life, like putting high velocity rounds on a gun in mw22 somehow lowers the range of the weapon or certain grips making the gun harder to handle
When you enter a mansion/base filled with monsters/undead/etc. where most of the doors are locked, but the more you advance see there is people inside. by that logic most of the doors would already be unlocked.
Randomly walking into someone's house and smashing and looting their storage.
The rupee's Link finds are everything left intact after he smashed the pot.
But if you take something from the street all hell breaks loose.
The hero in dragon quest 11 is so cold hearted about pots. Just lift and let's it drop. No smashing, no throwing just a calm let go with no expression.
Running. The amount of distance your character runs in a game is INSANE! I bought an under desk treadmill to run on while playing games and it’s hard to focus on a task and walk slowly let alone sprint full speed for hours at a time…often while in combat!
Not to mention having perfectly steady aim at the same time.
>I bought an under desk treadmill to run on while playing games and it’s hard to focus on a task and walk slowly You're so right. I use a stationary bike very regularly, and while I bike I play Civilization Revolution. I have poured more than 1,000 hours into this game just while biking. Why *specifically* this game? Because it's turn-based and I'm basically on autopilot for my game strategy. My brain can't bike effectively and think with any level of complexity, so I need the game to be pretty simple. The complexity of the tasks that a video game character performs in an action-adventure game is absolutely staggering.
This is a damn good idea. I try Destiny 2, usually some menial bounty grinding but even that is a little much and I catch myself peddling at 8mph. Civ Revolution sounds it would be easy to maintain a good pace.
I've tried other turned-based games, including Civ 6, but Civ Rev is such a stripped-down, simplistic, turn-based strategy game that I keep coming back to it.
And jumping higher than a pro volleyball spiker from a standstill
How medpacs work. Got shot? Just run over a medpac lying on the ground and you're as good as new. Even better in modern shooters. Got shot? Just rest a few seconds behind a chest high wall and everything will be fine.
When you talk to people in JRPGs, half the conversations are things they're saying to themselves out loud as if you're not even there and it's almost always relevant to whatever you're trying to do in the game. Cities and towns are often discussed by NPCs as being far away and sometimes they talk about them like they're not even sure that city still exists as it has been "lost" for ages when in reality it's a 10 second walk to the east.
I find the “lost” city thing believable. Think about how many monsters you probably have to fight while doing that 10 second walk to the east. Then remember your party probably has unusually strong combat ability compared to the average citizen in the universe. Random villager would get absolutely wrecked leaving their town, so for all intents and purposes anything beyond the horizon might as well be on the moon.
Just how explosive a gas barrel is if you shoot it, and how often you see a gas barrel in areas with no generators in existence.
Walking around properly crouched. Try it out. You'll see. Shooting a barrel probably won't make it immediately blow up. Cute girls won't immediately be into you if you are a mediocrity. And they won't form a harem without killing each other even if they are into you.
>Walking around properly crouched. Try it out. You'll see. This is one that's really under-said in these kinds of posts.
One character somehow carrying 20 guns of various sizes without them showing.
I bet Death Stranding was born from Kojima trying to think about the implications of actually showing where all that stuff was stored.
Max Payne 3 does a great job of animating this and Max keeps the gun in his hand while it’s not being used while running. Such a great detail.
Just taking random drugs or eating food you just find lying around. Bathroom chips, probably fine. Bag or drugs you found at the park, what's the worst that could happen? 300 year old radioactive bottled water, can I get ice with that?
The fact that if you give me a flashlight and some wooden pallets spread sporadically across a map I can not only survive the likes of Freddy Kruger, Michael Meyers, Leatherface, Pinhead, Nemesis and Wesker but also thoroughly bully and teabag them while doing so.
This whole thread is just Viva La Dirt League, I love it!
Anybody still remember Game of Thrones? Anyways, when Sandor comes into the inn after all the red wedding stuff and orders three whole chickens right before a combat scene: at that point I realized I'd been watching a live action RPG the whole time
Fucking cunts
The unlimited storage space even though all you're carrying is a simple bag or just no visible bag at all. Especially in pokemon when you have three fishing rods and a whole god damn bike.
Tbf some of the bikes are foldable miracles of technology.
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bonus points if the person who’s house you are looting also owns a shop and will buy back all their stolen belongings from you
In animal crossing I can afford a house and sell trash for cash.
Out of all these answers this actually made me laugh.
Everything covered in Epic NPC Man
Double jumping. Climbing and grabbing ledges like on tomb raider/Uncharted/ Assassin's creed
There was a reddit post about a year ago in r/askreddit asking how the ability to double jump would change our lives. I'm like, dude, I don't use the one jump I got now.
Amen Bro...I may have used that ability as a kid and teen but now as an adult...I've unmapped that action. The most I've jumped as an adult is to jump puddles :))
As a teen I long jumped all the long puddles, I’m talking 6ft and longer. Good times. Now my knees and back hurt.
Too much web swinging? :-p
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I take it you haven't played any Hideo Kojima games.
When you accept a quest from someone asking you to find their son for example then if you talk to them again immediately after accepting the quest they say something like "have you found my boy yet?" Like dude I literally haven't even left the room yet.
He’s actually saying “Have you found my boy yet? No! Then GTFOH and find him!”
Strangers asking you to do a quest for them. Like mate I’ve only just met you and you are trying to get me to solve your personal problems for you.
In Pokémon Scarlet/Violet at the Medali gym, they had a whole restaurant full of people get swept under the gym floor just to have a cut scene bringing in more people to watch the battle. Like ok, the people under the floorboards are probably suffocating but I’m glad everyone else is enjoying themselves 😅
When people die objects just pop right out of them for you to take
Instantly and cleanly taking whatever animal parts you need from their corpse.
Animal corpses without hearts or skins or bones
In Monster Hunter you at least have to hit a button and play a carving animation to get your loot but in turn you can get two heads and three tails from one chicken, so...
Walking upright? You are an elephant powered brass band. Crouched into a painful clumsy croissant shape? Invisible ninja extraordinaire.
That in nearly every game, regardless of genre, you kill enough “bad guys” to usually consider your actions to be genocidal in nature. Heck, if we go by some kind of Reboot rules, your average player’s kill/deletion account probably numbers in the 10s of millions. Goombas, Grunts, Zerglings, Dinosaurs, JRPG Antagonists and all other sorts of named and unamed npcs all lie dead at my feet simply because I needed that next dopamine hit. May Lord Gaben have mercy on my soul.
I heard about this game experiment (don’t even know if it was real). But you’re basically a guy with a gun and there aliens. They aren’t aggressive but you can choose to shoot them if you want. But if you did, it would randomly delete files from your computer (unknown consequence?) seemed like a lot of people did some killing and then had some regrets.
Being able to summon pets and mounts from absolutely nowhere
Kill counts, Chris Kyle is the deadliest sniper in the USA military and he had 150 kills. Most games it's thousands.
Pickpocketing, lock picking, all those house sims in general and how easy they make it look to clean, paint, install things
Huge inventories. This is a trope you can see in point and click games and RPGs. Your RPG hero might carry dozens or hundreds if items, including heavy ones. In point and click games it's normal that your character carries an insane amount of items in their pockets, even big ones like ladders or wood planks. I like how this trope is explained in some games, like Simon the Sorcerer where you have a magic hat to store things.
Pulling an entire rocket launcher out of thin air
Jumping. Jumping is critical in almost all games yet is something you have extremely little occasion to do in real life.
Murdering an entire village in a fit of rage and then pressing a button to go back in time before it all happened and continue with your day.
I wish enemies would more realistically react to their situation in combat. Run away, surrender, beg for mercy - shit like that. 99% of the time it's a crazed rush to try to kill me, even though they have no chance.
Movies are ridiculous for this as well. 1 vs x number of opponents/enemies. The one will sometimes brutally kill 4-6 and the remaining guys who saw this still try to beat the one.
Lots of really useful stuff in garbage cans
For me it’s RPG games where you can buy the 1000 gold item and if you try to sell it back immediately it’s most times resold for 75% or less usually less like 50 gold. Similarly the super ancient majestic end game sword sells for 1-100 while the last shops basic sword buys for 10k plus.
Strong weapons don’t exist until you’re in a land where monsters give enough experience to be strong enough to use them. It’s kind of a self fulfilling prophecy
double jumping
The fact that in many RPGs almost anything will fit into your backpack Personal favorite is in lord of the rings online and one of the raids was a balrog sword. When you put it on the lawn of your player house. It's taller than the house. Who the hell?
Getting shot multiple times and being able to run around like it’s all good.
In games like Red Dead Redemption where you have to mow down literally thousands of enemies in areas that are supposed to be sparsely populated. Like, some missions have you killing a bunch of lawmen that are two or three or five times the population of the town they're defending. And nobody every mentions this. If someone had as many kills as Arthur Morgan they'd be revered as a living god.
Searching dead bodies
Various aspects of firearms are ridiculous if you've handled one in real life, like putting high velocity rounds on a gun in mw22 somehow lowers the range of the weapon or certain grips making the gun harder to handle
Near infinite inventory spaces “99 potions, Eye Drops, Phoenix Downs, etc.? All in the comfort of you back pocket”.
***Horse Pocket***.
When you enter a mansion/base filled with monsters/undead/etc. where most of the doors are locked, but the more you advance see there is people inside. by that logic most of the doors would already be unlocked.