Whenever a character simply touches somebody, he or she gets hurt, but if that same person jumps off a 50-story building all the way to the ground, he or she doesn't even get a scratch? Super Mario Bros is the game in question.
It is unrealistic that a nearly 300 pound wrestler can barely jump over a jump rope, yet if he grabs somebody, he jumps 50 feet higher. Scientifically, holding extra weight would make it harder to jump, but it appears the laws of physics don't apply to video games. Final Fight doesn't quite provide a very educational gaming experience for gamers.
Death And Morality In Games
Oh, and for all those role-playing games, it seems like these tough-as-nails warriors, but civilians that can't even pull off a punch are somehow invincible to the effects of weapons. Here is something else that is strange. Characters are able to die and come back to life a billion times. They are able to collect extra lives that allow them to come back to life even again. Once a person kicks the bucket, it all ends.
Stealing is a crime, yet video game characters steal all the time. Video game characters rarely ask for permission to pick all that money lying around in games such as Legend of Zelda.
Physical Health of Video Game Characters
Video game characters never get tired, hungry, or thirsty. Or full. Somehow characters can play through an entire game without sleeping. And these same characters can go through an entire game, for a whole day or even weeks without food. Yet when they do eat food, they can eat as much they you want without getting full, or gaining weight. Diet programs are unnecessary for video game characters.
Video game characters never get sick. They never sneeze or cough. And you never see them take a bathroom break. They must be able to hold it all in reeeeeeeally well!
Day and night is also something that doesn't occur realistically. For some games it takes a few minutes to go from day to night, and other games, the concept of changing from day to night doesn't exist.
All video game characters have a billion twins that conveniently have the same exact name and same exact look. In Double Dragon, for instance, gamers fight a whole bunch of guys with the name Will, Linda, or Abobo. It's very strange that their parentswere able to have so many kids, let alone take care of all of them enough for them to become healthy adults?
Putting It All Together
Events in video games are very unrealistic. Characters don't have the same biological needs, whether that involves thirst, hunger, or sleep. Pain affects them very differently from how people in real life are impacted by pain. Also, the morals of video game characters are a bit shady, and dying is unrealistic as well.
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Applying Video Game Logic To Real Life
Gaurav Bhatia - Gaurav Bhatia is an alumnus of Georgia State University who received his Bachelors of Arts in Journalism with an area of concentration in ...
