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"Games realistic? My foot!"

People say films (especially action films) are unrealistic, but I say there's a worse culprit - computer games

Just look at the following instances, and you'll see that films are closer to real life than you think, and games are about as realistic as that skinny kid from Road Trip winning a World's Strongest Man competition



Aliens attack Earth -

Real Life - They destroy the earth, wiping out the world as we know it

Films - They ALMOST destroy the earth, but after an hour and a half the Americans defeat them

Games - They send one man, with a big gun, to sort them out


Terrorists take over a building -

Real Life - Negotiators come in, and peacefully talk the terrorists down

Films - They send "the best" - someone who's the best at whatever it is he does. Usually, he's already in the building, otherwise he goes in with a team of men. All his men are killed, and he takes out the terrorists, while making wise cracks

Games - They send one man in through the roof, who kills everyone, probably even some hostages.


You're shot in the head

Real Life - You die

Films - You die

Games - You find a health pack, and a few bandages later, you're back to full health


You need to get somewhere in a building

Real Life - You find a map, and work your way there

Films - You crawl into the air vents

Games - You walk into the air vents, which just happen to lead exactly where you want to go


An enemy soldier looks right at you

Real Life - He shoots you

Films - He shoots, misses, and you shoot him

Games - He just looks right through you, due to bad AI


You punch someone

Real Life - They get up, and either run away or beat the heck out of you

Films - They fall down unconscious

Games - They die, and their body dissolves into the ground


You're set on fire

Real Life - You're put out by passers by, or you stop, drop and roll

Films - You run around for half an hour, screaming, before you drop dead

Games - The fire mysteriously goes out after a while, and you're OK apart from losing a little health


You drink some water

Real Life - It quenches your thirst

Films - It quenches your thirst

Games - It puts your health back up to 100


You find a gun

Real Life - You report it to the police

Films - You already have one

Games - You walk over it, it disappears and the ammo inside suddenly goes into the gun you're already holding


You're in a martial arts tournament

Real Life - You compete in some matches

Films - You win every match, while uncovering a drugs operation

Games - You throw fireballs out of your fingers and your muscles are huge


You go up to a doctor, requiring medical attention

Real Life - He takes you into hospital, or performs first aid

Films - He tells you it's "just a flesh wound" and patches you up

Games - He injects you, and your health goes back up


You shoot a rocket launcher at a wall

Real Life - You get blown back, you leave a hole in the wall. You get arrested

Films - You blow a hole in the wall, leading to somewhere you need to be

Games - You leave a scorch mark on the wall


You jump

Real Life - You get a certain height/distance, and land again

Films - You leap over a huge gap

Games - You make a grunting noise. The same grunting noise. Every time you jump


You look down

Real Life - You see your shoes

Films - You see where you would be wearing shoes, if you weren't in Die Hard

Games - You see a black circle which is meant to be your shadow


You build a house

Real Life - You spend weeks/months laying the foundation, bricks etc etc

Films - You start work, then the film cuts to you after you've finished building it

Games - You kneel down, and hit the same piece of wood with a hammer for 30 seconds while the house magically builds itself


You watch TV

Real Life - You sit and watch for a few hours

Films - Just as you start watching, a news bulletin comes on telling you of a hostage situation/earth quake/nuclear war/aliens invading

Games - There's sound, but the TV has the same static picture on, and you can't change the channel


You eat some mushrooms

Real Life - You go on a bad trip, hallucinate and possibly even die

Films - You smile and act like you're high

Games - You grow twice as big and can smash blocks


You fall off your skateboard

Real Life - You feel a lot of pain

Films - You get up, and proceed to win the Skateboarding World Championship because it was your uncle's last wish

Games - You scrape your knees all over the concrete, make a grunting noise, lose a lot of blood, then get up and your board magically appears back on your feet


You open a door

Real Life - You... um... open it

Films - You kick it down

Games - You open it while holding a gun with both hands (maybe you're telepathic)


You shoot a guy with a shotgun

Real Life - He dies

Films - He flies back on a wire and lands in some crates

Games - His arms and legs fall off, and his intestines spill out onto the floor


You want to carry something

Real Life - You struggle to carry it if it's heavy

Films - It's OK, you're probably a weight lifter

Games - You're already carrying two pistols, a shotgun, a heavy machine gun, thirty grenades, a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher, while still being able to run full speed. A little more won't hurt.


You pick a random direction and just walk

Real Life - More than likely you'll get lost

Films - You just happen to stumble upon an enemy base/drug factory/POW camp

Games - You only get so far before you walk into an invisible wall where the map ends


You've been stabbed/shot

Real Life - You phone for an ambulance

Films - Someone stitches you up

Games - Not being affected by it at all, you can, if you want, find a health pack/canteen of water/food/pain killers/magic glowing thing - and you'll be fully healed and ready to start killing people again


You hit a crate

Real Life - You leave a mark

Films - You don't - you hit the bad guys

Games - It smashes open, all the wooden pieces disappear and there's conveniently some ammo inside


You climb up or down a ladder

Real Life - You carefully go up or down

Films - You slide down

Games - You manage to climb up or down, without using your legs, and while holding a gun with both hands


You're in a race

Real Life - You compete

Films - You defeat your evil rival and win

Games - You drive over a flashy thing which gives your car special powers


Zombies appear

Real Life - Woah... Um, I guess we all panic

Films - Mass panic, except for some people who escape to a house, a shopping centre or a nuclear silo

Games - They organise a big race where you run over the zombies in your car *cough* Carmageddon *cough*


You jump out of a building

Real Life - You don't survive

Films - It's OK, you probably have a parachute or something

Games - You lose 50 health, somehow don't break your legs, and keep going


Your house is haunted

Real Life - You run out scared

Films - You call a group of scientists who carry proton packs

Games - You shoot them with guns... and they die


You've run out of ammo

Real Life - Try and find some more

Films - You punch people until you get some of theirs

Games - It's OK, you just happen to have a knife/crowbar/sword incase of emergencies


You're a taxi driver

Real Life - It's your job, you make some money

Films - Someone jumps in and says "Follow that car!"

Games - You have to drive people around town, the more exciting ride, the more money you get. You can also make your car jump


You want to build an army

Real Life - You get arrested for having your own personal army

Films - You train them up in two minutes

Games - You build a barracks, and men magically appear from inside, and they only cost $100 each, and you don't need to pay them wages


You need to solve a mystery

Real Life - If it's important, you phone the police

Films - The world's most famous detective shows up

Games - You walk around asking EVERYONE questions, while stealing a lot of items and putting them together to solve puzzles


You need to get somewhere in the jungle

Real Life - You try and find a trail to follow

Films - You take out your sword like knife and make a trail

Games - There are vines, ledges, platforms for you to use, which take you exactly where you want to go


You want to manage a football team

Real Life - You get a job and have a hard time keeping them afloat

Films - You're brought in to turn the team around, and eventually win the cup

Games - You pick any team you want, never talk to the players, don't get to watch the matches, and spend your time reading news about transfers


Russia invades America

Real Life - WW3 breaks out

Films - Without using nukes, America wins

Games - America uses dolphins in its army, the Russians have telepathic soldiers (maybe so they can open doors without using their hands)


You find another gun

Real Life - You report it, again

Films - You pick it up and use two

Games - You take out the ammo by magic, because you don't WANT to use two guns for some reason


Now, ask yourself, are games THAT realistic! Game creators, take note!

First of all, how doy uo know what happens when Aliens attack earth? I'm sure they haven't attacked yet...or has someone not told me something?

You are right though, know matter how good the games graphics are or how bad the acting on the characters or their voices are games will never be quite 'as' realistic as films.

For a start, films are actually taken from a camara and the acting is so superb in some cases that you can feel you are actually watching a real life event happening and unfolding.

Unfortunatly, gaming at the moment does not have the same power as a film does to create a realistic world and enviroment. I think it is a long time yet until games become ultra realistic, a VERY long time...

The people that make your games just don't have the tools. Think back to the days of the N64 and how the characters would just jig a bit when they move - making the characters move realisticly would take a long time and so your games would just take so long to get out on the shelves.

But as time goes on all of this will change, just think back a few years and look how far gaming's come...

Anyway, who wants there games to be tottaly realistic anyway? Thats why we are playing games right - to escape the outside world and play in one that we wouldn't usually have. That's what games bring us so why not enjoy it?

In my view, Nintendo seem to be doing an excellent job. They don't go and make every game as realistic as possible. Take a fighting game for example - Super Smash Brothers, how fun is that game! You can go around whacking people over the head with a mallet and use fantasy like moves to defeat your oponent. Now if we take a fighting game from another genre - Tekken, compare that to Super Smash Brothers. More realistic yes, but is it just as much fun?

And thats the sad thing about gaming these days, as the new age consoles get realeased it seems every games developer is being forced to make their games realistic to sell. It really is quite sad that we all want realistic games and now fantasy games either look too kiddy or geeky just because of their graphics or original gameplay.

Here's hoping Nintendo don't go down that road. With their approach on the new Zelda it seems they are going the right way.

Nice one Mojo! :D
I'm sure you haven't missed anything out there, and I bet many people will have a good long, hard think about it all after reading this.

People say films (especially action films) are unrealistic, but I say there's a worse culprit - computer games

Just look at the following instances, and you'll see that films are closer to real life than you think, and games are about as realistic as that skinny kid from Road Trip winning a World's Strongest Man competition



Aliens attack Earth -

Real Life - They destroy the earth, wiping out the world as we know it

Films - They ALMOST destroy the earth, but after an hour and a half the Americans defeat them

Games - They send one man, with a big gun, to sort them out


Terrorists take over a building -

Real Life - Negotiators come in, and peacefully talk the terrorists down

Films - They send "the best" - someone who's the best at whatever it is he does. Usually, he's already in the building, otherwise he goes in with a team of men. All his men are killed, and he takes out the terrorists, while making wise cracks

Games - They send one man in through the roof, who kills everyone, probably even some hostages.


You're shot in the head

Real Life - You die

Films - You die

Games - You find a health pack, and a few bandages later, you're back to full health


You need to get somewhere in a building

Real Life - You find a map, and work your way there

Films - You crawl into the air vents

Games - You walk into the air vents, which just happen to lead exactly where you want to go


An enemy soldier looks right at you

Real Life - He shoots you

Films - He shoots, misses, and you shoot him

Games - He just looks right through you, due to bad AI


You punch someone

Real Life - They get up, and either run away or beat the heck out of you

Films - They fall down unconscious

Games - They die, and their body dissolves into the ground


You're set on fire

Real Life - You're put out by passers by, or you stop, drop and roll

Films - You run around for half an hour, screaming, before you drop dead

Games - The fire mysteriously goes out after a while, and you're OK apart from losing a little health


You drink some water

Real Life - It quenches your thirst

Films - It quenches your thirst

Games - It puts your health back up to 100


You find a gun

Real Life - You report it to the police

Films - You already have one

Games - You walk over it, it disappears and the ammo inside suddenly goes into the gun you're already holding


You're in a martial arts tournament

Real Life - You compete in some matches

Films - You win every match, while uncovering a drugs operation

Games - You throw fireballs out of your fingers and your muscles are huge


You go up to a doctor, requiring medical attention

Real Life - He takes you into hospital, or performs first aid

Films - He tells you it's "just a flesh wound" and patches you up

Games - He injects you, and your health goes back up


You shoot a rocket launcher at a wall

Real Life - You get blown back, you leave a hole in the wall. You get arrested

Films - You blow a hole in the wall, leading to somewhere you need to be

Games - You leave a scorch mark on the wall


You jump

Real Life - You get a certain height/distance, and land again

Films - You leap over a huge gap

Games - You make a grunting noise. The same grunting noise. Every time you jump


You look down

Real Life - You see your shoes

Films - You see where you would be wearing shoes, if you weren't in Die Hard

Games - You see a black circle which is meant to be your shadow


You build a house

Real Life - You spend weeks/months laying the foundation, bricks etc etc

Films - You start work, then the film cuts to you after you've finished building it

Games - You kneel down, and hit the same piece of wood with a hammer for 30 seconds while the house magically builds itself


You watch TV

Real Life - You sit and watch for a few hours

Films - Just as you start watching, a news bulletin comes on telling you of a hostage situation/earth quake/nuclear war/aliens invading

Games - There's sound, but the TV has the same static picture on, and you can't change the channel


You eat some mushrooms

Real Life - You go on a bad trip, hallucinate and possibly even die

Films - You smile and act like you're high

Games - You grow twice as big and can smash blocks


You fall off your skateboard

Real Life - You feel a lot of pain

Films - You get up, and proceed to win the Skateboarding World Championship because it was your uncle's last wish

Games - You scrape your knees all over the concrete, make a grunting noise, lose a lot of blood, then get up and your board magically appears back on your feet


You open a door

Real Life - You... um... open it

Films - You kick it down

Games - You open it while holding a gun with both hands (maybe you're telepathic)


You shoot a guy with a shotgun

Real Life - He dies

Films - He flies back on a wire and lands in some crates

Games - His arms and legs fall off, and his intestines spill out onto the floor


You want to carry something

Real Life - You struggle to carry it if it's heavy

Films - It's OK, you're probably a weight lifter

Games - You're already carrying two pistols, a shotgun, a heavy machine gun, thirty grenades, a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher, while still being able to run full speed. A little more won't hurt.


You pick a random direction and just walk

Real Life - More than likely you'll get lost

Films - You just happen to stumble upon an enemy base/drug factory/POW camp

Games - You only get so far before you walk into an invisible wall where the map ends


You've been stabbed/shot

Real Life - You phone for an ambulance

Films - Someone stitches you up

Games - Not being affected by it at all, you can, if you want, find a health pack/canteen of water/food/pain killers/magic glowing thing - and you'll be fully healed and ready to start killing people again


You hit a crate

Real Life - You leave a mark

Films - You don't - you hit the bad guys

Games - It smashes open, all the wooden pieces disappear and there's conveniently some ammo inside


You climb up or down a ladder

Real Life - You carefully go up or down

Films - You slide down

Games - You manage to climb up or down, without using your legs, and while holding a gun with both hands


You're in a race

Real Life - You compete

Films - You defeat your evil rival and win

Games - You drive over a flashy thing which gives your car special powers


Zombies appear

Real Life - Woah... Um, I guess we all panic

Films - Mass panic, except for some people who escape to a house, a shopping centre or a nuclear silo

Games - They organise a big race where you run over the zombies in your car *cough* Carmageddon *cough*


You jump out of a building

Real Life - You don't survive

Films - It's OK, you probably have a parachute or something

Games - You lose 50 health, somehow don't break your legs, and keep going


Your house is haunted

Real Life - You run out scared

Films - You call a group of scientists who carry proton packs

Games - You shoot them with guns... and they die


You've run out of ammo

Real Life - Try and find some more

Films - You punch people until you get some of theirs

Games - It's OK, you just happen to have a knife/crowbar/sword incase of emergencies


You're a taxi driver

Real Life - It's your job, you make some money

Films - Someone jumps in and says "Follow that car!"

Games - You have to drive people around town, the more exciting ride, the more money you get. You can also make your car jump


You want to build an army

Real Life - You get arrested for having your own personal army

Films - You train them up in two minutes

Games - You build a barracks, and men magically appear from inside, and they only cost $100 each, and you don't need to pay them wages


You need to solve a mystery

Real Life - If it's important, you phone the police

Films - The world's most famous detective shows up

Games - You walk around asking EVERYONE questions, while stealing a lot of items and putting them together to solve puzzles


You need to get somewhere in the jungle

Real Life - You try and find a trail to follow

Films - You take out your sword like knife and make a trail

Games - There are vines, ledges, platforms for you to use, which take you exactly where you want to go


You want to manage a football team

Real Life - You get a job and have a hard time keeping them afloat

Films - You're brought in to turn the team around, and eventually win the cup

Games - You pick any team you want, never talk to the players, don't get to watch the matches, and spend your time reading news about transfers


Russia invades America

Real Life - WW3 breaks out

Films - Without using nukes, America wins

Games - America uses dolphins in its army, the Russians have telepathic soldiers (maybe so they can open doors without using their hands)


You find another gun

Real Life - You report it, again

Films - You pick it up and use two

Games - You take out the ammo by magic, because you don't WANT to use two guns for some reason


Now, ask yourself, are games THAT realistic! Game creators, take note!