The illogical aspects of video games

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If anyone has ever played any of the zelda games. Did you ever wonder how the heck he stores all those items. I mean one of them was usually a giant hammer. Where does it actually go? I can imagine he has some bottomless magic backpack that is actually invisible or something and when he pulls something out it just magically appears.

On another note, I always cracked up in zelda 2 when you enter that one house and some dude in purple says "I am error" you are error what is this some kind of joke. I think that was the one that turns into a bat but maybe that was a different house. Cannot quite remember. Or the infamous "spell" which was only good for making that one building appear in that one town. I will get into the obtuse aspect of older games later I guess.

Or the classic Castlevania games where if you whipped the wall a pot roast comes out. What?! Do you seriously want me to eat that! How long has this been here? Just the concept of whipping a wall and breaking it defies logic.

Or in Final Fantasy 10 where they play some weird form of soccer in water! huh?! They are literally moving in water likes its air and throwing balls around. Have you ever tried to do this in actual water? It doesn't work. Yes I think square expects you to check reality at the door.

Hmm or in Doom you had about 10 different weapons. again where does he store all these.

Yeah if you have seen The Angry Video Game Nerd (awesome) or The Spoony Experiment you would already know about questioning the illogical aspect of games but I still thought it was funny talking about it for those who have not seen these awesome shows. Maybe there are more that I cannot think of. There are definitely more.

Just to add to this thread

1. Shooting a gas tank doesn't cause it to explode like in grand theft auto.

2. Bullets wounds don't heal over time if you get behind cover like in Call of Duty and most newer FPSs.

I will admit that newer games have improved this by limiting the number of weapons you carry to two, thats some what realistic.

I got one, how about the fact that the Resident Evil games show a lot of female characters who can fight zombies and do crazy flips and kicks while wearing a dress and high heels? Or the fact that some of them deliberately choose to dress this way while going on dangerous missions?

Video games are not supposed to be based on logic, have logical explanations, or confirm to the laws of logic.
what that means is... video games are not meant to be realistic or logical. they are meant to be fun and exciting, which is something many developers and gamers alike have forgotten about.

I whole reason I play video games, is so I can say, Forget Logic, I don't need it.

^ Yeah you are absolutely right, that's the reason I enjoy video games (and movies). They help me to escape from reality (which sucks).

But it still irritates me to see somthing unrealistic or unexplained in a videogame part of the fun of a environment in a videogame is that it is based on some logic and has rules, so that the player could think that it makes sense in that videogames universe how link stores all of those items isnt explained or shown so it makes the player feel it is a limitation in gaming that excuses its ilogic by saying that it is just a video game not a art or experience there needs to be some rules to make somthing fun if anything could happen for no reason or explaination in a film or book it would be considered by many as a mess

My favorite one is someone designing the Resident Evil mansion in such a way that if he has to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, he's got a lot of statue rearranging and puzzles to solve first...

How about in some fantasy games (MMORPGs mostly) where the armor you equip is visible on your character and that somehow some of the same armor equipped on a female avatar shows way more skin than it does on a male avatar? And I'm talking about some of the best equipment in some of these games too. Or the best female-exclusive armor will result in your character looking like a stripper or something. And it might still somehow have the best defense bonus in the whole game.

or in re4 when you (say) get decapitated or knocked on your back by some big enemy and your head just happens to roll/land under ashley's skirt. first thing she does is close it.

especially the former - priorities?



huh. i just say to myself "nintendo logic" and move on.

i like how skyward sword limited this with the customizeable "adventure pouch" that could hold 8 items at best. i like the element of prioritization but i found myself thinking that were item-checks or stores on the surface, so i wouldn't find myself going up there all the time if i needed to switch something out or a potion refill.

Skyrim - swimmind in cold water with ice around while wearing your plate armor and having thousand of arrows in the backpack. Perfect way to die quick in reality.

GTA series:

- cops usually kill many people while chase you.

- you can walk around with rocket launcher and it's okay but if cop car hit yours - they find you guilty and try to arrest

- after being arrested for mass murder you leave prison next day

- if you are "killed", after you appear next day near hospital you have all your weapons. how nice that nurces didn't informed police about some guy with the arsenal of pistol, smg, assault rifle and dozens of grenades, and kept weapons instead.

I agree completely. I only care about having fun with it.

may be a necro thread but...what a perfect opportunity for this:

http://lpix.org/698909/BWPSS20120625033.jpeg

well said