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| I'm tired of 'realistic' physics in video games. by Jerry Whorebach 06/17/2012, 10:14pm PDT | ||||
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| When I enter a room in real life, I don't usually go around bumping into things and sending them flying. In fact, I rarely knock anything over at all! But this happens to me in video games all the time. Trying to navigate someone's house in a game with realistic physics makes me feel like my character is stuck in one of those transparent hamster balls. I'd honestly find it less immersion-killing if objects were simply anchored to the environment until I tried to interact with them directly. And don't even get me started on what happens to people after they die. Human bodies that lose consciousness tend to collapse straight down like a 150 pound punching bag that just had its tether cut; they don't go cartwheeling off until they get stuck hanging halfway out of the level geometry, no matter how hard you hit them. I'm sure there's someone out there who loves these crazy moon physics, but to me they just make the gameworld feel really fake and empty, like I'm the first invisible magnetic cylinder to pass through a particular environment since it was created. (They also make it unnecessarily difficult to pick up all my PHAT LEWT after a battle.) | ||||
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I'm tired of 'realistic' physics in video games. by 06/17/2012, 10:14pm PDT  I'll take that over realistic post-explosion "ringing ears" squealing any day. NT by 06/18/2012, 5:49am PDT Does that mean we're through too? NT by 06/18/2012, 11:31am PDT is that a result of realism, or the opposite? NT by 06/18/2012, 2:37pm PDT scare crowtes NT by 06/18/2012, 2:46pm PDT That effect crossed a line when it started showing up in racing games. by 06/18/2012, 6:20pm PDT This game was actually pretty innovative. Rare Jerry L. by 11/25/2023, 7:44am PST What are your thoughts on giants golf swinging you into space? by 06/18/2012, 3:29pm PDT Re: I'm tired of 'realistic' physics in video games. by 06/19/2012, 10:58am PDT Skyrim by 06/19/2012, 3:50pm PDT And yet, counter argument inside by 06/19/2012, 12:27pm PDT |
