https://phenixxgaming.com/2020/09/15/video-games-fun-unrealistic/ Reviews, News, and Editorials from the ashes of a chaotic industry Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://phenixxgaming.com/2020/09/15/video-games-fun-unrealistic/#comment-42646 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:33:21 +0000 http://phenixxgaming.com/?p=17642#comment-42646 You hit the nail on the head. Video games, in the majority of circumstances are about fun and there are many things in reality that are the opposite of fun. Hell, even in games with other major emotional goals, such as horror games, there’s still something to the idea that unrealistic elements are there to heighten the horror. Actual, across the board realism is often times counter productive to the core reasons we play games and in the majority of cases, should be used or discarded based on the core engagement of said game. Indeed, I get the sense that a lot of the cries of realism aren’t really about actually being true to life. Instead they’re a marketing gimmick, trying to lure people in with the false notion that realism=quality. Hence why the Witcher games conveniently ignore the giant hell beasts and scantily clad soul suckers in their claims that they’ve made a highly realistic game.

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