7 Times Games Were More Realistic Than We Were Expecting

We all want our videogames to be realistic, but there are certain suspensions of reality that we take for granted. Sometimes though, games hit us with a dose of reality when we least expect it, leaving us hopelessly ill-prepared to deal with the consequences. Here are seven times we had to deal with a game being more realistic than we expected. Enjoy!
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[@frodobaggins7710]

MGS 3 also has a section where Snake has to explore a dark cave. At first it's completely pitch black and impossible to see anything, but after a while, Snake's eyes adjust to the darkness and he's able to see a bit more clearly, even without the night vision goggles

[@insaincaldo]

One of the few things about Skyrim's vanilla lighting that impressed me. Nice attention that sudden light shifts are actually blinding and turning away from light takes some adjusting. Sure, damn has that been modded to fix it, sooO much, but still that detail work wasn't broken or purely made.

[@jackychang9148]

In the fight with The Pain, the bees/hornets may stop attacking you when you change your outfit to white. This is a reference to beekeepers.

[@Dark_Mishra]

A lot of games have your eyes adjust to light now though, but I bet MGS3 was probably one of the first games to do that since those games get so detailed with tons of mechanics.

[@RayLumos]

And here I was, watching the bit about the portal gun thinking, " those are a lot of science words for Mike and why does it sound so much like Jane?" nicely done 😅.

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

Right?? I was thinking “wow this is something that sounds like Jane should be saying!”

[@RayLumos]

@@terra_the_nightingale135 I think we can also all agree that if Jane would talk the same way about Cars, well, we all knew Mike wrote that one. ☺️

[@thatterenceguy95]

Jane was just speaking through Mike...probably by means of Eldritch magic...or science 🤔

[@AdamusPrime24]

@@RayLumos Well Jane's been learning more about F1...But I'm sure it's *nothing to worry about... *all part of her plan for universal domination; to know all the things

[@insaincaldo]

@@thatterenceguy95 Or eldritch science.

[@champthesneaky5714]

Talking about fire physics: "Never had to put up with this in Dungeons and Dragons." You can tell Mike wasn't there when Merilwen started a grease fire in an attic 😂

[@mimicmey]

Ironic, when you consider that Mike is literally a Firebreathing Dragon (well, Dragonborn, but still).

[@Rognik]

Pray no one casts Fireball in a narrow corridor around him.

[@insaincaldo]

I once argued that a psionic's finger of fire (or what's a thing, been a while) if concentrated would be able to burn, well most things flammable. When this became too much of a convenience for the DM, who had initially let me. He just started chance diceing on how much out of hand things got. So things started escalating, badly.

[@Erathiatw]

Mike also apparently wasn't there when a boathouse was burned down by *checks notes* Mike

[@tommyscott8511]

To be fair to Merilwen, she didn't start the fire. She actually tried to put it out. With...water. A grease fire. So although she didn't start it, she did make it go absolutely out of control.

[@ChibiRandom13]

I actually love that Breath of the Wild had you get hit by lightning. made me feel more grounded (heh) in the world and also gave you a reason to use more wooden/ancient weapons and to break those weapons

[@azuredragoon2054]

"I have made a terrible, terrible mistake (by using the RPG)." Who is this and what have you done with Mike?

[@Tyr_Magnus]

hey, he never said he won't do it again. :P side note: man I miss Hitman "3 Ways to Play" videos.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@Tyr_Magnus The problem is that he admitted it was a mistake. The real Mike would never consider using explosives as a mistake no matter how badly it went.

[@cmdrblaze6487]

@@Tyr_Magnus I haven't looked in to it at all but i heard that hitman 3 is coming, so we may just see more hitman videos yet

[@griffingamer8624]

Playing Far Cry 2 can change a man. It separates the boys from the bois.

[@medafan53]

If he'd said 'Huge' instead of 'Terrible Terrible' , I' would've assumed GOB

[@mulrich]

In "Far Cry 2", the rocket doesn't even have to explode to set things on fire. The backblast from firing the damn thing will do that, too.

[@mattgreen7692]

"Back blast area clear!?" "No, corporal, you're gonna set the ****ing woods on fire!"

[@Zinjoegre]

In New Vegas I was doing a Mr. House playthrough and got to the point where I had to activate the robots in the bunker near Caesars Legion. I talked to Caesar who gives you a quest to enter that bunker but destroy the robots instead. I went down, activated the robots, left the bunker and wanted to taunt Caesar but he congratulated me as he assumed I destroyed the robots since he heard rumbling coming from the bunker. I got full exp rewards for destroying them.

[@zenriboakwon2921]

"Because they're so realistic" is how i feel about horse IRL too, Andy

[@rosesweetcharlotte]

Horses creep me out. It's their long creepy faces.

[@silverbanshee7519]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that the horses also feature real time crapping.

[@badreedinedjellali1328]

yeah assassin creed oddedsy was so realistic when you stab an enemy with a hidden blade he don't die

[@deathbykonami5487]

@@badreedinedjellali1328 they still die, you just have to upgrade it to increase its effectiveness

[@levisamom5069]

The most realistic horse control I have ever seen in a game is in shadow of the colossus and it was pretty ingenious

[@ToonedMinecraft]

What I wasn't expecting in Breath of the Wild was that when in Death Mountain, the place where just existing makes you catch fire, nocking a bomb arrow on your bow makes it explode instantly. In your face. It hurts.

[@imavideolover98]

I’ve done that multiple times in a row not realizing what was happening

[@ElectricBlaze164]

@@imavideolover98 Same lol

[@michaelbaker3868]

I also love that you can just cook food by throwing it on the ground lmao

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Ah realism

[@SamJ.J.]

And yet keeping in in your magical storage is fine

[@quincebielka8843]

Mike talking about spreading fires: never had to put up with this in dungeons and dragons. He has forgotten the grease fire Ellen tried to put out with water.

[@thoughtengine]

"Now listen you, we're running out of pubs!" One of my players to a fireball-happy wizard...

[@r.j.penfold]

Oops...? Lol, D&D is wild.

[@dragonjaw95]

In case you forgot, he's not in that adventure

[@quincebielka8843]

Dragon JAW you are right, a fire disaster that was caused when neither egbert nor dob was around

[@bibbobella]

@@thoughtengine Burning down pubs seems to be most PC's favorit thing to do..other than ofcourse killing anything and everything around them. Had 2 players that got into a fight in a VERY flamable house and in less than 2 rounds the fire had spread and it became a question of surviving the fire rather than the bandit leader they had pissed off...Did kill the leader as well by blocking the door when they got out so I guess they got best of both worlds.

[@peterzerfass4609]

Captain Obvious has enterd the game "Food poisoning is caused by eating poisonous food"

[@donnykitsune6289]

Poisonous Dart Frogs are, who would have guessed?? Poisonous. Not to quote an old meme, but _Yes. The floor here is made of floor._

[@paulgibbon5991]

"People die if they are killed."

[@universalronin7212]

Kingdom Come Deliverance, when you got absolutely pasted by the first knight you tried to heroically swing a sword at instead of running away in the introduction chapter.

[@catrinmelldansen]

Jane wrote the Portal 2 segment, but Mike managed to shave it from the 3 hours it originally was!

[@SolaScientia]

I loved the Portal 2 one and I'm delighted it's on this list. I wasn't really thinking on it at the time until it came up on the list.

[@haroldmerewether1224]

San Andreas, eating twenty cluckin' bell meals at once.

[@Hellwyck]

At once? Can't be done. Can only be eat 20 meals one after the other.

[@insaincaldo]

San Andreas, damn how did I get fat.. Oh, right.

[@Gengisjesus]

Red dead redemption 2 has realistic storage capacity Skyrim: Laughs in 200 cheese wheels

[@MrDalisclock]

Arthur can still carry a ridiculous amount of stuff in his satchel, even of you don't upgrade it.

[@skyford3663]

@Vienna hostile much

[@michaelkores6860]

You mean realistic like being able to carry 99 pieces of game meat, 99 pieces of bird meat, 99 pieces of beef, 99 pieces of pork, 99 pieces of stringy meat, a couple of hundred bottles of potions, snake oil, medicine, 99 bottles of gin, 99 bottles of brandy, 99 bottles of rum, 99 bottles of bourbon, 30 gold bars and hundreds of rounds of ammunition next to four guns, a camera, a fishing rod, a lantern and a fishing rod on your person?

[@-DarthLesbian420-]

@@michaelkores6860 I like how fishing rod is in there twice

[@michaelkores6860]

@@-DarthLesbian420- my bad. Maybe I had a few Guarma rum too many. Nevertheless we can agree on the fact that Arthur's satchel can hold more than a typical station wagon.

[@GriffinWolf]

"I never had to put up with this in Dungeons and Dragons..." Erm, Mike, that's because your character is fireproof. It's your companions who are usually screaming after you blow something up.

[@br1ghtf4ll80]

so true, but isn't Prudence fireproof as well?

[@GriffinWolf]

@@br1ghtf4ll80 Technically, they're both fire resistant, taking only half damage to fire attacks. However, the actual fireproof/fire resistance is tracked very loosely throughout.

[@br1ghtf4ll80]

@@GriffinWolf y'know, i keep getting -proof and -resistant mixed up. I barely remember a time when fire damage on any of the party members was inflicted.

[@Soroboruo]

So he's making an accurate statement... HE never had to put up with it

[@JevinJohnson-CloudShift]

8:57 "The portal is actually a time machine as well" since the portal doesn't open until after you see the moon portal land, that means it doesn't violate time. If it was instant, then you would start getting sucked into the portal after only 1.24 seconds. My theory is that the portals connecting is at the speed of light, and it then breaks the fabric of space. It's the same as a warp drive "molding" space to travel faster than light, although the object inside the "mold" is traveling much slower.

[@ButMadNNW626]

All that pedantry about when the portal opens vs when we see it open and you still mixed up “theory” and “hypothesis”. ;-)

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yeah it’s weird how it hits the moon and then waits for you to see it for it to suck you in XD

[@JevinJohnson-CloudShift]

@@DeathnoteBB I think that makes sence though, as the "hole" would propagate at the speed of light as well. But im no theoretical physicist

[@imavideolover98]

@@ButMadNNW626 I’m a science major (astrogeology to be specific) and I catch myself doing that a lot

[@paulbennett2284]

Perhaps the portals are quantum-entangled?

[@Scatteredpast]

"Can you tell Jane wrote this?" I think the only thing that would've made that cuter would be if we had Jane excitedly gushing about it the whole time

[@michaelcherokee8906]

I would happily sit through Jane talking about almost anything, same as with GeminiTay and Emma Watson.

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

You guys give off this weird but amazing “homely” feel. Like these videos put me in a giddy welcoming mood

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

Yuu Kajuji the other definition is comfortable mate...

[@michaelcherokee8906]

I think you mean "homey", "homely" means plain bordering on ugly.

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

@@michaelcherokee8906 no, I mean homely! The other definition means comfortable.

[@michaelcherokee8906]

@@terra_the_nightingale135 Youre freakin British arent you?

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

@@michaelcherokee8906 I’m not actually. However I did grow up with a lot of British media and books

[@eraoftheday5942]

"Mostly due to the similarly limited number of hands you possess." Idk why but this line got me good. I have tears in my eyes from laughing 😂

[@phrophetsamgames]

“no no no no no aw shit” Kassandra is adorable

[@ytunnuyt]

"Can you tell Jane wrote all of this?" - I was just gonna write that Jane must have written the Portal entry

[@petevillegas2936]

Mike's long and very accurate description of the physics/ astrophysics behind the "Portal 2" example was amazing......... His "can you tell Jane wrote this" comment however was pure genius! Funny enough, halfway through the explanation I said to myself (and out loud in real life) "I feel like Jane wrote this". Absolutely beautiful. I really needed that laugh. LOL. All of you are truly legendary............. However, Jane is a " Legendary genius"! Hit the books gentleman you have some catching up to do. LOL. 😋

[@cthulhufhtagn2483]

"According to the laws of video game physics, gravity may be your enemy, but water is your friend." Me: Thinks of Splatoon

[@usbiv223]

“Teleporting Stone Motorcycle” is the name of my new band! They’re an STP cover band, mostly. A little Motörhead, plus their original song, “Fuel Me.”

[@stephaniedickerson472]

"I cast quit game" 😂😂

[@nexthewargamer1024]

(rolls a 1)

[@Dark_Mishra]

Then he selects ‘Hozon sezu ni shūryō’ to quit without saving after that long arduous Lich battle...

[@Jedi_Spartan]

0:57 And it was changed further when Arthur Morgan decided to strap a piece of Dynamite to the tip of his arrows and started firing them at Legendary Animals across RDR2. On the topic of RDR2, I've just finished Chapter 5. 14:44 Or John-117.

[@SpaceNerd117]

Or Altair.

[@biohazard724]

You can't degrade legendary pelts and the Tatanka buffalo can tank headshots from explosive rounds. So yes, I fired my "Cherokee RPG" at it.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@biohazard724 and just this morning I used all my incendiary rounds on the Legendary Bull Gator in Chapter 6.

[@lnt305]

Uhm maybe the Witcher because Triss and Yennefer‘s reaction to you confessing your love to both of them is more realistic than in most games?

[@HovektheArtist]

The most realistic thing I've run accross in a game is how karaoke makes majima into a rollerblading boyband member, I mean that does happen to everyone when they karaoke.....right

[@thecommonman9524]

I haven't gone to a karaoke night, but if that doesn't happen I will be very angry.

[@sedovt]

It does. When I sang Chop Suey with the boys, the whole room turned into a stage and we were phasing through each other's bodies.

[@thecommonman9524]

@@sedovt good

[@xstarsystemsx]

This is exactly why I don't do karaoke. The risk of suddenly turning into a member of Hikaru Genji is just way too high.

[@HovektheArtist]

@@sedovt I'm glad it's not just me, I mean I got blinded last time I sang pink Floyd with all the lasers

[@AdamusPrime24]

9:16 "Can you tell Jane wrote this..." Well Mike, I wasn't going to question your dedication to research and thirst for knowledge, but know you mention it...! XD

[@jennifervalentine8955]

Giving a Like for the Carpenter Brut T-shirt.

[@AmmoSetsFire]

seriously, going through these comments like no one else is seeing the carpenter brut t-shirt?

[@Goldenkitten1]

That this comment is this far down is a bloody tragedy.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Time to kill the turbo and put some blood in the machine!

[@pablojosediablo]

Furi introduced me to him. And The Toxic Avenger, christ that Make it Right ost hits so hard

[@LordTrayus]

That first one with AC Odyssey really hit home for me. I've lost track of the number of times I tried to shoot a fire arrow from inside a bush only to end up lighting myself on fire.

[@brookeboyd7095]

I just recently started playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and I have set Kassandra on fire so many times by pulling out a torch and setting boxes of war supplies on fire along with the tent it was sitting under. I feel so bad every time it happens. :O

[@FallenBenevolence]

I set the entire field on fire trying to stealth assassinate that snake dude and his snakes.

[@singmeastory6634]

Also accidentally destroying (tripping or hitting with an attack) the vases that have the flameable stuff in them. Although, to be fair the AI does that all on their own sometimes as well.

[@sv5334]

Mike:‘Can you tell if Jane wrote this’ Everyone else ‘yes’

[@sebastianalhares]

*Andy

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

I lost it when Mike said you can tell Jane wrote this 🤣. Too bad she went on holiday and couldn't do this entry herself

[@verifiednerd7051]

Please green screen yourselves onto the cultural icon known as “the green couch”

[@Zoso14892]

I wondered about them doing this for a while. Then I figured they probably thought it was best to show they were still taking things seriously and working from home. There's enough idiots here that they probably want to show a good example. Finally I settled on they either didn't think of it or it was too much work heh.

[@dominicmanester8125]

From that height, the surface tension of the water would feel like hitting concrete... with a similar and messy result. You'd be splattered into at least several pieces or if you were high enough, you'd likely resemble a red mist.

[@bottleofwater5413]

'Food poisoning is caused by eating poisonous food." - Ya don't say...

[@deathbykonami5487]

Honorable mention to the drenched status ailment in Dragon's Dogma; go for a swim in brine free waters and your clothes get drenched, meaning lightning and ice damage is doubled and you're more susceptible to the frozen ailment. In real world terms, wet clothes or just being soaking wet in general causes your party to catch hypothermia and frostbite.

[@barrybumblecrumpets8977]

Just when I thought I couldn't love Portal 2 more.

[@insaincaldo]

They did allot of good homework for that scenes science, though Chell would probably have had her face blown off by the rush of air.

[@jonneexplorer]

Chris East it’s a pressure difference of one atmosphere. That’s not remotely enough to do that.

[@insaincaldo]

@@jonneexplorer Oh yeah, you are right. Forgot mach 1,2 wind friction a bit below half of worrying about death from that. Though probably not good for your skin and muscles.

[@PerovNigma]

Another realism point for _Portal 2_ is that it has an explanation for how Chell can survive so many bullets without dying immediately. In a video that was either in-game or released in promotion (can't remember which), we find out that turrets are loaded up with bullets like the paintballs in a paintball gun. The bullets are fired by a spring-loaded piston system, rather than a miniature explosion, and their shells are left on to achieve "65% more bullet per bullet." This means that their gunfire is woefully inefficient and would at worst merely bruise Chell. Also, they have an "empathy generator" right next to an "empathy suppressor".

[@terra_the_nightingale135]

Ahh I love how you can land into a puddle in Skyrim and live because water. Never had to take the stairs down from Dragonsreach

[@johncooke4855]

Andy's comments are the best, "And that person's name was Jerry Firearrows and the rest is history!!!" Still chuckling now!

[@ProtomanWasTaken]

What about battlefield one? The first mission on it made me go "dang, they're taking this seriously."

[@ReiAyanami8]

Here's another one from The Legend of Zelda series that can be found in Breath of the Wild. If you are in an extremely hot environment, or are on fire, both things that apply to Death Mountain for instance, and you try to use a bomb arrow, it will instantly detonate. This actually began in Skyward Sword where if you tried to use a bomb in an area that was too hot, or again if you were on fire, the same result would occur.

[@LivingGuy484]

AC: Odyssey is realistic in another way. Just like my ex-girlfriend, her character banged every man and woman available when the dialogue option came up

[@kookykoruc1827]

F

[@crhu319]

That. Was. Sparta!!

[@charliethemagpie523]

That time in Alpha Protocol when you wear high-tech stealth armour to a public meeting, and the other secret agent makes fun of you for not making better clothing choices :(

[@jacopobertolotti5025]

In Dragon's Dogma curative herbs, meat, eggs etc would spoil after a few days, becoming either useless, or even poisonous.

[@1Holbytla]

Metal Gear Solid 3: aka Nomémon - “Gotta Eat ‘em All!” Sometimes followed up by a round of good ol’ Pukémon - “Gotta Clean/Burn my Shoes!”

[@OhSkyeLanta]

"can you tell jane wrote this" we love you science nerd

[@filmandfirearms]

Another really cool thing about the Portal 2 moon sequence is that the time you spend in space is just long enough that Chell wouldn't suffer any long term health complications

[@dyspraxicpainter8567]

"never had to put up with this s*** in Dungeons and Dragons" Mike, you set fire to a boat house on your first time out

[@BangsarRia]

In the early 80s, computer prodigy Gustavo Fernandez wrote a Star Trek game for the Apple ][ called "Estrella" which featured 4-track audio and in-game multi-tasking. Inspired by the original Star Trek Season 2 episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", one of the things you could do was teleport Tribbles into an enemy Klingon warship. Some time later you would receive a notification that the Klingon ship had exploded.

[@narcspector]

First of all that Portal 2 Moon part BLEW my MIND!🤯 Second of all, HOLY CRAP I was JUST DOING that Grave Robber Mission in Red Dead 2 RIGHT BEFORE I watched THIS VIDEO, and I made the EXACT MISTAKE you were talking about! Forgot my repeaters, only brought my handguns! How crazy is that coincidence?! 😂🤣

[@luiscesarvianagomes970]

9:10 No, the portal gun creates a wormhole, bending space, you do not travel faster than light.

[@BrawnyFanta]

But you get front point a to point b faster than light can travel still

[@BogeyTheBear]

Indeed, it's folded space: Which means the variable being altered is distance-- not time.

[@luiscesarvianagomes970]

@@BrawnyFanta Not exactly.... example: Imagine light having to go to the moon and back, just to reach the other side of the room you are in... while you can just walk in a straight line there. You did not travel faster than light, you traveled a shorter distance. You get there BEFORE light, yes. But not faster than light.

[@vincevvn]

Yeah that whole part was a little poorly worded.

[@jonathandavies1716]

You still have the issue of potentially being able to arrive somewhere, look back, and see yourself starting the journey.

[@XOIIOXOIIO]

The portal on the moon was one of those rare moments in games that blew me away, I wasn't sure what to do for a little bit, then saw the moon and it clicked and the biggest fucking grin crossed my face and I just fucking loved that that was the solution. One of my favorite gaming moments ever, it was absolutely brilliant.

[@OptimusSledge]

Does the realism of MGS3 mean I can recharge my phone by eating glowing mushrooms? *returns ten minutes later, pale and vomit-stained* No. No it does not.

[@mattgreen7692]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Snake takes the M4 Carbine from Drebin, clears the chamber, and then *closes the dust cover* As someone who was currently in AIT and had just shortly before then graduated from Army Basic Training, the attention to detail to actual clear the weapon and close the dust cover when handed an M4 was astounding.

[@joenesvick7043]

So in Assassin's Creed Origins I set the snakes on fire. Wow, that sure takes care of them. Tried that in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, but I gues Kassandra was around too much flammable stuff lol 🤣

[@robertagu5533]

It was the wiseman that said things like... "always check your food stores, cycle regularly" And "Yee which holds fire in bush, burns much."

[@Debatra.]

Recently-out-of-Early-Access FPS Squad breaks the normal "video game realism" rules in several ways, but there are two major ways in particular. One is that communication with your team is not just encouraged, but outright mandatory if you want any hope of winning (as opposed to so many "run-n-gunners"). The other way is that reloading your weapon doesn't magically place unused bullets into fresh magazines. You have a certain number of mags, and that's it until you resupply. Reload too often, and you'll quickly find yourself loading in the half-empty one you thought you discarded a few minutes ago.

[@Dajodio]

wait a minute, they were talking about legend of zelda then at the end of the sentence talked about being betrayed in metal gear, seems like the edits are mixed up

[@zincwing4475]

Gear, as in equipment. So betrayed by metal weapons or armor. Although I am sure in RL a metal suit of armor would protect you from lightning. I made a post about that.

[@aptom203]

Gear (equipment) that is made of metal. It's a pun, and a reference to the previous segment.

[@aptom203]

@@zincwing4475 Only if you were wearing a gambeson or something underneath and you were dry.

[@zincwing4475]

@@aptom203 Well, it would still redirect most of the current away from your body. As long as the suit covers the whole body. Path of least resistance gets the most current. Even if you touch the metal, it would only provide a mild shock at most. Think about how birds can sit on a live high voltage uninsulated power cable. The cable is a far better conductor then the bird. Note that this doesn't mean you can grab a life wire safely. If you touch anything conductive attached to the ground or something similar, you would still get a very big shock.

[@aptom203]

@@zincwing4475 Birds can perch on those wires because they aren't any more of a rout to ground than the air around them. A person standing on the ground is a rout to ground and would conduct a lightning strike much more readily. Faraday suits and cages work by having a layer of insulation between the conducive suit and the person wearing it, and absolutely do not work if wet.

[@briarchild6090]

"Can you tell Jane wrote this?" Yes, and I love her for it.

[@djlamar2]

Seeing snake realistically throw up after you spin him around was oddly amusing XD

[@medicyukisuna]

It makes me sad how many people don't know that in AC Odyssey, you don't need to craft fire arrows - you can just pull out a torch, drop it on the ground and dip your regular, much more powerful arrow in it.

[@TheGholiday]

Ah the memories. The first time I lit the bush on fire in AC Odyssey I died because I was laughing so hard I failed to move and put the fire out 🤣🤣

[@ninjapants7688]

Metal Gear : Look at all this realism! Broken bones, bleeding, poisoning, removing bullets, leeches sucking your blood, hunger! Also Metal Gear : Look a guy that can shoot hornets!

[@illogicalbear6200]

Uhhhh, i thought snake eater was reference to Snake Chasing down the Cobra Unit? Mike: *shhhhhhhhhhhhh*

[@1Holbytla]

LOL 😂 I love how Snake presumably already KNOWS the name of the creature: “Poison Dart Frog” (seeing how it’s labelled in his menu screen) and yet he proceeds to nom it anyway! Also how it says it hasn’t been eaten (“yet”! like he’s already planning to) and doesn’t know how it tastes! “Fancy that! That Poison Dart Frog, thats poison is used to tip darts... with poison, WAS poisonous!”

[@Veladus]

And since this is a video on realism, as an animal nerd, I'd be remiss not to mention how he's finding animals from Africa, Asia, and South America all in one place. I've never played Metal Gear anything, but I heard him say it was in a Soviet state, so that frog seems to have somehow gotten lost and wound up on the other side of the *planet* from home before Snake caught it.

[@DeathGodRiku]

I clicked so fast I couldn't think of something funny to say

[@jaymzx2587]

Then shut up.

[@DeathGodRiku]

@@jaymzx2587 hmmmm nah

[@aramis9331]

Relatable XD

[@oldchanneltccasanova]

That's more realistic than I expected

[@uncleslam9022]

Same.

[@stanislavski13]

I'd argue that the Portal Gun isn't enabling faster than light travel, more creating a shorter path, connecting the two locations in space. I do very much enjoy when science comes up in OX vids :)

[@garrysucks4190]

MDickie games in General, but most prominently Wrestling Empire. Contracts can be signed. People actually die. You have backstage feuds. The amount of realism is surprising.

[@HeinerGunnar]

You can still dive into water from any height in GTAV, it just requires a bit more work. If you jump from the wing of a blimp, you can do a swan dive that your character will hold as long as you hold forward. And if you're still in the dive once you enter the water, you're fine. Even from the top edge of the map

[@JoshuaEisenbart]

Subnautica's Stasis rifle. True, a gun that can shoot a force field that can "slow down time to furthest limits as the laws of physics permits" or something like that is rather unfeasible, but the way it was executed was quite clever. When used against Warpers, which are so named because they were given the ability to teleport themselves and others short distances by the ancient aliens called "Precursors" or the "Almanac" in Below Zero, the Warpers instantly warp out of the stasis field and continue their pursuit. This makes sense, because synapses in the brain fire at essentially the speed of light, and because they use their brain to start their warp, they can do it pretty much instantly. Another clever example, though this is a lot subtler, is that leviathans can be frozen with the stasis rifle, even though it doesn't cover their entire body, but only if it covers their head. This is because it would slow down their perception of time mentally, causing the rest of their body to follow suit. You might be thinking "Wait, but you just said that Warpers warped out instantly, because the brain fires it's neurons so fast, why are the leviathans slowed down from stasis if the warpers aren't?" Well, let me ask you this: How fast are your reflexes? A warper warps out reflexively, without needing time to actually move. As soon as their neurons fire, they are out. However, your ACTIONS, are not as fast. A leviathan isn't effected any more than a warper, but their neurons have to fire many more times. The neurons IN the stasis field are effected, and are controlling the neurons OUT of the stasis field. The neurons outside can fire at normal speed, but they can only receive orders as fast as they are given. The opposite is also true. While the neurons outside can give information in real time, the neurons inside can only receive at the speed that they have been slowed to.

[@czechmate8287]

I love how in farcry 2 a car blows up next to you and your animation is like, pulling wood or something non car related out of you.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

The "metal gear" pun would've made more sense if the Snake Eater and Breath of the Wild entries were switched. With them in the order they were it felt like a jarring mistake somehow. Sorry to be an asshole about it.

[@konstantinlozev2272]

Far Cry 2 has so many other gotchas... My favourite one was the "last stand" mechanic where an enemy is almost dead, but still draws his/her pistol and shoots at you before dying.

[@bahamut12th]

you cant call a games fire physics realistic when they use a "fire arrow" seeing as how the real fire arrows are nothing like how they are in game and work in a vastly different way...assassins creeds fire arrows are super unrealistic...

[@vonrages6608]

mgs3 brought me back, I forgot how sick the level of detail was for a game like that

[@boesvig2258]

"Realism in games" "Fire arrows" NO! 😠

[@DashCat9]

My favorite bit of random realism was in Ghost of Tsushima. "Oh there's the stealth kill ability! That always work, I'm hidden in tall grass, and I'm just going to stab this guy in the neck, and OH MY GOD HE'S SCREAMING AND ALL OF HIS FRIENDS ARE HERE". Turns out you need to level up your stealth kill attack for it to be more silent.

[@thomascollins3586]

First

[@stevebarnes2]

So?

[@greenboi6424]

:(

[@tevildo9383]

How about in Outward, where you have to keep most of your gear and items in a backpack which slows down your character if you don’t take it off during combat. But you have to be sure to keep all your potions and weapons on your person because if you choose to drop the pack for increased mobility, you’ll lose access to anything inside it until you pick it up again.

[@Forced2DoThis1]

The term "Snake Eater" for the end of the "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater" is in reference to the American Green Barret nickname hung on them after they demonstrated some of their survival skills training to President Kennedy. Special Forces training is FUN!

[@danielmiller3596]

Just a note about those huge bags of Doritos in SnakeEater: they are half full of air. That’s WILDLY realistic. The worst part about the RDR2 part for me was questioning my childhood because I haven’t left a knife/steel behind since I was around age 14.

[@richardmartin9368]

So it's interesting that Portal 2 takes into account not only the travel time for the portal to get to the moon, but also the time it takes for the light to return so it can be seen, but DOESN'T begin the vacuum suction from the second portal until after the twinkle is visible on the moon. The portal arrives in 1.28 seconds and should immediately then start pulling air out of the room. Then 1.28 seconds later, the portal should be visible.

[@moosemaimer]

Far Cry 2 also has the rocket motor on the RPG light only after it has gone a few feet from the tube, meaning if it hits something right in front of you it can bounce off at an angle and _then_ go firing off. One of those angles can be straight up. So if you don't get away you will have mortared yourself.

[@donnykitsune6289]

Metal Gear Solid V; The Phantom Pain. Taking too many injuries may force you to have to relocate one of your various, still-attached limbs and, as a result of potential combat induced head trauma (remember, venom snake has a shard of rock in his forehead that touches his brain.) You are temporarily colorblind until your health reaches a more acceptable level.

[@Gakulon]

Wooh! Love the Carpenter Brut shirt, he's a pretty damn great artist

[@metoxkris]

So awesome seeing Mike in a Carpenter Brut shirt.

[@bobiboulon]

1:12 If the game was realistic on that point, the fire on that small piece of linen would totally be blown like a candle by the mere speed of the arrow. :D

[@CoyMcBob]

9:10 a bit of a misconception about faster than light travel and casualty. I'm a physicist, technically something like a portal gun could exist without violating known physics. You can't travel through space faster than light, but space can be connected to other parts of space theoretically. So the portal could just 'stitch' together two areas in space such that they are adjacent, and no physics is violated. We have never observed this of course, but doesn't actually violate physics or casualty . Cheers

[@JammyDuel]

>realisric >fire arrows during the Peloponnesian war Yeah...a little early for fire arrows

[@klonene]

I learned a valuable lesson from Indigo prophecy when I was a kid. Do not eat pills then consume alocohol, it might kill you. And in that game, it did!

[@clockworktri]

Please follow this with "7 Times Game Dialog was Too Realistic" and include that part in AC Valhalla where the game pretty much quizzes you on the name of that rando NPC you just hooked up with. We're the main character! We shouldn't have to pay attention to those kinds of details! Plus, we were suuuuuper hammered at that wedding.

[@kstormgeistgem461]

[cackles like a mad woman at 1:38 ] when you discover a sound bite that you need in your life but you don't know where you'd put it.

[@DeathnoteBB]

The portal gun technically being a time travel gun makes those “If you see a past/future version of yourself” signs make a lot more sense

[@poolsidetoiletproductions9402]

Just here to say that Snake Eater was the name of the operation Naked Snake was tasked that involved him dismantling the Cobra Unit, and that's why it was named that. But it was also because there were eating mechanics in the game. Double Entendre!

[@sourwitch2340]

14:04 I thought he was gonna say "I cast Fireball" DM: "you realize the grass here is dry as fuck?"