Top 20 Ways Video Game Logic Makes NO SENSE

[@WatchMojo]

If there’s something illogical about video games whose absence from our list you struggle to make sense of, help us understand in the comments! For more video game content, check out our playlist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnu3aWapmLB_fKs

[@keynanmartinez]

Having unlimited ammo in The House Of The Dead franchise.

[@kalebbesst5068]

How a water bucket can produce a lot of water in Minecraft 😂😂😂

[@catluvr2]

I don't think Sonic Adventure came out in 1989.

[@iansmith1965]

Number 4# "Healing with Food".....Not in Skyrim it doesn't! Not much anyway! You'd need to eat your entire larder of food before you see any effects! And then after, you can run and engage in battle and not want to sleep or throw up!

[@devingiles6597]

Honorable mention: Extra lives.

[@phantomrequim]

That's the beauty of video games. Being illogical is what makes them so endearing.

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

FACTS!

[@alexdamonwrites]

Some other examples: - Extra lives (how was this not mentioned?) - Player movement: characters can instantly stop after sprinting at full speed, or turn around on the spot. - Maps that show you exactly where the enemies are. - NPCs who are crucial to plot progression cannot die (or will magically respawn after battle if they were killed). - When solving puzzles, leaving an area and returning will reset it to its original state. - In game sequels, characters forget abilities they learned in the previous game. - Plot events suspiciously only progress when the player arrives at the desired location. Doomsday may be imminent, but it'll have to wait until you've collected those priceless artefacts or ventured off to the secret island.

[@Gvair22]

About extra lifes. Some skilled player can play the game and never die. So it would be logical. It all depends on your skills

[@AdmiralBison]

All part of the charm of games. 😃

[@thedragonauthority]

I'm surprised you didn't mention how in fighting games you can block psychic and projectile attacks by putting up your arms. If Sub-Zero tries to freeze you and you put up your arms to block, wouldn't your arms be frozen, at least?

[@sgt.marcusstacker]

That or how you can survive being hit with attacks that would kill you or leave you permanently injured. Such as an X-ray or special attack in MK. Also, having multiple life’s should’ve been a no-brainer.

[@thedragonauthority]

@@sgt.marcusstacker don't get me wrong, I still love MK. Always have and always will. But it is still weird. Lol.

[@sgt.marcusstacker]

@@thedragonauthority oh, same here. I’m a huge fan of MK. That being said, I was definitely expecting to see some X-Ray moves on this video with it saying “You wouldn’t be alive.”

[@chinortega3]

​@@sgt.marcusstackerI'm sure mk could have a list all of its own with the amount of shenanigans in the game 😅😅

[@AtticusAmericanus]

@@sgt.marcusstacker My headcanon for this has always been "Mortal Kombat is a ritual of magical importance and sacrifice to the Elder Gods. The fighters are imbued with superhuman resistences and healing so as to spill as much blood as possible, with the loser being the final sacrifice in a fatality." Doesn't always work, especially in story mode but still....

[@JebKorzilius]

Just appreciate how much more livid the guy gets as the list progresses.

[@Effaly_]

But that's the beauty of video game romances, they're not complicated. You like someone, you talk to them a few times, and as long as they don't hate you, they'll agree to start a romance. Or in case of DA2 you can even start a rival romance. 🤷‍♀

[@shawnbopko858]

Sony just doesn't have it no more now it's Microsoft I believe

[@ultrajd]

Crouching actually can make your footfalls quieter. It causes your legs to move less. Former US Army infantryman.

[@robertbouley7697]

Plus, I didn’t pick up that hot compress to not use it.

[@MegaSantaclaude]

A path blocked by a crate or a wheelchair or something is almost worse than a invisible wall tbh. You are a total badass that can annihilate monsters no problem, but you cant roll a wheelchair out of the way.

[@robertbouley7697]

The brakes might be on: Game over.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Or worse: a path blocked by a KNEE-HIGH BARRIER. There is NO CONCEIVABLE WAY to get over such a barrier. NONE.

[@AdmiralBison]

or doors.

[@MrGUnit27]

In Uncharted 4, they actually justified Nathan Drake's regenerating health by saying that when he "took damage", he wasn't actually getting hit; the hit markers are meant to symbolize his luck running out. When Nate runs out of "luck" (ie. health), the enemies finally hit him and he dies in one shot. Those evil mercenaries sure have some trash aim

[@KT926]

I'd also say Unlimited ammo weapons are another common occurrence in some games, not necessarily special weapons being unlocked but the ones you are given by default at the start of the game. Tomb Raider for example; unlimited pistols that go missing once due to the storyline

[@PrinceYamiUchihaCosplay]

Definitely one hilarious video, two of these entries remind me of two things I've heard recently. The Rich Environment entry reminds me of a lyric from a song called Final Fantasy Victory Theme With Lyrics that lyric being: "You're a squirrel who somehow has money and sometimes swords and shields". The entry about Instant Death entry definitely reminds me of a line that Nappa says from Dragon Ball Z Abridged that being "He must of been made from something weak, like paper mâché or Raditz"

[@felman87]

Some of these dates are inaccurate. I mean 19:10 has Sonic Adventure coming out in 1989. I don't know how you get that wrong because the Dreamcast was almost a decade away from releasing. Even if you were going for "when the first title debuted" (which you weren't, judging by the other entries) Sonic came out in 1991. The Genesis did release in North America in 89, but if you wanted to put the age of the Mega Drive, it launched in 1988 in Japan.

[@krististarosta6736]

I say the healing time for wounds makes no sense at all. Quickly healing after you’re hurt. It looks very painful!

[@andrewhaase1826]

Honorable Mentions: *Friendly Fire -In some games, you can't attack or damage your allies OR NPCs. What sense does this make?! You can't just attack someone and expect them not to get hurt or feel pain! *Clipping -This is something that still happens in games today! Seriously, how am I supposed to cut off a monster's tail in Monster Hunter IF THE TAIL IS INSIDE THE WALL?!!! *Overly-persistant Enemy AI -Yeah, remember the issue of enemies that will forget you exist if you hide? One extreme can be just as bad as the other. Take for example, where enemies can just chase you down to the ends of the earth to kill you if you don't kill them first. Because OBVIOUSLY enemies can never decide to just give up on persuing the player. Unless you're dealing with the Terminator of Nemesis, this isn't going to work!

[@mittinman]

Fun fact: The original color of Links iconic clothes was meant to be blue but was changed by a programmer that over slept before a pitch meeting leading to the original working title for the game being “Blue Harvest” which coincidentally was the original working title to “Star Wars”

[@theggamer2824]

Is that what inspired Link’s outfit in Brewth of the wild to be blue aka the Champion’s outfit?

[@expendableindigo9639]

@@theggamer2824 Nah they're doing an inside joke from the reviewer Mr. Sunday.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Lasercorn hates invisible walls. If I'm not allowed to go there, put a wall there or something. 18:36 Bad touch. 19:12 Sonic Adventure did not come out in 1989.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

sokething something random comment..

[@Thelodis]

I've been double jumping all my life, until someone told me that it's physically impossible, and life has been so much harder since then.

[@anthonymartinez9847]

The narrator was having a good ol time with this one 🤣

[@slystone4892]

They don’t need to make sense in our real world, they just need to make sense in theirs.

[@Falchion1984]

19:11 Sonic Adventure had graphics like THAT in 1989? Wow, the eighties were cooler than I thought!

[@stefanpolomsky1306]

Selective attacks: When you direct and attack, be it a projectile (gun, cannon, arrows), a magical attack or whatever, at an enemy, who is fighting your or allied (or at least non-enemy) units and ONLY the enemy gets hit/damaged.

[@AdmiralBison]

Video game conventions and logic is all part of the charm.😃 I still miss the days you beat up an enemy and a cooked turkey pops out and fills your "life bar."

[@DngnRdr]

Sometimes things that appear illogical are just indicative for the player... which isn't quite the same as being illogical. For example... crouching is indicative of taking more care where you tread as well as reducing your visibility by moving slower, or lights/effects on your skin/costume that are invisible to the AI and just indicate your visibility. And, rubber-banding can also refer to how enemy AI changes based on your location despite you being unobserved moving from point A to B and then back to A... so the Ai is always in a place you have to fight them or being unobserved is always a certain difficulty.

[@jamesmendonca2900]

When it comes to video games, I try and not think too hard about the logic in them, especially since all of them have glitches that extends your disbelief.

[@ff3player]

19:11 I didn't know that Sonic Adventure was made 1989

[@donovanvang142]

14:24 this actually varies whether or not you are playing a fps that has a focus on realism or not. Escape from tarkov and insurgency sandstorm has realistic mag reloads as it depends on whether you have bullets in the mag and/or fast reload the gun. And the remaining ammo in the mags are kept if the magazine is retained.

[@GoldNEagle92]

Ready or Not as well

[@SuperMonkeyTurnip]

I strictly remember the first time playing World of Warcraft and a wolf dropped a perfectly good pair of chainmail leggings and thinking "Wut?" 🤣

[@tactical-daddy]

#5, it's called a tactical reload IRL. You removed a partially fired magazine after firing some rounds because you are still in danger and not actively being shot at, you take the partially fired magazine and put it in your dump pouch. An emergency reload is when your mag runs dry and you go into bolt lock. So it's not too off landish to not see the round count drop if you reload in a game and the mag isn't empty yet, perhaps they just put it in their dump pouch so they can admin reload it later

[@maloc1824]

There is at least one or two games that if you remove a clip/magazine/whatever the game calls it, it will go into your pouch or in one case you lose the ammo entirely.

[@ProfArmitage218]

"Ostensibly". It has a second "s". I was going to ignore it at first, but he just kept saying it.

[@GhastlyGhostrider]

You missed my personal favorite! Selling trash! You loot tons of stuff in most games, and when your bags are full you go to the nearest vendor, turn your backpack inside-out and get coins for it! Imagine if you could do that IRL! :D Take a walk in the park, "oh look, a broken branch" - "Hey there Mr Hotdog vendor, here's a branch" - "Thx, here's two bucks for you" Oh how clean the world would be! xD

[@PoolKid75]

I have done a double jump in real life. I was playing basketball in high school gym class, and I jumped to block a pass by a much taller player. Halfway up I thought to myself there's no way I can reach this ball, but then said to myself, no I can make it, and I swear I felt a second surge in upward momentum and managed to actually knock the ball out of the other player's hands. The whole class erupted. It all happened in the span of half a second.

[@lachlanevans5013]

19:24 In Fairness it is actually Canon that Sonic hates water, hell it’s canon that he can’t even swim. So there’s always that excuse for any Sonic video game.

[@miguelgarces8946]

18:40, that's Donkey Kong Country 3 on the GBA. 19:03, that is Donkey Kong Country 2 on the SNES.

[@silveredsouls2013]

One of the things that baffles me but also find funny is when the NPCs just pull out random items out of no where. Very common in Skyrim, AC, and many other games. For instance when a Npc just pulls out a random cup of mead or an apple and I'm like bro I wish I could do that in real life mbn😂

[@VO1D333]

Most games today do NOT let you destroy everything... I wish it was the case

[@TheJamesRoswell]

I can tell that Callum had a great time with this one

[@samyb4566]

For the turn-based combat, the characters are not literally waiting their turns to attack. It's just a battle system that was inspired by the tabletop role-playing games.

[@heath1948]

Which is why when it comes to Diablo games I always make sure that I find the safe point and completely completely reveal the whole map

[@Wrathinlovewithlain7]

In Splatoon you just have to fall back into your own ink to heal up.

[@gamefreak8389]

Awesome video the guy doing the commentary had me dead lol

[@saulchavez2368]

To be fair, Kuma was trained by Heihachi and Sakura it's true that her fighting style is an imitation of the original, that doesn't detract from the fact that she is almost a professional fighter.

[@inkga10clan29]

This is the first time watch mojo felt passionate during their vids.

[@blueflameppn]

Some honorable mentions: - It is always day/night, no matter how much you dilly dally - Enemies never run out of ammo - After the "heat" dies down (you hide or change disguise) the enemies totally forget what you looked like and go back to pretending nothing is going on and they have never seen you in their lives. - Locked doors, unbreakable windows, invincible objects that are not an active part of the game, just a part of the scenery. The scenery is always invincible somehow. - Regenerating or recharging powers, nitrous, etc. in time; How do they regenerate? using what energy? what matter? - Zero fatigue/Unlimited stamina: You can run, jump, climb, hang from a ledge, etc. for hours and hours and you never get tired or lose a single bit of your stamina. How? - Unlimited fuel in vehicles, almost always in all games that have vehicles. - Things that happen too fast: eating food, changing clothes, trying new things, even reloading (especially shotguns) are just much faster than you can possible do them in real life. - The very idea of stealth: If you crouch or move slowly, you can approach an enemy from behind even in a completely quiet space as if you made absolutely zero sound when you were approaching. It can never happen in real life. - Knowing: the special 'vision' you have of knowing where the enemies are. It can be called 'eagle vision', 'instinct', 'vision', and other names in different games, but there is always this supernatural ability to know the exact cooridnates of the enemy somehow.

[@marjoriejohnston4905]

To be fair, I think some PCs have some kind of scanner that analyzes the enemy and highlighting the weak point

[@kirbygamer9291]

As a gamer, I'm just too busy enjoying these games to even ask questions!

[@abellewis3062]

Me too!

[@yungkidnf]

Video games: are video games Watch Mojo: and I took that personally

[@KingOfTheSkies-ob3no]

WatchMojo: "In reality the last place contestant would never be able to catch up to you." Me: *laughs in Secretariat*

[@lordadamant8182]

At least it makes more sense in Uncharted where it's really your "luck" running out before you get actually hit, but...

[@DrVenture45]

I'll admit that some of these examples are indeed annoying, but let's face it...if some were removed, would those games be as much fun? I would like to see enemies stop respawning, especially in war games to some degree. Callum you were geeking at the end of this.😂

[@Omnifella]

Watchmojo: How deep do their pocket go The Game: IT IS NOT A GRANNY BAG, IT IS MY MAGIC NANNY BAG.

[@Nedum05]

Thanks for bringing up the turn base combat. I just find it unrealistic that your in a death match but you take turns trying to kill each other. Also, I understand that the double jump doesn’t make sense in most scenarios but there are characters with the ability to do it like in cosmic destruction, that much I’m certain of.

[@rogerstalder7184]

Actualy Crouching makes you quiter. since your not hitting the Ground with a streched Knee you make less sound because your knee dumpens the noise. Also when you walk normaly you dont have concentrate on your walk and make more noise, and when you crouch, you take you next step more carefully automaticly, so yes crouching makes you do less sound for sure.. Another thing when you walk straigt is you hit the FLoos first with your Heels, when you crouch your walking on your Toes. thats the whole reason to crouch. to dumpen your steps lol. Also the Weapons durability is a real thing in real life. i dont know how old you are. but i have seen Knifes go down in Kitchen and at my Grandmas Home. they didnt use Knifes a lifetime. they once go blunt and then you need to sharpen it, and it takes away material. i have seen Knifes who was sharpend down to 1/5th of what they was before. *th thing. If time doesent heal wound what else does? stitches? Stitches only holds it together so Time can Heal you wound ^^ there is litterly nothing else what heals a wound. either you die or it heals over Time. ^^ Mojo for real. you getting worse and worse. where do you get your Informations from?

[@mattcraft7164]

Such a great video! The universal questions most gamers take a step back and ask.

[@grayshigami6797]

You can't go on because there's a tree blocking the way

[@chemilo23]

Yo this guy got super into reading the script for this video hey. He was feeling really good that day 😅

[@vincevvn]

Crouching absolutely makes your quieter. It shifts the weight of your body to the front of your foot allowing you to make less noise as your entire foot doesn’t make contact with the floor. This should be incredibly obvious, all you had to do was try it

[@cameronrobertson7197]

Video game logic that makes no sense.... that's why it's called "video game logic" video games are not meant to be realistic

[@catherinehenderson6762]

1989 for Sonic Adventure? Did you mean 1998? I laughed. Great video guys.

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

Some good choices here not often mentioned on similar lists (like the first one)

[@MetallicaRules]

Watchmojo: Video game romances make no sense Proceeds to immediately show one of the greatest video game romances of all time Me: Are you high, or just incredibly stupid?

[@alantayler3704]

'Ostenably'?

[@midorikia]

This was a really fun list :D

[@ellnats]

to quote someone i know about Logic "no, you're not welcome here, this is where the fun people hang out"

[@BigFella117]

“Stop asking questions! Just have fun!” - Fascist Morty

[@ColinoDeani]

lool@Laughing at Timmy at the end I laughed out loud foreal lmao good episode

[@ARTSONICFAN990]

Videogame logic is the same thing as Anime logic: They don't have to make sense to make them entertaining.

[@chassan10]

For how characters carry ridiculous amounts of stuff, look no further than Christopher Walken's monologue in Pulp Fiction. "He hid it in the only place he could... in his ass."

[@jacara1981]

Rubberbanding isn't a logic issue in game, as its just a video glitch caused by latency causing someone to appear where they are not then the video catching up. Its almost always when there is more than 1 player in the world.

[@DwightMarten]

I love the little monologues at the end. 😂

[@justinanderson4315]

That crouching one reminds me of Arkham games. Batman crouching allows him to take out a guy five feet from another guy. He makes noise, but the other guy doesn’t hear anything.

[@mikitz]

Carrying a hundred cabbages and eating all of them instantaneously for health, but you never have to take a shit.

[@pebbzilla]

I honestly wouldn’t fault you if you took this down and reuploaded it just so you didn’t murder my ears with “infant ary space” 9:12

[@alvarochaves1999]

Another video game logic that does not make any sense in real life: Getting crushed = Become a paper

[@Goldtiger142003]

The funniest example of nonsensical romance in games is Dragon's Dogma. If you've suddenly been forced into relations with that diminutive jester, you know what I'm talking about. "How deep do their pockets go?!" is a silly question. There's plenty of storage space in the human body. It's why airport security has sniffing dogs! Biology gave us all weak spots. Our head is insanely vulnerable, our neck is weak, our genital region is a guaranteed critical hit, and our ankles are important for mobility. Hell, there's dozens of silly weak spots on us! Here's one convention that makes no sense; quick saves. What's that? You just died in a game? Best to reload the save and try again until you don't lose! Granted, games that permanently quit after one failure are pretty garbage (with very, very, VERY few exceptions), but still. I guarantee that EVERYONE would have loved to be able to reload after screwing something up in their lives, one way or another. For me, it would be giving that guy I met on the street $25 after assuming he was homeless. I wanted to do a good deed, so I offered him the money because he looked down on his luck, but the dude's friends rolled up and called him out, and he ran off with the money. In hindsight, it was pretty funny, but I could've used that $25 for better things had I known.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

The opposite of "I guess he's gone" of "He's over there, everybody open fire!" doesn't make sense either. When a single enemy spots you and the entire squad's guns are instantly firing on your exact position.

[@kieronparr3403]

"Ostenisly" I think you mean "ostensibly"

[@deandavey8473]

10 ways video games logic makes no sense .. Me: isn't that the point ?

[@justinanderson4315]

In a video game, just killed a mutated creature, had a massive racket launcher in it. Great find.

[@Crispierbug]

9:10 Link carrying around a entire ecosystem in his inventory.

[@CBlade0]

Fun list, great job

[@LlorDrei]

Mention for the "I Guess He's Gone" section. Final Fantasy XI Online definitely didn't have this. If an enemy saw you, they chased and attacked you, and didn't stop, ever, unless you loaded to a new screen area. You could run, you could hide, they would never stop chasing and attacking you, ever... They followed me into the home castle to kill me.

[@teeje8205]

missed chance to quote Pit from Kid Icarus on #4... "Floor Ice Cream gives you health!"

[@ThangPlants]

They're games, a work of fiction why should anything make sense.

[@SirAthiro]

Enemy: Summons a meteor. Me at max level: That's cute.

[@CH-uk1il]

Morality system. Just the fact that if you're evil and do good deeds, people suddenly love you but if you go back to being evil and do more good deeds, people will go from hating you to loving you again like they can't make up their minds. Imagine if this worked in real life.

[@danielferrieri7434]

Top Ten Questionable Video Game Decisions

[@RyoShiki64]

You have to solve a string of puzzles in order to go anywhere. Trying to access the floor of a building? Get a card made specifically for that floor. Looking for a library book? Arrange chairs and tables into a specific pattern. Do you need urgent life-saving medicine? Follow a series of clues written in vague riddles. Is the door locked? Sort through colored orbs by a theme impossible to notice.

[@brucenatelee]

Viva La Dirt should make skits for each item in this list as a collaboration to show this in real life.

[@EdwardoZero]

For number 6 they did call Weird animal anatomy

[@dnapolyace6342]

Chun-Li's upside down windmill kick should be on here.

[@Zindoriffic]

picking up hearts heals you Second chance (dying state, kill an enemy, comes back to life)

[@bluehulk8]

7:21 oh yeah yeah this one is so crazy and weird

[@mattdabeast315]

I love how this guy get more insane as the list goes on

[@connorohalloran1636]

That's the fun thing about fighting games, it's wacky, and I Tekken everyone speaks a different language yet everyone understands everyone including King and Kuma

[@cyberra0180]

How about "as long as even one millimeter of your shoes remains on a solid surface, you won't fall." That's better balance than any professional gymnast or ballerina

[@Spiderpichi2099]

I’ve been replaying the ps4 Spider-Man game and there’s quite a few times where I go “if the bad guys just look up then they’d see me”

[@clubboy133]

Uncharted is a poor example as the screen isn't indicating that you are getting shot and surviving. It's indicating that your luck is running out and the bullets are getting closer to hitting you. The developers have explained this on several different occasions.

[@LoveHandle4890]

Video games are supposed to be enjoyable, not logical.

[@marjoriejohnston4905]

Look at May's waist pack from the Hoenn games. Somehow a whole bike fits in there, two if it's OR AS

[@dustinkopperman6797]

Yes There's something illogical about video games whose absence from our list me to struggle to make sense of the PS3 or on the PS4 or on my switch like Video Game Romances and Rubber Banding and Weapon Durability and Invisible Walls and Inventory Space and I Guess He's Gone and Convenient Glowing Parts and Time Heals All Wounds and Rich Wildlife and Respawning Enemies and Healing With Food and Instant Death and The Double Jump

[@DragoonMyuutsu]

Capturing and taming creatures often much larger and more powerful than you, won't immediately bow down and follow your orders almost verbatim (instances of Pokemon not following orders when trainer lacks gym badges) unlike real life where domesticating animals is a longer and more arduous process.