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[themikeruler]

However, realism is not the reason for people playing video games.

I must disagree with that. Yes i would say that it isn't the main reason, but games are fun when there is some sort of realism to it. Nobody wants to play a game without a valid storyline, or if physics or possibility of such happening is TOTALLY off. Of course, there's a limit. It can't be too realistic, i.e. a wargame in which you get shot in the leg and you can no longer walk. Nobody would play it because of the irritation of not being able to do anything when your limb is shot.

Example of in between realism: Left 4 Dead.

Realistic in the setting: A city, guns, the amount of survivors, the gunshots in the distance. The somewhat possibility of a global pandemic in which a disease alters the attitudes, behaviors, and condition of a human.

Unrealism in the game: The fast reloads (no gamer wants to have to wait several seconds to reload a gun while infected persons are rushing and trying to kill you), the mutants (smokers, boomers, tanks, hunters, THE WITCH, i mean its SOMEWHAT in a green sky possible, but not likely to happen if an infection was to spread), the medkit (no one wants to wait an entire hour/days/weeks for a body to heal)

So there are boundaries, but all ends well when they are to be discussed.

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