Games Don't Need to be Realistic to be Fun

13th March, 1 replies

Mass Effect, ArmA, Call of Duty, Battlefield

You know when you have a couple of friends over to play some games and you're having a blast, but then there's that one friend who completely ruins it because they feel the need to conduct a running commentary on what you're playing? They're great people aren't they? We all have that one friend who feels the necessity to comment on every single thing that happens when you're playing a game, and one of the most common phrases they always seem to utter is, "That's not realistic! That would never happen in real life," after which you just groan and then attempt to ignore them so they don't completely ruin the game for you.

Now this isn't just something that happens when you're playing games with some friends. You come across people like this all the time on the internet too. You see people in the comments section of a video saying "This is dumb. The guns aren't even realistic," except filled with spelling errors because it's a YouTube comment. The more I started thinking about why people say this, the more I look at how games are designed and why I play games, and then I realised something: why do people care if a game isn't realistic? Seriously, why do people care?

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