Realistic shit that many people would think is unrealistic if they saw it in games - When real doesn't "look real."

[Penis Drager]

There is a known problem in games where "real" doesn't look "real." Most often in game physics, realistic physics don't look realistic at all.
Another example of where the REAL doesn't look "real" is the Mordhau. It is literally in combat manuals from the 16th century that it is recommended to grab your sword by the blade and bash your opponent upside the head with your cross-guard or pommel. That would certainly be a cool "ability" or whatever, But realism goes deeper than that.
The Mordhau is but one of many half-sword techniques. In fact, you will not find a single combat manual anywhere that does not advocate some half-sword use when fighting a fully armored opponent in that time period. Grabbing your sword by the blade was simply the most effective way of driving your blade into the weak spots of your opponent's armor. The armor status of your enemy in-game would open opportunities for the already established trope of "stance shifting" in medieval-focused games.
The problem, though, is that it doesn't "look" real. If someone who wasn't educated in how armored soldiers actually fought saw their character turn their sword upside-down and bash the enemy's head with their cross-guard while holding the blade, they might think it's ridiculous. And this is despite this exact act being something that was done during the medieval period.

So... any other weird/fun things you guys can add to the list?

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Video Games / Reality Is Unrealistic - TV Tropes

The Blood Elf male models in World of Warcraft are perhaps the most realistically proportioned models in the entire game. Almost everyone's thoughts on the model for the Blood Elf Males? That they look very scrawny. (Females are obviously …

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Theres a few interesting things in there

 

[Penis Drager]

Video Games / Reality Is Unrealistic - TV Tropes

The Blood Elf male models in World of Warcraft are perhaps the most realistically proportioned models in the entire game. Almost everyone's thoughts on the model for the Blood Elf Males? That they look very scrawny. (Females are obviously …

tvtropes.org

Theres a few interesting things in there

I was going more for "realistic shit that isn't in games" but that is a pretty cool list of literally the opposite there.
Thanks.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Aah I think I get you now sorry, something more along these lines?

Video Games / Aluminum Christmas Trees - TV Tropes

These things in video games are 100% real. We promise. The Masamune and Muramasa's status as Public Domain Artifacts and their frequent appearances in JRPGs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger may lead some gamers to assume that they are …

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I'll stop posting links to tv tropes now haha

 

[WeWuzFinns]

There were almost none non-native Europeans in Europe before 90's (especially during dark ages) despite media portraying it otherwise.

 

[Ita Mori]

Gravity.
Every time something falls or gets destroyed it never falls with it's proper weight; it just falls in some slow-mo form to dramatize the destruction on-screen, even if the physics engine is calculating extremely accurately.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Normal FPS game stuff. Ballistics, explosions, the weight of the firearms, how machine guns generally aren't designed for accurate target shooting but for suppressing fire and area denial, how hand grenades aren't just "pull the pin and go" there's also the spoon part, etc.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Normal FPS game stuff. Ballistics, explosions, the weight of the firearms, how machine guns generally aren't designed for accurate target shooting but for suppressing fire and area denial, how hand grenades aren't just "pull the pin and go" there's also the spoon part, etc.

Similar to this, shotguns. FPS games have pretty much cemented shotguns as the “high DPS, high spread, low range” gun that if a realistic shotgun were implemented, it would feel incredibly overpowered because IRL they have a much longer range and tighter spread.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

People don't fall over when shot. Falling over when shot is literally a learned behavior. In countries where Hollywood media isn't common, when people are shot they tend to stay standing and walk around. The trope of bullets knocking you over is so prevalent in media that when westerners are shot they will fall over because that is what they think the "right" thing to do is.

Explosions aren't fireballs. Most of the time there is very little flash with conventional explosives. Movies use plastic tubs of gasoline to get the flame whoosh. This is such a problem that soldiers have to be educated in what a real life explosion is supposed to look like.

Suppressors don't make guns pew pew silent. Even with subsonic ammunition, a rifle will still be about at the decibel level of a slamming car door.

It's really really fucking hard to stab someone to death. Every year prison inmates are shanked to death, but many many more are shanked and don't die. A lot of these inmates are stabbed literally dozens of times and still manage to survive. The important things are very deep or protected by large bone plates, such as the aorta, lungs, or heart.

On the flip side of that, movies downplay how lethal limb damage is. In so many movies the hero suffers a bullet wound to the shoulder or leg and shrugs it off. Being shot in the shoulder is one of the worst things that could happen to you. A bullet could easily sever the brachial artery, which would cause total incapacitation in 90 seconds and death in 120 seconds. If the bullet misses your brachial artery, it could hit your brachial nerve plexus, which is a bundle of nerves that controls the muscles in your shoulder, upper back, and arm. There is a significant possibility that if you are lucky and don't bleed to death, you will have a non functional arm. I don't even have to talk about leg shots. The femoral artery is worse than the brachial one. It can cause death in as little as 60 seconds if severed.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

When applying full throttle to an airliner's jet engine, they don't react immediately and take a few second to spool up to the set engine power.

The extremely long length the ME 262 needed to get off the ground. They needed about 800 meters (2625 ft) to get to take off speed, which made them so vulnerable that they needed prop engine fighters as protection during landing and take off.

The fact that you can use a Boeing 767-233 as a glider.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Knocking someone unconscious for longer than 10 seconds is actually really fucking deadly and basically results in brain injury. The longer you're knocked out, the less chance you're getting back up again.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

Moving underwater so fast that the friction generated by the movement turns the water into steam immediately.

Animals aligning themselves with the north pole of the planet and using it to calculate trajectories before making jumps.

The first one is thresher sharks and the second one is red foxes hunting in snow climates. I wish NatGeo showed more things like this and less survival programs.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Similar to this, shotguns. FPS games have pretty much cemented shotguns as the “high DPS, high spread, low range” gun that if a realistic shotgun were implemented, it would feel incredibly overpowered because IRL they have a much longer range and tighter spread.

This one right here. Throw a turkey choke on your shotgun and you're playing an entirely different game. And most people will say it is unrealistic and overpowered.

Do any games offer customization that in-depth in terms of firearms?

 

[Snekposter]

Soldiers doing random shit out of boredom that somehow spirals into something major. Best thing I can think of right now is the only intact German tank left over from WW1, which only exists because a bunch of Brits stole out into no-man's land to bring it back to their lines for bragging rights.

 

[The Last Stand]

Eating in video games to replenish your health. Sometimes, it's instant. Sometimes, you have to prepare and "craft" something to eat.

 

[Saint Alphonsus]

Similar to this, shotguns. FPS games have pretty much cemented shotguns as the “high DPS, high spread, low range” gun that if a realistic shotgun were implemented, it would feel incredibly overpowered because IRL they have a much longer range and tighter spread.

Classic Doom gave a surprisingly tight spread for the single barrel shotgun; so much so that the shotgun is the "sniper rifle" of that game.

What it got unrealistic was the idea that each pellet would have the same amount of kinetic energy as a 9mm Parabellum round. Compare the damage of the pistol with that of a single pellet of the shotgun. With the way the RNG rolls, the Doom shotty does 8-10X the amount of damage as the pistol. In reality, shotguns use lower pressure cartridge loads, which is why their barrels are thinner than that of a rifle. Coupled with the fact that the pellets are generally smaller than pistol rounds (depending on the size of your buckshot)--no, you're not going to kill two guys standing side by side with a single blast. One guy standing in front of another--maybe, but more likely with a battle rifle round.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

The suppressor one is always funny because for Call of Duty or whatever they often show how much they researched the guns and went to the range and fired them and everything to get the sounds, for one Battlefield they even talked about how they fired them in different environments to get the sound to bounce correctly and so on, then you get a suppressor and it's pew pew and nobody reacts to it.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Eating in video games to replenish your health. Sometimes, it's instant. Sometimes, you have to prepare and "craft" something to eat.

I'd kill for a game with a food moral system. Like, every day you need to scavenge food and it will affect your character's mood and stats. Have a perk to make MRE meals have extra effectiveness.
Nice.

 

[HeyYou]

Space in real life not having any sound would be one of the biggest ones. Related to that, asteroid fields being the correct scale rather than a bunch of huge asteroids meters apart.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

I'd kill for a game with a food moral system. Like, every day you need to scavenge food and it will affect your character's mood and stats. Have a perk to make MRE meals have extra effectiveness.
Nice.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Rimworld both do that.