Video Game Logic

Just literally anything in a Sierra Adventure game. I honestly feel mentally retarded for being able to be insane enough to grasp the logic behind certain puzzles.
 
In Super Mario Sunshine you can spray out about as much water that's in a swimming pool but F.L.U.D.Ds tank is the size of a water bottle.
 
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The Pokecapn + crew Sonic 06 LP actually issued a challenge to explain this. Here were the three five winning entries:
Robotnik can outrun Sonic if he is properly prepared. His unusual body contains several speed bladders, which contain excess fast. If he has enough velocity stored up he'll be able to outrun even Sonic in a short sprint.

You fucking faggot moron shiteaters. I'm fucking sick of reading your faggot theories. I'm pulling out a copy of my professor's analysis of Sonic the Motherfuckin Hedgehog. I thought it was lame at first, but I guess there's some limp-wristed "theorists" who need to be shown that their theory is just that: a theory. I'm even throwing in the bitch's bibliography just in case you doubt his shit.

A Hedgehog in Motion Stays in Motion; Doctors Don't
by Harold Bloom

Chili dogs are the missing factor.

Sonic was given super speed by consuming one, and his power is only kept up by eating them sporadically.

Dr. Eggman/Robotnik consumes almost six-point-o-five times as many chili dogs, therefore he runs faster--though his supply is severely drained by these acts. This brings into question a loop theory, that is, that Robotnik is fat because he must travel fast and he must travel fast because he is fat. It is a vicious cycle of no escape for the poor doctor, so thus he created this "Eggman" persona to deal with his own faults and the stress placed on him, a shadowy speed demon creature much as Rouge was created out of the desires of Knuckles to experience the feminine mystique in his life following the death of his mother.

All other theories are simply untested psychobabble, foolish dreams, and overly complicated imaginations dreamed up by the same morons who profess a belief in the "Tails as a Christ figure" and "Eggman/Robotnik as a metaphor for global capitalism" camps (for one, it is patently obvious to any but a fool that it is Blaze and Silver who stand-in as dual Christ figures, sacrificing their roles in the future to save the past; clearly Knuckles, the stout and brutal animal who must guard his gems all his life fearing their theft, who represents Western interests compared to Eggman/Robotnik's more vulgar).

Bibliography

Cameron, James. The Terminator. Terminator 2: Judgment Day. 1983, 1992.

Ferris, William. A Spectator of Thebes: The Search for Sonic in Our Lives. New York: Doubleday, 1987.

Whitmore, Mulligan. In the Shadow of Speed: A Pediatrician's Thoughts on the Blue and the Deranged. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Zemle, Patricia. Me and Me: Visions of Two Selves Across Media. Washington: Green Tree Press, 1999.

There you motherfuckin have it. Now enough of this "scholarly" bullshit.

ROBOTNIK IS SHAPED LIKE AN OSTRICH. OSTRICHES RUN FAST AS FUCK. Q.E.D.

To expound on this theory I will state that Robotnik is a form of undead known as a lich. As all liches, Robotnik has evaded death by trapping his mortal soul in a phylactery, or rather a series of phylacterys. For you see, Robotnik's soul in contained in nothing less than the Chaos Emeralds. Infact, this is the only reason the Emeralds have any power at all.

This is also why Robotnik always loses. By establishing himself as an evil person, and by constantly voicing his goal of capturing the Chaos Emeralds and perverting their power, he has given the Chaos Emeralds a need to be protected.

Unbeknownst to Sonic, all his speed and "chaos control" is a magical effect Robotnik purposefully bestowed unto him. Robotnik never actually intends to succeed in his ridiculous plans; he only makes a show of stealing the Emeralds and being stopped by Sonic.

After recapturing the Emeralds, Sonic becomes that much more determined to guard them more closely.

Robotnik's only weakness, the seven phylacterys carrying his soul, are now quite safe.

That's easy. It's fear. Picture this:

You're an industrialist, trying to modernize a backward planet and raise up standards of living through the use of technology, for the common good. One day, some of your industrial robots are blown up by a sentient, supersonic blue hedgehog. That's scary as fuck. Now, said hedgehog has it in his head that you're a monster who's turning animals into robots and wants to take over the world and oppress it, in large part because of all the steroids, speed, colloidal silver, and other assorted shit he's been taking in massive quantities for the past decade. You decide to see if you can't reason with the guy, but for your troubles you get assaulted, and your ride gets trashed beyond recognition.

So you decide to deal with this like you would with any other pest problems: You put out some traps, like spike pits, modify a couple of your robots with .22 rifles, etc. The way you'd deal with any rodent, really. Soon enough, the hedgehog gets himself impaled, and you're done. Or so you think. Soon after, despite having quite clearly been drained of his precious bodily fluids, he's back and trashing your robots again. Maybe the other one was some sort of decoy? No matter, you're taking this into your own hands. You modify your ride, mad max style, adding a couple of guns, some spikes, missile, slowly swinging giant balls, that kind of stuff. Then you roll. You meet the hedgehog and after a brief struggle where he manages to make one or two lucky hits on spots you haven't really bothered armoring, you make him into thin gruel. This time you're sure he's done for.

How wrong you are. Soon after, he's back. You can't believe it. You try to kill him yourself once more, but this time he seems to know where to strike. He seems to know when to strike. He seems to know when you'll strike. Once you realize that, you try to change your attack patterns, but it's too late, he's done enough damage to blow up your vehicle, and you barely escape with your life. For the next few days, he follows you, destroying everything you throw at him, and it's obvious he won't stop until he gets you. You can't sleep. You watch as he destroys everything you've done to help people: one after another, chemical plants, oil refineries, amusement parks, all you've built, gets blown up by this satanic, unholy, immortal demon from the deepest pits of hell. When you do manage to take him out, he's back within hours.

Eventually, as you're trying to escape to the one place where you think you're safe, space, he defeats one of your latest creation, and for the first time, you're face to face with him. There's no steel plate protecting you. There's no vertical distance. He's there, staring at you with those empty, demonic eyes.

You run like you've never run before. You just fucking run.
 
Tropico 3, when a person gets a car from the garage they drive it to where they have to go. The funny part is when they get out of the car. The car is seemingly google powered because it drives itself back to the garage.
Also one person per car, funny when the army and rebels create a traffic jam trying to get to the battle site.
 
You can point guns at police officers and shoot guns in crowded streets freely as long as you're not hitting anyone (Most GTA-likes) but if you accidentally bump into another car, the cops will be out for blood.
 
Any anime-based fighting game. You manage to pull off your big special and get the in-game cutscene of you launching and connecting with your major-villain destroying technique, most of the time leaving a creator the size of a small town in your wake...only for the opponent to hope up and rush you again with almost no effect to them save for some roughed up clothing.
 
BULLY: The games setting is a melting pot of the fifties through to the seventies, especially in Edinburgh; but seeing the nerds owning a 90's-era PC Rig was out of character. Why not let the front gate open in chapter one? Jimmy Hopkins would be the type to leave the campus as soon as he got bored.
 
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The elevators in the Dark Souls games for the most part seem to have technology that seems "too advanced" for the faux-Medieval era style the games are going for, but I appreciate it when games have some visible reason for technology functioning(such as showing the parts of the mechanicsms that are supposed to power the contraptions/devices other than lolmagick.
 
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess:
Find a chest with a rupee in it, but Link's wallet is full so it's put back.
Find a massive iron ball and chain, shoved into Link's pockets effortlessly.
Also, the iron boots and the ball and chain are only heavy when Link is holding them. :?:
 
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess:
Find a chest with a rupee in it, but Link's wallet is full so it's put back.
Find a massive iron ball and chain, shoved into Link's pockets effortlessly.
Also, the iron boots and the ball and chain are only heavy when Link is holding them. :?:
Don't forget picking up money like you've never seen it before every time you come back from taking a break!
 
"Okay now I'm just going in circles. I don't have time for circles -- I need to kill the target."

-me playing Hitman 2 and failing.
 
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Doom Guy is able to run at ridiculous speeds and carry seven different weapons on him. And yet he is unable to jump.

Also, one of the secrets in the game requires you to run clockwise around a pool of radioactive waste in order for the wall hiding it to open up. I also can't help but wonder what all those demons have been doing in there, trapped behind that wall.
 
In Soul Calibur/Soul Edge, no matter how much you get attacked by sharp weapons, your body always seems to stay in one piece and not a bloody mess.
 
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AION: You're mighty heroes with apparently near godly powers, you can fucking fly...but you can't swim. Ever.
Divinity Of Sin: Pathing logic 101: The guy controlling me wants me to go from point A to point B, avoiding the lava in the middle. Let's have a lava bath!
 
I'm walking with my Pikachu when some guy sees me. Now I can't back out of some duel he wants to have with me even though I'm not interested.
 
I've been playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution recently.... but this applies to lots of games.

Break into another persons' office while they are inside. Steal all their candy bars and cash. Nobody complains.
 
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