One where I get to be a Badass Longcoat performing unlikely feats of athletics while stabbing demons to death with an oversized sword, or a eight year old with physic powers battling a psychotic, brain harvesting dentist. Maybe afterwards I'll leap into the body of an alien cowboy and capture a veritable rogues gallery of increasingly absurd outlaws for money, perhaps then I'll crawl up a giants back and stab it in the face.

What I'm getting at here is that I'm tired of games that keep trying to be real life. I experience real life every day, why do I want it all over my entertainment? I'm bored of gritty realism, dull graphics, interactive environments, realistic plotlines, and real world physics. I get realism every day, more of it than I could ever want. I want to play something that's fucking imaginative, quirky, and, most importantly, fun.

There are so many good examples, some that even came out recently, but this bizarre trend continues. Even games that seem like they should be free of this try to crowbar it in anyway, because they correctly believe it's the only way to get decent sales. Like Oblivion, where you can ignore the main plotline and dick around until you realise you've seen everything after the first dungeon! Don't forget that the main plotline is so dull and anticlimatic that you'll fall asleep while trying to finish it, or the fact every single character is a clone! Or Bioshock, in which you fight for your life against super powered lunatics in an underwater steampunk city, but gosh, don't forget all the clever ways you can utilise the environment! Which no one will ever do because simply shooting them in the face until they stop twitching is easier and won't get your arse murdered! Of course, compared to this, things like decent storylines and intuitive gameplay are just worthless aren't they? Hey, Dead Rising lets you use stuff that's lying around as weapons. Never mind the fact that there're respawning, easily obtainable actual weapons lying around, rendering this mechanic useless! And what about Alone in the Dark? DEAR GOD, ALONE IN THE FUCKING DARK. MAKE IT GO AWAY OR STRIKE ME DEAD!

For extra credit, see if you guess what the games I'm gabbling about in the first paragraph are. They're pretty obvious though, so you won't get much.

Custard Trout
What I'm getting at here is that I'm tired of games that keep trying to be real life. I experience real life every day, why do I want it all over my entertainment? I'm bored of gritty realism, dull graphics, interactive environments, realistic plotlines, and real world physics. I get realism every day, more of it than I could ever want. I want to play something that's fucking imaginative, quirky, and, most importantly, fun.

ME TOO.

I play games to get away from reality for a little while. I enjoy good art direction and the exercise of a designer's imagination. That's why I like the design change they made with Team Fortress 2... They decided to forgo the typical grime, normal maps, and gritty realism everyone else was doing and took an artistic approach.

Not all of the games I play are straight-up bizarre, but I don't own many that are plain realism. The only one I do have that's even close(GTA), I never play. Videogames are by their nature unrealistic though. Most characters you play as can mow down legions of enemies which little to know problem, so why not just go full circle?

Custard Trout
For extra credit, see if you guess what the games I'm gabbling about in the first paragraph are. They're pretty obvious though, so you won't get much.

DMC, Psychonauts, I dunno sounds fun though, SotC! What do I wiiiiiin

I wanna play Haunting Ground again. That game freaked me out. I like scary games. :)

I think you would get mad at me though because I like the real-life elements in games... like in Fable I decided I try and own all the towns and have 4 wives, haha :) (I guess that's still kind of unrealistic, but...) And... I like point and click adventures >_>

Point and click games are/were great, shame there isn't many about any more.

Also, the third one was 'Oddworld: Strangers Wrath'. Until about halfway through.

I've never found any of the real world setting games to be at all realistic, there always ends up being some dopey encounter or mechanic or frustrating and infinitely re-occuring junk that tears down every last effort they've made to set the game in reality.

Note that I said 'trying'.

Sorry, my wordings, they are suck.

I mean it doesn't feel like they're trying to be realistic aside from the cosmetic stuff. CoD:4 was annother Metal Slug to me.