Post what you’ve learned (factual or not) from video games don’t forget to cite your source too.
Example: you can distract armed guards by tossing Pornographic magazines near them (Metal Gear Series)
If you hit an extraterrestrial Parasite with a crowbar, it will die (Half-Life series)
Walking over a rocketlauncher automaticly replenishes all your bullets (tf2)
whatever you need to do, no matter how menial or stupid it is, it’s always about a half a kilometer away (World Of Warcraft [played it, didn’t like it])
also, if there’s a button sequence that can unlock shit in retro games, said button sequence will find its way to modern games and will also unlock shit (Konami)
Jumping on turtles creates frictonless perfectly rebounding ground based projectiles that can only be stopped by jumping on them again. (nearly any mario game)
Store owners are stupid and will never know when a set of Armor you picked up will not have all it’s cool properties unless you have all pieces of that set, no matter how many times you sell it to them at a higher price than what you then proceed to buy it back from them at. (NWN: HotU)
To do a barrel roll. (Starfox)
Shooting a gas canister, propane tank, or other large container with ‘flammable’ written on it, will cause it to instantly explode! I don’t think I have to source that one but I would be interested to find an FPS game without exploding things…
Jumping at a flying block of bricks will break it if you hit it with your head (mario)
If you touch something you don’t like, you immediatly fall through the ground (mario)
Things you find in the nature are hidden by small creatures called Minish. - The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.
Unless they have supremely-awesome mental physics muscles as replacements, all men are required by law to have biceps the same width as the largest weapon they may find!
Even if you make no noise and are completely covered in shadow, people will still see/hear you and start shooting. - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
There are only 4-5 different voices in the entire universe. - TES: Oblivion
Serbians love America… and bowling. - GTA IV
Mounted guns don’t run out of bullets, ever.
You can throw objects without using any energy at all, contradicting the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (Gravity Gun)
You can carry an entire warehouse of guns and switch between them in like less than 1 second.
Enough bullets into someone’s foot or arm will still kill the person.
One bullet to the head often isn’t enough to kill a person, and it won’t even cause pain or any kind of disability.
If a game is awesome enough people will wait until the end of time for it (Black Mesa)
If you jump in the water, there’s a good chance you’ll die.
Humanity in the future will fall prey to two other races, one that is genetically superior, and one that is technologically superior. (Starcraft)
The cake is a lie. (sorry, I had to)
Win.
If your more then 15 years old then your probably made out of many little blocks.
Mask’s turns you into a different race - The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
People will never mind you entering their homes and stealing their stuff.(ME2, Zelda series)
…unless there are guards. (TES series)
They don’t mind if you throw things at them either, such as shooting them or throwing a bomb :3
Pretty scary to be honest…
If you suck up one of your enemies and swallow them, you will obtain the attributes of them. And if you get tired of them, you can always shit them out as bouncing yellow stars. (durr.)
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