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Isriana — Why Video Games Are Better Than Reality: Part 2
Published: 2012-02-11 15:29:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 120285; Favourites: 1196; Downloads: 0
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I used to play sports, but then I took an arrow in my interest zone and started playing video games instead.
The upside is that kicking people's asses takes so much less sweating when done virtually. The downside, however, is that last week when I actually had to run few hundred metres to catch the bus I was panting half an hour afterwards and felt like I was going to die. So yeah, as an incredibly crappy runner I can't help being partly envious and partly amused by the fact that everyone in video games seem to be able to run indefinitely no matter what the conditions are. There they sprint in their full battle gear, day and night, up the mountainside from one battle to another - they're never out of breath, never break a sweat or show signs of tiring. Not a word of complaint about aching calves, weight of their huge inventories or the sores those Heavy Iron Boots Of Strength +3 must be causing... I want super stamina too!
So many RPG characters seem to be unnaturally skilled in long distance running so I decided to choose more than one game as examples. Oh and those of you who wonder... I use Sacred Ashes mod (this one dragonage.nexusmods.com/downlo… to be specific) for my Leliana, hence slightly different looks. I also have Phoenix Armor for my Warden - DAO is a modding paradise...
Izalie Rowan, Molly Shepard, Ellara Cousland and Skaila Skaran © me
Casavir, Sand and Neeshka © Obsidian and Atari
Liara T'Soni, Garrus Vakarian, Alistair, Wynne and Leliana © Bioware
Lydia and Vigilance © Bethesda
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This is so hilarious! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who feels this way!
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I thought the very same thing about games and real life whenever during running races. Imagining I'm The Warden or the Vault 101 Kid only works for .... 10 seconds.
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Wow...! That's so true...! Poor you! Why you "stamina" is so little?
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Okay, some people are really skilled in long distance running but... I worry about some other stuff like: How could every game character take 4 bows, 5 swords and stuff and look like he/she has only a poket full of money, one bow and a drink?!!
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Well, stamina is one aspect of reality that I'm glad they haven't tried to incorporate into video- wait.
Diablo...
Yeah, stamina is annoying in that one, really.
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This is extremely funny, and extremely true! Also, in the midst of all their running without getting sore or tired, they're never bothered with temperature. I don't know as much about Mass Effect or Skyrim, but I know in Dragon Age they run up a high steep snowing mountainside and a deep underground cave with thick rivers of boiling lava, yet in the midst of all their jogging in thick leather and metal armor no one ever collapses from altitude sickness or heat stroke.
But then that might just be because I'm a weather wimp. A little early morning frost and I get so cold I can't take my dog jogging on account of the cold hurting my joints and my lungs, and running on hot days just make me dizzy and nauseous. Never bothers game characters though. xD
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I've never really had that problem because, I used to miss the bus a lot when I went to school, so I built up a lot of stamina running after moving vehicles. (Which makes me feel like a hypocrite whenever I get mad at the dog for running after cars.)
What I want to know is how those people go without ever sleeping, let alone waking up more than two minutes before they're supposed to be somewhere.
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Actually Diablo 2 doesn't do that. You can choose between jogging or running, and as you jog, your stamina meter starts going down. If it runs out, the game forces you to walk until it (slowly) re-charges a little.
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In Morrowind you actually had stamina counter. >D
That's the reason why I loved the game. Part of.
...and I used to run to work. Then I took a bicycle to the road and +5kg to my body. And horrible stamina.
(and I use horse in-game anyways
But hey, in DA you have +1000000 Warden stamina, in ME - you were trained for years and are a special unit soldier, and NwN... is just old lovely D&D where you can swim up the waterfall!
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You're not alone sister
I really should go back to the gym, one of these days, after I play NwN2 a little more
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Love it!
And two of my favorite games are in this! Yay!
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SKYRIM!! LYDIA!!! HO MAI GAWD!
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. . . so . . . many . . . stairs . . .
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The parallels are so perfect!
I was thinking about doing a workout routine based on Skyrim. Run! Sprint! Draw Sword! Power Attack! Sheath Weapon! Sneak! Roll! Repeat!
Then I realized I would probably die if I did that XD so yeah.
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Thank you so much! 
I sure have lots of fun drawing this stuff.
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You have the same party i do in Dragon Age. XD
Its so true. XD
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Best party ever! 
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I will only ever use Alistair, Wynne and Leliana. In that order. XD Mine are modded too so my Leli lookes like Sacred Ashes Leli and my Wynne just looks dignified. Old, but beautiful and dignified.
I just... I dunno... I never liked Zevran in my party. I can't even say why.
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Aha, this happen to me all the time !
I must say those characters have more practice than us.
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They must have - no wonder they're all so fit when they run back and forth all the time...
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I'm sorry but I find this hilarious! XD
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it's true, thats what i both hate and love with "Heavy Rain" for ps 3. In the beginning i though it were interesting with doing real-life stuff, like making drawings like you were an architect. However i stopped pretty quickly as i got annoyed with the toothbrushing, and the constant slow walking, even when one of the main chars were searching for his son.
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I guess that just proves that there can be such thing as too much realism in video game...
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It does have some really interesting parts, i just couldn't really get to them fast enough, like, there's a car chase, and i wanted to know how the story ended, and all the people you get to be, how their stories intertwined. It also gets abit creepy/wierd early on.
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It sucks when people ask you, "So what did you do over the weekend." and I just want to go on and on about all the adventures and achievements I got from playing skyrim.
So it's always a dull, "*sigh* Nothing..."
I don't wanna sound crazy by saying, I killed dozens of frost trolls! and bandits! and slayed two dragons and saved a city from another dragon attack!!
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Heh, that's like the story of my life!
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Very nice! And I'd name all the little details I love about the comic, but it would take too long.
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Thanks a lot!
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Oh, I can so much relate to that, especially being a smoker
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Every now and then I sure could use that kind of endurance...
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Another wonderful thing would be like getting a belly full of arrows, drink a bottle of potion and be ready to run and jump again. Instead you limp for a weak after you simply slid and fell on the ice
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