Realism – It’s Not for Everyone

http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_85_if-video-games-were-realistic/

Galloway correctly asserts that there are both realistic games and fantastical games. This set of photos drives home this point by contextualizing fantastical games with “realistic” problems. It reminds us how we are so ready to suspend our disbelief and concede to faith in the reality created onscreen. The funny thing is, when we are faced with games that we take to be realistic (as opposed to fantastical), we are quick to grow indignant when glitches or the game’s programming break from the natural laws that we expect to govern that space. We assume that the game is bound by reality, when this assumption is largely unfounded. Anyways, have a laugh at these photos; a few of them are pretty clever.