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I made a list of lessons learned from video games, with things like “Blue hedgehogs run really fast” and “Eating green mushrooms will give you an extra life,” and one of the other things was “In most games, you probably don’t know how to swim.”
I support this graph’s accuracy.
I’d have to disagree. While as terrain it can be deadly as a tool for use in battle, destructive capabilities is horribly underestimated, such as with water-based magic spells/creatures. Whereas fire, since many people think is cool-looking, tends to be made one of the most powerful magic spells or weapons. In reality, water is one of the most destructive forces of nature, such as erosion, landslides, floods, tidal waves, hurricanes, destruction of property, and of course drowning.
Yes but in so many games, falling in water means instant death. In others, you drown in 5 seconds (never mind that the charcacter’s head is above water).
I totally agree It’s like some characters die when they hit the water and others you have like 3 sec to hit the jump button to survive.
In Gta: Vice city, and Assassins Creed, falling in water means instant death. No jump outs.
Disagree, as a gamer i find that water in 90% of games will forget physics and never even obtain a cement quality at high altitude drops. You can fall in water and survive from thousands of feet in the air and maybe end up 10 feet underwater as a result no HP loss. Some video games go so far as allowing you to hold your breath for 3 minutes or more at a time. There are very few video games out today where the developers were too effin lazy to add a swim animation your character to allow water travel. Unless you are playing soul reaver or something water is not all that bad. Lava in video games is the opposite too usually you will take a tiny bit (never an alarming amount) of damage touching lava more often than not.
Also should add there’s a trend of makeing these things more obvious to the player. For instance if the water is purple or green… Its probably poison/acidic liquid in which case you should avoid it. If the lava is blue… Super lava for sure you can only touch it for maybe 2 seconds as opposed to 10.
this graph isn’t entirely accurate. water often kills you instantly, yes, but you will usually bounce around if you hit lava until you either die or get back on land.
this is somewhat true. Combat Arms…u die in water hahaha
But in video games, lava only kills you if you actually touch it….
Exactly. In many games you can merrily hop across and around flowing lava without any effect, as long as you don’t actually fall in. That stuff is MELTED ROCK at 1500 – 2200 degrees Fahrenheit! It’s gonna roast you alive if you even get too close – no need to take a dip in it.
So the perceived deadliness of lava in games should actually be a little below it’s lethality in real life.
Yeah, and sometimes in video games, lava don’t even kill you, just damage you… I think the game bar over lava should be lower.
You know that lava isn’t directly lethal, right? You can survive falling into lava, as long as you can get out within 30 seconds or so.
let’s make an experience.
we throw you into lava, and take you back half a second later
if you’re sill alive, SUCCESS!
or not..
still *
Lava’s so dense that you don’t really fall into it… you fall on top of it and probably burn to death. And I have serious doubts about laying on something that’s over 1000 degrees for 30 seconds, and surviving. Unless you want to go ahead and cite your sources.
I read about it in NewScientist about a year ago, there was these two volcano researchers who fell into a crater on Hawaii. They managed to crawl out with major burns, but nothing that didn’t heal.
I would’ve provided a link, but they seem to have taken it down.
Perhaps it was faulty.
I agree 30 seconds sounds very implausible, but I’m just quoting what I read.
With a proper outfit, I bet you could survive at least 5 seconds while standing on it, though
lava isn’t always 1000 degrees …
sometimes, just sometimes, it even becomes stonecold.
it cools down, if far away from source, you know?
The crater probably was just filled with ash, unless the volcano had just erupted.
Indeed. In Sonic Advance 1, Second Zone (that military stage with lava sections), if you fall into lave you just lose all the rings and then you can walk on it for some time, for as long you are invulnerable. So, if you manage to grapple a ring before turning back to normal, you will be able to swim endlessly on lava.
And Mario heals in water ONLY in SM64 and Galaxy, when he is on the surface and not underwater. If he is underwater, he loses health bits every 5-10 seconds, until he is drown (cool though, how it replenishes once you get back to the surface).
Actually Mario (in his SMBs’ series’ days) can last as long as he wants below the water surface (there are whole stages underwater), but, due to some strange reason, if he is on a land stage and jumps into a pit of water, he dies! And it’s not even a bottomless pit or a lava pit. Same for Donkey Kong – I think.
Crash Bandicoot is the most annoying of them all, insta-death when he falls into water, and that blaster Up the Creek level on CB has you constantly jump over water in a stream!
I’ll give a link to a video to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_TGo2eKJ8
It looks easy in here, but it’s oh-so frustrating to pull that off without dying when you play it. Also, I think Rayman has that water-death ability. Or so I think, I remember him dying instantly at the swamp, when he fell out of Sam the snakes’ reach.
OK, too much information.
not in megaman!
obviously the graph maker has played GTA Vice City, where even knee high water is deadly.
What about bottomless pits? Or, for that matter, grues?
I never understood why in spyro 2 I had to pay a guy to teach me how to go underwater.
actually if you’re super mario water heals you
Yeah, but if you’re Yoshi from Sunshine, you’re screwed…
Not in Super Mario 2…and other than the Water stages in 3, it killed you.
In Okami if you have a certain object equipped to yourself, you can swim in lava and it won’t harm you, just like water(which you can swim in and use as a weapon.)
Ooh I have not found this item yet! But even in water Ammy drowns if she stays in too long…
Lava isn’t that lethal. It so dense that you can walk away from most of it. Pyroclastic flows and air blasts… that’s a different story.
Sure, you can walk away from it, but that doesn’t make it any less lethal. Is suicide not that lethal just because most people never experience it?
Go hang out on some lava for 30 seconds.
The floor is lava!
I have dreams where I can breathe underwater. It’s great fun!
Goron’s don’t die in lava. BTW.
I think the Video Game example of Lava should be lower.
With real life lava, even if you’re within about 10 feet of it, you can still get burned. Probably 20 or 30, if you’re over it.
Meanwhile, in games…
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConvectionSchmonvection
unless you’re floating above it with a shield beneath your feet, combined with being well-versed in the way of the force.
Ahh!! WATER!!!
Don’t forget Pitfall Harry – even when the water didn’t have crocodiles in it…
bit off there, lava is sometimes survivable in video games.
I’m guessing you’ve played Psychonauts.
I would like to point out the Varia Suit in Metroid games, which gives you total invincibility to lava. Also, when you even just start the game, you can swim in water and you’ll be fine.
I think you guys are forgetting that video games are not perfectly realistic. Don’t rattle off numbers and statistics about how lava will kill you or roast you alive when you are around it. They are just games for entertainment.
Yea but that’s why it’s fun to talk about games like this. We know its not real, just fun to pretend that it is.