Well, I've been playing Fall Out 3 very recently, a great game, but the way you restore health is by eating food, drinking water, and sleeping. In this game there are guns, explosions, and some melee-action, also in The Prince of Persia, if you get hurt you drink some water, in that game, it's a sword, arrow or what ever. Countless games do this.
If I ever make a video game, I'm going to make it so that if you get hit with a gun, your going to have to have something more than an apple to restore your health points, maby some bandages, maby even some tweezers, hit with a car, bandages aren't going to do the trick, but maby some steroids will keep you going a little bit longer.
The point of this topic - I'm trying to get my point out that in video games, if you get hit with a sword, drinking water isn't going to restore your health.
In "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater" & a game for PC - "Call of Cthulhu The Dark Corners of the Earth" you have to deal with your injuries with first aid equipment.
For minor lacerations, you can use bandages, for deep wounds or breaks, you have to use sutures & splints. In Snake Eater you have to dig bullets out of your wounds using your knife.
Something I prefer to do in those sorts of games... think of your... 'hitpoints' less as your actualy life, and more as your luck, and how under serious fire, it quickly runs out.
buffout,and if you eat food you will get radiation.
It also restores health, and no, buff out increases it temporarily.
For minor lacerations, you can use bandages, for deep wounds or breaks, you have to use sutures & splints. In Snake Eater you have to dig bullets out of your wounds using your knife.
This is exactly what I'm talking about, you can't fix a broken leg by using a stimpak.
Something I also prefer to do, is play the game on the hardest mode for the most realisticness.
Something I also prefer to do, is play the game on the hardest mode for the most realisticness.
I do that every once in a while but I just like to play games on Normal. Not shabby. Hit points to me, is just how much energy you have left to keep on going. That's why I like it when they make food restore your hit points.
Yes, I enjoy playing games with more realistic forms of healing health. Just eating food or something stupid won't help with anything unless you're starving.
health points are fail in my opinion anyway, gears of wars style is a much more prefered style because you dont die every 5 seconds and if you save a game for example like fallout, if i get really far on fallout but i have low health and i know if i save it i wont be able to do the next mission and ill die all the time so i wont be able to save it and have to to it all over again which is rubbish
Not all games have to discard reality Gagamen. Besides, simulators can be a lot of fun if you're actually into the subject matter.
Lock On: Modern Air Combat has the most realistic simulation of flying modern jets I've ever seen. It took me a month to start to get a grasp on the workings of the radar system for the Su-27 - it was an awesome game; but not for people who don't have patience or aren't really into jets.
I'd make it so that when your heart, instead of just using a med kit, you open a medkit, and depending on what your injuries are, fix them with the required tools, instead of just eating an apple, sleeping on it, or what ever.
Hit Points (HP) Not Health Points.
In DnD it's Hit points. Sometimes it's health points, sometimes it isn't.
Farcry 2 had a good system for its health. Stab yourself with a syringe for the minor injuries and do extreme in field surgery for the big ones (break your bones back in shape or dig out a bullet with a knife).
Lock On: Modern Air Combat has the most realistic simulation of flying modern jets I've ever seen. It took me a month to start to get a grasp on the workings of the radar system for the Su-27 - it was an awesome game; but not for people who don't have patience or aren't really into jets.
Ahh the N001. A fascinating developmental histroy.
I would agree that realism in video games is often welcome. The satisfaction you receive from completing them is immense.
