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Too Real: What Happens When Video Games Get Realistic

One of our main complaints with videos games is that they're not real. Um, what a waste of time, right? Why, we could be playing outside instead of mindlessly pushing buttons all day. Because there's just tons of fun things to do in nature. Like...um? Wait, what do you do outside? Besides stand (or sit?). And look around. Ah, screw it -- playing outside sucks.

What would also suck? If video games were too realistic. Cracked recently held a contest asking their readers to showcase how silly games would be if developers inserted a wee bit too much realism in them. Example: The Grand Theft Auto series would get really heavy [via Cracked]:

Continue after the break for our favorite ones, including the winner of the contest.

 

And the winner:

Comments (6)
:D HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D Great stuff! Now the "does Pac-man have an ass" question is over. He just pukes everything up! :D
rofl! Can't.stop.laughing.
These are great ;D I like the guitar and bullseye the best.
Brilliant. The Scorpion animation is killing me!
Hahaha, I laughed out loud at every one of those, especially Link's banishment from the pottery shop. :D Thank you, Michael, for this awesome post.
I loved the Link one, too. Great stuff.
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