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Videogames versus the real world - final round!

Over 30 more examples that virtual life is superior to actual life in (nearly) every way

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US
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Remember reality? That place to which your loved ones are always urging you to put down the controller and return? Completely overrated. And compared to the gloriously exaggerated world of videogames, completely underwhelming.

Bosses don’t have glowing weak points in the real world. Car crashes don’t reward bonus points and death isn’t solved with a continue. Plumbers don’t get princesses, archaeologists don’t work in bikinis and hedgehogs don’t run particularly fast. Evil supercomputers, robot dinosaurs and sexy vampires don’t even exist!

Just to be sure, though, we’re giving reality one last chance. After humiliating defeats in both Part One and Part Two of our versus showdown, can the stuff around you finally beat the stuff inside your gaming machine? Let’s find out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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Cyberninja  - 7 months 13 days ago 
this is why video games pwn real life
why cant this a weekly feature
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td823934  - 7 months 13 days ago 
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Cyberninja  - 7 months 13 days ago 
arent the video game cabinets in real life?
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Over1imit  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Yet again, a fantastic article. I really loved the vampire one. :D
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td823934  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Wow, how did that happen. My first first was blocked by someone i didn't even see on the commenting thing until after I said first. That kind of thing could only happen to me.
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Cyberninja  - 7 months 13 days ago 
sorry then
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norid  - 7 months 13 days ago 
lol loved the last one
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GoldenMe  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Well Charlie, even though I'm still a bit pissed about Sonic in part one, putting in Sonic's awesome running vs. real world makes up for it.......KIND OF!

And the last one was pure genius. Way to go!

And before people get bent out of shape about why this can't be a weekly feature, there just isn't enough stuff in the world that GR can use.
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AMayer  - 7 months 13 days ago 
That last one made my brain ah-splode, but I walked it off.
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Superwes  - 7 months 13 days ago 
1. Sex symbols are way better in IRL and anyone who says elsewise plays way too many videogames.
2. For cubes they should have put a robo cube from custom robo arena
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TheSuburbiaRuins  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Execution is way better irl.
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Shifty1001  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Superwes, stop acting like you don't find Nariko hotter than Paris Hilton.
Why does it mean I play too many videogames if I think a "well-rendered" (if you know what I mean) videogame chick is hotter than an under-rendered and probably-legally-retarded real chick?
Nevermind, this is probably the same person who insists he sucks at games because he's always out "playing sports" or "talking to females".
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Ddz53  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Lol real life videogames are way better than the real life videogames videogames
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GamesRadarCharlieBarratt  - 7 months 13 days ago 
@Superwes - I agree that real-life women are far preferable to videogame women. The category, however, is "sex symbol"... something that, in the real world, has been taken over by vapid talentless attention whores like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian or drug-addled former child stars like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and the Olsen twins.
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bl00dyvalen7ine  - 7 months 13 days ago 
under "Drunk" I'm surprised you guys didn't use a pic of Chris Antista. =D
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RebornKusabi  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Exactly! The question here is who would you HONESTLY rather bang (I'm sorry to state this bluntly, but apparently it has to be said for people like Superwes to understand)?

Your telling me that you would rather, hypothetically, have sexual relations with Paris Hilton instead of Nariko? Whatever floats your boat....
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RamenDragon  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Wow, the sex symbols. GamesRadar had a chance to use a picture of Ivy in an article and they didn't. Someone call Ripley's.

I like these articles, but it would get old as a weekly feature.
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Yellowhat17  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Don't be the last!!!!!!

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Silentboy  - 7 months 13 days ago 
Definately right on the last one.
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noobmasteroftehworld  - 7 months 13 days ago 
gatherers gardens pwn any real life food vending machines. the only thing you can get from a real life one is fat, but the gatherers garden can make you a GOD
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