What if… game cliches invaded the real world?

Everything is frightening when rules are applied to reality

Words: on May 28, 2009

The great thing about videogames is that they operate within their own realities. Think about it. Infamous tasks you with shocking adversaries to death, yet you can’t even jump over chain-link fences. At the same time, Gears of War assumes every man weighs half a ton, but can pull off the most graceful somersaults. But real life is boringly consistent. Where are the bionic arms? The plasma rifles? THE LIGHTSABERS?

However, the confines of a videogame can make for frustrating gameplay (see the above example about scaling fences). But what would happen if the game world and the real world COMBINED? Or rather, if the conventions and clichés that only happen in these virtual worlds invaded a world with consistent physics and dimensions? There’d be disastrous results, dear reader! So horrendous to explain, we made a video instead. So take your eyes off these words and play the video below.

May 28, 2009


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  • wiigamer024

    wiigamer024  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    PRESS A DAMNIT!
    lol
    T_T that poor little kid...
  • pueojit1

    pueojit1  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    nice job. someone should of played the guitar
  • Ded

    Ded  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    They are? But doesn't he take the guns off of his back...?
  • Ded

    Ded  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    How are 3 guns and some grenades an impossible inventory? :D
  • loserphenom

    loserphenom  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    my god man...was that little girl o.k. after that? where the hell were the parents?
  • reroxas

    reroxas  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    That last part at the end was painful but awesome. What I really want to know on related subject what happened to the kid?
  • yoreAtowel

    yoreAtowel  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    i fail at life. I didnt press A............
  • civver

    civver  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    Somewhat amusing.
  • Albertxz5

    Albertxz5  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    Cant watch the vid something is crashing (if not my computer or my signal) the vid...
  • Demonflare

    Demonflare  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    Ha! Great vid! The KO part was funny!
  • atomicred

    atomicred  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    That was awesome and how can I get one of those games radar backpacks?
  • waffledragon33

    waffledragon33  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    coool
  • Bhuggy

    Bhuggy  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    Street fighting in public, epic win!!!!
  • NorwegianKingOfNames

    NorwegianKingOfNames  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    I am the Norwegian King of Names!
  • helix92

    helix92  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    Ah kids gettin kicked in the face never gets old. And the fence thing in inFamous is the only problem i've had with the game so far.
  • homieomar

    homieomar  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    freaking funny that last part at the end you WIN
  • solidocelot

    solidocelot  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    she wasn't man enough for him
  • JizzyB

    JizzyB  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    lol, "you win" as kid gets kicked
  • usmovers_02

    usmovers_02  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    poor poor kid... just... WOW. How did that happen? Surf's web...


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  • SmashTVAnt

    SmashTVAnt  - 2 years, 8 months ago  - Report

    That kid was a f***in c-c-c-combo breaker
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