Laws of physics

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I get really pissed off when they get the laws of physics wrong in games because it upsets my reactions. Like, something falling falls at a constant velocity instead of accelerating.

That is my biggest frustration with the Mario games. He is on a platform that is moving on the horizontal axis, and jumps, and he does not keep moving with a near constant horizontal velocity of the platform he was previously on, instead he goes straight up. Very frustrating.

Heh, I find it funny sometimes with all the weird stuff that can happen. Geetting outside Soleanna in Sonic '06 just be breakdancing on top of a box, or "cheating" in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts by getting your cart to levitate beneath you in Showdown town.

I get the same feeling when I see bad computer animation in a movie or on TV.

I just hate when everything that should be heavy, bounces when it lands.

But then again, all of these games let you carry an armament of enormous weapons, and still be able to jump three feet in the air, and swim with ease. So you can't really expect too much realism

What would be really cool is to have a game that would allow someone to traverse the solar system and go to the moon, Mars, the asteroids, the moons of the gas giants, Pluto, Sedna, and the other planetoids. Have an interplanetary civilization in place already (or perhaps building the civilization and facilities could be part of the game) and be able to land on the various worlds, throw things, launch things (like with catapults or whatnot), and jump seeing the different rates of surface acceleration and different skies and horizons.

Any time that happens its because a wizard did it.