Life Lessons From Video Games

I thought it'd be cool to have a thread on what important stuff you've learned from video games. Just state the lesson and the game that taught you. Here's an example.

No matter how awful of a crime you commit, even if you have the National Guard after you, All you have to do is go to sleep and they'll completely stop looking.

JustMe wrote:

I thought it'd be cool to have a thread on what important stuff you've learned from video games. Just state the lesson and the game that taught you. Here's an example.

No matter how awful of a crime you commit, even if you have the National Guard after you, All you have to do is go to sleep and they'll completely stop looking.

That's from GTA IV, by the way...forgot to add that

To survive a zombie apocalypse you've gotta be an ex-army dude, a biker dude, a black dude or a woman. (L4D)

If you die, you'll respawn soon enough at the nearest checkpoint. (any game )

Never hurt chickens, they gang up on you. (Legend of Zelda)

Killing little girls will make you stronger. (Bioshock)

In a fight, always wait for your opponent before you make your move, taking turns in hitting each other. Whoever hits hardest will eventually win. (any MMO )

1. If you face in a certain direction so that there are a lot of people, objects, shiny surfaces, and/or you can see really far, time may slow down and your vision will become choppy.

2. Sometimes if you go somewhere you’re “not supposed to be” you may fall through the ground and find yourself falling through a void, with the world as you know it rapidly disappearing into the distance above.

3. Turtles and mushrooms can kill you just by touching you anywhere other than the bottom of your feet.

4. While on a date with a girl, just barely brushing a pedestrian with your car accidentally will ruin your date fast. However, the same girl will have no problem with helping you intentionally steal as many cars as you want.

5. You can only have unclothed sex after applying a patch.

6. No matter how heinous a crime you pull, even directly in front of cops, they will forget what you look like and what car you sped off in if you stay out of their sight for 20 seconds.

7. Regardless of shoe type, the soles are always so slippery that standing on any slope greater than 45 degrees will cause you to slide like an ice skater downhill.

8. Some types of molten lava will not kill you, even if you fall completely in, as long as you jump out quickly.

9. Whenever you find a valuable item lying around in a dark corner, a short musical flourish will come from nowhere. Warning: you will become addicted to that sound.

10. If you’re ever in a shootout and firing near cover, you may find that even though you have clear line-of-sight to your opponent’s head, your bullets are bouncing off some invisible force near the cover you are hiding behind. Moving sideways a few inches will alleviate the problem.

11. Reloading a gun when only one bullet has been expended won't waste the other bullets left in the clip that you have just tossed on the ground. Also, the clip casing itself will disappear the moment it leaves your hand, resulting in no messy cleanup.

12. At some unknown point in history a brilliant scientist invented indestructible glass. Not just bulletproof, but even point-blank rocket launcher proof. Also, this glass managed to replace a large portion of the world’s windows without anybody noticing or having to pay a fee for the installation.

13. Whoever came up with the Periodic Table is an idiot and a fraud. There are obviously only 4 elements.

14. It’s possible to be in full daylight outdoors without the Sun visible anywhere in the sky.

15. Even if you are an obviously experienced warrior, you’ll need someone to teach you how to jump in the air while pointing your sword downward, and another person to teach you about pointing your sword upward.

and more at this link: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/101-more-things-weve-learned-from-games/a-20090102105534716077

Being small can be nice ( lbp )

Living in a jellybean's package with a ps3 controller in it rules. ( lbp )

Epic man break stone weiners like twigs (MGS 4)

Don't set off car alarms (L4D).

Don't let anything fly at your face and drain your life force (Metroid Prime. I'm terrified at anything that flies at my face).

DO NOT HIT THE CHICKENS! (perviously mentioned).

The best way to escape the police is to drive away really fast (Zero Punctuation's take on GTA4).

and please don't screw with the witch (L4D again).

you can win any game of skate with a 540 (Skate)

Like literally when you played any CPU in a game of skate all you had to do was a 540. there was some glitch where the CPU couldn't do 540's

Hiding in the bathroom can save your life (James Bond Golden Eye)

Having a good vantage point is key to sniping. (CoD 4/WaW)

Having Broadwalk and Park Place will dominate. (Monopoly)

I tried to think of others, but nothin comes to mind.

Beat a teenager in a duel and the Ethug will come after you. - Warcraft.

Two to the leg, one to the head. - Dead Space

When you hear the siren, RUN AWAY! - Silent Hill

Hype is the little brother of cake, it's also a lie. - Spore

Milk, it makes da' loogie's! - Boogerman

The cake is a lie.

yay more lessons

If you beat someone at a children's card game you're l33t (Yu-gi-oh games)

Atoms are god (Fallout 3)

The answer is NOT 42 (I haven't got a clue i just wanted to add that XD)

The Hydra can be easily pwned (GOW [GOD, NOT GEARS] )

One in the shin and a good hug solves everything (RE 4, the hug being the suplex)

Mother russia owns all (red alert 2 I believe)

Needles dominate all (Halo)

Candles > Ghosts (Silent hill 4)

Keys make l33t weapons (Kingdom Hearts)

Apparently you can behead a ghosty heartless thing with a shield no problem (Also Kingdom Hearts)

no matter how high of a building you jump off of if you land in a haystack you will be fine.-AC

If you get chased by the cops for murder just start praying and they will ignore you - AC
If you go on a safari in africa DO NOT bring the sniper rifle cuz damn african militias will find you in the bushes no matter what you do - Far cry 2
Mushrooms are good for you - Super mario

EDIT: If your russian you can pretty much survive driving into a concrete wall in about 180 km/h, fly through the front window and hit the wall leaving a huge blood stain and the walk away as if nothing happened saying: Not funny. - GTA IV

here i made a video about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taHcxZYvcMU&feature=channel_page

Lol fun topic.

- Drinking radioactive water isn't as harmful to your health as you might think. FO3
- If you get shot, just hide behind a wall or other object eventually you will regain full health and not bleed to death.
- /dance will make you king of the disco.

When things get too difficult pause the game, sleep on it and get back on it the next morning

Always watch the corners (basically any shooter)
Never stay on a certain spot for too long (idem)
Never skitch on cars or skate down a mountain in real life, It'll get you killed... (Skate2)
Snipers are a pain in the butt (cod4/waw)
Always wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle (GTAIV)

And so on...

I dont learn my life lessons from video games.