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Re: Could someone explain to me..
Posted By: uberfoop <atkinso2@seattleu.edu>Date: 3/21/12 10:38 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Could someone explain to me.. (General Vagueness)


: I meant they generally all strive to have objects react to forces the way
: real objects do (for example falling at 16 ft/s 2 if the game is set on
: Earth).

Not all games try to be totally physically realistic. And even if they did, the basic choices of how particular objects behave would cause drastic differences in how the games felt physically. Which is a major part of what people mean when they talk about what a game's physics are like. Which is why people aren't unreasonable at all when they say Halo 4 could have substantially different physics than previous Halo titles (and why lots of people say that Reach has totally different physics than Halo 3 which has different physics than Halo 2).

And why would objects fall at 16ft/(s^2) on Earth if the game is trying to be realistic? Little g is roughly 32ft/(s^2).


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     Re: Could someone explain to me..Beckx 3/14/12 9:40 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..Quirel 3/14/12 10:07 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..yakaman 3/14/12 10:28 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..Overdoziz 3/15/12 12:32 a.m.
           Re: Could someone explain to me..mattroe 3/15/12 1:12 a.m.
                 Re: Could someone explain to me..Overdoziz 3/15/12 2:03 a.m.
                       Re: Could someone explain to me..Joony Joon 3/15/12 2:48 a.m.
                             Re: Could someone explain to me..Overdoziz 3/15/12 3:28 a.m.
                                   Re: Could someone explain to me..RC Master 3/15/12 4:04 a.m.
                                         Re: Could someone explain to me..Overdoziz 3/15/12 2:11 p.m.
                                               Re: Could someone explain to me..RC Master 3/15/12 3:58 p.m.
                                                     Re: Could someone explain to me..Overdoziz 3/15/12 5:40 p.m.
                                                           Re: Could someone explain to me..Hunt3r 3/15/12 6:12 p.m.
                                                           Re: Could someone explain to me..RC Master 3/15/12 7:00 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..ZackDark 3/15/12 1:22 a.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..DEEP NNN 3/15/12 1:43 a.m.
     NostalgiaRC Master 3/15/12 1:51 a.m.
           Nostalgia: Never as good as you remember it being *NM*TDSpiral 3/15/12 10:07 a.m.
                 Usually it's better than you remember. *NM*Gravemind 3/15/12 6:53 p.m.
                       Nope. *NM*TDSpiral 3/15/12 7:03 p.m.
                             Re: Nope.Gravemind 3/15/12 9:44 p.m.
                                   Re: Nope.uberfoop 3/15/12 11:18 p.m.
                                         Re: Nope.Gravemind 3/15/12 11:57 p.m.
                                               Re: Nope.uberfoop 3/16/12 12:04 a.m.
                                                     Re: Nope.Gravemind 3/16/12 1:57 a.m.
                                                           I never said you can't like "old stuff"TDSpiral 3/16/12 6:19 a.m.
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                                   Re: Nope.Quirel 3/16/12 2:47 a.m.
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     Re: Could someone explain to me..serpx 3/15/12 5:23 a.m.
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                 LOL *NM*CaneCutter 3/15/12 3:28 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..Kalamari 3/15/12 6:02 p.m.
     Halo should still be Halo.Gravemind 3/15/12 9:38 p.m.
           Re: Halo should still be Halo.Frankie 3/16/12 5:48 p.m.
                 Re: Halo should still be Halo.stabbim 3/16/12 7:37 p.m.
                 I'd pay for...Revenant1988 3/16/12 7:55 p.m.
     Re: Could someone explain to me..General Vagueness 3/20/12 3:20 a.m.
           Re: Could someone explain to me..uberfoop 3/20/12 3:53 a.m.
                 Re: Could someone explain to me..General Vagueness 3/21/12 10:20 p.m.
                       Re: Could someone explain to me..uberfoop 3/21/12 10:38 p.m.
                             Re: Could someone explain to me..General Vagueness 3/22/12 4:59 a.m.
                                   Re: Could someone explain to me..uberfoop 3/22/12 5:12 a.m.
                                         Re: Could someone explain to me..General Vagueness 3/22/12 6:59 a.m.
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