# Weird Video Game Questions You Have **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 24, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072 "2013-12-24T08:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/41 "2014-01-07T16:04:35Z")
> [@smiling\_bandit](#): > > …I now want a mod which lets stolen horses call in Twilight Sparkle and her friends to do battle with you… Knowing the Nexus (_shudder_), there probably are a dozen. Including one where Twilight Sparkle is anatomically accurate. For immersion, of course. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/42 "2014-01-07T17:19:34Z")
When Mario gets the Magic Mushroom, His “plumbing” must be getting bigger as well, right? What’s the deal with Bowser and Peach, really? Birdo… ? Yoshi… ? I wonder if Mario ran into Cranky Kong at the grocery, what the reaction of each would be? Oh, and where’s Wart been? It’s time to bring back Wart. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/43 "2014-01-07T17:28:52Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Birdo… ? Transgender dinosaur who thinks she’s a bird… duh. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/44 "2014-01-07T18:15:31Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > All the Halo games show your feet moving nicely if you look down at them. And, of course, there was _Trespasser_, a FPS game that allowed the player to look down and ogle their own breasts. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/45 "2014-01-07T18:22:38Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Transgender dinosaur who thinks she’s a bird… duh. Does she think she’s a bird? I thought the last revisions was that she was dating Yoshi. Although, I suppose cross-species dating wouldn’t be too out there. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/46 "2014-01-08T16:43:25Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > In F.E.A.R. if you jump off a tall building the game cuts out before you hit the ground and simply tells you you’re dead. Are there any games that let you take a deadly fall and hit the ground with a nice splat? The first (2D) Prince of Persia. Slightly traumatising for a young lad. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/47 "2014-01-08T16:59:34Z")
The side scroller? I don’t remember any long falls, but I remember landing on spikes - it made a kind of sickening _“zip”_ sound. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/48 "2014-01-08T17:22:18Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > The side scroller? > I don’t remember any long falls, but I remember landing on spikes - it made a kind of sickening _“zip”_ sound. There were a couple of multi-screen plummets, as i remember. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/49 "2014-01-08T17:40:20Z")
Well now I gotta go find it, I remember playing online a few years ago… ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/50 "2014-01-09T04:25:19Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Tomb Raider would let you hit the ground. It was more of a crunch than a splat, as I recall, unless you also landed on spikes. 🙂 Ditto Mirror’s Edge. A nice crunch as you hit the ground. Half Life and/or Half Life 2 also let you hit the ground to your death if the fall wasn’t too far. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/51 "2014-01-09T09:29:56Z")
Does it matter in what order you play the Ratchet and Clank games? What is the order they came out? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/52 "2014-01-14T17:38:30Z")
In the original Tomb Raider (I haven’t seen much of the follow-ups) there were often healing packs found next to the bones of previous explorers. But they didn’t seem to be getting less frequent over the course of the game. How did they get so evenly distributed. Also, in Neverwinter Nights you often found healing potions on dead bodies. I imagined these victims were 1) saving them because they were sure they’d need them more later or 2) having trouble getting the child-proof caps off of them. Which is it? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/53 "2014-01-14T18:39:35Z")
Who keeps making all these land mines that have[flashing lights and make beeping noises,](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ssy1tt1u1Lk/maxresdefault.jpg) and why do villains keep buying them? Why do societies with the ability to make advanced energy weapons still make [bolt-action rifles](http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mantaray7/media/GOW%20Weapons%20at%20Neca/Longshotsniper1.jpg.html)? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/54 "2014-01-14T19:16:35Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Who keeps making all these land mines that have[flashing lights and make beeping noises,](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/Ssy1tt1u1Lk/maxresdefault.jpg) and why do villains keep buying them? What game is that? Looks familiar but I can’t place it. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/55 "2014-01-14T19:25:38Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > What game is that? Looks familiar but I can’t place it. Deus Ex: Human Revolution ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/56 "2014-01-14T19:48:11Z")
Another in the “you can hit the ground, but you don’t go splat” column: Kerbal Space Program. (I discovered this one after trying an EVA in a suborbital flight. Surprisingly, Kerbals come with some sort of built-in heat shield.) ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/57 "2014-01-14T20:02:38Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > Also, in Neverwinter Nights you often found healing potions on dead bodies. I imagined these victims were 1) saving them because they were sure they’d need them more later or 2) having trouble getting the child-proof caps off of them. Which is it? It’s got to be the caps, how is that even a question? Those things are enough of a hassle to open when you wake up with a headache, just imagine how much harder it would be if there was also a broadsword sticking out of your spleen. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/58 "2014-01-14T20:45:44Z")
In older RPG/Dungeon crawlers you’d make your way through miles of abandoned dungeon with torches on the walls - whose lighting all these fucking things? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/59 "2014-01-15T08:00:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > In the original Tomb Raider (I haven’t seen much of the follow-ups) there were often healing packs found next to the bones of previous explorers. But they didn’t seem to be getting less frequent over the course of the game. How did they get so evenly distributed. > > Also, in Neverwinter Nights you often found healing potions on dead bodies. I imagined these victims were 1) saving them because they were sure they’d need them more later or 2) having trouble getting the child-proof caps off of them. Which is it? My question is: Who leaves all those treasures in dungeons and why do they leave them there? My favorite unexplained thing is the older Castlevania games where you were constantly finding chicken legs and other foods on your way through Dracula’s castle. Who in the world left that food there and why in the world would somebody eat it after it’s been sitting there for years? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/60 "2014-01-15T08:48:59Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > My question is: Who leaves all those treasures in dungeons and why do they leave them there? My favorite unexplained thing is the older Castlevania games where you were constantly finding chicken legs and other foods on your way through Dracula’s castle. Who in the world left that food there and why in the world would somebody eat it after it’s been sitting there for years? Dracula leaves it here first thing every day at dusk, specifically so that Simon won’t die of something as undignified as starvation (or death via monster henpecking). There \*is \*such a thing as class. For more information, read _Carpe Jugulum_ :). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072.md?page=4)