# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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 15, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/61 "2014-01-15T09:06:45Z")
'Oh my god, I’ve been shot! Good thing I’ve been hanging on to this ham I found in the sewer!" ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/62 "2014-01-15T09:35:43Z")
In Skyrim and Oblivion, you open a millennia-old ancient tomb which is filled purely with Draugr, and the barrels are full of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and apples. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/63 "2014-01-15T10:17:44Z")
> [@Malden\_Capell](#): > > In Skyrim and Oblivion, you open a millennia-old ancient tomb which is filled purely with Draugr, and the barrels are full of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and apples. What gives? Or in Fallout, where Vaults that may have been locked for centuries have either a) a bunch of ancient skeletons, or b) very fresh corpses. Or feral ghouls, but that’s a different issue. ---
**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, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/64 "2014-01-15T10:17:58Z")
Skyrim’s fricking cold, man. These tomatoes aren’t fresh, they’re frozen. One thing that bugs me in many “zombie apocalypse” media is : why don’t the zombies ever attack each other ? Sometimes this is implicitly addressed in setting (e.g. when they were raised and under the loose control of a magician, or as in _Resident Evil 4_ where the zombie bug is actually a hive-minded parasite) but even in stuff like _The Walking Dead,_ where it’s explicitly stated that the dead’uns are barely aware of their surroundings and made of pure (albeit lethargic) aggression, they just don’t munch on living-dead brains. They’ll eat bona fide corpses, and they’ll shamble at the living to try and turn them into corpses to munch on, but never beat each other up. What’s up with that ? It gets even weirder with the more creative zombie outbreaks. Like in _The Last of Us_ : the Clickers are blind as their heads turned into a mass of oogy fungus, and they have to use echolocation and their acute hearing to find prey. If you move around them, they go apeshit. But they don’t go apeshit on each other, ever. Now, you might say “aah, but they keep making that creepy-ass clicking sound, so they can recognize each other as already infected by sound, and since the infection is really a living organism that seeks to spread it makes sense that they wouldn’t attack other, known hosts”. Well, yeahbut they don’t attack the infected that haven’t made it to the Clicker stage either, and those look and act more or less like regular humans with fucked up faces. Clickers only go nuts on regular humans. How do they tell which is which ? ---
**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 15, 2014, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/65 "2014-01-15T10:28:18Z")
Pheromones? ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/66 "2014-01-15T11:19:52Z")
> [@Malden\_Capell](#): > > In Skyrim and Oblivion, you open a millennia-old ancient tomb which is filled purely with Draugr, and the barrels are full of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and apples. What gives? Draugr gotta eat too. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/67 "2014-01-15T11:31:59Z")
> [@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? The latter, actually. It’s a well known fact that conventional healing magic does not work well as combat healing. You’re generally safer if you devote yourself to defeating the enemy and then heal once the dust has settled than if you try to heal while the enemy is alive to take advantage of the reprieve. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/68 "2014-01-15T18:00:32Z")
(_finds dead body_) “Oh, ugh, yuck, covered in worms, and bugs, that is just disgus- HEY, CAKE!!” _gobble gobble_ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072/69 "2014-01-15T18:34:13Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > 'Oh my god, I’ve been shot! Good thing I’ve been hanging on to this ham I found in the sewer!" What sort of economy did Columbia have in Bioshock Infinite that people kept literally throwing away money? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-video-game-questions-you-have/677072.md?page=3)