Immersion, The Facts & Fiction

[Crica]

I can run around as a human-sized green rabbit with a laser gun blowing up everything in sight and leaping 50 metres into the air. Where's the realism in that?

We combine truths from our realities to make fake realities. Like putting a horn (horns do exist we did not create the concept or horns and it is not a 'fantasy' term) and putting it on a horse (also not a part of fantasy) and all of a sudden we have a unicorn. We consider a Unicorn 'Fantasy' though it is made up of very real ideas that are not even close to unique.

He is saying that fantasy games are created FROM our reality.

[Konachibi]

He is saying that fantasy games are created FROM our reality.

Yup I know, but that's subjective. there are things in fantasy games that do not exist in reality, so to say all fantasy is derived from some mixture of things in reality is wrong.

For instance, although Sonic The Hedgehog's name features the word 'hedgehog', he is so far from looking like a hedgehog or any other animal/thing in reality that it'd be hard pressed to say anything about him is realistic at all, other than he has 2 legs and 2 arms. This did not stop him becoming one of the greatest video games character of all time however.

[Crica]

Yup I know, but that's subjective. there are things in fantasy games that do not exist in reality, so to say all fantasy is derived from some mixture of things in reality is wrong.

For instance, although Sonic The Hedgehog's name features the word 'hedgehog', he is so far from looking like a hedgehog or any other animal/thing in reality that it'd be hard pressed to say anything about him is realistic at all, other than he has 2 legs and 2 arms. This did not stop him becoming one of the greatest video games character of all time however.

Break it down far enough and all fantasy has something from reality, is what he is saying.

The fact that Sonic walks and runs is from reality.

Just have to break it down to its basics to find the reality.

[Konachibi]

Break it down far enough and all fantasy has something from reality, is what he is saying.

The fact that Sonic walks and runs is from reality.

Just have to break it down to its basics to find the reality.

Ah. So then I'd have to find an example of something completely devoid of any possible link to reality.

Hmm...

[Crica]

Ah. So then I'd have to find an example of something completely devoid of any possible link to reality.

Hmm...

Hint: you can't.

The moment you state you do - how would you do it?

By using reality to do so...

^_^;

[Konachibi]

Hint: you can't.

The moment you state you do - how would you do it?

By using reality to do so...

^_^;

Darn that really is breaking it into it's basic elements. I was about to say The Force from Star Wars too, I can't really think of an example of how any part of that can be related to reality in any way at all.

[Crica]

Darn that really is breaking it into it's basic elements. I was about to say The Force from Star Wars too, I can't really think of an example of how any part of that can be related to reality in any way at all.

"the force" is an idea derived from human religions.

"the force" is a natural god in Star Wars.

God is a real human idea.

The same idea is used in FFVII - "the life stream".