7. Hitting random crates would lead to ammo, health, magic goodness!
Life is full of stuff, furniture, boxes, crates, all type of things. In the video game world simply pistol whip all the furniture around you, and instant ammo, health, even more guns. Do a barrel roll into a barrel, get some hearts. Take your crowbar to your neighbors trashcan, and find a crossbow, at least you can in Bioshock. There are items everywhere, epically the corpses of the people you just killed, score!
6. Gas is free!
Need for Speed, Mario Kart, Twisted Metal, PGR. There are tons of games where you race, you don't even exit the car. But how many gas stations are there in Mario Kart. None. That's right, the economy is way better in video game land. Gas is free and plentiful, flows like wine. Oh, and video game land people don't hate you for driving a hummer, in fact it's highly encouraged.
5. Respawn.
Immortality just sounds twisted. But infinite life, repsawn after respawn, very Cylon-esque. Imagine if every time you messed up, got eaten, what have you, rebirth was just a loading screen away. My favorite gamer quote is, "I don't need to get a life, I'm a gamer, I have many lives". Sure there would br the ethical issue of life without dying, one won't appreciate life. Bit I say ba-humbug too you, I want to be able to respawn so many times, I'd get a secret achievement for it.
4. Pause
Hungry? Pause. Thirsty? Pause. Phone Rings? Pause. Wouldn't it be great if anytime "something suddenly came up" we could just click pause button. Tivo had to of been created by people who paused a game to go pee and thought, "wouldn't it be great to do that with tv!". Well how cool would it be to just freeze frame life and go do something else.
3. Super Human Strength/General Badassery
No matter the video game, no matter the genre, it's a pretty safe bet that your character is going to have the crap beat out of him(/her). Even the most human character have super human strength. In games like Soul Calibur a guy with nun-chucks can take on a guy with full armor and an axe. Let's name the games where an enemy can unload an entire magazine into you without even getting to half the health. There has to be something in Video Game land's water because everyone in it seems to have super human strength. Being in video games immediately raises your bad ass factor. God mode anyone?
2. Everyone has a perfect body.
It's hardly a secret but the men and women, mostly women, of the video game world are knockouts. Everyone is in amazing, borderline roidrage status bodies. Some aren't even borderline, *ahem* Marcus Fenix. The women of video games are notoriously gorgeous. Ivy's boobs, Laura's ass, Zelda's ears! And not just the girls, Ryu Hayabusa has an amazing set of abs. Even old school Mario was a hot piece of pixel ass.
1. Money is everywhere.
Simoleans, Ruppees, coins, and gold. What do they all have in common? No, not that they are all doing better than the American dollar. All of these video game currencies can be found EVERYWHERE. Need to go buy some more bombs, shotgun bullets, magic. Just go take a stroll though some grass. Ground pound a box. There is just money everywhere. IRL we have to actually do work for money, not just roll into a tree. And I for one, would much rather roll into to trees.
