I think a great example for updating the map is RDR2. Arthur or John draw interesting places, animals and plants on the map as you explored them. Anf obviously the journal with both guys having a different style of drawing and writting. It's amazing.

Also in ps4 Spider-Man, if you're on the phone with somebody while swinging through the city, you'll sound out of breath, while if you're just standing on a rooftop or whatever, you talk normally. Tiniest detail, but very satisfying to notice.

The first time you see the building fall in battlefield and then realize the flag point still exists but it's now just in rubble AND completely playable still...is absolutely amazing

In Days Gone caring for your bike and making sure you had enough gas to make it from A to B was a really fun part of the experience. It connected you more to your bike and the world around you.

One of the first games that I can recall handles ladders well is Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Not only did it allow for sliding down ladders, but it also let the Prince climb on a ladder from any direction, and then had him flip around to whichever side he'd need to be on at the top. That was huge, because there were absolutely games that you could climb up on the wrong side and then have to go back down and try again. Ladders have improved immensely over the years.

Falcon has the mechanic of making freaking awesome lists, with deep cuts!

Little known fact about the dying light one is that cutting off zombie parts is NOT cosmetic, simply cutting off one arm means they can no longer bite, cutting off both will mean they can only headbutt, and cutting off a leg instantly sends them to the ground where you can decimate them with a finisher

for the physics part, I just loved how in legend of zelda botw you have all the metal objects that are not only can be dragged by your powerful magnet, but also conductors, that can transfer electricity not only when you hit by lightning, but in the dungeons when you need to continue electric wires by metal blocks, you can also put there you metal armor or sword

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This channel has quickly become one of my favs. Love the content, the attitude and the pacing. Keep it up!

About the realistic looting. In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, you can loot everything from an enemy, every piece of armour he is wearing - and it can even be damaged due to your hits on him during the fight - the food, everything. Down to the shirts and shoes. It is amazing. And you can equip everything you loot and not just sell it.

Let’s not forget the mechanic where npc’s remember your actions adds a lot to the emersion

Stopping and really considering them, I think number 3 has probably made the biggest impact (in enjoyment) for me. The frustration coming from just bouncing off a ledge & falling to your death, or being stopped by some puny object when you're chasing/escaping-from something, just really takes you out of the game. (Especially for games where it's more about the story and not challenging every little aspect of your gaming ability).

I really like games with realistic reloads like Insurgency and Ready or Not. If you reload with half a clip left, that half full clip goes back into your inventory

best animal petting I think is the foxes in Ghost of Tsushima :D

when i was a kid i used to play the original red faction game on splitscreen and we would use the fusion launcher to blast a hole all the way through the walls of one of the multiplayer maps' cliffs so we could meet in the middle. amazing memories, thanks for reminding us

2B from Nier: Automata had a particularly slick ladder-descending slide animation. Very satisfying to watch her swing to the side of the ladder and do a one-handed slide.

Realism can be amazing more than it can be bad, imo

The scribbling on maps is one of my favorite game details ever done, and makes me want to 100% the maps.

Great vid! Just to mention that the "last known position" mechanic I really learned to exploit in Far Cry 1 (2004), so waaay earlier than Splinter Cell Conviction (2010).

I was down and out really bad with Covid last year and that is when I found you guys and started binging your list. Your videos are awesome and keep up the good work my dudes!

TLOU2 is so packed with realism it's insane, dogs actually tracking your smell, the visual details emphasising the brutality of the world, the accuracy of the locations in seattle to the real world, the intelligence of the enemies, it's marvelous in terms of details

Besides the sliding down a ladder (the ladder in the final level of Psychonauts being one of my favorites, visually) being able to jump on to a ladder and start climbing is an excellent mechanic. Also being actually locked onto a ladder is comforting, knowing that you won't accidently fall off if you move too much to the side.

I’d like to give an honorable mention to having limited ammo like the resident evil games. It’s probably a point of contention for most people, but I find the lack of immediate resources very thrilling and fun

Well, there's always using the sounds of the wind to your advantage and finding a match, lit it up and throw it on some gasoline in order to set the enemy camp on fire. I like gameplay mechanics that allows me to use the elements to my advantage. 😃

Yay! Finally! Someone besides me mentions how awesome destructible environments are! Most games with them know how to make it satisfying af! I love that cookie crumble esque fx when something (especially concrete)...well, crumbles via falling apart and breaking! Example: even destroying those obelisks in Returnal looks satisfying like no tomorrow!

I love destructible environments. I've recently replayed "Stranglehold" (not a 10/10 game by any stretch, but it's turn-off-your-brain fun) and for a game from 2007 the amount of shit you can wreck is admirable.

3:56 I love you showed farcry2 for the fire spreading. I loved it so much

One realistic mechanics in games I wanna add tho in farcry primal you can pull out an arrow you were shot with and still be able to reuse it....that just blew my mind

GEARS OF WAR: I don't know how realistic it is to slide down a ladder with a weapon drawn, but I entirely appreciate it in these games. Helps the pacing in combat. More so, mantling waist-high cover. Yess! ✊🏻

I truly admire your ability to come up with content. I have been on a huge binge watching all your content and you guys have literally no boring videos. I have been watching videos you guys made 5 years ago and all of them have the same quality and are very entertaining. Like I said I admire this channel one of the best in all KZfaq.

The fire suppression and flanking mechanics of the Brothers-in-Arms games should be included in this list. The mechanics were modelled after real WW2 tactics with devs having paintball gun games for simulation.

9:35 The Antikythera Mechanism was lost in the Mediterranean sea off the island of Antikythera circa 200 BCE. When discovered in 1901, while a lot of it had been damaged or destroyed, the bulk of the piece remained such that it could be reconstructed, including the glyphs carved into the surface of the metal that were still visible (where it hadn't been destroyed). If the place an ancient mechanism was stored in was newer than that (most are around the time period of the colonial era, from what we've seen, so easily) or had better conditions than that (not hard to be better off than being submerged in saltwater sea, which will drastically corrode most metals, including high-corrosion-resistance alloys like brass or bronze, and stone of all kinds, through mechanical function (deposits forming and breaking apart the stone) or corrosion, just like metals), working mechanisms made from stone and/or metal seems perfectly reasonable to still be in operation. Similarly, there's wooden furniture from the Gordian royal tombs excavated that was in nearly usable condition, dating back 2700 years ago, or about 700-800 BCE (the time of the Phyrgian King, Midas); while the joins have rotted away, we're talking small diameter, finely carved wood, not the sort of large wood pieces that would be involved in a tomb's mechanism.

The thing about sliding down ladders is that you can basically slide down any ladder in games even ones with obvious obstacles at the side so I wouldn't really call that realistic.

Sort of like characters adding to maps, I’ve always wondered why developers don’t allow players to place pins in our own maps and add our own notes. Example: level 20 chest here. This would be super easy, super helpful and wouldn’t likely be anything world-breaking if there was a decent character limit.

Former firefighter here. No we NEVER slide down the ladder. That would be a terrible idea during a fire. Despite what people think, the way to survive hazardous environments is to avoid unnecessary risks.

I wish most games had destructive environments cause that would make the game a lot more interesting

Ultimate Wizard on Commodore 64 had sliding down ladders. That game was released in 1984, and I suspect Jumpman may have featured the mechanic even earlier, since UW is heavily based off of that game.

There is one mechanic i wished more games could implement, which is player journal, its a simple way to player add notes to the game, like Baldurs Gate, so you can remind yourself of a chest you could open or something in between.

Going off of number 5, I love when games include the map and setting and menus in the game. Like in jedi fallen you had to meditate to get to the skill tree or the map that BD-1 had was physically in the world. It is such a nice game

shadow of mordor/war is like a perfect mix of several of these points. also, i laughed when yal cut that last of us sneak execution short

One of my favorite realistic gameplay mechanics that a lot of games don't have is being able to pit npcs against each other. In the left behind dlc for the last of us, Ellie is being hunted by a group of people in a mall that also has a lot of infected in it. At several points you can use the infected to your advantage against the people hunting you

In the original call of duty when I saw my friend playing and he showed me how you look down the sights to aim/shoot I was blown away. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

The realistic thing i love the most in games is the smoke coming from the bullet shots. I just really love that, expecially when this smoke is accurate to the gun and a bullet you are shooting and when this smoke actually stays in the air for some time.

one of my favorites - shadow of mordor’s patented nemesis system.

Fun video idea 👍🏻 This would be a great list to include dismemberment mechanics (especially Dead Space).

Total Annihilation got some fire spreading mechanic, that game was way ahead of time in lots of aspects.

In the game Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast) / Skies of Arcadia: Legends (GameCube), there was a cosmetic game mechanic that made fights more immersive then fighting in games like Final Fantasy or Phantasy Star. In the normal player party vs. enemy party fights, seen in pretty much every RPG game, when it is your character's turn, you can observe the party and the monsters still lunging, slashing, dodging, and whatnot, around you. It was purely cosmetic, no damage dealt or taken, but it made fights much more immersive and fun then static fights in the other games.

Cover I can shoot through is a great improvement in games. It annoys me to no end when I can't shoot through a plant

#2 makes me think of Elden Ring (which wasn't the first one with this mechanic, but perhaps the most recent) that some enemies are resistant/weak to different types of physical damage, such as slashing, blunt, crushing, piercing, etc. Adds a nice layer of depth on how you face certain enemies and bosses

Have to say the swordplay from Afro Samurai will always stand out to me for having the best feeling sword slices.

There are a lot of features that are not yet fully explored (afaik) that I would love to see. First is actually having to organize a backpack in any looter game, not just an inventory, but the physical object, or at least a 2d representation of it, and realistically, like damaging the backpack with sharp or heavy objects. The other one is tripping, for some reason I think we should have some falls while too heavy and running, so do the enemy AI. The last one is being able to interact with everything using the physical object, like doorknobs, keys, buttons, switches, with as little inputs as possible, like VR. And also being able to key bind just the actions more fit to it.

Thanks for the Red Faction nod. Truly changed gaming in that regard

How do you come up with such interesting topics? 👀

The first game I remember being able to slide down a ladder and take cover was Killswitch, which I think was on PS2. Far Cry 2 had my favorite updated map feature of all time. All in real time too.

Not played SC: Conviction in a long time and did enjoy utilising the last known position mechanic get NPC's to move about for my benefit.

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Slicing Mechanics - In 2009, "Fairytale Fights" had analog stick controlled slicing of enemies, with blade weapons. It would even open a zoom window of the real slices you performed. But not easy to control accurately :)

You literally show footage of MGS2 where the guards had to call in back-up on the radio first; if you have destroyed their radio they won't be able to call back-up at all and only the soldiers on the floor are hostile. If you break line of sight they search the -last known position- in the awesome clearing mode. Splinter Cell might have been the first to show ghost UI though to make it more apparent- but it was not the first. :)

Hi! would be cool if you used a small caption to indicate which game is showing, I'd love to play some of these... Love your videos

about the number 2 mechanics about cutting in star wars, jedi knight isnt the only game that lets you cut stormtroopers the other game was the star wars the force unleashed 2 where you can slice off limbs of stormtroopers without cheats

You COULD aim down sight in Goldeneye. I'm 46 and I remember being in awe, entering the snow field level and being able to ADS and zoom in on the enemies. And I think the animal petting should have been number one.

if it isn't here and missed it, insurgency sandstorm, for ex., has the bullets go where the gun is pointed hipfire/not in exchange for "gun not necessarily pointed center." if that is a clear description.

Keep the quality content coming, this channel alone has made me want to start playing video-games again after being a WoW-addict since 2011!

As a person who has done a lot of demo I'd like to say that yes, you can destroy everything with a good hammer.

Hands down the best gaming channel there is. You guys make the content the people want to see.

for map updates one of the first game that comes in my mind is chernobylite. The areas keep updating, you can create machines that will stop supernatural enemies, stop the spread of the radiation, you also have to keep them out of sight so the enemies ain't gonna destroy them and i love all of that

The surge 2 has realistic cutting mechanics. You cut cyborg parts of enemies to steal the part

Could you do a best/most innovative stealth or RPG games (either of all time or the last decade)

I’ve been watching y’all for years, and y’all really never disappoint! Thanks for all the hard work guys

i think Physics based swords are underrated, especially on fps games what i mean is that everytime u try to slice enemy, you could slice the other enemy that is not on the crosshair, maybe souls game is pretty good examples at implementing this features. And also another great mechanics that often forgotten are friendly fires, just like in ps4 spiderman, enemy could shoot each other.

I'm surprised no mention of Noita at 10 and 8 considering how much destruction can be done there

I do like too that type of loot system, I mean of course if you can pick up items from the ground, why wouldnt you be able to pick item from a corpse?. What I find unreal/dumb tho is the fact that EVERY armor fits you or the fact the armor is usable even tho you just exploded or split in half its user

Talking about #4, there is absolutely a way to use it to cheese some boss fights XD, for example the Skyrim's Thieves' Guild has a giant boss Fight against Mercer Frey, but if you pickpocket him before he disappears and take his weapons he just fights you with his fists, its both hilarious and a way to cheese the boss fight.

Next episode you should include dcs/warthunder damage mechanics in simulator mode. You can damage individual components which affect flight mechanics. Its super satisfying bringing in a damaged plane for a safe landing. That and stalls, recovering your plane from falling out of the sky after pushing it to the limit is super awesome

Kingdom Come Deliverance also has a good realistic loot mechanic. In addition to being able to take whatever off whoever after knocking them out or killing them weight limits are harsh and you can store stuff in saddle bags on your horse so you can still move around normally.

Remember the destructible terrain in Black ? The PS2 game ? Man that was dope

Thanks for the Titanfall 2 gameplay 😁 Awesome game!

I don't understand how come no one did the sword cutting mechanic like MGRR to this day, even if a game is bad (which MGRR isn't) that mechanic is extremely satisfying, i really hope to see it in more games

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Love the slide down ladder in Elden Ring mechanic b/c let’s face it some of those ladders are really high.

to add on to number 10; the just cause series is really fun with the way the destructible work. sure blowing something up is cool, but I loved taking the time to break things with the tether physics

Some of my favorite blade action was in Afro Samurai. Swords felt dangerous

0:49 game name?

An old but revolutionary Spanish game let you cut your enemies and even use their limbs as weapons. Blade, the edge of darkness. Kind of like an old dark souls that is worth revisiting. I remember playing it as a kid completely in awe. Also, it had amazing light effects for it's time.

I feel like Control should’ve had a nod at number 10. I was surprised by just the sheer amount of things I could destroy in that game

I was watching a buddy play Medal of Honor on PS and the fact that it wasn't "hit enemy X times - dead" blew me away.

You know, though, for the sword part: it is true that having the possibility to slash and see the cuts in the direction of the slash it's actually satisfying but it's a bit unrealistic to cut through a body. It requires a lot of strength because there may be armors or eventually just bones and ...a lot of parts. Meanwhile, some mediaeval games, at least, let you cut in the direction you choose. Not to forget that only a few swords were made so that they could actually cut: if you think about the European longsword...it was more of a piece of metal that crushed and pierced eventually

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The original X-Com (UFO Defense) is the first game I can think of where you could tactically shoot buildings and walls and also set fires, all of which gave advantages and disadvantages to the combat (like smoke obscuring vision, fire spreading and doing damage).

I have a slightly different technique for going down ladders, especially if slide isn't available and/or they're really tall. One place I use this a lot is in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and that's letting go of the ladder, ivy, or whatever, and regrabbing it before I hit the bottom.

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@gameranx awesome video. Mind if I ask What games were shown in between this timeframe 11:20 - 12:05. I think they're just 3 or 4.

Sliding a ladder mechanic has been there since Project IGI which came out in the year 2000. It would have been nice to see some OG games mentioned here.

Honestly The Last of Us series needs its own episode of how good it's AI is.

The flip side of Betheshda's loot mechanic is that no matter what size or gender you take the armor or clothing from, it all magically molds itself to your bodyshape. Even metal armor just bends to your figure, no matter if you took it off a skinny woman and you are a big buffy orc. This to me is less realistic than not being able to loot the corpses.

Awesome example of Number 2 is Kingdom Come: Deliverance when you can target certain areas of the body, affecting your enemy in different ways. Another example: Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth where if you sustain injuries on certain parts of your body, you'll be affected in certain ways depending on that injured area and whether you treat that injury or not. Great mechanics, especially Call of Cthulhu since it's so old but still a classic for so many great mechanics other than the targeting body parts system.

the armor mechanic is best shown in Kingdom Come Deliverance in my opinion. The armor and even weapons that slain enemies have is actually damaged because of the fight you or someone else had with them. sometimes its annoying, sure, but its still cool that they went more in depth with that mechanic

Mantling was a huge change in the gameplay from Destiny 1 to Destiny 2. In D1, if you caught your toe on what you were trying to jump onto, you fell. Now, you can climb up like an actual person would. Great call out

I agree with all except the using the hands one. For instance - and certainly for me in the worst case - Tomb Raider: In the original Tomb Raiders (1 to Angel of Darkness), the sense of fear and danger when you didn't know where to jump, if you would do the right jump and if you somehow forget to press the right button for Lara to grab the ledge and she died an horrible death! - same way does when you actually find the way to go and where to jump and finally pass that part of the level, it was magical and have us a feeling of accomplishment! And then.... after Legend, she not only auto-grabs everything, but also they use this weird light shades on edges and places you are supposed to jump for her to automatically grab, that take all sense of exploration and danger. I mean it feels wrong, it just feels cheesy and it removes the thrill of finding how to solve the puzzles.