I love the YMCA know wait I mean the song! Y-M-C-A!!! Ugh I'm feeling off today.

If MMORPG's were realistic guns would be a major gamebreaker.

If MMO's were realistic, no one would play them. In real life it doesn't take too terribly much to kill a person, and given the fantasy threats you face in most MMORPGs...yeah, it'd be next to impossible to survive if any sort of realism were imposed on it (Demon's Souls gets close, but that's also not an MMO).

I don't know, you have to do tedious amounts of work just to get ahead in them, that's kinda realistic.

It also does take a bit to kill somebody, the problem is that there is no critical existence failure in real life, so they would bleed to death or spend months in the hospital.

On second thought, due to the medieval setting of fantasy games, virtually all non superficial injuries (and some superficial injuries) would be fatal.

The trick is, one good hit in the right place will kill someone in real life. While someone can be stabbed with a knife numerous times and survive if given medical attention (among other tales of survival), such is not exactly the norm. But when you're talking longswords, halberds, battleaxes, and the like, if a practiced swing connects with flesh, you're likely going to die. Armor can only protect you so much as well. A warhammer to the ribs to someone wearing leather has the potential to break ribs, seeing as how war hammers were designed to smash in solid armor.

Still, I believe most high action, high combat games would not be nearly as entertaining if they closely followed reality in their combat. Can you imagine WOW with "realistic" combat? Not only would magic user be obscenely powerful (who's really going to survive a magical fireball?) but those "epic battles" would be decided in moments one way or the other. And don't even get me started on what Call of Duty would be like if it closely followed realism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tRNs2X5Q4

Have fun with that.

Young man, there's no need to feel down
I said, young man, pick your self from the ground

But I'm not a man, I'm a Spencer. :<