Build It And They Will Not Come

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On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 14:25:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> That's pretty similar to how I felt about Doom3: People 
> complained how "unrealistic" it was to not be able to duct tape 
> the flashlight to the gun, but...For crap's sake, it's a game 
> about a demon invasion from hell and one guy single-handedly 
> holding them all off. Realism and believability were obviously 
> never the point. :)
>
> 'Course, that game had other issues, but realism (or lack of) 
> was never one of them.
>
>> But maybe I'm misremembering. Saw it a long time ago.
>
> Never saw it myself, but that's what I'd heard it was about.

It's funny, people are willing to suspend their disbelief for 
demons from hell, but not for the lack of a flashlight and duct 
tape. It's probably because it was an annoying game mechanic, and 
taping a flashlight to a gun is something so simple and mundane 
that you *can't* suspend your disbelief at Doom Guy being unable 
to find a way to use both at once somehow.