I say that with a game that I've been following on the ps3, heavy rain. I know that the game looks great and will probably be awesome, but it really got me thinking, can too much realism hurt a game? While I know that games what to be in touch with reality, most people like myself play videogames to escape from reality and get lost in a completly different world. What I guess I'm saying is that realism in gaming I think shouldn't been the main point in a game. You hear developers talk all the time that they were trying to make their game so realistic, and I'm just thinking who cares about relality, it's a videogame. I know with games like Madden, Fight Night, and Military Shooters they all go for realism, but what ever happened to a games that had crazy weapons and features that competly said screw reality. Just what I've been thinking about for a little while. What do you think?

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I am looking forward to heavy rain and think it's going to be awesome, don't take it the wrong way ^_^