Yeah, if there is one reason why we love video games, it's because we get to see things that would otherwise be impossible in real life. As a physics enthusiast, I don't see feats as just things to admire but things to ponder. So here I am breaking the feats and putting them up against science to see how things really should have gone down and to show how video games pwn real life physics.
Take this video of Metal Gear Rising's Raiden whoopin' some major mechanical tail:
On don't even know where to start since there was so much going in that one fight but I guess I should start with him lifting it up by its... ummm... fin, throwing it into the air, and chopping said fin into large chunks. As awesome as it was to watch, a person with a good eye would've noticed that the scene contradicted itself.
First he uses his sword to block the fin swing with sword's sharp edge facing the fin. I'll give it to Raiden that his legs were strong enough to bend under the immense pressure of obviously tons of force pushing down on him and I'll just assume his sword is made out of a metal that's strong enough not to break under said force, but the ground underneath Raiden's feet is another matter. It should have warped when the Metal Gear's wing collided with Raiden's sword but it didn't.Then, about 16 seconds later, despite the fact that it clearly couldn't do so when Raiden blocked the attack, his sword cuts cleanly through the fin with little trouble. Now, this isn't a question of strength but a question of the blade's sharpness. If it was sharp enough to cut through it when he swung, it should've been sharp enough to cut through the fin when he blocked it.
Of course, that stuff is really just nit- picking and is kind of negligible in the broad scheme of things but when Raiden lifts up the entire robot by just the tip of its fin, physics kind of took a dump on itself.
Let me explain, assuming that he has the strength to lift up the robot, all he would've done was rip off the tip of the fin he was holding or, at the most, the whole thing. If not him, then the force of its own weight would've crushed it when he lifted it up.
I'm going to stop here because this is enough already.
Take this video of Metal Gear Rising's Raiden whoopin' some major mechanical tail:
On don't even know where to start since there was so much going in that one fight but I guess I should start with him lifting it up by its... ummm... fin, throwing it into the air, and chopping said fin into large chunks. As awesome as it was to watch, a person with a good eye would've noticed that the scene contradicted itself.
First he uses his sword to block the fin swing with sword's sharp edge facing the fin. I'll give it to Raiden that his legs were strong enough to bend under the immense pressure of obviously tons of force pushing down on him and I'll just assume his sword is made out of a metal that's strong enough not to break under said force, but the ground underneath Raiden's feet is another matter. It should have warped when the Metal Gear's wing collided with Raiden's sword but it didn't.Then, about 16 seconds later, despite the fact that it clearly couldn't do so when Raiden blocked the attack, his sword cuts cleanly through the fin with little trouble. Now, this isn't a question of strength but a question of the blade's sharpness. If it was sharp enough to cut through it when he swung, it should've been sharp enough to cut through the fin when he blocked it.
Of course, that stuff is really just nit- picking and is kind of negligible in the broad scheme of things but when Raiden lifts up the entire robot by just the tip of its fin, physics kind of took a dump on itself.
Let me explain, assuming that he has the strength to lift up the robot, all he would've done was rip off the tip of the fin he was holding or, at the most, the whole thing. If not him, then the force of its own weight would've crushed it when he lifted it up.
I'm going to stop here because this is enough already.
