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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 3684763" data-attributes="member: 53">Added a note to the first post to clarify the purpose of the poll.  There has been a lot of debate about a point that people are assuming the poll is making, which it isn't supposed to be making.  There is no intent to say "realistic decisions aren't fun."  It's to find out which way you lean when you have to make a design choice.  When a realistic choice gets in the way of the immediate fun in the game, do you go with the fun choice or the realistic choice.Given the poll results, I think most  understood that.  However, looking at the discussion it's clear many didn't.I do stand by my statement in the first post.  I don't believe that realism creates fun very often.  I believe that realism is about things that prevent fun.  I don't know too many occasions when I heard "that game was fun, it was so realistic."  I do know of many occasions where I heard "that game wasn't any fun, it was too unrealistic."</blockquote>