10 Ways Video Games Keep Lying To You

10. Hyperbolic Statements That Make No Sense

During Xbox's recent Summer 2022 showcase, the developers of the "all-new", brand-rebooted Forza Motorsport touted a whopping 48 times improvement in the fidelity of their physics simulation.

Just let that sink in for a second. That's their previous physics fidelity - whatever that means - multiplied by 48! It's such a brazenly outrageous claim that it's hilarious. How is it even possible to measure something like that as one number? And what is that number? Not only does this sound ridiculous, but we also have no idea what it even means.

Of course, this is nothing new.

Some of us are old enough to remember Peter Molyneux - the king of hyperbole - claiming that the original Fable would be a full, evolving simulation. One famous claim was that you could plant an acorn and watch it grow into a tree over the course of the game - a ridiculous statement for an original Xbox game.

And we have to mention the grandfather of all marketing hyperbole: "John Romero's going to make you his b*tch." Whatever that was supposed to mean.

He did not. Not even close.