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With our RPG Month still going strong, we have another surprise for you in the form of an RPG Contest! This time we want you to think about a video game skill you would like to have in real life and explain why.

The best answers will win 1 of 15 game bundles, including 9 titles such as Windbound, Tyranny, Disco Elysium and more!

You have time to enter the contest until September 30th, 3 PM UTC.
Necromancy because.... never you mind.
I would have to pick shapeshifting. It’s the druids signature ability though the communication with nature and healing powers are also pretty awesome! It would be amazing to be able to run like a cheetah, fly through the air like a bird, or swim through the ocean like a fish.
I'd pick healer powers, regeneration and extra lifes. Because so much stuff happens in real life that some of that would be very helpful. Also, teleportation, and several other spells in game. Yeah there is so much I could do with that.
Hello everyone!

I would like to have the power of Objection!
The ability to stop anyone in their lie and point out the infallible truth based on logic and deduction.
This would come with a cool "battle" music starts playing and the liar make up another lie making his/her story more and more incoherent as the power of objection tears it apart.
Of course this would come with heightened intelligence and observation skill like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or the other super detectives posses.

This was used in one of my favorite game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Where the protagonist works as the name suggests defense attorney to catch criminals during the trials.

Just imagine how cool way this is to defeat baddies.
My skill I would like to have would be conjuration so I could conjure up a demon army AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD MUAHAHAHA-uhhh I mean... so I can conjure like... a cleaner to clean my house or something heh.
Oink with portals! I would like to thO
The ability to have unlimited inventory. No need to ever carry anything. Want something safe? Boom, place it in your mysterious inventory that only you have access to. Wanna go on vacation? Never need to pack anything for the rest of your life. Moving houses? Never been easier. Murdered someone and wondering where to hide the dead body? LOL, just joking. But how convenient to have access to another infinite dimension that can automatically organise your items. Best of all you will rarely need worry about losing anything because soon enough you'll begin storing everything in there, so cleaning up your home due to all the random extra things will never be a problem
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GOG.com: With our RPG Month still going strong, we have another surprise for you in the form of an RPG Contest! This time we want you to think about a video game skill you would like to have in real life and explain why.

The best answers will win 1 of 15 game bundles, including 9 titles such as Windbound, Tyranny, Disco Elysium and more!

You have time to enter the contest until September 30th, 3 PM UTC.
In real life I would choose the speech skill above the rest. It's an all around skill that has applications from small things (barter items, negotiate deals) to meaningful issues (helping unjust situations in small and large scale, ethical issues, social issues, psychological issues, etc). I think it suits me better than the rest because I prefer reasoning over force and in real life the rest skills would need more than one. For example having super-strength, super speed, etc requires and agility and durability so it would be useless or skills like alchemist skills would have no real application as even if I created gold I wouldn't be able to do anything with it and so on. Speech is a sneaky skill and not detectable as to raise eye-brows so I would be able to live a normal life with my super-power without having to frustrate over someone figuring it out. I could just say I'm.. "charismatic"! They would think it's a figure of speech but it wouldn't be the case.. Sneaky as this might be, I can blame everything on luck! So my superpower is only one but in reality it's even more due to its nature and what different things you can achieve with it!
Telekinesis

- I'd be able to move cleaning supplies through every crevice of my apartment that I could never reach before; to get out every speck of grime, slime, goo and all the other nasty stuff that linger in the pipes, under the fridge, under the oven, inside the air vents and who knows where else.

- I'd also be able to scrub my back properly when I take a shower; it's not easy to reach back there! I practically dislocate my shoulders doing it each time.

- I can also give myself a self-massage without an appointment or hourly fees

- I'd finally be able to get everything under the hood of my car to look brand spanking new...even if the parts are still old.

There's just so many uses for it, the possibilities are endless; but cleaning first though, it's an absolute must!
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The metabolism to not only survive eating a whole chicken I found in a trash cash, but to actually literally feel healthier for having done so.
Teleportation, because little time spent on travel and being able to go basically anywhere rocks :).
Ability to "Quick Save" before any big decision, so that I can load from it if things go wrong. :D

There are so many situations in life where I don't act on my wishes, because I'm afraid of "what if things go wrong". Even when I'm 90% sure of favorable outcome, I often stop myself. And thus, I'm mostly living mundane life.

But if I had the ability to "Quick Save", that would come very handy. I'd still use it very sparsely, only when it horribly affects my life.

p.s. I thought about having the ability of "see the future". But as they say "future is not set in stone and can change". So, even if I see one possible future, that might not happen to me in this reality. So, that ability won't be useful.
Two things. Time travel and genetic modification. I would go back in time and modify humans to have built in immunity to cancer. So many people have been affected and suffered from this terrible disease, I wish no one ever had to. Adelaide, our youngest daughter would actually get to live her life instead of dying at the age of four. It's one of the most horrific things to watch people go through.
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GOG.com: a video game skill you would like to have in real life and explain why.
Hmm, that is a difficult question. It took me a long deliberation to decide on this.
Most obvious choices that people might want would be saving game and loading back or respawn and come back to life, which translates into "Second chance" in life. And who doesn't want a second chance in life!
May it be a relationship or a job interview or even wedding banquet if a drunk friend happens to ruin the party (or maybe wedding if it is the wrong person).

Even time travel back and starting at that checkpoint would be also considered a second chance.

It is tempting especially since everyone has at least one past incident they had mishandled or regretted.
As a human being, I know I have a LOT.
What's worse is, I know I am also a perfectionist which is more of a curse.
If I had that ability to redo everything at will, I might spend 50 times on a simple task again and again and again. Who knows how long it would take before I get by a day in 1 year!!
At the end of the day, we are human so we are imperfect.
It becomes an endless loop of loading and saving game... that life doesn't seem like for me...
Becomes more of a chore than fun.

Sometimes mistakes are what made us grow too so..

If I was to choose a special skill that exists in a video game...
The ability to do every action in the speed and with the click of a button!

Whether that is building a computer, a car, or even a plane (I can learn 10 years worth of mechanics with a click)
 ▪ Fixing anything that is broken
 ▪ Learning a new skill or a martial art move (instantly an expert)
 ▪ Waving a legendary sword while dodging bullets
 ▪ Fighting gigantic snakes together with my wombat companions

Or even mundane day-to-day things like
 ▪ Reading a book of new knowledge! (Makes studying so much easier!)
 ▪ Dressing up, Driving to locations, or
 ▪ Eating (though I might not want to stuff the plate too in my mouth as in Dead Rising)

All done with clicks! Faster than The Sims!

Not only that, with this special ability, I do not need second chances!
I can get everything perfect through tim.... I mean clicks!
Wait, I can't? Well I can train with a click of a button to drive any vehicle or hone any skill.
I don't mind having 20 years of training experience in slicing blowfish after 20 clicks with 20 seconds used!(super delicious Japanese fish with a poisonous gland, one wrong slice, gameover)

Then I can make delicious sashimi for my family after 20 seconds!

Speaking of the sims, a second special skill I want is what all speed-runners want...
The ability to glitch!

A super strong boss that can lift 50 tons and is towering over me 10 stories high?
Time to glitch! Glitch them behind the tree and attack as they stand there spinning around!
Victory!

Or if I am in a super hurry to clear out a space station from an alien infestation,
 ▪ jumping down the elevator shaft works
 ▪ flying out in space works too

Some people might say glitches are bad, let alone bringing them to real life, but some of the funniest gaming experiences I had were moments I glitched out of the world! And every game has them!

And thanks to glitching skill, I can have Everyone's favourite!~
Item duplication.
Oh, I want a Ferrari or an Audi or a fancy motorcycle!
Rent one for 1 hour. Return it and drive your new vehicle!
Don't forget to properly license it. We might not be able to glitch escape from the police.

SPEED of a click and some GLITCHING fun anytime I want, what more is there to ask for!
Post edited September 30, 2021 by drxenija
I'd want the power of item duplication, to create infinite items. (In reality I'd be technically granted my wish, but it'd merely be a pale imitation of the real thing) Then I would promote shady self help books of dubious quality to unsuspecting readers, going on book tours, providing interview,s ect. Telling them that if they believe the tenets of the book, they TOO can be like me. Of course it isn't true.

Although my newfound powers are all in all pretty pedestrian, it's great for parties...