This may not be a video game skill in the traditional sense, but one thing I'd like to be able to do in real life that a video game character can do is craft and transmute objects using a Horadric cube like in Diablo 2.

There are many ways to use this ability that I can think of.

The most immediate use of this ability for me would be to put my desktop and laptop into the Horadric cube to craft a new, upgraded gaming laptop--to play more GOG games, of course. Doing this would consolidate my two computer systems into a single upgraded system and save me the trouble of having to sell the two old computers, since I'm always looking to get rid of things that take up space as space is a precious commodity in my house. This would also prevent me from contributing to all the e-waste that results from old electronics that end up landfills and would therefore be good for the environment.

Another important use of crafting and transmutation using a Horadric cube would be to solve the basic problem of hunger at home when there are only odds and ends left in the fridge. Put in various leftovers in the Horadric cube, hit transmute, and, BOOM, you have delicious pierogi, lasagne, or T-bone steak.

Other useful applications of this crafting ability, though stretching it a bit, would be for upcycling furniture, and recycling used necessities into new, unused versions. For example, I could throw in my old couch with some old wine stains along with a discolored rug into the Horadric cube and transmute and out would come a brand spanking new couch and carpet. The size of the furniture would be limited by the size of the Horadric cube--unless the Horadric cube happened to be like Mary Poppins's bottomless bag. Also, putting in used A4 paper, old newspapers, and dated magazines into the Horadric cube and transmuting them could yield a packaged ream of 100 sheets of A4 paper--or a box of 4 or 5 of such reams. The possibilities of this ability would be endless--and great for the environment and for reducing one's carbon footprint. And it would most certainly be fantastic for your wallet! Imagine not having to pay another $1,000+ to upgrade to the next iPhone or Galaxy phone. Just put in your old phone along with the case, protective film, and charger, and boom, you have the next new smartphone with all the new accessories.

While this would go beyond the purview of the original Horadric cube in Diablo 2, if you have an annoying sibling who is getting on your nerves, you can transmogrify him or her into a frog for just a few hours in the Horadric cube. Just don't ask me how you would get your sibling in the cube.

Anyways, that's a video game skill I would like to have in real life: being able to use a Horadric cube (from Diablo 2) to craft and transmute objects into new and better objects.

A video game skill I would want to have in real life is persuasion. I'm not talking about the persuasion where you use rhetoric and well thought out arguments to sway someone to your side. I'm talking about the persuasion where you can talk someone into giving you the shirt off their back because you said the equivalent of "C'mon, pretty please". It's ridiculous how powerful high level persuasion is in many RPGs. If I had persuasion like that I would be an unstoppable force of "DO IT BECAUSE I TOLD YOU TO".

I would like to have more carrying Strength. So i could keep on playing Horse for my daughter.
She loves it so much, but is almost too old. Or I am.

Button Remapping

There are three abilities that I would love to have:

1. The ability to re-spec myself as easily as RPG characters can reallocate their points. I would be always ready to face any new challenge, regardless of what it requires.

2. The ability to carry prodigious amounts of equipment in infinite pockets without their weight affecting me in any way. I could then be like those heroes who carry around 20 battleaxes, 7 full suits of armor, 15 bars of iron and 50 bags of reagents, just in case they come in handy.

3. Clairvoyance. I would like this magical skill, not only to learn known information like we can currently on the internet, but to find the truth of things, and to find out secrets no-one knows yet. It's a powerful skill: after all, even Darth Vader in A New Hope did not have "clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fort", and if he had, the entire galaxy would have had a very different future.

Transmutation

What is it about the "powers" common to many of our favorite video games that so entices us? Are these powers the means to some unknown ends, or are they the ends in themselves? Any worthwhile answers to these questions likely depend upon the individual; perhaps there are as many distinct motivations as there are people willing to consider the question itself.

Yet there can only be so many core motivations that drive us to imagine possessing such powers for ourselves. The desire for security, status, protection, personal empowerment, greed, domination, or revenge all come to mind as potential motives. These are all common factors, and each is eminently human. However, I suspect that my own personal motive is one of the most universal; namely, the desire for the maximum amount of control over my own life as possible - or, in a word, independence (it is, of course, possible that this motivation is a reflection of my cultural heritage - I am American, after all - but I still feel that the pursuit of independence is not so much a cultural value, but rather a human one).

It is this desire that inspires my choice of transmutation - seen in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - as the power I would most like to possess for myself. This power - assuming that it is not widespread, and I do not abuse it to such an extent that it devalues gold as a form of currency - would allow me to achieve true Independence, and to share the fruits of that achievement with my loved ones and neighbors.

I had a dream. In this dream I fulfilled the calling that was deep within me. The calling of the alchemists. No longer bound by my prison of digital creations or selective restriction. I was alive. I was The Alchemist.

Potions had defined the existence of those living in these creations but now their fiction was my reality. Ah to know the secrets of the backwoods brew master. To have the precision and accuracy of the finest renown Alchemists. The reality was now mine to grasp.

With a new joy in my heart I prance the earth looking to spread my gifts to all, for what good is this gift if not to change the world one consumption at a time. I taste test the local fauna wherever I go searching for that next elusive ingredient. Folks perceive me as a strange outcast to easily mock, but when karma's grip tightens around their life they long to see what miracles I can give them. With a warm smile of tannin stained teeth I offer them a potion of mystery more powerful than any technology their dependent minds have ever known.

With me are a ready collection of charming clean bottles waiting to be filled with endless possibilities. My purpose is to create the greatest potions known to all. To heal. To curse. Yin and Yang dancing at the fingertips of my creation. Healing wounds, and offering a panacea to the darkness of life, my tinctures and brews with sooth. But cross me and know that my belt is loaded, with bottles of curses and horrors best avoided.

The world will keep turning and eventually the end will come, but at least now I now know that I will make a difference to the landscape toward that fateful day.

I'd so love to just read a recipe or technical schema, remember it forever and (above all) make it happen in a finger snap !
It would be so motivating to read just about anything... Cooking, making potions (heal, strength...), making vehicules and robots of any type (medic, space, defense, macro, micro,...), making your clothes, etc..

I'd sure be a DIY books collector and travel the world and time (thanks to the Tardis schema), to hunt for new ones...
Just imagine meeting Da Vinci, look at his drawings and make them real in a finger snap just before his eyes !
Definitly a skill that rule them all !

From my gaming experience, the best skill to have would be Sneak from the Elder Scrolls as it makes it really easy to hide, even when standing right in front of someone. I would find this immensely useful in life. Like, if I forget my homework I could just duck down a bit and never be found or if I forgot my mum's birthday, I could pretend I left early and get a gift later.

My only worry is if i touch or throw an object at someone while 'hidden' I could turn them into chunky, bloody jelly with bits of bone inside if I'm not careful but I have terrible aim and am quite loud so it's hard not to get noticed unless I don't want someone to by keeping my mouth shut.

Is this over?

Says deadline was Sep 30, so been over for quite a while. Nothing about the winners or any other post from any blue since then though.

Dear GOG team, it is Oct. 11th, busy or not, maybe you can still spare some time to tell us when the winners of this content will be announced.

Maybe you could also provide a relative date for the announcement of winner's in your Anniversary contest This takes time and it just ended 3 days ago, so, if you can?

usually it takes 2 weeks minimum
they should switch to random draw not this biased we will decide who we like

ah i didnt know that, thx for the info
stupid law