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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Don Flamenco on October 29, 2008, 06:03:08 PM

Title: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 29, 2008, 06:03:08 PM
I don't know why, but I do.  I think Max Payne might have the best bathrooms, since you can use the toilets AND sinks. On the other hand, supposed "epic" games like Bioshock and Dead Space don't have flushable toilets.  Total bullshit.

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Please post more to add to the list.  Include important details such as the location details (if necessary), whether you can use toilets or if they just get flushed, whether you can use sinks, showers, hairdryers etc. 

Also looking for some superlatives-- first flushable toilet in a game, toilets with actual water physics etc.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: archie4208 on October 29, 2008, 06:06:50 PM
Duke Nukem 3D has the best toilets in any game ever.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: tiesto on October 29, 2008, 06:09:30 PM
I remember thinking 'holy shit, how cool is this' back in the day, when Vector castle had flushable toilets.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Greatness Gone on October 29, 2008, 07:49:01 PM
No More Heroes  :heartbeat
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: abrader on October 29, 2008, 07:53:46 PM
haha YES

Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: drew on October 29, 2008, 07:58:12 PM
Prey has the best toilets in any game ever.

fixed
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 29, 2008, 08:22:04 PM
You betcha, mundane shit always jumps to the top of my list to check in any game.
I remember being blown away, just astonished that I was able to check my sock drawer in Shenmue, that I had virtual socks to look at.  OMG!
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 29, 2008, 08:37:25 PM
Updated OP.  This is going to be a master list of games where you can flush toilets (plus other usable bathroom facility details.) 

Toilet flushers unite
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on October 29, 2008, 08:40:34 PM
Duke Nukem 3D has the best toilets in any game ever.
This, and you can break them and drink the water for health points, or flush them and get health points.  :-*
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Bildi on October 29, 2008, 10:30:37 PM
Yes, it's great fun.  I also like to test light switches as well.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 29, 2008, 11:15:32 PM
In Fallout 3, you can drink out of the toilets.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: MCD on October 29, 2008, 11:24:13 PM
i did that in bioshock and was disappointed by the water effects.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Bebpo on October 30, 2008, 12:26:00 AM
The better question is do you try to flush every toilet you see in RL as a result of videogames?
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 02:26:44 AM
i did that in bioshock and was disappointed by the water effects.

you can flush them in bioshock?  maybe I'm confusing it with some other game made by lazy devs that don't put in toilet flushing.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: cool breeze on October 30, 2008, 02:32:00 AM
I'll remember to check from now on.

And playing Dead space I made the realization that bathrooms are the scariest places ever.  All those stalls just leave you waiting for something to kill you.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: MCD on October 30, 2008, 02:32:35 AM
yes, and it's pretty early in the game too.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: The Sceneman on October 30, 2008, 02:32:48 AM
Im sure you can flush toilets in a lot of adventure games, like Leisure Suit Larry and Space Quest and shit
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 02:35:45 AM
yes, and it's pretty early in the game too.

yeah, the scene when the chick who's too jacked up on drugs to perform is in a bathroom...I remember trying to write things in the wall with the wrench + damage textures in there.   

Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 02:43:51 AM
lets try and find the first game with flushable toilets.   Earliest I can think of is FF3 (snes), but I'm positive there are some NES games where you can.  Those adventure games that scenester mentioned too...
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Bildi on October 30, 2008, 03:16:45 AM
I sadly never got to play it, but I'd be surprised if there's no flushable toilet in Day of the Tentacle.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: drew on October 30, 2008, 04:04:33 AM
in Dead Rising you take a piss at a urinal to save your game

does that count?
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: The Sceneman on October 30, 2008, 04:57:08 AM
I sadly never got to play it, but I'd be surprised if there's no flushable toilet in Day of the Tentacle.

there is, most of the puzzles involve flushing items down time travelling toilets. I shit you not. No pun intended. No homo
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Crushed on October 30, 2008, 08:05:59 AM
ah, that's better
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 30, 2008, 10:48:04 AM
I sadly never got to play it, but I'd be surprised if there's no flushable toilet in Day of the Tentacle.


Haven't played that either but Maniac Mansion definitely does
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Bildi on October 31, 2008, 12:25:53 AM
I sadly never got to play it, but I'd be surprised if there's no flushable toilet in Day of the Tentacle.

there is, most of the puzzles involve flushing items down time travelling toilets. I shit you not. No pun intended. No homo

That's right, now I remember the toilets from screenshots in reviews of the time.  That game must have been so awesome. :'(
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: tiesto on October 31, 2008, 01:12:05 AM
FF7 in that restaurant in Wall Market, there's some guy taking a dump in the bathroom.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 31, 2008, 01:35:11 AM
in Fallout 3 you can't flush them, but you can drink from them for health
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: radioheadrule83 on October 31, 2008, 09:43:54 AM
Its Duke Nukem 3Ds fault that I do this...

I didn't spot the toilets in Bioshock, but I know where they must be. The toilets with the hole in the wall in the bar right? I did turn the sink on and off...

Day of the Tentacles' toilets are weird. They're just holes in the floor. While I do love the Cron-O-Johns, I'm glad no toilet I've ever used has been like that... the toilets at the Reading and Leeds festivals come pretty close though.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Sysgen on October 31, 2008, 11:28:05 AM
In Fallout 3, you can drink out of the toilets.

You can also sit on them.  I roleplayed in an outhouse last night. :lol
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Positive Touch on October 31, 2008, 11:42:32 AM
there's a recurring joke in the Silent Hill series that involves the main characters sticking their hands in dirty, filty toilets
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: DJ_Tet on October 31, 2008, 11:52:01 AM
You betcha, mundane shit always jumps to the top of my list to check in any game.
I remember being blown away, just astonished that I was able to check my sock drawer in Shenmue, that I had virtual socks to look at.  OMG!

You know, of all games that should have toilets but don't, Shenmue must be at the top of that list.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Sysgen on October 31, 2008, 12:25:01 PM

You know, of all games that should have toilets but don't, Shenmue must be at the top of that list.

Why should Shenmue have toliets ???  Given what they are they're disgusting.  Can't ruin a masterpiece with a toilet.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: DJ_Tet on October 31, 2008, 12:33:59 PM

You know, of all games that should have toilets but don't, Shenmue must be at the top of that list.

Why should Shenmue have toliets ???  Given what they are they're disgusting.  Can't ruin a masterpiece with a toilet.

Any game that has sock drawers should be required to have toilets.

Toilets come before sock drawers in any basic game design.  Look how many more games have toilets than sock drawers for proof.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 31, 2008, 03:09:05 PM
Could you use the toilet in Assassin's Creed? I can't remember.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 31, 2008, 07:15:37 PM
I don't recall there being any toilets in AC.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on March 27, 2009, 11:50:15 PM
bump
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 27, 2009, 11:55:01 PM
Haha, this is a pretty great topic that I didn't catch the first time around.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Yeti on March 28, 2009, 12:30:03 PM
I know the Fallout 3 toilets have been mentioned, but I wanted to chime in about them. When I first came across a toilet and it said "Use toilet" I thought cool, you can use the toilets in this game! Imagine my chagrin when my character proceeded to drink from the toilet.  :-\
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: ManaByte on March 28, 2009, 01:16:43 PM
MLB 09 on PSP is pretty damn good. Hard to believe it's 1. on the PSP and 2. a handheld baseball game.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 28, 2009, 01:26:19 PM
MLB 09 on PSP is pretty damn good. Hard to believe it's 1. on the PSP and 2. a handheld baseball game.

Wrong thread?
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: ManaByte on March 28, 2009, 06:10:24 PM
MLB 09 on PSP is pretty damn good. Hard to believe it's 1. on the PSP and 2. a handheld baseball game.

Wrong thread?

Thought I was posting in the what you are playing thread.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Himu on March 28, 2009, 06:40:25 PM
In FFVII you can't flush the toilet but you climb on top of it to get into a restroom vent. I know it's not the same thing but if there's one thing I wouldn't want to do it's climb into a restroom vent that smells like shit.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: drew on March 29, 2009, 12:36:33 AM
zomg blast from the past

stealth edit: page 2 fml
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on March 29, 2009, 01:05:13 PM
The toilets in CoD4 cannot be flushed.


just thought I'd give everyone fair warning before purchasing the game.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 16, 2009, 02:12:03 AM
update:

4/15/09

One of the first things you can do after the tutorial in riddick is flush a toilet
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Tauntaun on April 16, 2009, 01:04:52 PM
We should make a XBLA toilet flushing game and then an app for the itouch.  We'll be millionaires.  :hyper
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Mr. Gundam on April 16, 2009, 03:56:36 PM
I don't recall there being any toilets in AC.

Isn't there one in your bedroom/cell in the real world?
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: chronovore on April 18, 2009, 01:36:34 AM
In Fallout 3, you can drink out of the toilets.

Holy crap. It never dawned on me that this was what the character did. I thought "How is he gaining Rads from DEFECATING or FLUSHING a toilet? Ass in close proximity to a radiation source? Why not make it a toxic region like the puddles, then?"

:gag
:ack

Gross.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 18, 2009, 01:47:01 AM
You can flush the toilets in Deus Ex: Invisible War. There's no animation or effect though, just the sound.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: chronovore on April 18, 2009, 04:02:43 AM
You can flush the toilets in Deus Ex: Invisible War. There's no animation or effect though, just the sound.

This comparative lack of toilet-flushing technology explains the lack of sales.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 18, 2009, 01:07:35 PM
Surprisingly enough, devs always seem to cheap out on the toilet.  Even in the age of UE3, euphoria physics, and parallax comparative bump mapping animation, they often settle for the toilet flush sound, rather than going the whole nine yards.  it's a sad state of affairs and as the problem worsens, it forces me to contemplate why I even stick with this hobby.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: chronovore on April 18, 2009, 11:53:23 PM
It's a slippery slope. Now you want the devs to put in the water, not just the sound. First a rotating spiral texture will be enough, then you'll want real-time, centripetal force influenced water physics... next year you'll be wanting to be able to pee into it, and the year after you'll be insisting that the pee stream influence the bowl's own water physics. In five years, Havok will have a plug-in JUST for toilet physics.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Don Flamenco on April 19, 2009, 01:40:07 AM
If the toilet is in the southern hemisphere, it needs to flush in reverse too.  and the game should offer an unlockable machine that makes it flush the way it does in 'merica.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 19, 2009, 03:12:07 AM
The toilets in Riddick Butcher Bay were flushable, but it was just a cheapo sound effect.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: brawndolicious on April 19, 2009, 03:56:08 AM
Yeah but if you flushed all of the toilets in the cell block, there's an easter egg picture of some of the developers that goes up in the courtyard.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on April 19, 2009, 04:30:07 AM
Ah, didn't know that. That is pretty neat.
Title: Re: Anyone else try to flush the toilet in every game they play?
Post by: Yeti on April 19, 2009, 12:55:40 PM
In Fallout 3, you can drink out of the toilets.

Holy crap. It never dawned on me that this was what the character did. I thought "How is he gaining Rads from DEFECATING or FLUSHING a toilet? Ass in close proximity to a radiation source? Why not make it a toxic region like the puddles, then?"

:gag
:ack

Gross.


Yeah, your guy makes the same sipping/slurping noises as he does at a waterfall.  :-\