Originally posted by AThousandYoungThat's fine if you're going to go down the real life route, but other requirements go with this which are seriously lacking; you can't have some real life bits with other non-realistic sections thrown in; there's no continuity.
Maybe they tried to make it more realistic. In real life you don't pick up an item and find a list of stats engraved on it. Wild animals often are capable of beating people to death quickly in real life.