Should Fantasy Games be Realistic?

This video is partly a response to some comments in a previous video where the idea of ’realism’ in a fantasy game was dismissed as a silly idea simply because fantasy is inherently unrealistic. The same argument is often used to dismiss mods that make games more ’realistic’. So here are my thoughts on the whole ’realism in fantasy games’ debate. Thumbnail is ’The Mindbender’ courtesy of HetzioTrace.