Flashlights IRL vs flashlights in games [meme]

Turning off the light will recharge the battery somehow.

I remember cheap plastic body flashlights where the battery springs had worn out a little back in the 90’s sometimes having issues where the batteries wouldn't stay positioned inside quite right, so moving it around it might flicker as they shifted or it would shut off entirely if the batteries slipped out of "alignment". Usually you'd just thump it a few times until they settled back in right. But they lasted plenty long, and didn't just flicker on their own.

Those seem to be what game flashlights are based off of, which is especially silly with how long cheap super bright LED flashlights with no battery looseness have been around now.

Great, now I'm going to have Terry Akers nightmares tonight.

The shotgun range thing is mostly because almost no shooters have realistically scaled combat areas.

Eh, you could fake the above with global illumination.

To my knowledge, they don't do that, especially in horror games, because there's no real way to know how bright the players' screen is. It would kill any tension, if you could clearly spot the monster out of the corner of your eye/view.

And similarly, it would kill horror moments, if another player never sees the monster at their screen edges. By narrowing it down to just the circle, you can control a lot better whether the player sees the monster or not...