Lockpicking in Video Games

[Solomon]

Oblivion lockpicking is FAKE. Notice post no.2: "everyone knows from Oblivion..." In real life the tumblers come in two parts, and are spring loaded.

If that was sarcasm, it's hard to convey feelings through text.

Look up locks and lockpicking on HowStuffWorks.com

Hmm yeah it's really hard to tell... why would Jon King, a long time accomplished picker and inventor of the medecoder spend the time to code his own lockpicking game then say it's no good because oblivion is more realistic? Surely it's the other way around?! I'm like, sooooo confused... is there anything about how sarcasm works on that site too?

[Von Zwietracht]

Oblivion TES has "lockpicking". It might be useful for someone to get a visual of how pins keep a lock from opening. You can try to set each pin individually and might even break your pick but that's it. No real skill involved and the lock wouldn't be functional in the real world!

http://s193.photobucket.com/albums/z92/ ... mview=grid

The lock in oblivion really reminds me of the ancient egyptian concept of a pin tumbler lock in terms of how the locking bolt moves and how it only has one pin per chamber. Kinda cool IMO...anyone else see that when they played through?

[eurolock fan]

I noticed they have lockpicking in Fallout and its unrealistic but at least they have a tension wrench.