This thought will keep me up all night....

[Tanukitsune]

So... video game characters don't need to go the bathroom and game worlds don't even have real plumbing... Toilets are mere props!

Which made me think this....

WHAT ON EARTH DO THEY HAVE IN THE SEWER LEVELS THEN?

Make up your own silly theory here!

Mine is that it's the sludge at the bottom of the the coffee pot from the programmers!

[toblix]

Two words: The Sims.

[Tanukitsune]

Sims are like those peeing dolls, you pour water in one end and it comes out in the other end, it's not even the obligatory color yellow!

[elmuerte]

Duke Nukem 3D had working toilets

Phantasmagoria had working toilets

And with working, I mean they could actually be used rather than simply flush them (like the toilet on the Normandy)

ps, Those sewers are needed to empty all those barrels you find in most games.

[Tanukitsune]

Yeah, yeah, but still, toilets are usually rare in games...

Do you mean the barrels that explode when you shoot them? Remember me to never shoot the water in a sewer!

[elmuerte]

Do you mean the barrels that explode when you shoot them? Remember me to never shoot the water in a sewer!

Not all barrels explode.

Also, who says it's water running though the sewer?

[Tanukitsune]

Well, it's at least a liquid, what the liquid is what I'd like to know!

[gdf]

One of the first things I did in Heavy Rain was take a piss. Shame you couldn't do it in Jason's obnoxious little face.

You're right, though. Fucking sewer levels in every game.

[Chuckpebble]

The sewers in Santa Destroy are full of overwritten save files, so there you go.

Oh, and I just remembered, there is a heck of a lot of potty material in Conker's Bad Fur Day, I imagine that's all real poo in that game.