Inaccurately Accurate

[RokuGurin]

You know the whole accuracy thing in RPGs never made sense to me.

For one, it's just hilarious how some attacks just seem to miss their target. Especially in games where you visibly see the attack connect. That fire spell hit the enemy, right? Nope, it missed. Somehow.

Sometimes, it's just absurd. Take Pokemon for instance. Can anyone explain how you can miss with an attack called Sing?!

And going to my fire spell example, how exactly can a magic spell MISS? I guess if you're making it pretty damn obvious you're going to aim at a specific area where the opponent is standing, then yes, they can simply sidestep to avoid it, but when you conjure up fire out of nowhere...

Yeah, excuse me, sir? Hold the bill for a moment. I don't think that makes sense.

As to my second point, take some ARPGs for instance. Games like Tales of Symphonia/Abyss/Whatever don't really have a way attacks can miss, which does make sense...but then again don't. I mean, it's pretty easy to avoid a slow moving Demon Fang, right?

I suppose it's a situation that's neither heads nor tails.

Then again, I'm trying to make sense out of video game physics, so maybe I'm being silly right now.

You decide.