so true , you can only use the knife/crowbar once and then it disappears, or you cant just take out the key from a jug you need tools for that in those games

Terrain deformation.
God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't put a limit on our ability to destroy environment in real life.

Well, it is definitely harder in a game to fall asleep, because most of the games not even give you that option :-P

Winning competitions.

1. Getting rid of unwanted people.
2. Smelling things.
3. Living a normal life.

Having conversations with someone a year from now and knowing they're gonna say something different. In games, you talk to someone, and a year from now, they're just gonna say the same thing, no matter how many times you talk to them.

1. In games like Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, you can switch between the real world and the spectral plane. The thing is though, it's so much more complicated to do in the game than real life! First you have to click enter, then you have to choose the spell, AND on top of that your soul meter needs to be full in order for you to get from the spectral plane to the physical one. I've been hopping between dimensions since I was 4, and it really is easy once you know how to do it. So inaccurate…

2. Moving any part of your body in one of those hand simulator games.

3. Only in the world of video games can you get shot or stabbed in the face then just walk or sleep it off.

4. I've defeated Diablo in real life a few times, and it is much easier than the games make it up to be. Really he's a cool dude, but people have certain misconceptions with him being a Prime Evil and all that.

5. Storing items. In real life items don't despawn after sitting on the ground for five minutes. Unless... Maybe that's where my keys keep going...

All those "bring me a shrubbery" quests. Ba Dum Tiss :P.

Winning cases in court; Phoenix Wright makes it look so easy.

I think following the damn train is much harder in the game than in real life.

In real life, mice are agile rodents who run around of their own free will and manage their entire life without my help. In games, my mouse doesn't move a millimetre without my having to constantly drag it around.

If most modern games have taught me anything, it's that it is way harder to die in a game than in real life.

Feeling an impact when hitting a wall or an enemy, the heaviness of objects, swimming, driving a car safely, not giving in to the temptation to simply run over someone with your car on a crosswalk or sidewalk, getting hurt - in some games you can jump of a mountain and land safely without so much as a scratch, dying of starvation or thirst, breaking an appliance, electrocuting yourself in situations you otherwise would.

That was my first idea too. :-)

Also, at least in some games, picking something up. IRL you just do it. In many games you have to stand in the exactly right spot. "Dancing around the item" I call it.

Of course in other games it's hard to not pick something up, because you get stuff by simply walking over it.

And finally: In games like Oblivion or Skyrim: Neatly put things like dishes, cutlery, book on tables or into shelves...

inventory space and what to bring with you