What was wrong with Health Bars?
Maybe perhaps the Video Game Industry and First Person Shooters had a party, and then Health Bars started being a dick to everyone after getting DRUNK. And now everyone shuns him.
Sure they're not REALISTIC, But I thought we dropped Realism when we started making games where Jewish teenagers with Alluminum Baseball bats who cry when they see light going through a transparent surface that makes a spectrum of light appear, and then gets his mum fucked over by a bank robbing Agent Smith all in a Pixar movie!