Poll: How much gore do you prefer?

[TomCorf]

I usually prefer realistic gore with a couple of extra blood spurts or limbs flying everywhere because it adds satisfaction. i also think it makes games a lot more immersive if you shoot a guy and you see his arm fly off right in front of you, as oppose to him just falling down.

in games where you can cripple an opponents limb, eg. fallout, i like to have blood spurts to show that ive done so, but if the hit has no lasting effect on the enemy, then theres no point to have ridiculous amounts of gore.

 

[Randomologist]

I think it depends on the weapon, and the game. A little pistol shouldn't do much, but a massive shoop-da-whoop cannon should send entire limbs flying gaily through the air. If its over-the-top for comic effect, fine, but I just lose immersion if a game comes up with fountains of blood.

 

[Gitty101]

Depends on the game to be honest. If I'm playing something like Fallout or RDR, I don't like copious amounts of blood. However, when playing something like Mortal Kombat, trying to settle a score with a mate or something, the more blood the better! I want him to see his chosen fighter torn to pieces by my superior skill, Mwahahaha!

 

[Terrifying beans]

I like gore if it's used for comic effect, a la Fable or anything similar. If it's just gratuitous without any degree of OTT humor then It just gets kind of obnoxious.

 

[moose_man]

I don't mind anything in particular, but when a stab makes your head fall off, it just gets silly.

 

[drisky]

It kinda depends on the game.

Gore tends to look stupidly unrealistic, especially in video-games, so unless it's played for laughs or for specific style I tend to prefer none at all.

Thats how I feel, pretty much all or nothing. Games like Uncharted don't really lose any thing from not having tiny blood splatters, since the characters react in ways other than bleeding to show the've been hit. Realism is overrated anyways. Counter to most of the thread I want my gore to be unrealistic.

 

[Bekn]

I like the amount of gore to be suited to the kind of game I'm playing. I like sawing locust into bits in GoW but I also enjoy having no gore at all in Zelda games. I appreciate when gore is overdone for comic effect, when it is realistic or when there's none at all.

I don't like gore that is just plain out of place. Like if I jumped on a goomba and it spurted bloody everywhere while chunks of its brain hurtled across the screen. That would be stupid.

 

[HapexIndustries]

I think that when games actually DO show a realistic amount of gore it's pretty awesome. Nothing really does that except for the first 2 Soldier of Fortune games (the third one was just retarded, and also sucked bad). Shooting someone in the gut with a shotgun and having their intestines blow out is badass.

Nothing does this because it is disturbing. Real violence is fucked up. If you ever watched someone get half their face torn off with a buzzsaw you would probably throw up, and that's normal; there's all types of chunks of skin and bone and brain and other shit flying everwhere, not to mention all the blood and screaming. As videogames evolve to show off more impressive graphics I hope that they also move towards more realistic violence as well cause that will be awesome.

I know a lot of people talk about violence desensitizing us to death and stuff but I think that if we looked back a couple hundred years we'd see that people used to be SURROUNDED by death. You would slaughter animals, or watch them slaughtered in front of you. Your siblings would die at a young age from horrible shit that we cure now by accident. You might know dozens of people that died. Nowadays it's hard to relate to that level of tragedy around us, but it used to be common place and gave people a respect for the fragility of life.

In the end, though, I just want to blow a dude's head off in a way that makes me go "OH JESUS!!!!"

 

[godfist88]

I prefer it to be a little over the top.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Blood is fine, mostly because excessive levels make things look more stylised than anything else. It's showing organs and detail that really gets me going. I was the guy who left the room whenever dissections were performed in science classes...

For example, 300 and Shaun of the Dead are not problems (the latter is only really a problem when you see the wrist wound and a little of Dylan Moran's fate), but Saw etc. is a problem.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I like it when it makes sense for it to be there. On the other hand, I don't like it that much when it's excessive. So anywhere from realistic amounts to just under gorefest.

 

[mikev7.0]

Little to none.

It always makes me wonder (just as with oversexualization and insepid "romances") what could have been added to or enhanced with the actual gameplay if not for filling the B & B quota.

It won't stop me from playing a fun game (i.e. Bayonetta/Wolfenstein-Doom) but it does make me wonder how much more fun it could have been if it weren't so busy pandering to the lowest common denominator.

 

[skywalkerlion]

I liked W@Ws gore, so I guess realistic. I don't like blowing someone up with a grenade and having no gore :l

 

[Temah]

As much as the game can physically contain, i know it's immature but it amuses me.

 

[willsham45]

It all depends on the game, something like mario would not be improved by goombers...i think that is right, exploding into red clowns on being jumped on but then again the censored virtion of no more heroes was not knocked down all that much by the removal of blood, if I did not find out it was meant to be blood later i would not have cared.
A realistic game should have the ammount of blood you expect and an over the top game can have none to tones of blood. Gore can be fun but like most things in a game it is just art direction unless it is tied into the gameplay somehow like the blood (or probally meat juices) in super meat boy or splatter house or what ever it is called.
So ye blood is not a preference it is just the game.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

I like a level around what Perfect Dark did: blood splatters onto walls behind people who get shot and pools on the floor, as well as patches where you shot someone, but I'm not really into dismemberment. Only exception to the dismemberment part is Team Fortress 2, just because "Your pancreas!" is one of the things that can go flying. And anyway, only explosions in that cause ludicrous amounts of gore.

 

[emeraldrafael]

As much as it takes ot not be tacky.

Though I always prefer psychological horror.

 

[Mute52]

L4D2 gore is good, just realistic enough but not too much

 

[Ogargd]

Well Escapist, how gory do you like your games?!
Me? I prefer it slightly more then what´s realistic. It gives you that extra feeling of satisfaction, you know?

I couldn't agree more

 

[silver wolf009]

Realistic, but I want weapons that if they were real, would make stupendous amounts of gore, rendering my decision mute.