as long as it isnt the whole damn gameplay im fine with it...also it needs to be in good taste *cough*dukenukemcallofduty*cough*
Poll: So do you actually like "violent video games"?
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I can dig gore, but only if there's a good story behind it.
for example, if I'm wandering through an abandoned facility/space station/whatever and I hear subtle weird noises and then I find a corpse that's been pasted all over the walls, I get the whole 'what the fuck happened here?' vibe. but the gore in say... quake isn't scary at all, cause you already know what happened and who's doing it. at that point it loses all the impact.
for example, if I'm wandering through an abandoned facility/space station/whatever and I hear subtle weird noises and then I find a corpse that's been pasted all over the walls, I get the whole 'what the fuck happened here?' vibe. but the gore in say... quake isn't scary at all, cause you already know what happened and who's doing it. at that point it loses all the impact.
I prefer semi-realistic gore. In my prefered shooter if you shoot someone they'll bleed and there will be splatter of some kind, but if you say for example cut off someone's head it should not geyser like the recently deceased's neck just had the mother of all orgasms. Keep it within reason I say.Araksardet said:
Eh, I don't really love the gore and ultra violence to be honest. I can stand Gears and GTA, but I prefer TES and ME (and Fallout 3).
And I adore the stylized combat of Mirror's Edge, Enslaved, and PoP 2008.
And I adore the stylized combat of Mirror's Edge, Enslaved, and PoP 2008.
Well my favorite game is Dead Rising 2, but more because it is an amazing game and I like the story and less because it is gory. My other favorite games are Mario Galaxy 2 and Battlefield 2142 which, while it is a shooter, has no blood. So I guess gore and violence is a second for me over actual fun and quality.
Are we using violence to refer to gore or actually hitting people/things.
I don't like gore so I turn it off whenever there is an option to do so (Demon's Souls, Assasin's Creed), otherwise I try to avoid such games. This is really hard to do and have resigned myself to giving such games a chance to impress me first. The worst part about violence in games is the unrealistic (as far as I know) amount of gore and blood.
On the actual topic, most of my games consist of cartoon or unrealistic violence (hitting things).
I don't like gore so I turn it off whenever there is an option to do so (Demon's Souls, Assasin's Creed), otherwise I try to avoid such games. This is really hard to do and have resigned myself to giving such games a chance to impress me first. The worst part about violence in games is the unrealistic (as far as I know) amount of gore and blood.
On the actual topic, most of my games consist of cartoon or unrealistic violence (hitting things).
I enjoy gory stuff, but I also enjoy games without gore. Hell, the reason I'm gonna end up having to get a 3DS is because they're putting out another Animal Crossing...
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I love violent video games as long as they aren't violent just for the sake of being so. I think stylized gore or gore "within common reason" is a better target then just gore for the sheer hell of it, but that's just my preference.
I could honestly care less so long as the game is fun to play. If I had to choose though, simplified or stylized violence.
If it's violence and gore done well, then yes I like it.
But I guess you can say that about every aspect in life... The "done well" part, I mean.
But I guess you can say that about every aspect in life... The "done well" part, I mean.
I like games with gore but I wouldn't pick them just because they have gore in them. All the games I own are quite violent the only no violent ones being Fifa and Kinect sports.
It was hard for to pick on option on the poll, because I play so many different types of violent games, but I go with my favorite, Goofy. ;p
I have mixed feeling about violence in games as well, I see no problem with it, any of it, but I myself am a bit turned off by really graphic and ridiculous stuff like Mortal Kombat. I know that it's supposed to comically over the top, but... ehh.
I have mixed feeling about violence in games as well, I see no problem with it, any of it, but I myself am a bit turned off by really graphic and ridiculous stuff like Mortal Kombat. I know that it's supposed to comically over the top, but... ehh.
While I'm mostly an RPGer at heart, which typically falls more under "Cartoonish" violence, I will say that I have enjoyed the Blood Omen/Soul Reaver, Devil May Cry, and God of War series, just to name a few. God of War is kind of the farthest I ever care to go as far as blood and gore, however, and seeing as how I've yet to play the third installment, due to not owning a PS3, I don't know if they went above and beyond the "standards" the first two set.
I put my vote in for stylized, because while I can enjoy realistic violence to a certain extent, the range of games I've played and enjoyed actually fall far more on the Cartoonish end, so I felt the middle option sort of said it best.
I put my vote in for stylized, because while I can enjoy realistic violence to a certain extent, the range of games I've played and enjoyed actually fall far more on the Cartoonish end, so I felt the middle option sort of said it best.
I didn't vote because the answer I wanted wasn't there. Maybe it's because I'm not a teenager anymore, but gore itself just doesn't matter much to me. What matters is how it works with the gameplay and story. If it fits, sure, gore it up, but if not don't just add that crap to be "edgey" because it just serves to do the opposite of what game developers who use it are trying to achieve - it makes you look immature.
It's not the violence that gets me to play. It's the fun that the violence adds. I don't care what kind as long as killing something makes the game more fun.