Poll: So do you actually like "violent video games"?
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Simplified/stylized. Super-gory-bloddy-funtime never appealed to me; it's not gross, just uninteresting.
As long as the game stands up in it's own rights, the about of blood and gore don't mean anything to me.
I don't mind.. It depends on the game I guess... GTA wouldn't be the same without it but with Minecraft it wouldn't look good with it... but in some games, like the Lego ones, when someone/something annoys me, I want to completely paste it over the walls for good, not watch it get back up again.. which is why I hate kids games.. So I guess I like violence and gore..??
I've always had a soft spot for a touch of the old ultra-violence myself, suprising to a lot of people since I'm actually a fairly normal and well adjusted guy.
I really enjoy sawing people in Gears of War, hacking apart minotaurs in God of War and amputating limbs in Ninja Gaiden 2. Things I can't do in real life but have full license to do digitally!
It's not like I only buy violent games but I must admit I do like them quite a bit.
I really enjoy sawing people in Gears of War, hacking apart minotaurs in God of War and amputating limbs in Ninja Gaiden 2. Things I can't do in real life but have full license to do digitally!
It's not like I only buy violent games but I must admit I do like them quite a bit.
Depends on the game.
Like with Mass Effect, a sci-fi action game, gore isn't really needed as gore was never really something the sci-fi genre focuses on.
But if it's a horror game, like Dead Space, yeah, gore is somewhat essential.
Like with Mass Effect, a sci-fi action game, gore isn't really needed as gore was never really something the sci-fi genre focuses on.
But if it's a horror game, like Dead Space, yeah, gore is somewhat essential.
I think Postal 2 is the best game ever made, but not because of the gore, but sure, I like gore, I like to smash the heads of my enemies to a thousand pieces. If I dislike someone I don't want to shoot him with some "phew phew" and just seeing him drop to the floor.
I haven't played Half Life or Silent Hill, but I must say we seem to have exteemely similar game tastes. Just saying cos it caught my eye.MSfire012 said:
As for the poll, I went for second option, I like combat but dislike gore.
Prototype is an interesting example. Yes, it's incredibly violent and gory, but the violence is so ludicrously over the top and omnipresent it quickly loses any kind of impact.Henkie36 said:
I played through about two thirds of Crysis before I consciously realised there was no blood when I shot enemy soldiers, so gore isn't a big deal for me, except in those rare games that absolutely revel in it, and do it well. Prototype just wouldn't be the same if every fight didn't leave the entire street ankle deep in blood. Neither would Doom.
Hated it in Fallout 3 though - seemed completely unecessary, as well as being really badly implemented. I don't think I'll ever forgive that game for it's decapitating bullets.
Gore is gratifying. Violence in video games, is a therapeutic relief, and should not be viewed as a negative part of gaming. When I am feeling stressed at work, I get home and stick on some GTA/CoD etc and go to town on the citizens of liberty city or internetsville. If I am not mistaken, that is much better than taking my frustrations out on real people!
I voted for stylised.
Violence is one of those things where I don't really think it adds to most games, but it can really piss me off and put me off certain games. An example of a game where I did find the violence amusing and fitting the tone is probably the God of War series. Kratos tearing off heads and disembowling centaurs and being all like "Ain't a thing, yo," and then walking off to murder some more people is extremely fucking cool to me. Similarly, I don't like violence in movies, but love the Evil Dead series.
I also liked the violence in Fallout and Fallout 2 because I sort of felt I'd earned it. Yeah, I don't think that shooting a guy in the eyes with a 10mm pistol will cause his entire fucking shoulder to disappear, but it only really happened if you got a good critical hit, or if you use a weapon where you'd be surprised if it didn't cause them to lose a couple of limbs. In Fallout, I didn't get one of those animations until I was a few hours into it. In Fallout 3, severed limbs and heads were flying about before I'd left Vault 101, so
If the game focuses too much on the violence, I can't and won't play it. Manhunt, for example. I was 18 when it came out and my brother's descriptions of how the first mission involves you murdering a guy by suffocating him with a plastic bag made me feel genuinely ill, the same way that torture scenes in gangster films make me feel really depressed. Even when I was 12 or 13, I don't think I'd've been into that. I think that can be used to great effect in some games (the finger scene in Heavy Rain worked really well, even though it was minimal violence and no real gore), but when you essentially get the highest score for violencing up people, it makes me feel really uncomfortable.
On a similar note, I feel the same way about swearing in games. I liked Assassin's Creed, but I didn't get far in Assassin's Creed 2 because in the few hours between the games, the blonde woman in the Real World had suddenly developed a fairly severe case of Tourette's syndrome, and it sounded forced and pissed me off. See also: Prototype. It's not that I have a thing against swearing, but it just reminds me of 9 year olds who swear all the time to look cool and it just ends up seeming kinda obnoxious.
TL;DR version: Violence can be good, but usually doesn't add anything, and when it feels out of place or happens too often or is the main focus of the game, I hate it.
Violence is one of those things where I don't really think it adds to most games, but it can really piss me off and put me off certain games. An example of a game where I did find the violence amusing and fitting the tone is probably the God of War series. Kratos tearing off heads and disembowling centaurs and being all like "Ain't a thing, yo," and then walking off to murder some more people is extremely fucking cool to me. Similarly, I don't like violence in movies, but love the Evil Dead series.
I also liked the violence in Fallout and Fallout 2 because I sort of felt I'd earned it. Yeah, I don't think that shooting a guy in the eyes with a 10mm pistol will cause his entire fucking shoulder to disappear, but it only really happened if you got a good critical hit, or if you use a weapon where you'd be surprised if it didn't cause them to lose a couple of limbs. In Fallout, I didn't get one of those animations until I was a few hours into it. In Fallout 3, severed limbs and heads were flying about before I'd left Vault 101, so
If the game focuses too much on the violence, I can't and won't play it. Manhunt, for example. I was 18 when it came out and my brother's descriptions of how the first mission involves you murdering a guy by suffocating him with a plastic bag made me feel genuinely ill, the same way that torture scenes in gangster films make me feel really depressed. Even when I was 12 or 13, I don't think I'd've been into that. I think that can be used to great effect in some games (the finger scene in Heavy Rain worked really well, even though it was minimal violence and no real gore), but when you essentially get the highest score for violencing up people, it makes me feel really uncomfortable.
On a similar note, I feel the same way about swearing in games. I liked Assassin's Creed, but I didn't get far in Assassin's Creed 2 because in the few hours between the games, the blonde woman in the Real World had suddenly developed a fairly severe case of Tourette's syndrome, and it sounded forced and pissed me off. See also: Prototype. It's not that I have a thing against swearing, but it just reminds me of 9 year olds who swear all the time to look cool and it just ends up seeming kinda obnoxious.
TL;DR version: Violence can be good, but usually doesn't add anything, and when it feels out of place or happens too often or is the main focus of the game, I hate it.
The only time that I feel violence is necessary in a game is when it is justifiable and key to the players survival or that of weaker or other groups or innocents in the game. If it is pointless and proves nothing (like fighting games) I personally don't enjoy it.
I enjoy a compelling experience. It can be a totally bloodless puzzle, or an ultraviolent shooter/fighter with buckets of blood and gore. If it's a compelling experience, I'll check it out.
Enjoying violence just for violence's sake shows a lack of both character and intellect. And it can be found in individuals who speak of how "awesome" the Transformers movies are.
Enjoying violence just for violence's sake shows a lack of both character and intellect. And it can be found in individuals who speak of how "awesome" the Transformers movies are.
helllz yeah! Ex: the game Splatterhouse, the only thing to like about it is the over the top insane violence and gorgasmic gameplay it presents. The only stuff i liked about the game
Depends.
I like the games where it's possible, but doesn't happen all the time. Guy exploding from a pistol shot? Lame. Guy getting ripped apart by sustained heavy machine gun fire? Visceral, and thus awesome.
I really like it when you shoot someone, and there's a little bloody spot on their shirt, like in RDR. Makes it so much cooler. And HL2 was made so much better by letting me repaint the walls in Combine brain red with the shotgun.
That said, Soldier of Fortune: Payback is made so much more awesome by the cheesy gore.
It's impossible to not absolutely eviscerate people in that game. Use a weak pistol? There arms will still get blown off at the lightest of glances. And it's glorious.
I like the games where it's possible, but doesn't happen all the time. Guy exploding from a pistol shot? Lame. Guy getting ripped apart by sustained heavy machine gun fire? Visceral, and thus awesome.
I really like it when you shoot someone, and there's a little bloody spot on their shirt, like in RDR. Makes it so much cooler. And HL2 was made so much better by letting me repaint the walls in Combine brain red with the shotgun.
That said, Soldier of Fortune: Payback is made so much more awesome by the cheesy gore.
It's impossible to not absolutely eviscerate people in that game. Use a weak pistol? There arms will still get blown off at the lightest of glances. And it's glorious.
Not really. I just tune out the gore. I'm more of a flashy lights awesome attacks kind of person. The blood doesn't really do anything for me. If they took out the blood from games i wouldn't mind at all (as long as they don't replace it with something else. Something about different colored blood annoys me).
I gotta say, I love gore. God of War, Gears of War, Mortal Kombat, Left 4 Dead 2, whatever. If its an action game, gore just adds that extra OOMPH to me. I even appreciate it in games where you aren't fighting human enemies, like being able to blow the limbs and heads off of robots in Vanquish. It just makes everything feel much more visceral, and is an easy way to say "yes, your weapons are having an effect. A pretty damn good one".
That said, some games get along fine without it. Halo and Call of Duty do fine with limited amounts of gore, though Black Ops certainly stepped it up in the campaign. I liked its inclusion in WaW's multiplayer as well, if only because blowing arms off with the MG42 was awesome. I couldn't imagine, say, Mass Effect with lots of gore. It just doesn't fit the setting, being that its all shiny spaceships and armor. I also find it strange when some games only go halfway with it. Half-Life 2, for example. You can bisect the zombies, but not the Combine. Its a weird distinction, but at the same time part of me thinks it would be kind of weird if you could.
That said, some games get along fine without it. Halo and Call of Duty do fine with limited amounts of gore, though Black Ops certainly stepped it up in the campaign. I liked its inclusion in WaW's multiplayer as well, if only because blowing arms off with the MG42 was awesome. I couldn't imagine, say, Mass Effect with lots of gore. It just doesn't fit the setting, being that its all shiny spaceships and armor. I also find it strange when some games only go halfway with it. Half-Life 2, for example. You can bisect the zombies, but not the Combine. Its a weird distinction, but at the same time part of me thinks it would be kind of weird if you could.
Senseless violence is well... senseless. I prefer my violence to have meaning, purpose. While I do occasionally enjoy games like Unreal, Saints row (more cartoony) and what not I really like the Mass Effect series and other with a deeper story and a reason for the violence. Honestly I think violent video games are the one thing keeping this generation from falling apart (anyone between the are of 30 and 20) From what I have seen and who I have talked to, and personal experience violence and extreme violence in video games is preventing more violence then the media claims it inspires.
Seriously how many times have you had a bad day, your just pissed off so you go home, put in an ultra violent game and just blast/hack/chop/slice your way to a calmer self. Seriously without those games I think a lot of people would be "going postal" and the like. (personally I like physical exhaustion better chopping fire wood and the like but that isn't always an option)
Seriously how many times have you had a bad day, your just pissed off so you go home, put in an ultra violent game and just blast/hack/chop/slice your way to a calmer self. Seriously without those games I think a lot of people would be "going postal" and the like. (personally I like physical exhaustion better chopping fire wood and the like but that isn't always an option)