gore in games.

[SomethingUnrelated]

fallout 3 has pretty realistic gore, heads explode and you can see eyes and bits of jawbone flying through the air.

Oh, yeah.
Totally.

I remember, the last time I shot someone in the head with a pistol that was a few hundred years old, their head exploded.

Yeah.
That happened.

I don't mind gore.
It makes killing all the more fun.

Probably laziness or unwillingness, incidentally.

Nicely summed up, MaxTheReaper.

Personally, some gore makes a game more fun to play, but if you brush past someone in a game, and they explode in a mass of brains, blood and bowels, that's a bit far. Although, it is hilarious.

 

[Logic 0]

I agree that there should be gore in games,But I beleive that the corpses aren't properly damaged because of tech limitations in systems.

 

[similar.squirrel]

I never liked it much. Prefer cartoon violence. It can be horribly grotesque and disturbing, but realistic portrayals of blood and guts just..Don't get me off. Like a lot of the gaming community, apparently.

 

[archvile93]

The more blood I draw, the better a job I know I have done.

 

[lxl_c0d3m0nk3y_lxl]

gore makes games hilarious, and i like that game designers add it

 

[Antlovesabi]

There is nothing better than a bit of gore in games ... You wouldn't find yourself in your gaming trance if you shot the enemy and it just fell to the floor or anything else except blood poured out. E.g you play Left 4 Dead, shoot an enemy and roses pour out of his neck. Then again there was nothing wrong with the old games which substituted for this ... Mario(jump on there heads), Pac Man(eat them). Maybe the new generation is just blood greedy.

 

[suhlEap]

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[Zombie Badger]

Probably because over-the-top gore is considered tasteless. Gore should be in games for realism, but it should be kept to a realistic minimum, like Halo 3.

Halo 3 is a realistic minimum? If I shoot a human in that game with a rocket launcher designed to take down tanks he is still in one piece! Realistic would involve large exit wounds, and dismemberment from .50 cal and above bullets, and explosives.

 

[oppp7]

Probably because over-the-top gore is considered tasteless. Gore should be in games for realism, but it should be kept to a realistic minimum, like Halo 3.

Halo 3 is a realistic minimum? If I shoot a human in that game with a rocket launcher designed to take down tanks he is still in one piece! Realistic would involve large exit wounds, and dismemberment from .50 cal and above bullets, and explosives.

I was talking about when people are shot by guns. Most games that have blood in them over do it, such as Bioshock's hospital area.

 

[anti-hero_will]

im gona have to complain
going on about gore in ames how tia realy i just wanna know do you know what atualy happenes when a dudes shot in the face,
ever see it happen or done it.
no i havent either just wanna know if you have seen it for realy and not on tv

 

[ddon]

in a game it sorta depends on the atmosphere.

 

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

The reason for the lack of gore in that Bioshock scene is quite simple. There is no gore outside of blood in Bioshock (and dare anyone to prove me wrong) and in that particular scenerio, the majority of the mess would consist of shreaded and mutilated internal organs. Compare that to Fallout 3, where some areas are literally decorated with the entrails of some poor sods. There is simply no comparison.

As for gore in games, I prefer realism over censorship, and exploding heads over realism.

 

[The Hairminator]

fallout 3 has pretty realistic gore, heads explode and you can see eyes and bits of jawbone flying through the air.

Fallout 3's gore all looked the same, and got boring after a while.
Still, those critical headshots in VATS *shivers*. It never stops being satisfying.
At the same time I have to agree with MaxTheReaper. Human heads do NOT explode when you fire low caliber rounds at them with ANY weapon.

If I like gore or not depends on the quality of the gore, how much it is, and what kind of game it is in. If it is in a game that strives to be realistic I only want realistic looking gore in realistic amounts.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Gore's great, look at the first two Fallout games (not that piece of crap third game, that gore is rubbish).

It adds to the effect of the world, the idea that you're murdering something sentient that dedicated it's thought process to trying to kill you and you returned the favor.
Not that I promote real violence, but making a game's world more believable is great.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

fallout 3 has pretty realistic gore, heads explode and you can see eyes and bits of jawbone flying through the air.

If you want I'll link you to what acctually happens when somebody is shot in the head.

OT:
Gore is good.
Gore also ups the game rating, and some games don't want that.

Doesn't the entry wound stay relatively intact while the back of the head is completely obliterated?

But I would love to see realistic gore in a game. It's so fun to dismember people...

 

[Simski Burkez]

The reason for the lack of gore in that Bioshock scene is quite simple. There is no gore outside of blood in Bioshock (and dare anyone to prove me wrong) and in that particular scenerio, the majority of the mess would consist of shreaded and mutilated internal organs. Compare that to Fallout 3, where some areas are literally decorated with the entrails of some poor sods. There is simply no comparison.

As for gore in games, I prefer realism over censorship, and exploding heads over realism.

Hear, hear!!!
It would be pretty sweet to see the actual damage caused by the Big Daddy's drill, as he turns splicers into smoothies.

 

[The Hairminator]

Doesn't the entry wound stay relatively intact while the back of the head is completely obliterated?

Depends on projectile-velocity and caliber. With a low caliber weapon it won't be that messy at all, though.