Poll: Is gore overrated?

[Iron Mal]

I'll admit that I do like a good ol' fashioned gore fest with more blood and viscera flying around the screen than the result of '(chainsaw + fresh corpse) x big ass explosion' but I won't mark a game down if it doesn't have buckets of blood.

It's not that immature to enjoy having a bit of ultra-violent fun, hell, what's wrong with a bit of mindless fun/violence every now and then?

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Half-Life had plenty of gore.
You can chop zombies in half with buzzsaw blades.
The original half-life was one of the goriest games of it's time, if you beat someone with a crowbar for long enough they exploded into pieces of red meat and bone.

But never mind that, let's just ignore all the trivial things like "facts" and "reasoning" and complain about Gears of War for a while.

Beat me to it. I've always been annoyed by those who think gore is the only thing Gears has, especially when they use faulty reasoning.

I should point out however that I'm not by any means the biggest fan of Gears of War.
Overly muscular dumbasses with terrible scriptwriters should be confined to "professional wrestling" where I can't see them.

 

[The_Deleted]

I love a bit of gore. But a shit game is a shit game. Gore is just a perk.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Half-Life had plenty of gore.
You can chop zombies in half with buzzsaw blades.
The original half-life was one of the goriest games of it's time, if you beat someone with a crowbar for long enough they exploded into pieces of red meat and bone.

But never mind that, let's just ignore all the trivial things like "facts" and "reasoning" and complain about Gears of War for a while.

Beat me to it. I've always been annoyed by those who think gore is the only thing Gears has, especially when they use faulty reasoning.

I should point out however that I'm not by any means the biggest fan of Gears of War.
Overly muscular dumbasses with terrible scriptwriters should be confined to "professional wrestling" where I can't see them.

I see what you're saying. But whether or not you like the game, claiming that the only thing it has is gore is ignoring the facts.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

Half-Life had plenty of gore.
You can chop zombies in half with buzzsaw blades.
The original half-life was one of the goriest games of it's time, if you beat someone with a crowbar for long enough they exploded into pieces of red meat and bone.

But never mind that, let's just ignore all the trivial things like "facts" and "reasoning" and complain about Gears of War for a while.

Beat me to it. I've always been annoyed by those who think gore is the only thing Gears has, especially when they use faulty reasoning.

I should point out however that I'm not by any means the biggest fan of Gears of War.
Overly muscular dumbasses with terrible scriptwriters should be confined to "professional wrestling" where I can't see them.

I see what you're saying. But whether or not you like the game, claiming that the only thing it has is gore is ignoring the facts.

That was my/your original point, yes.

 

[steve141761]

Gore is fun, but I mean... I only enjoy blowing body parts off of people, becuase well...
I'LL NEVER GET TO DO IT IN REAL LIFE!
Thats what video games are, a way to do things that you WOULD NEVER get to do in real life...mostly... So yes, I think gore is GREAT, its just not a selling point of a game for me...

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Why are you complaining about lag. It's not the games fault that the Host or possibly you have a bad connection.

 

[twistedshadows]

If gore is the only thing the game excels in, of course it's going to be overrated. I personally enjoy the presence of blood and guts in games (and movies) at times when gore is expected and called for.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Gore helps eleviate my natural bloodlust and repressed anger. It's very calming.
Of course, it has to be done correctly. Gears Of War 2, for instance... there was just enough.

Half-Life 2 could've done with some gore, I mean... I used a shotgun on that soldier's face, right?
He shouldn't have a face...

 

[Crash486]

It depends how gore is used. It can be tastefully done and implemented into the art direction of the game to depict something macabre and unworldly. There are some very talented gore artists out there who create some beautifully macabre peices of art which are just as alluring as they are disturbing. Prototype is a good example of this, or even Dead Space for that matter (which borrowed heavily from The Thing and Aliens).

I don't really pay too much attention to gore in your everyday game. Though I have to say while I was playing through the witcher, the blood splatter effects from your sword styles were absolutely amazing. I'm not sure if i would consider that "gore" per say, but it was blood. The perfect rings of blood that would line the ground after a particularly grizzly sword fight were quite impressive. I remember starring at it thinking it was grotesque, yet strangely aesthetically pleasing. I guess part of the point was really to drive home the brutality of your actions.

However, there's also distasteful gore which plagues most next gen shooters these days. Gears of war is a prime example, mad world an even better example.

 

[SimuLord]

I'm not a big fan of violent games, and the one violent game series I do like (Grand Theft Auto) has a very understated approach when it comes to blood. It's like the developers are saying "look, this ain't for little kids, and only little kids would like massive arterial spray all over the place---the kinds of gamers we're actually selling to won't give their kill a second thought, they'll just get to the spot where they get their next mission. Or they'll be too busy jacking a car and hightailing it out of there before the cops show up."

EDIT: I would, however, love to see a good gory death mod for The Sims 2 for those occasions when I decide it's time for a Sim to go to a community lot I call the Island of Misfit Sims, full of the graves of those foolish enough to anger the SimuLord.

 

[ryai458]

whoa i feel stupid for the longest time I thought you were talking about Al Gore whoa..
anyway gore is just another aspect of games unlike story that you lose your second play through because you know whats going to happen, gore stays with you and keeps games fresh

 

[ModReap]

Gore is overrated, it does not in any way make the game better

 

[Neurowaste]

Gore is a cool gimmick in "Mature" game, i mean, it can enhance the experience when it is used reasonably, like, getting run over by a combine harvester, appropriate gore, your sternum exploding because you ran into a butterfly, not appropriate, depends on the game and situation, i don't really see it as anything more than an experience enhancer although it is abused often...

 

[zahr]

I love gore. See Gears of War 2 for gore done awesomely.

However, I don't need gore at all to make the game good. It's a bonus. I'll enjoy a game just fine without it, but gore, particularly in Gears-style executions or Dawn of War style sync-kills, does improve a game in my opinion.

Nice biased poll by the way.

 

[rockingnic]

Gore, in the good games, usually are meant to tie into their art style (i.e. Mad World), that is when gore is good. But when gore is meant to enhance(not really) the gameplay (Gears of War), there's blood everywhere and it can affect your gameplay, bring it down. Not saying Gears is a bad game but at least in Halo 3 you'll never die because you watch blood effects splatter all over your screen, not allowing you to see and anticipate the guy that's going to kill you in about 3 seconds.

 

[Highlandheadbanger]

Its gotten pretty ridiculous, with some titles coming out recently (won't mention names to avoid flamewars flaring up) nothing other then several grotesque displays of unnecesarily and highly unrealistic tour-de-gore. Its ok in moderation (If I'm playing a warrior battling orcs, there better be SOME blood and/or dismemberment with every heavy hit, not just foes being knocked back stunned by history's dullest claymore), but when it gets out of hand, gory games do for video games what reality shows do for television: create a load of mindless fantasized taboo for the undeveloped minds of immature younglings and socially mal-adjusted adults, taking away from the sum of human dignity and intellectual progression.

 

[lizards]

I say gore is overrated because it usually appears in games that require little or no skill, rather than intelligent and innovative games like Half-Life. It's also pretty stupid that games like Gears of War have their main selling point is gore, coincidentally i hate Gears of War. I traded that crap in because i couldn't stand the online lag. Seriously they made millions of dollars from the original Gears, but they couldn't fix the online lag because they spent so much time programing the gore.

your an idoit you cant fix lag peoples connection sucks and im sure they spent all that money on gore when half was from the first game and not any on matchmaking

you sir are what i would classify as a waste of space good day