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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Twin Matrix on May 15, 2008, 06:06:00 pm
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I just realized that I in fact know no one who shares my love for gory videogames. And I don't mean Bioshock-style, but more like Doom 3 meets Saw 3. Tortured people, etc. Does anyone like games like that? And are there even any horror RPGs (Diablo-style, FF-style, etc.) that are gory beyond blood from killing enemies and random undead walking around without heads?
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The only type of game I care about gore in is FPS. I actually consider it a fault against the game if it lacks unrealistic amounts of gore (I can probably thank Turok 2 for this way of thinking).
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The whole gore thing lost its appeal in the mid-90s when people realized that Mortal Kombat was a pretty generic fighter that only had fatalities going for it. There was even an arcade game that specifically focused on torturing people but I can't for the life of me remember the name.
I'm glad developers don't feel the need to include violence simply for the sake of violence but other than Dead Rising I haven't played a game that's excessively bloody.
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There was Carmageddon. That car game in which you did nothing but run people over.
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There was Carmageddon. That car game in which you did nothing but run people over.
I remembering playing this on my brothers computer when he came home from college and loving it. I was like 8 though, so that doesn't really say much. Although I remember it being more about destroying the other guys cars than running people over?
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Gore for the most part is thrown in as an unnecessary, disgusting factor to sell games to 13-year-old boys. Sure, there are some times when it MAKES SENSE (of course if you're shot you're going to bleed) but sometimes they do things like make bodies bleed more than PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE. I don't look for gore in games, but I guess it doesn't really bother me much if it's already there.
If you don't mind the special effects being so bad, I guess you could go back and play games like Phantasmagoria and Harvester. Some of the scenes from Phantasmagoria made me physically ill (choking that woman with bloody meat)
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I'm just hoping Fallout 3 doesn't hold back on their trademark violence. The whole bodies-exploding thing in Fallout 2 was pretty cool, especially when most of the game had a dark humor kind of atmosphere going for it.
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I purposely avoid playing any games with gory violence - especially if they don't allow you the option to turn of the gore. Generally I find these games glorify excessive violent behaviour and I'm just not cool with that, so I stay away.
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If it's entertaining then I don't mind which most gory games I've played happened to be. The only gory games I didn't really like were the Manhunt games, otherwise they're cool with me.
Otherwise, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out:
http://gonintendo.com/?p=43114
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There was Carmageddon. That car game in which you did nothing but run people over.
It wasn't only running people over, you could also just race or destroy the other cars. But it was horrible anyway.
I think gore is a bonus if the game is good enough but it won't work as a gimmick like in Soldier of Fortune 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SoF2GoreEffects.jpg). It was a terrible game that I never tried to finish because I got lost too easily in the levels and all that there is to do is KILL KILL KILL. But I think it, as visual effect, would be a good addition to a game that is not too boring like Battlefield 2.
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Postal 2 had to be the most excessively goriest games ever. Too bad it sucked ass. Although, the original Doom and GTA were considered gory games at one point in time.
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I purposely avoid playing any games with gory violence - especially if they don't allow you the option to turn of the gore. Generally I find these games glorify excessive violent behaviour and I'm just not cool with that, so I stay away.
man mateui you are such a fun guy.
gore in games can be funny if it's overdone. i dunno, i remember one game called soldier of fortune or something, and it was so gory it was pretty funny but i got bored real fast (both meanings! heh~). it's such a non-issue for me i'm not gonna really put much thought into it. if there's an option setting i'll just leave it at default. as far as glorifying violence goes, games don't need to have blood in them to do that, and all videogames are perpetuating some stereotype or glorifying some awful bullshit, so i think taking a moral standing over what games you play is bullshit.
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If said very gory game is good to me otherwise, then I'll like it. In fact, it's a good thing for FPSs and other such games to have realistic amounts of gore, but I can do without. Heavy gore isn't a selling point, but if it comes with a good game, then so be it.
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The only very gory game I play is God Of War. Silent Hill, RE etc, are not my type of game id just rather watch a movie instead.
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as far as glorifying violence goes, games don't need to have blood in them to do that, and all videogames are perpetuating some stereotype or glorifying some awful bullshit, so i think taking a moral standing over what games you play is bullshit.
I want to discuss this to further expand what this topic is touching upon.
So you're telling me you'd be perfectly fine playing a game where you play a misogynist serial killer who has to rape women and torture them in graphic detail? What if you played as a pedophile preying on young children? Recent games have certainly stretched the boundaries but there are certain areas which should not made into a form of virtual entertainment, don't you agree?
For certain people some games have already crossed their own moral boundaries and so I think it is reasonable that these people avoid such form of "entertainment". To look down upon them just because they choose to abstain from something that they know will negatively impact them psychologically whereas you're fine with it lacks understanding and respect.
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So you're telling me you'd be perfectly fine playing a game where you play a misogynist serial killer who has to rape women and torture them in graphic detail? What if you played as a pedophile preying on young children? Recent games have certainly stretched the boundaries but there are certain areas which should not made into a form of virtual entertainment, don't you agree?
Hells yeah we call them "Hentai Games" and I totally own at them.
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So you're telling me you'd be perfectly fine playing a game where you play a misogynist serial killer who has to rape women and torture them in graphic detail? What if you played as a pedophile preying on young children? Recent games have certainly stretched the boundaries but there are certain areas which should not made into a form of virtual entertainment, don't you agree?
man what? in the cases of serial rape and pedophilia games, i don't think the level of gore is the problem! i implied this much already in my last post.
let's take manhunt - i saw a friend play this game and it's really creepy. i think people who like that game are the same kind of people who like to watch snuff videos - but again, the gore isn't the problem. it's the way the killings are taped, and everything is fetishized. it wouldn't make it much less creepy if that game had no gore in it.
but you're just not cool with gore? stop being such a priss. if you got really squirmish at the sight of virtual blood then ok, but you're taking a moral position. do you play mario? what about the submissive stereotype of princess peach? that's just as stupid a reason not to play a game as ugh blood. what about final fantasy VII where the only black character in the game is a mr.T caricature? every single game i've ever played has something objectionable in it because people who make games are apparently stupid assholes. and i know you play these kinds of games, cos you had a chocobo as your avatar for like 5 years.
i don't see why you would pick something like gore in games to get offended by unless: you are a total priss, in which case mateui you are such a fun guy, or you truly believe the columbine shooting was caused by playing doom.
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Uh, real_jamicus, gore is not LOLBLOOD. There's a reason the descriptors are BLOOD AND GORE. Gore is stuff like limbs being hacked off, body parts being chopped up, guts spewing out, et cetera. Blood isn't really a problem, gore is just weird.
I mean Jedi Knight had silly dismemberment and that was all fun and games but when you can see BONES sticking out and shit it's just... not as fun.
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I like a bit of gore but only if it's going to help along the game. Like in RE, The Punisher, God of War and so on it's pretty effective so I enjoy it. It can make games a lot more gritty and immersive if done correctly.
The problem is games where it seems to mainly be focused on the gore and they end up terrible. I don't like games like that and I would never play them just to see some BLOOD N SHIT.
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Uh, real_jamicus, gore is not LOLBLOOD. There's a reason the descriptors are BLOOD AND GORE. Gore is stuff like limbs being hacked off, body parts being chopped up, guts spewing out, et cetera. Blood isn't really a problem, gore is just weird.
mateui said games with any gory violence and of course gore includes blood.
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What? I hope you're being facetious about comparing Mario and FFVII (which I hated and stopped playing by the way - but not because of the violence..) to something like Manhunt.
I'm not taking a moral stance about games with violence or blood - almost every game has violence in it to some extent, and blood can be used in an effective way to portrary realistic characters and real circumstances (such as a character being wounded and bleeding). I only question the existence of games where the designers specifically make blood and gore entirely the purpose of the game.
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What? I hope you're being facetious about comparing Mario and FFVII (which I hated and stopped playing by the way - but not because of the violence..) to something like Manhunt.
I'm not taking a moral stance about games with violence or blood - almost every game has violence in it to some extent, and blood can be used in an effective way to portrary realistic characters and real circumstances (such as a character being wounded and bleeding). I only question the existence of games where the designers specifically make blood and gore entirely the purpose of the game.
But that's not all games with gore in it. Jamicus is right; there's really no reason to take an ANTI-GORE stance and at the same time be perfectly fine with the fact that the only black character in FF7 reinforces an awful racial stereotype, or any of the other plethora of offensive things found in games. If you literally get squeamish because of video game gore then that's one thing, but it's a bit of a double standard to choose to take issue on a moral level with ALL GORE IN VIDEO GAMES and not with other stuff, especially since you've just pointed out that gore isn't your problem, gore as a gimmick is. These are totally different things.
If you're talking about just not wanting to play ridiculous games where you play as a serial rapist or a pedophile or some other type of awful game where you're supposed to derive entertainment out of being a disgusting human being, then that's one thing, but we're not talking about games that throw a 12 year old girl in front of you and go RAPE THIS THEN LAUGH ABOUT IT; we're just talking about gore in general, which doesn't necessarily need to be like that at all. So yeah if you're not playing them on principle because you think all gore is bad, that's a little silly, because it's not, and if you're not playing them because gore grosses you out, that's also a little silly but w/e I almost puked playing through fucking Jabu Jabu's belly in Ocarina of Time, but if you're not playing them on principle because you think that some of this shit shouldn't be made into a game then... well, that's still silly because this isn't all gore can be!
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It's not the gore for me. If the game is ABOUT gore, then it'll probably suck. If the gore plays background to the gameplay, then yeah, I don't give a shit.
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if it makes sense as part of the game then its fine, but if its made around just being gorey then i tend to have a problem with it.
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I don't like the for the gore, like many people have said. But it's really no problem if it fits in the context of the situation. Often times people subscribe the the mention of the word violence as negative (with gore as a result). But some people forget that violence is just a method, it's up the the person to decide if it's for good or bad. And even when violence is used for justice, enemies still bleed.
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Gore for the most part is thrown in as an unnecessary, disgusting factor to sell games to 13-year-old boys. Sure, there are some times when it MAKES SENSE (of course if you're shot you're going to bleed) but sometimes they do things like make bodies bleed more than PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE. I don't look for gore in games, but I guess it doesn't really bother me much if it's already there.
If you don't mind the special effects being so bad, I guess you could go back and play games like Phantasmagoria and Harvester. Some of the scenes from Phantasmagoria made me physically ill (choking that woman with bloody meat)
Ooh, I just checked out Phantasmagoria and it's pretty awesome! If only the game would still work on my PC.. But at least I could watch most of the game on the internet. The only death that made me ew was when the woman in Phantasmagoria 2 got hung up in the locker room by her feet and hands and then poked to death several times.
Anyway, it seems that most people feel that gore is fine if it's in context with the game itself but not if the game is based around the gore. Yet, say, House of the Dead is pretty much based around gore. It's all gore (though not much). I liked that game though. The final boss of House of the Dead 2 was so impressive I still remember it.~
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I like a bit of gore but only if it's going to help along the game. Like in RE, The Punisher, God of War and so on it's pretty effective so I enjoy it. It can make games a lot more gritty and immersive if done correctly.
The problem is games where it seems to mainly be focused on the gore and they end up terrible. I don't like games like that and I would never play them just to see some BLOOD N SHIT.
yeah, like gears of war, it had allot of gore but it worked because the styles worked together,.. the buffed up rugby players caught up in close-quarter brutality doing everything to survive, it just translates.
but mostly games focused on massive gore are mostly bad games that rely on being "cool". but anyways there wasnt a single game that shocked/ made me feel sick because of gore.... im gonna look at that Phantasmagoria game on youtube
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Come to think of it Half-Life 2 kind of put me off because I thought it was going to be SCI-FI ADVENTUR sort of thing where even the violence was all glossed up and all - but it turned out being pretty disgusting and even when it was weird alien blood (not red) and stuff somehow they still made it feel pretty violent and terrible
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oke, I gotta admit that the choking with meat scene was really fudged up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQ-C1suCEY&feature=related
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I have yet to find anything that's GORY enough for me, which is why later in life I'm going to set out to make the goriest, most disgusting and shocking game ever, Gory as in sawing a man in half with a chain gun and having his guts roll all over the floor
and blood splatter the screen. I mean just past the point of reality gore. Shocking as in pretty much everything that could make a game rated Adults only, and disgusting as in creatures with puss oozing from parts of there body and blood dripping out every hole with there brains half hanging out while they scrape out the guts from the corpse you just shot in half and eating them. And by the time I start hiring a team to make this game I'm sure gaming graphics will be more then wondrous, Just right to see the sloppy wetness of intestines hanging out of a tree.
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oke, I gotta admit that the choking with meat scene was really fudged up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQ-C1suCEY&feature=related
It is seriously the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Sometimes when I'm sick and feel like I need to throw up to feel better (like if I eat something bad), I use this to induce vomiting.
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I like violence and gore in games, so long as it isn't excessive, and even then, I sometimes like it...
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one thing gta4 misses is the ability to sever body parts with the stronger weapons imo
also soldier of fortune rocks for the gore but that game isnt very good so i barely play more than the opening level but what an opening level huh?
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oke, I gotta admit that the choking with meat scene was really fudged up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQ-C1suCEY&feature=related
I really don't think this scene is more disgusting than the common gore scenes.. It's just a woman with a pipe in her mouth, and some fake meat stuff being put into the pipe. But then again, in Saw 3 a man was almost drowned in chopped up pigs and everyone was all "OMFG DISGUSTING", while I didn't think it was scary/disgusting at all. :/
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Phantasmagoria
I just looked at some videos of this on YouTube and that game looks so hillarious. There was one where a giant CG Satan tears open a girl's face with his bare hands and it was so terrible.
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I have no problem with gore really, I don't go out looking for bloody games but I don't avoid them either.
I don't play games like Manhunt but that's not due to the gore, it's because the whole premise of those games make me sick.
oke, I gotta admit that the choking with meat scene was really fudged up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQ-C1suCEY&feature=related
Okay...maybe I'm just super desensitized or something but that wasn't really all that gross or disturbing to me (I think it had to do with the terrible acting).
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I have no problem with gore really, I don't go out looking for bloody games but I don't avoid them either.
Yeah occassionally overdone gore is kind of funny or whatever but it's not really on my radar as a feature that I look out for. However I do sort of get taken out of a game if I am doing violent things and there isn't the appropriate amount of gore (shooters etc).
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If it's entertaining then I don't mind which most gory games I've played happened to be. The only gory games I didn't really like were the Manhunt games, otherwise they're cool with me.
Otherwise, I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out:
http://gonintendo.com/?p=43114
dude holy shit that looks awesome, I am glad I got a Wii now.
I demand more Wii games like that.
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one thing gta4 misses is the ability to sever body parts with the stronger weapons imo
also soldier of fortune rocks for the gore but that game isnt very good so i barely play more than the opening level but what an opening level huh?
But man the best thing about GTA 4 is that, and I found this out today, you can push people onto the train tracks (like, walk into them until they fall onto them) and they will be killed by the trains. (hooray physics engine)
Seriously, it's fun stuff. Also I went on a rampage doing this at the airport (you'll never get caught for it, because you're not *actually* doing anything to the people, so the cops won't flip out on you) and eventually people were so scared that I chased a guy over the railings so he jumped off to his death. It was EPIC.
EDIT: I honestly have more fun breaking the physics engine and killing people in weird ways than I do anything else in GTA 4. Frontflipping a car over a roadblock and driving away from all the dumbfounded cops is just AWESOME.
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dude holy shit that looks awesome, I am glad I got a Wii now.
I demand more Wii games like that.
Keep an eye on Platinum Games then because they're the ones behind it and much of the team is made of ex- Clover Studio reps. Wii is getting that game, MadWorld; PS3/360 are getting a game called Bayonetta (has some crazy leather clad chick with pistols strapped to her boots killing what looks to be angels or something, sounds weird, but look for the teaser trailer on youtube, it looks cool anyway) and a Sci Fi space RPG for the DS. (forgot the name)
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I just realized that I in fact know no one who shares my love for gory videogames. And I don't mean Bioshock-style, but more like Doom 3 meets Saw 3. Tortured people, etc. Does anyone like games like that?
no. this is probably because you are emotionally disturbed and surrounded by people who are, at best, less emotionally disturbed
you may want to consult some sort of therapist if PEOPLE GETTING MUTILATED gives you some sort of thrill
seriously i've never understood the appeal of GORE FOR THE SAKE OF GORE in film, games, whatever. i can get my mind around every other type of entertainment but that shit makes absolutely no sense. never been able to get a straight answer on this either, as all the people who REALLY DIG THIS STUFF are invariably poor at expressing themselves in words and usually are REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE AROUND
in terms of games, i can only really get as far as killer 7 and system shock 2 before i get turned off entirely from actually using gore and horror as genuine thematic elements. otherwise it's just an incredibly heavy-handed representation of EVIL THAT MUST BE DESTROYED that people only use when they lack the necessary creative tools to craft an effective scenario otherwise.
Come to think of it Half-Life 2 kind of put me off because I thought it was going to be SCI-FI ADVENTUR sort of thing where even the violence was all glossed up and all - but it turned out being pretty disgusting and even when it was weird alien blood (not red) and stuff somehow they still made it feel pretty violent and terrible
man have you ever played bioshock? it's much worse in this regard. the game has some vaguely interesting BIG PICTURE ideas but they injected this extremely stupid horror motif because the lead designer knew that his idiotic concept and all of the characters were totally impossible to take seriously unless they were presented as demented mutants whose primary weapons are MEAT HOOKS(where do they find all these meat hooks?!?!). it's really sad that the game gets hyped as INTELLIGENT and GROUND BREAKING and it just ends up being a crummy horror game with the occasional bit of moderately interesting monologue spewed through a speaker.
but yeah, half life 2 lost me when the game went from being extremely well-paced and exciting to KILL ALL ZOMBIES which i have DONE BEFORE MANY MANY TIMES and was not the reason why i was playing half life 2.
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so wait you don't like horror games at all? i mean PHANTASMAGORIA or whatever and shit like it are clearly lame and gimmicky, but i think part of the reason people like horror games is just atmosphere and the fact that they're generally engaging on an atmospheric level, which games never are. like, you play through something like siren and the whole OOOH CREEEEPY thing sort of rubs off on you while playing and it has a legitimate impact on your disposition towards the game! a lot of games talk about atmosphere, but it's very rarely something that the player themselves can identify with so much as they can just observe. like yes, this game has atmosphere, but it has absolutely no bearing on me, the person playing it. bioshock is basically just some interesting stuff wrapped in a survival horror fps and i'd agree it could've been done better and it's probably pretty overrated, but i definitely think there's something to say for good survival horror games, if not for EWWW GORE ones.
even if people only seem to be able to do it with fear/anxiety, being able to effectively convey an actual series of emotional responses or whatever throughout an experience is pretty cool! like i would love it if more games were able to do this in ways beyond OHHH GOD DONT GOP THROUGH THAT DOOR but nobody even seems to consider it most of the time!
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so wait you don't like horror games at all? i mean PHANTASMAGORIA or whatever and shit like it are clearly lame and gimmicky, but i think part of the reason people like horror games is just atmosphere and the fact that they're generally engaging on an atmospheric level, which games never are. like, you play through something like siren and the whole OOOH CREEEEPY thing sort of rubs off on you while playing and it has a legitimate impact on your disposition towards the game! a lot of games talk about atmosphere, but it's very rarely something that the player themselves can identify with so much as they can just observe. like yes, this game has atmosphere, but it has absolutely no bearing on me, the person playing it. bioshock is basically just some interesting stuff wrapped in a survival horror fps and i'd agree it could've been done better and it's probably pretty overrated, but i definitely think there's something to say for good survival horror games, if not for EWWW GORE ones.
even if people only seem to be able to do it with fear/anxiety, being able to effectively convey an actual series of emotional responses or whatever throughout an experience is pretty cool! like i would love it if more games were able to do this in ways beyond OHHH GOD DONT GOP THROUGH THAT DOOR but nobody even seems to consider it most of the time!
well ok saying i don't like them at all would be an oversimplification. i KNOCK THE SHIT OUT OF BIOSHOCK but all my complaints aside it is a pretty enjoyable experience, even though i don't find the experience particularly rewarding. i thought silent hill 2 was fairly interesting and at one point liked the resident evil games too, so it's not like i'm saying that i automatically dislike games that happen to have horror elements. i'm really saying that, apart from killer 7 and system shock 2 who used their gory and violent themes to very productive ends, i cannot bring myself to be the slightest bit intrigued or fascinated by the horror elements THEMSELVES.
it's really not hard to program enemies to RANDOMLY JUMP OUT OF NOWHERE. horror games rely entirely on shock value and nonsensical weirdness rather than anything with any sophistication or style. it's not GENUINELY MANIPULATIVE, just SUPERFICIALLY MANIPULATIVE. i do not think it is an exaggeration to call it the absolute cheapest way to create AN ATMOSPHERE because any half-literate retard can make SURPRISING MONSTERS and follow generic horror archetypes. i outgrew horror games entirely a long time ago, because it was mostly the same shit over and over again.
yeah i guess you could argue that we're lucky to get this much out of stupid fucking videogames, but it just doesn't change the fact that i personally get nothing out of CREEPY GAMES that don't use creepy to any genuinely productive end. i don't really think this is a particularly unreasonable belief to hold, to be honest. i'm actually not THAT starved for any kind of game atmosphere that i'd be willing to take something so unsophisticated and shallow.
edit: and yeah i am kinda speaking GENERALLY here, but i don't think that there are enough horror games(or films for that matter) that break the trend often enough for me to really bother making a longer post to account for the exceptions
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it's really not hard to program enemies to RANDOMLY JUMP OUT OF NOWHERE. horror games rely entirely on shock value and nonsensical weirdness rather than anything with any sophistication or style. it's not GENUINELY MANIPULATIVE, just SUPERFICIALLY MANIPULATIVE. i do not think it is an exaggeration to call it the absolute cheapest way to create AN ATMOSPHERE because any half-literate retard can make SURPRISING MONSTERS and follow generic horror archetypes. i outgrew horror games entirely a long time ago, because it was mostly the same shit over and over again.
I tell everyone to play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth because it is one of the few games that is emotionally wrenching. Once you pick up the first gun (which doesn't happen until you're nearly 1/3 done with the game) it turns into a slower Doom 3 (but it's still more atmospheric than Doom ever was) but the game designers truly know how to fuck with you on an emotional level as a player. Rather than tossing monsters at you the designers took a bold move by NOT THROWING MONSTERS AT YOU and it's really gut wrenching when you turn a corner, watch a quick cinematic through the eyes of "something" as it leaps across rooftops and stares down at your character, switch back to your character, turn a corner, hear a sound and see something quickly dart through the rooftops, then turn another corner and SEE A FACE STARING AT YOU only to vanish...
it says a lot about the design, really. The game's shocking because you never truly encounter all the horrible beasts it promises and the anxiety thinking something will attack you is far far far greater than it actually leaping out and attacking you. The game also mixes things up with hallucinations of being in a mental asylum and as you're wounded, your vision starts getting hazy. If you're near something scary like a dead body you start freaking out and spiders and shit crawl out of the walls. The main character is also afraid of heights so whenever he looks down he pretty much blacks out.
It's fun to know that there's a game where you play as "normal joe shmoe" instead of SUPERNERD GORDON FREEMAN beause the game feels like a totally different experience knowing what could kill you doesn't and instead stalks from the distance.
edit: i'll probably end up uploading this to the zoo
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yeah it is definitely a pretty half-assed method to create atmosphere and not nearly as difficult as something that goes beyond whoa this corridor is dark...... but idk it still feels kind of cool that it EXISTS AT ALL, you know? like i don't play horror games with any regularity, so really this is just me finding silent hill, siren, and to a lesser extent bioshock to be kind of cool games, and i actually agree it's a largely one-note genre, but i guess i'm glad it's there because otherwise it'd probably never occur to most people that games can be involving on that level. like, it's cheaply done, but i'm still sort of thankful that someone somewhere realized it was a good idea to COMMUNICATE EMOTIONS to the player, because horror games are pretty much the only ones that attempt it at all, even if it's just monsters popping out. if not for that i'm pretty sure everything would just be text/dialogue and some invisible sign saying THIS IS HOW YOU SHOULD FEEL WHILE WATCHING THIS, with no actual communication so much as just kind of a pointing to other stuff that has made you feel that way and being like "yeah, like that."
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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
i think i played a little bit of that game at some point at a friend's house. i didn't get the full effect of it but it seemed fairly interesting at the very least. i wasn't SUCKED IN but it felt like the sort of game that created a generally new experience(THIS NEVER HAPPENS)
i will remember to give this game a try sometime.
yeah it is definitely a pretty half-assed method to create atmosphere and not nearly as difficult as something that goes beyond whoa this corridor is dark...... but idk it still feels kind of cool that it EXISTS AT ALL, you know? like i don't play horror games with any regularity, so really this is just me finding silent hill, siren, and to a lesser extent bioshock to be kind of cool games, and i actually agree it's a largely one-note genre, but i guess i'm glad it's there because otherwise it'd probably never occur to most people that games can be involving on that level. like, it's cheaply done, but i'm still sort of thankful that someone somewhere realized it was a good idea to COMMUNICATE EMOTIONS to the player, because horror games are pretty much the only ones that attempt it at all, even if it's just monsters popping out.
oh well yeah i am not arguing that the game industry is better off without these games, because that definitely wouldn't be true at all.
i guess i'm just more irritated that THIS IS IT when there are worlds more that could be pulled off in regards to aesthetics, mood, and scenario design in general. like i wonder if there are any game designers alive that have ever watched a movie not made by michael bay, john carpenter, or walt disney
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Gore is stuff like limbs being hacked off, body parts being chopped up, guts spewing out, et cetera.
Mark of Kri anyone?
Anyway, I LOVE these kind of games, so far only those I know are Mark of Kri and the (very gory) anime, Elfen Lied. Theres another gory game in my head, but I can't remember the name for the life of me :hmm:
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no. this is probably because you are emotionally disturbed and surrounded by people who are, at best, less emotionally disturbed
you may want to consult some sort of therapist if PEOPLE GETTING MUTILATED gives you some sort of thrill
This is basically my opinion. Especially because I knew a girl growing up who was into this kind of thing and she had some huge mental issues.
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I played a demo on PS3 recently that was about gore, and for that matter sucked. I forget the name. Sickness 2 or something... it was about like a seedy city covered in demonic black ink and demons came out of the ink. It had cool things like, being able to find weapons everywhere (pipes, prostetic arms, etc) but the game was, I dunno, less about gameplay, more about SCREAMING MONGROL RUSHING YOU AND BLOOD AND INK EVERYWHERE. Sorry for the caps, but that's seriously what it was like.
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I played a demo on PS3 recently that was about gore, and for that matter sucked. I forget the name. Sickness 2 or something... it was about like a seedy city covered in demonic black ink and demons came out of the ink. It had cool things like, being able to find weapons everywhere (pipes, prostetic arms, etc) but the game was, I dunno, less about gameplay, more about SCREAMING MONGROL RUSHING YOU AND BLOOD AND INK EVERYWHERE. Sorry for the caps, but that's seriously what it was like.
Condemned 2. I thought it was a pretty good game (and not about gore) :(