Yeah, I'm not opposed to gore, but I agree that gore and nudity are certainly not the definition of maturity. How they are used and presented is crucial in defining that. I care more about the maturity of story and characters, which I think, based on TW2, CDPR are already doing a great job with.
Well, i work on a hospital, so i am very closed to things like suffer and dead, nobody will like kill just because this is "fun", just saying that it exist, and denied those things on a war, and more by Nilfgard, will break the immersion.
Just don't wanna take killing like this game
where kill is just like walk,this is stupid, and fill with that game.... i wish games more like "The Last of Us", where life and death is taken seriously, maybe The Last of Us was very intense, but this showing how the fight for survival is not so simple like kill to everyone with your machinegun.
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This is the best reason for including significant gore in the game. It may be the only reason, but it is one that is important to me. I think TW2 handled it well in a few cases, like the deaths of Foltest and Letho, where the aftermath left you with a feeling of loss and wasted life.
There's a practical aspect, though; the game has to get past the censors. Some countries come down hard on realistic gore.
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I absolutely respect your point, and since you are from the Ukraine I wish you and yours the the best of luck through the tense situation your country is experiencing right now.
But I think in a game set in the middle ages during a war anything less than brutal gore would seem fake.CDPR's goal is to transport us into the universe that sapkowski created and if they take away the gore it just seems cheap, in the books there's raping, mutilating and people begging for mercy because that's exactly what happened in real life, so in order to tell a realistic story gore has to be there, we have to see innocents being murdered in order to get that sad feeling that war is a terrible thing and also to give us the drive to avenge those innocents, to feel that you are not just hacking at a target but an actual person, that's what makes a great story, believability.
Plus since you've seen gore before you know that no matter how realistic movie and game gore is it doesn't come close to the real thing, fake gore stimulates the human necessity for violence like when dogs play at fighting and real gore gets you in the guts because it subconsciously makes you feel in danger, so fake gore is just harmlessly satisfying human nature.
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I think TW2 had a right amount of gore, and in right places. Enough to realize the horror, but not graphic enough (it wasn't really shown) for sensitive people to be disturbed and require professional help. Massacres in Loc Muinne and Flotsam, an execution of Blue Stripes, Foltest's death, Dethmold's death, Demovend's assassination - they were proper and story-related. I want the same approach in TW3 as well.
I do not want excessive blood and gore during gameplay, when Geralt kills regular bandits, for example. It is still a game, and not a killing simulator.
I do not want excessive blood and gore during gameplay, when Geralt kills regular bandits, for example. It is still a game, and not a killing simulator.
This is the solution for 99% of the disussions on this forum ^^. If people don't want immersive gore, turn it off.
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English is not my first language, it's not even the second, but I think I've made myself clear.
I'm not against gore, I'm against TOO MUCH gore, against maniacal enjoyment from spilled blood.
And it's not about my country and what's happening here.
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So would you be against Nilfgaardian soldiers or the Wild Hunt setting fire to and slaughtering a village? Geralt doesn't enjoy bloodshed, but if its part of the story and is pivotal for immersion then there's no room for you on this boat ride.
Please keep this kind of comment out of the discussion.
Some of the things i would want more than proper gore and blood for TW3 are the sounds and dialogue of people suffering.
In games and movies people getting hurt or killed barely react like one would in real life, you hear these short bored screams acting as just player feedback, no heavy breathing trying to cope with the fear and panic, no excruciating unbearable pain, you can totally tell the characters are just game tools.
TW3 needs to step up in this subject in my opinion.
In games and movies people getting hurt or killed barely react like one would in real life, you hear these short bored screams acting as just player feedback, no heavy breathing trying to cope with the fear and panic, no excruciating unbearable pain, you can totally tell the characters are just game tools.
TW3 needs to step up in this subject in my opinion.
Aside from gore and sexuality, maturity in the story is very important as well, I hope they give us some tragic plots like Essi Daven's story(Sword of destiny) or Angouleme(Lady of The Lake), plots that capture sapkowski's sad irony, and also plots that capture his sarcastic humor, I would also like to see some talking monsters, monsters that make you feel bad for killing them but have to be killed because they are too much of a threat, like in the books.:huh:
@thothistox; nailed it page 1. Anyway... Gore (i.e. cartoon violence)? I've been more affected by scary films and such that imply the horror without showing grisly details. Sometimes opting for gore is the easy way, the darkside, when the emotions should really be conveyed through other senses. For me though theres another issue in "mature" games - no hand holding, and that includes the narrative, I guess I'm just hoping one TW3 playthrough doesn't tell the whole story, ala TW2.