Hi all,
I just registered to get more details on the game as it's progressing in development.
To those who say that blood would be unnecessary and ghoulish / too brutal; I must wonder why do you play a game where you shoot down planes at all?
A plane exploding means death in the same way as a cockpit kill with the plane plummeling to the ground. Where is the difference between an explosion and blood? Both mean certain death. Would that mean explosion effects have to be taken out of the game as well or is it just a double moral here?
Also don't forget that in pilot view the screen turns red as well when you get injured. Red... the very same color and we all know it's blood. If it wasn't intended to be that way the screen could turn pink or green.
In the end shooting down a plane means being aware of the fact that you kill. I'd even go so far that taking part in any conflict means knowing you might have to hurt or kill people, no, that you even want to hurt and kill people. Even more so with bombing runs - these are always, like mentioned above, a gruesome deal for the receiving party and sometimes even pilots.
I can certainly understand when the developers don't want to add blood as it may cause issues with certain youth ranking systems (especially in Germany, my home country) but then again, pretending that blood doesn't belong there isn't right I believe. In Germany swastikas are banned as well, another sad thing. I'm not a nazi at all but see, what is realism for you guys is banned here because of the history. Isn't blood the very same?
Let me say it differently: it doesn't even matter if any lifeform out there bleeds if you kill it. Even if it doesn't bleed at all, and there are ways to kill like that e.g. gas or poison or whatever, it's still a kill! Everything else is just visuals. We can take them out of the game one by one (fire from burning, explosions, shockwaves, craters and bomb effects, bullets and ricochets etc.) and even make the games look like funny bubbles - it'd still mean you kill someone. So adding >some< realistic effects isn't gory, ghoulish or overly brutal - it's nothing else but what really happens.
Just my 50cents on that topic.
The game looks really nice though. Is there any way to get a decent DRM free pre-order deal of it outside of steam? :]
Regards,
Madfish.
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