Friday 2009-11-20 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[mark@1C]

Originally Posted by Oleg Maddox

No blood.

I quite approve.
It's a tactical Sim,not a horror film...

[PeterPanPan]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

I quite approve.
It's a tactical Sim,not a horror film...

Indeed. There are also commercial considerations, as was the case with IL2 I believe. If you add gore, the game becomes R or 18 rated and so limits the audience.

PPanPan

[mark@1C]

Originally Posted by PeterPanPan

Indeed. There are also commercial considerations, as was the case with IL2 I believe. If you add gore, the game becomes R or 18 rated and so limits the audience.

PPanPan

Yes,I just want to add this...And on the other hand,it will be boring that every game looks like CS with a many kinds of Blood patches,zombies...oh...god...

Originally Posted by Talisman

This is a flight sim, not a cartoon game. I can't believe some of the stuff people are asking for.

So do I ...

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by mark@1C

I quite approve.
It's a tactical Sim,not a horror film...

What about tomato sauce? I seem to remember a somewhat disturbing scene involving a He-111 pilot in that old Battle of Britain movie.

Not to mention soup (as in the Memphis Belle movie)...

[Necrobaron]

I concur with your sentiment though I think this will be a fruitless point to argue. Regardless, I think some people have a somewhat sanitized view of what air combat was and I do not agree that by adding any sort of blood or gore equates to a horror movie. It might be surprising to hear but people bled, got shot up, and died, often very violently while flying combat missions and I wished the game would reflect that or at least have a "realism" option that featured it. It almost seems like a disservice to those who went through the horror of air combat to simply glaze over the gore because it's "unpleasant". In my experience, the sim playing demographic tends to be an older crowd so I think we're all mature enough to handle it and I highly doubt many, if any, sales would be lost if SoW did receive a ESRB Mature rating or equivalent.

The absence or presence of blood and gore is not a dealbreaker one way or the other, but that's how I feel.

Originally Posted by Avimimus

What about tomato sauce? I seem to remember a somewhat disturbing scene involving a He-111 pilot in that old Battle of Britain movie.

Not to mention soup (as in the Memphis Belle movie)...

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Coach Purses

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Necrobaron

It almost seems like a disservice to those who went through the horror of air combat to simply glaze over the gore because it's "unpleasant"

This argument is warped: making a spectacle of blood and sufferings of human beings would be monstrous, and would denote a total lack of respect for the ones who really went through such an ordeal. I can understand the quest for a faithful simulation, but heck, that's a game and I want to enjoy it as such ... so no blood spatter for me, thanks.


Regards,
Insuber

[daHeld]

Originally Posted by Necrobaron

I concur with your sentiment though I think this will be a fruitless point to argue. Regardless, I think some people have a somewhat sanitized view of what air combat was and I do not agree that by adding any sort of blood or gore equates to a horror movie. It might be surprising to hear but people bled, got shot up, and died, often very violently while flying combat missions and I wished the game would reflect that or at least have a "realism" option that featured it. It almost seems like a disservice to those who went through the horror of air combat to simply glaze over the gore because it's "unpleasant". In my experience, the sim playing demographic tends to be an older crowd so I think we're all mature enough to handle it and I highly doubt many, if any, sales would be lost if SoW did receive a ESRB Mature rating or equivalent.

The absence or presence of blood and gore is not a dealbreaker one way or the other, but that's how I feel.

That's exactely what I think is right, too!
Nicely put!