Gore or no gore?

I was happy with how it worked in ME3. That said, I'm not opposed to limbs being shot off when you're using high-powered weapons.

Only if optional is my stance, and the same goes for TES. In Skyrim for example (at least for the PC) you can lower the options for that kind of thing.

One of the goriest games in the mid 1990s, Rise of the Triad, let players disable gore. Several other games let players make that choice. As to gore you can't disable? No thanks. I find gore far worse than any nudity or sexual things.

It's why I have not played the new Doom, despite absolutely loving Doom/Doom 2/Hexen (which are fantastic games in my opinion and are not special simply because the gore was edgy at the time). It's why I held off playing the Fallout games until I learned of mods to tone tone down gore in the recent ones.  (FYI gore is not intrinsic to that series as some claim, and in fact the first games in the series gave players options on that topic.)  The cartoony pixelated gore of the 1990s I could stomach more than the super detailed games of today. Excessive gore would be a deal breaker for me, if it could not be disabled.

I'll never understand the false linking of gore with playing games with violence some people that want gore in games go on about.  It isn't and never was something that went hand in hand with games featuring violence, and there are a great many games with more mature storytelling without excessive gore.  Please understand I am not criticizing people for wanting gore; only the ridiculous argument that it "should" be in any game with violence.

Personally, I like gore. At least, as long as it's not eye or tooth related, since those get to me. But I really enjoyed shows like Hannibal, where the gore is done in such an artistic, creative way that even those who don't like gore can admire it to some extent. However, I wouldn't want Bioware to overdo it, either. After all, this is a sci-fi RPG, not a horror RPG.... I would love to see Bioware do a horror genre RPG though.

I loled.

Are you a nurse/paramedic/police officer/army vet or something?

Wow, and here I thought I'd finally encountered a fellow severed human ear collector.

what

I like to think if it was a trigger point, I wouldn't have invited conversation on the topic.

But yeah, once you butcher a moose or something, you've seen all the blood you need. I want it to be there so it makes sense... But I don't want to have random blood splatter that has very little in common with the way a real body breaks. No more high fructose corn syrup filled mooks.

I am painfully Alaskan, and painfully proud of it. I apologize for that, except I don't even remotely mean it.

I can also note that if the game can never, ever touch on a realistic amputation or dislocation before treatment of ANY extremity, I'm so good with that. So my call for realism only goes so far.

I thought Mike Gamble confirmed that not only was there gore, but in fact there were also Gorgies.


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Boo wants gibbs.

Bloody screen! So real!

As long as the gore is realistic, sure. No, Gears of War does not count as a realistic dismemberment simulator.