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richardhutnik on 20 February 2011
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Dallinor said:
richardhutnik said:
Dallinor said:

If anything it's made me more excited about getting the game!

And, I don't think there will be any such option. KZ2 had no option to turn blood/gore off.

I guess you're not a fan of Gears?

I didn't have problems with KZ2, nor did I have problems with Gears.  I do have issues with ramming stuff into eyesockets.  It is one of the things I had issues with.  Some forms of violence I don't have issues with, while others I do.  For example, I walked out on Robocop 2 after they were showing them ripping the chest open of a screaming guy in slow detail.  Apparently a chainsaw through locusts doesn't matter to me that much.

Interesting. Maybe you just aren't as desensitized to violence as others.

I'd be hard pressed to think of where I would draw the line on gaming violence. I'd imagine if a game included the killing of young children in a violent fashion (not like Bioshock) I'd probably steer clear of it.

My internal value sets has a preference for less misery and suffering in the world, so I really don't delight in seeing an increased amount of suffering.  I don't need ultrarealism in my games either, and something like Dead Space 2, which excessive gore, really doesn't do it for me.  I also don't have a desire to play through the evil side in any game either.  The thing for me is, I can go, "Yeah, what does it matter, it isn't reall anyhow?"  Well, if it is an ideal state I want to play in, I prefer to be a hero than someone who is hated, who does nasty thing.  Consider it my preferences based on my values also.  Not a big fan of suffering as means of "payback" also.  Feel the world is messed up enough, that I am disgusted a bit the human species seems to feel the need to inflict suffering and loss to affect change.  Shoot, I had hopes of trying to convert Cerberus in the Mass Effect universe to become more acceptable even.  Hey, not sure being desenstized to violence is a good thing.

This being said, I don't mind studying evil and have an interest in such, to try to understand it.  One of the things of Killzone's universe that interests me is the Helghast people and what had happened there and they aren't just evil.  The character Visari, for example, I found compelling.

And last point, I do play games for the sake of play.  I play shooters where I shoot stuff, and Borderlands is arguably my favorite game this generate.  LOTS of shooting there, and looting.