But where's the fun in that?
Case in point: compare the following.
Pretty similar Baraka fatalities, the first from MK vs. DCU, the second from Mortal Kombat Deception. The first one is okay, until we see what the second was like, and then we start thinking: "Okay, we have a character who has inherently deadly anatomy (blades that protrude from his arms). How can his finishing moves be anything but a slice-and-dice-a-thon?" I know that Mortal Kombat characters tend to fly apart pretty easily (ie. punching someone's head off), but when you give the gamer that expectation and suddenly fail to deliver, gamers wonder what the hell happened.
If you don't think deaths need to be bloody and violent in combat situations, then you need to watch some violent movies/documentaries to see what people are capable of doing to each other. "Saving Private Ryan" is a great place to start. The Normandy beach landing scene is about 15 minutes of really uncomfortable violence that, according to my father who's a Viet Nam veteran, is a somewhat romanticized but roughly accurate version of what armed conflict is really like.
If you don't like feeling uncomfortable with the concept of people being killed, then stick with your E-for-everyone titles where characters just fall offscreen making a face when time elapses, they run out of energy, or what have you. Games are creating an expectation now that when you fail, you get treated to what game designers think is an apt punishment: your character getting pwned in a violent fashion.
Do VG deaths need to be bloody and violent? No, but there is an expectation among gamers for them to be and developers like to deliver. If you have a problem with it, go e-mail ex-Disney animator Don Bluth, who animated the 1983 arcade hit "Dragon's Lair". That was probably the first time your character was shown actually dying when you failed. Or failing that, you could always e-mail Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat, which really started the whole "if you lose you must die" mentality in the gaming industry.
Anyway, stop hijacking the thread that's supposed to be about video game deaths by trying to argue your opinion about the validity of violence in video games. If you want to hash it out, put up a thread in debates but it DOES NOT belong here.
Case in point: compare the following.
Pretty similar Baraka fatalities, the first from MK vs. DCU, the second from Mortal Kombat Deception. The first one is okay, until we see what the second was like, and then we start thinking: "Okay, we have a character who has inherently deadly anatomy (blades that protrude from his arms). How can his finishing moves be anything but a slice-and-dice-a-thon?" I know that Mortal Kombat characters tend to fly apart pretty easily (ie. punching someone's head off), but when you give the gamer that expectation and suddenly fail to deliver, gamers wonder what the hell happened.
If you don't think deaths need to be bloody and violent in combat situations, then you need to watch some violent movies/documentaries to see what people are capable of doing to each other. "Saving Private Ryan" is a great place to start. The Normandy beach landing scene is about 15 minutes of really uncomfortable violence that, according to my father who's a Viet Nam veteran, is a somewhat romanticized but roughly accurate version of what armed conflict is really like.
If you don't like feeling uncomfortable with the concept of people being killed, then stick with your E-for-everyone titles where characters just fall offscreen making a face when time elapses, they run out of energy, or what have you. Games are creating an expectation now that when you fail, you get treated to what game designers think is an apt punishment: your character getting pwned in a violent fashion.
Do VG deaths need to be bloody and violent? No, but there is an expectation among gamers for them to be and developers like to deliver. If you have a problem with it, go e-mail ex-Disney animator Don Bluth, who animated the 1983 arcade hit "Dragon's Lair". That was probably the first time your character was shown actually dying when you failed. Or failing that, you could always e-mail Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat, which really started the whole "if you lose you must die" mentality in the gaming industry.
Anyway, stop hijacking the thread that's supposed to be about video game deaths by trying to argue your opinion about the validity of violence in video games. If you want to hash it out, put up a thread in debates but it DOES NOT belong here.
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