jeudi 14 août 2014

Players - Blood and Gore

Hello everyone! Within this thread I would like to discuss whether players should also receive the MEAT (Massive Evisceration and Trauma) treatment. There are certain factors which I believe the MEAT system would not be well received, but regardless, I feel that it would be nice if it was implemented.



I could not find the Forum's search function, and I have visited a few other pages to find a similar and failed. I hope this thread is not a duplicate.



I initialized this thread as I found myself disappointed whenever my player character perished in Killing Floor, though the reason was due to an 'unepic' death. My character could blow up due to a poorly placed Pipe Bomb, and drop an arm off. Or have a Fleshpound blend his organs and the outcome is a leg popping off. The short-lived blood fountain is kind of nice, however.



Anyways, onto the actual discussion.



First off, let's start with why MEAT shouldn't be used for player models. There is more effort necessary in some areas, such as proper censorship for our German and Australian friends. The developers would also need to put in more time to make MEAT work for the player models.



Also regarding the censored versions, even though it does not affect me, I never do feel good when games get censored. I feel a pang of guilt when others cannot enjoy a feature to its fullest. In a sense, it is unfair.



Now, I shall state why I feel MEAT could be used.



Next, I suspect most player characters are actual humans, therefore, it is questionable for a game developer to portray humans being decapitated, gutted and so on. Some games got excused pulling this off by having monsters or machines kill those humans rather than other humans. Since human on human violence is not planned (as far as I know), perhaps the MEAT system applied on players would not be controversial.



Then, do you also feel as I do regarding the 'unepic' death I mentioned earlier? Holding a line against hordes and hordes of Zeds alone, gunning them all down, blood gushing from Gorefast cuts and Clot bites. Finally, some Scrake manages to give you a chainsaw massage. Your character falls with all his extremities intact, and your immersion fleeting. Hopefully, MEAT can rectify that.



Finally, the Zed threat can be elevated by this feature. The Zeds would seem more imposing ripping multiple arms and legs off. Their feasting on the strewn about body parts (if Zed eating corpses are still a feature in Killing Floor 2) would be so much more horrifying. Through this, players might learn not to die.



MEAT sounds like a delicious feature. I really hope to see it being used as much as possible.



These are my thoughts and contributions to this discussion. Please post your ideas, comments or arguments freely (while abiding to forum rules, of course!).




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