Violent video games survey!

[Metalhead]

This survey was inspired by my recent time playing Dead Island on the 360. That game is ridiculously violent and gory.

Speaking of which - while I am against censorship in video games when it comes to violent content, I do believe that more parents need to be aware of what they are buying for their young children. I wanted to smack one of my stepbrother's girlfriends for letting her six year old son play Grand Theft Auto.

 

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Gore and violence in games doesn't bother me in the slightest but if that's the whole point of the game and there's no real game there then I'm going to get bored with it real fast. First person shooters don't interest me at all, GTA never held my attention for long, I was thrilled with the graphics at the time but it's not my sort of game.

 

[Xinyta]

Violence takes many forms. Not just the bloody gorefests. In truth though. I don't see it as a must for videogames I would play. If it's there, cool. If it's not. That's cool too. Gameplay and a good story worth being invested in, is what I put as priorities. Gameplay foremost.

 

[Cutesie]

Though I voted the fourth option, there's only one video game that I've played for years now: Subway Surfers. It satisfies all of my gaming needs.

 

[NB79]

i don't like gore towards human npc. It hurts my sensibilities. Monsters is different,

 

[Misery]

It's all fine by me. I was desensitized to it decades ago. Back when the original Mortal Kombat came out.

Even back then though, it was never the violence by itself that'd get me interested. Gameplay had to be good, that was always the focus. That was the case with Mortal Kombat as well. Blood or no blood, the early games were just brilliant as fighting games.

That being said, most games I play these days dont have much gore in them at all. I dont do FPS games, and that seems to be where most of the blood is. I do horror games, but that genre had a change at some point. The Resident Evil style where everything went *splorch* all the time is drastically less common now.

Plenty of games I'm into have a lot of explosions and such without the gore, though.

I think the goriest things I've played in recent times are Path of Exile 2 (LOTS of *splorch* there) Diablo 4, and Last Epoch. Those arent about gore at all, they're about getting piles of loot and clobbering like 500 monsters at a time. But they're still very bloody for some reason. That genre tends to be, heck if I know why.

 

[Jeff T]

A reader, not a gamer.
But there was a 'wild west' oriented game that looked hilarious, in what accidents could befall the horse and rider.....