Is there a content control in HL2?

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Is there a content control in HL2 just like there was one in Half Life 1?

If there isn't, is there any way to disable the gore?

Thanks
 
I think there's a console command to disable blood, but as Dekstar said, the Ravenholm chapter is full of zombies that can be cut in two / smashed with barrels / set on fire.

But if your kid is older than 10, it's no worse than anything he sees on TV everyday.
 
I'm pretty much sure there's a console command to disable blood, I just don't know what it is.
and yeah, Ravenholm would be unsuitable for people less than 13.
 
The blood is there because the game is for mature audiences. If you think the game is suitable for a minor then the bloody and violence should be too.

In my opinion, Half Life is quite cartoony in its violence so I wouldn't worry.
 
The gore in Half-Life was far greater, as bodies could actually be seperated into random parts. It's not present in Half-Life 2, thus you wouldn't be able to turn it off. Even with gore off, Half-Life still had people shooting and dying, and it didn't mean it automatically lost its 15 certificate.

The certificate is there for a reason, and it's no less meaningful than that of a Film, if not more so. If you let a child play on it, it becomes your responsibility, and if you so much as hint that it's the game's fault that they grow up to be a mass murder and the game should be banned, I'll personally come round to your house and see to it that *filtered*.
 
jerkasaur said:
I'm pretty much sure there's a console command to disable blood, I just don't know what it is.
and yeah, Ravenholm would be unsuitable for people less than 13.
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Thats what you guys thought. I palyed ravenholm when i was 11 or 10. Awesome.
 
Azner said:
Thats what you guys thought. I palyed ravenholm when i was 11 or 10. Awesome.
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?? How old are you now??

And Half-Life is unsuitable for ages under 15. It's a fact. It's a generic fact though, which means I wouldn't mind when my younger brother played it, because I know he's not sensitive to that sort of material, or going to be a psycopathic raping war-monger (well... I don't)
 
Azner said:
Thats what you guys thought. I palyed ravenholm when i was 11 or 10. Awesome.
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And look how good you turned out. :rolleyes:



(j/k) And sorry about the dekstar thing..i really should read before posting.
 
Dr. Zoidberg said:
How is the opinion of ESRB (Or any other game rating org) a fact? Lol their opinion isn't even government inforced.
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*Enforced.

It's as much fact as the BBFC. There are specific guidelines that a game must adhere to to be below a certain class. And just because the government enforce a certificate, it doesn't make it "fact" either. A group of intellectual people have got together to discuss the nature of whether it is suitable for a certain age group and produced a result.

It can be seen from all over the world that people are actually affected by these games. While it's not fact or proof that it's games that do this to the individual, it's highly evident, and generally in places where the certificate was ignored. This doesn't mean the game itself is especially violent, but that the audience which played it was not suitable.

It doesn't mean that every single person under that age is unsuitable, but it generalises.
 
UFO_DB said:
Is there a content control in HL2 just like there was one in Half Life 1?

If there isn't, is there any way to disable the gore?

Thanks
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In the UK at least the case clearly states rather noticeably that the game is for 15 years and older.

If you are not 15, your dependent(s) are not 15, or you are too squeamish, your probably best off simply not playing. :)

Sorry. :(
 
nurizeko said:
In the UK at least the case clearly states rather noticeably that the game is for 15 years and older.

If you are not 15, your dependent(s) are not 15, or you are too squeamish, your probably best off simply not playing. :)

Sorry. :(
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Game will ask you for ID if you look too young.
 
I tried to buy HL2 the other day for the xbox, forgetting it was M and he asked me if my Mom was there. :(
I had to get my mom to come buy it for me.
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If you're worried about gore, stop playing violent games. Trust me, Gears of War is much, much, worse.
 
Acepilotf14 said:
I tried to buy HL2 the other day for the xbox, forgetting it was M and he asked me if my Mom was there. :(
I had to get my mom to come buy it for me.
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If you're worried about gore, stop playing violent games. Trust me, Gears of War is much, much, worse.
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*shakes head* you naughty boy, you. Buying games underage! :p

Didn't have ID when I was 15/16 and I was IDed to buy Splinter Cell: Choas Theory... it was like... omgz noob! Lucky my dad was down the road at the time.
 
FrostXian said:
Hahah, holy crap, HOW old are you!? Didn't the game come out like, two years ago?
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Nearly 4 actually.

I played HL2 when i was 13 or 14. Scared me a bit, but it wasn't particularly bad or anything. Healthy scares.
 
Azner is 13, btw. He sounds like one of my friends... :P
 
Okay, I'm 14 and this game didn't scare me one bit. I would actually liked to be scared, but everything fails to frighten me. Most likely it's because kids these days are exposed to so much more then say kids in the 70's and 80's.. REALLY SAD. :(
 
played goldeneye (ESRB - T) when I was 9, HL (ESRB - M) when I was 10 and I still just can't figure out why goldeneye seems more scary to me.
 
I'm 22 and when I first played HL2 Ravenholm was a little bit shudder worthy but meh.

HL2 aint that bad really.

I don't mind gore in a war movie or gunning down enemies in a game, its that malicious tortured psychotic gore in snuff movies that creep me out. :P
 
HL2 has pretty low gore, even compared to HL1, but it's not exactly a kid's game.

Mind you, I played HL1 when I was nine.

...

(And I'm seventeen and I'd be feeling ambivalent if not for you, nurizeko, so I'm grateful to you)
 
Narvi said:
Mind you, I played HL1 when I was nine.

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The best decision of my life. Playing Half-Life when I was 8/9.
The thrills of it are just so much more than I could have today. Although I'm bound not to feel anything after doing it once.

Ravenholme, the first time, was an ultimate level in fear. Sure, the second time you play it through it's not so scary... but then how many games can you actually play through more than once...??
 
I actually played it when I was 14. I actually enabled the content control myself because it was kind of gross (It didn't bother me really, but it was a bit distracting). My parents thought that the reduced gore version was the normal version...

That was a while ago, though. I am just wondering if there is a way to temporarily reduce the gore because my parents are still sensitive to gore and blood.

I found a no-gore mod a while ago, but I was just wondering if there was an easier to disable it.

Thanks.
 
I'm 16 and I finished HL2 a couple weeks ago.

HL2 was actually the first M game I played (with the exception of a little bit of Driv3r, which doesn't deserve the rating), and it really didn't bother me. Even Ravenholm wasn't too scary, and I was playing it at night. :P

I did get a little jumpy though, especially when the fast zombies are climbing up the drainpipes.
 
I played HL1 when I was like 11 or 10 or something. :/
 
Geeze, i think i played HL1 when i was like... 14 or 13. wasnt into pc games at the time and half life was the game that brought me into it. But seriously, if your going to play a game such as this you should be looking for a mod that would be more gory! hell i wish all games had more gore! i wanna be able to snipe some ones head off and watch a fountain of blood squirt out of their head for like 10 seconds! More games need this!
 
I wtfpwned people in Half-life deathmatch when i was age 10, and started playing CS when i was 11 :) I didn't even know about age limits back then - was there any?

But now i tend to dislike when my nephew comes by, as he's 9 and i rarely play any game that has a rating below 18. (Certainly don't want him to see The Witcher - foul language, gut and blood, sexual intercourses etc.)
 
kacation_man said:
Geeze, i think i played HL1 when i was like... 14 or 13. wasnt into pc games at the time and half life was the game that brought me into it. But seriously, if your going to play a game such as this you should be looking for a mod that would be more gory! hell i wish all games had more gore! i wanna be able to snipe some ones head off and watch a fountain of blood squirt out of their head for like 10 seconds! More games need this!
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Soldier of Fortune, Grand Theft Auto :)

The Witcher has some beautifull blood - flings off your sword and gets sprays around the room as you do your sword fighting. And the decapitation looks pretty nice, when you do a whirldwind on 3-4 opponents and one or two heads go flying. The cutscenes are downright nasty aswell - lotsa blood, people getting hanged, decapicitated etc. They capture the voilence of the dark ages pretty well (Or rather, a parrallel to the dark ages, as its in a very late D&D world)

All the games with the Doom engine is pretty gory too - Doom 3, Quake 4, Prey. (I liked when you got your limbs cut off and replaced by mechanical ones in Quake 4 hehe)

Gears of War is really really bloody. When you use the chainsaw and cut enemies in half, the blood sprays unto the screen so you can see nothing but blood and hear the screams while the chainsaw cuts through flesh :)

The Darkness has some nice gore too, and some downright nasty killings. Such as your innocent girlfriend getting her head blown off in front of you. (You take your gun and blow your own brains out afterwards) Eating peoples hearts, ripping them apart etc.

And alot more games out there with gore :)

I think it should be applied lightly though - too much and it becomes unrealistic and less dramatic. The Witcher has the right amount - its thin sprays, and it looks as it would in reality. When you have a fight, and look around the room you can tell how you swung your swords from the directions of the blood splatter. And you have blood on yourself, aswell as a blade coated red. (Also the cuts you do on enemies stayes there, so you can see when you cut them across their stomach)

http://www.thewitcher.com/resources/screenshots/en/2419_800x600.jpg
 
I played Ravenholm this summer and I'm... nevermind. Was a li'l scary, as I hadn't played anything "scary" in years. Main things what made me a little scared were when Fast zombies humped your face, or crab ambushing. Last time I heard some weird noise I ever heard before in Ravenholm for four times in row, until the next map part of Ravenholm started. Also I'm lucky that my father doesn't care if I play gory games, but my mother cares. Even warns "Don't go mad like that boy did in Finland" (Some 16 yrs old guy did go crazy and killed about 5-7 students and himself.) That should bee all...
 
Played Half-Life at the age 8/9 with plenty of teh gore :D.

Don't worry UFO, HL2 really doesn't have any gore. There's a little bit of blood when you shoot them, and then they fall on the floor and die. The goriest bit is probably when you bolt them to a wall and they hang there... bit disturbing, but fun.

Episode Two is worse when it comes to blood.
 
I always found the content control in HL to be a tad rediculous. If I were a parent I'd be a tad more concerned with the fact that the game revolves around killing things and humans than the blood in it.
 
If you're killing something which isn't real, its going to affect you less than something that appears to be real.
 
The thing that most disturbed me (when I first played, at age 12 / 13 or so) was how your great scientist buddies could be harmed by your actions, and particularly how other people seemed to enjoy that. I remember particularly PC Zone's review in which they remarked with much glee that you could whack them all to death and listen to them scream. That just made me sad! This even applied to popularly obscure HL mod Science & Industry, where I like nothing more than to whack a scientist over the head with a briefcase, but consider killing rival science teams for a tactical advantage an atrocity.

I'm still the kind of person who will never even think about firing at Rebel Citizens, even though the bullets pass through them anyway. One thing I hated about Half-Life 2 was that you couldn't tell Citizens to just wait in the corner until things were safe. I hated spending so much time in Follow Freeman getting those rocket-launcher rebels from the Strider battle to the final map, only for them to be stomped because they're so god-damned useless. Still, despite being horribly disturbed that anyone would want to kill the friendlies, I always liked redecorating the walls of Black Mesa with soldier insides, so i'm a bit of fickle simpleton. I think the difference was simply that Marines never yelped quite as pathetically.
 
kupoartist said:
The thing that most disturbed me (when I first played, at age 12 / 13 or so) was how your great scientist buddies could be harmed by your actions, and particularly how other people seemed to enjoy that. I remember particularly PC Zone's review in which they remarked with much glee that you could whack them all to death and listen to them scream. That just made me sad! This even applied to popularly obscure HL mod Science & Industry, where I like nothing more than to whack a scientist over the head with a briefcase, but consider killing rival science teams for a tactical advantage an atrocity.
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What sort of 12/13 year old were you? You must be Jesus or something... too many morals.

I wouldn't say I enjoyed being able to kill them, but its certainly relieving knowing that if someone irritates you, you can simply finish them off. A pleasure which cannot be acheived in life (by the sane).
 
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