nokori3byo
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As I look at the small collection of recent tripple A games lined up on my bookshelf, I can't help but be struck by the fact that none of them feature gruesome dismemberments and decapitation as their recent ancetors did.
Think about it: where the original Half-Life offered a messy gibbing every other minute, HL2 only gives us antlion gibbing and zombie bisection. GTA 3 and its successors had decaptitating headshots, but there's nothing of the sort in GTA 4. Even the otherwise gorey Bioshock seems to shy from anything resembling gibbing. Indeed, the final nail in the coffin might be the MK vs. DC fighting game. Honestly, mutilation used to be the MK franchise's defining factor--its banishment from the series is surely a sign of the times.
These days, genuine gore seems to have been relegated to such marginal titles as the SOF, Postal, and Manhunt series, whose recent installments have all suffered from weak gameplay that left the gore factor as nearly the only notable quality.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of video game gore, which often strikes me as juvenile, and which I think would be tonally out of step with games like HL2.
But Fallout 3 seems to be playing the overkill card pretty hard, from the look of the gameplay demos. Could this hgh profile bucking of the trend mark a potential comeback for gibbing?
Think about it: where the original Half-Life offered a messy gibbing every other minute, HL2 only gives us antlion gibbing and zombie bisection. GTA 3 and its successors had decaptitating headshots, but there's nothing of the sort in GTA 4. Even the otherwise gorey Bioshock seems to shy from anything resembling gibbing. Indeed, the final nail in the coffin might be the MK vs. DC fighting game. Honestly, mutilation used to be the MK franchise's defining factor--its banishment from the series is surely a sign of the times.
These days, genuine gore seems to have been relegated to such marginal titles as the SOF, Postal, and Manhunt series, whose recent installments have all suffered from weak gameplay that left the gore factor as nearly the only notable quality.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of video game gore, which often strikes me as juvenile, and which I think would be tonally out of step with games like HL2.
But Fallout 3 seems to be playing the overkill card pretty hard, from the look of the gameplay demos. Could this hgh profile bucking of the trend mark a potential comeback for gibbing?
