SC2 takes quite a bloody turn

I just finished watching BR2 on youtube, and I've been thinking about the massive amounts of blood being shown, not that i'm particularly arguing against it - I like it afterall, but it looks pretty crazy.

When the Terran player destroyed the Zerg's 3rd Hatchery it looked very realistic and satisfying seeing the blood of it squirt up like that. I was also thinking about maps that are supposedly going to be recreated, mostly DotA. It's going to be a lot more realistic having blood spray out of heroes when you kill them, plus you will feel like you actually killed them, vs them floating up when they die.

But this might have an impact on the rating of the game. It could go from Teen to Mature unless they tone it down? Or they could leave it as it is, which would be fine for most people.

What do you think about this?

 

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1: we already have a thread like this.

2: the cgi cutscenes will make for a high rating anyway. Blizzard might as well add some more blood in the signleplayer then.

 

I like the blood, its much better than a blink of an explosion then nothing. I doubt it would be enough to change to rating of the game by just blood. It's not like it's showing the insides of a creature or anything... Besides, the society is changing, and currently today's teens would hardly think it's gross or anything like that.

 

It's not like starcraft didn't have lots of blood, i mean watch the carnage from a ZvT with MnM, everything that died burst into blood, just with worse graphics :/

I don't think some blood should change the rating, not to a mature anyway. I'm hoping for zerg carcasses + death screams of starcraft in their next gen gooeyness, worse than the blood but fingers crossed for kickass cutscenes that define the rating ^^

 

Actually I'd prefer cut scenes that have a suspense filled thriller kind of attitude toward them. A little like my favourite cut scene. it was the one in the science vessel where the zerg over ran it and the Terrans eventually blew it up. Sure there was not all that much gore in it. But for the it really showed the terror the marines had on their faces. For me it's stuff like that as well as gore in cut scenes that helps the game to earn it's rating

As long as SC 2 cut scenes are as good and dramatic/suspenseful I don't care how much or little gore is in them. But if the cut scenes will have lots of gore then who not add it to the single player as well.

 

I think that's what happens when you have a Zerg in the game. The pther Battle Report didn't have one so that's probably where the difference comes in.

Has Blizzard confirmed actually adding more blood or is it just that this is the first Battle Report with Zerg in it?

 

I believe Blizz had said something along the lines of "Zerg buildings will retain their bloody explosions in SC2" awhile ago, but I cant be completely sure.

Sorry for creating this thread, I was careless and didn't search the forum for similar threads...

 

The blood looks great I don't understand people who think blood is overly offensive. Understandable for young children who can't think for themselves though. If you don't like it, find another reason not to -- after all, they're just pixels.

 

I think it's over the top. It can be useful as a visual aid to indicate where death has happened in the game (or has recently happened), but anything beyond that is gratuitous, and just makes the graphics untidy.

 

The blood looks good in the game, and it doesn't make anything look extremely agressive. The main aspect of the game still remains strategy.

 

Yea, the blood looks fine how it is in the game now. Gratuitous blood and gore can change the mood of something and add a more visceral and horrible feeling because war is hell and it's not pretty.

I'm not saying Starcraft 2 has Gratuitous violence, I'm just talking about blood and gore in general, and to be honest it is pretty tame in Starcraft 2 nothing worse than you get out of a PG-13 movie.

 

I think it's great

I can bet we won't be expecting a "satisfying" or "humiliating" death from a protoss though. There never were gorish death from the first protoss, they all disappear into the light as far as I know, or for Zealots they warp back to their base and continue serving as a Dragoon. Funny how Blizzard always puts the Terrans and Zergs in a situation where they die in a grotesque fashion.

 

Just proves the 'Toss are better =P
Also, i think it's wickeeddd. Blood ftw. It makes it realistic, and that's what i like. i hope they have explosions when air crafts like the battlecruiser or such dies. >3

 

I thought the hatchery death animation was a really nice touch, the games probably going to get an M rating anyways with the way the ESRB is these days and the campaign content.

 

I don't know about the majority of the people here, but I honestly wouldn't mind StarCraft becoming more of a horror, visceral, dark/creepy, bloody game like Resistance: Fall of Man is while still being StarCraft. If anyone has played Resistance: Fall of Man on the PS3, the theme of that is what I'm leaning to in this post.

If you haven't seen or played the game, look at these(particulary the first two):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wMRknoQCY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLDBJA6Sas&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZw5jBFhfHc

 

maybe theres going to be an option for "no blood" - "carnage"

 

Hopefully.

 

aww, that's no fun. Yeah, i want SC to be more serious - blood, and such.
But i don't want it dark and horror filled, like xDarkness said. I think diablo is blizzard's chance to do that, not sc.

 

Blood

i vote blood