Goriest Games

I have to ask, how do people feel about skeletons being considered gore? To me, it's the soft squishy parts that are gorey. The skeleton's just . . . to me it's neither scary nor disgusting unless it's broken and sticking out of soft flesh. It's just my opinion and I'm curious how you all feel about the subject.

edited 24th Oct '13 8:44:24 PM by Journeyman

Yeah, it depends on the skeleton. If it's just the bones, then it doesn't count. But if it still has the skin and internal organs and muscles....

Geez, am I sounding like a sadist?

edited 25th Oct '13 3:59:52 PM by LDragon2

Nope, just your run of the mill horror fan.

edited 24th Oct '13 8:55:17 PM by Journeyman

Well, the noun "gore" originates from the verb "gore" which is basically to be impaled on something (usually through the torso)

So to me, that would mean it only really applies to the squishy bits.

Oh, here's another gory game, from the same guys that created F.E.A.R.

Man, talk about gruesome.

Oh, I forgot one common icon in the Bethesda era Fallout games. A man's torso with half of the legs and arms cut off, decapitated, and nailed to a mattress. Those things show up with distressing regularity. Usually in areas where the Raiders hang out. They also have a nasty habit of hanging their dead mates from meathooks and gibbets.

I can't help but notice that gore itself, as in, more than simply over the top amounts of blood (and even that is on the fall - before, it was extremely common for hard hits and blade based attacks to cause blood loss in fighters, nowadays that's unheard of in a Japanese fighter that isn't guro or ryona themed), is relatively rare in eastern games nowadays. Mad World seems to have gone out of its way to change that, but to the surprise of no one it did abysmally in its home country. It's a funny paradigm shift from the days of, for example, the uncensored Biohazard opening.

yeah.Dismemberments are enough to warrant the equivalent of an Adults Only in Japan,restricting the games to be sold along with the eroges.The difference is that at least in Japan,Nintendo,Sony and Microsoft allow AO(in their case,it's the Z rating)games to be released at all despite that less retailers will accept them(games like God of War 3,GTAV and The Last of Us were released with the Z rating,probably because the censorship would be too much and could alienate the gamers to import the western releases.)while in North America,they actually forbide AO rated games to be released on their systems.

Which they only do because the biggest retailers (specifically, Wal-Mart) refuse to carry AO-rated games. If the stores would sell them, they would release them.

Games with a Z-rating aren't quite as stigmatized in Japan, seeing as The Last of Us actually did phenomenally well over there.

The Torture Game 2/3 is as gory as you're gonna get for a free flash game. You can nail hands and feet to a wall, make spikes go through the person, skin them alive with a razor blade or cut them up with a chainsaw. They only make gasps when they die so there's no screaming, but it's a budget psychopath's wet dream

Most people wouldn't think about it. Dwarf Fortress is in fact rather gory even in it's ASCII tile set depiction of gore.

Limbs, guts, heads, and body parts are regularly removed forcefully and flung about the map leaving a trail of spattered blood. The traps you can make are pretty bad about the mangling. To top it off the traps frequently get jammed up with the mangled corpses.

It is possible for a body to explode into pieces after a particularly long nasty fall. Especially if they fall onto upright spikes at the bottom of that drop.

Bodies can melt and burn up in fire and magma/lava. Various diseases and conditions can make dwarves melt, rot, gush blood, and other horrifying effects.

The weather can be just as horrifying. In one of the forums succession forts the evil weather caused anyone caught in the gloom to bleed from every body part and orfice bleeding them out in seconds.

The in game descriptions of all of this can be quite grisly.

edited 26th Oct '13 9:15:45 AM by TuefelHundenIV

I seem to recall hearing a Dwarf Fortress story wherein a female dorf warrior paused to give birth in the middle of battle, and then proceeded to immediately charge back into the fray with the baby still attached to the umbilical cord.

Well they don't have umbilicals they just drop out. But female dwarves are known to carry their babies with them into battle. So they will drop a baby which happens instantly and they will stop to pick it up then go back to their duty.

The babies sometimes get splattered in battle.

The damage modeling in Left 4 Dead 2 is pretty gruesome, and there's loads of gore with all the enemies charging into your face.

Yeah, that was quite a sight.

And let's not forget God Of War. Especially the third:

Man, are those finishers painful.

Good ol' Phantasmagoria as a whole is sort of gory, but only a couple of these game overs deserve any special mention. I think all the budget went into the details here.

edited 27th Oct '13 1:47:11 AM by Hashil

Ah, I almost forgot about this underrated gem: