Blood and gore

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Do blood and gore belong in Blockland?

Yes
97 (42.4%)
No
132 (57.6%)

Total Members Voted: 229

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Plastiware

February 05, 2013, 12:39:29 PM
The latest update has made default a feature that some of us, myself included, are uneasy about.  Blood and gore are now officially part of the vanilla Blockland.  Sure, it's only in one gamemode, and only caused by two specific types of death, but the fact remains that players can explode into a shower of blood and leave behind a bloody, limbless, and apparently skinless corpse in the unmodded game.

The question comes to you, Blocklanders.  Do you think this feature of blood and gore enhances the game in some way?  Perhaps you think it's awesome, or even hilarious.  Or is it totally without sense and out of place in a cute, cartoonish, toy-themed game like Blockland?  Perhaps disturbing?  Argue about it and call each other names Discuss.

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Twenky

February 05, 2013, 12:43:16 PM
If you think it's disturbing you're too easily offended, and maybe stupid too
It's just a game addon with virtual (not even realistic looking) blood

Mysteroo

February 05, 2013, 12:52:09 PM
Quote from: Twenky on February 05, 2013, 12:43:16 PM
It's just a game addon with virtual (not even realistic looking) blood
True, but it's still pretty out of place. And in a game that attracts 8-10 year olds, it doesn't seem completely appropriate. I just don't think that sort of thing belongs in something like Blockland. If any different kind of death should be implemented, I think it should be one like in the Lego Star Wars games, where the mini-fig falls apart.

Plastiware

February 05, 2013, 12:56:45 PM
Quote from: Twenky on February 05, 2013, 12:43:16 PM
If you think it's disturbing you're too easily offended, and maybe stupid too

Finding something disturbing and being offended by it are wholly separate concepts.  It takes some pretty nasty, hateful stuff to offend me.  Cute little toy people exploding into skinless corpses, however, is a pretty disturbing cake no matter how you slice it, and it doesn't fit the game's style at all.

Isaac Fox

February 05, 2013, 12:58:32 PM
I feel the same way, but now that it's put in the game, I highly doubt it will be removed.

Shadowed999

February 05, 2013, 01:01:42 PM
As stated before,

Falling into pick-up-able-and-throw-able, damaging pieces is the best way to go.


Blood and gore never appealed to me.

Epicduke

February 05, 2013, 01:02:04 PM
I don't really think it fits with the game style, but as an Add-on it makes me feel different about it. You would be able to choose to use it, or not to.

.:FancyPants:.

February 05, 2013, 01:02:55 PM
so you're complaining that just "because it's there in the game" that it's worth being uneasy about.

one gamemode, two ways of making it occur, you said so yourself. i don't think it's a big deal, and the average age of the community of blockland is well over the age that people get over some fake blood.

Quote from: Epicduke on February 05, 2013, 01:02:04 PM
You would be able to choose to use it, or not to.
that's a good idea.

Plastiware

February 05, 2013, 01:08:05 PM
Quote from: Epicduke on February 05, 2013, 01:02:04 PM
You would be able to choose to use it, or not to.
This is probably best.  I'm not one for the complete and total removal of anything from a game if some people still want it, but it shouldn't be default, even if it is just for one gamemode.

Quote from: Isaac Fox on February 05, 2013, 12:58:32 PM
I feel the same way, but now that it's put in the game, I highly doubt it will be removed.


I couldn't resist and I apologize.

Racerboy

February 05, 2013, 01:14:00 PM
Do we really need a thread about every feature that was obviously added to the game when we have a dev thread for it?

Plastiware

February 05, 2013, 01:29:54 PM
Quote from: Racerboy on February 05, 2013, 01:14:00 PM
Do we really need a thread about every feature that was obviously added to the game when we have a dev thread for it?

No.  But when a specific issue needs to be addressed, starting a new thread is preferable to letting the discussion get buried under 10 other subjects within the same thread.  Besides, this has a poll!

Racerboy

February 05, 2013, 01:48:58 PM
Quote from: Plastiware on February 05, 2013, 01:29:54 PM
No.  But when a specific issue needs to be addressed, starting a new thread is preferable to letting the discussion get buried under 10 other subjects within the same thread.  Besides, this has a poll!
because blockland polls are always going to be accurate...

Tonkka²

February 05, 2013, 01:49:37 PM
Question: Why can't we just have the player fall into physics pieces of what they were built of like in the Lego games?

Shadowed999

February 05, 2013, 01:54:41 PM
Quote from: Tonkka² on February 05, 2013, 01:49:37 PM
Question: Why can't we just have the player fall into physics pieces of what they were built of like in the Lego games?
Quote from: Shadowed999 on February 05, 2013, 01:01:42 PM
As stated before,

Falling into pick-up-able-and-throw-able, damaging pieces is the best way to go.


Blood and gore never appealed to me.

Cowboy6

February 05, 2013, 02:07:41 PM
I have always hated the blood and gore mod on here. As a rule I don't like it in any game but IMO Blockland is the last game that should have it. It's a building game with LEGO like bricks for crying out loud, not HALO or CoD. I think Plastiware said it best:

Quote from: Plastiware on February 05, 2013, 04:25:03 AM
Blockland players are cute, cartoony, plastic toys.  For them to explode into a shower of blood and leave a bloody, limbless corpse is both disturbing and entirely out of place.
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