jawafour wrote:I don't know if perhaps I'm being a little sensitive... but that looks to be incredibly violent. I think we could be at a point where graphic and sound representation of violence is becoming a turn-off for me. The occurrences are presented very realistically and I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with slashing a guy's throat several times.
I'm not totally against fighting or violent acts in games and I recognise that these themes have formed the basis of interaction ever since gaming arrived. I've played my fair share of such games including Wildlands, the previous game in this franchise. But this vid didn't, to me, come across very well; personally, I don't want violence to be that realistically portrayed.
Linking in to the recent news about some Mortal Kombat 11 development staff suffering mentally through building realistically violence aspects over lengthy periods of time for games, I do wonder if there are negative impacts from the rise of realism in gaming.
It's similar to the Last of Us 2, these aren't just avatars carrying out basic animations so that the action is implied, it's now there to see in 4K with photorealistic characters, facial animations and blood.
I'd happily play Mortal Kombat when I was 10 and laugh at the fatalities, but the MK 11 just makes me wince.