Games in general - unrealistic blood effects

Chronictank · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:19

Was just pondering this with a friend, why is blood in all games really unrealistic?
I can only assume its because they dont want games to be uber realistic so that crazy kids who shouldnt be playing it anyway see it and go shoot up their school

Even modern games like Gears, or even games intended to be horror ones such as jericho have this wierd shiney effect on it

soldier of fortune 3

Jericho

GOW

FEAR

I am not looking for games with better effects i am just curious to the reason why most games take this approach

BFG_9000 · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:27

I presume its more for visual effect than reality....

weringo · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:30

It looks cool, simple as that really.

Slinky1989 · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:41

I think they did it just for laughs or awesomeness in soldier of fortune 3.

perox · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:54

TBH I haven't seen many people blown apart by shotguns and I don't think many game developers will have either, they will just make an effect which is easy to do and looks how hey would imagine it to look like.

snowdog · 3 Jan 2008 at 03:29

It just looks cool.

V4NT0M · 3 Jan 2008 at 04:40

All this thread achieved was to make me want to play gears again.

poopots · 3 Jan 2008 at 05:48

Realistic fluid effects are pretty hard to achieve and are pretty demanding on system resources. It's not like the a sea or a lake etc, it would have to to react with the environment and the laws of graivty etc to be fully realistic. I'm not exactly sure but don't quite a lot of games still just use glorified 2D sprites for blood effects?

dbmzk1 · 3 Jan 2008 at 06:06

weringo said:
It looks cool, simple as that really.

HeX · 3 Jan 2008 at 10:06

As stated, you can't beat chainsawing a roach in GoW, that effect is awesome

Pottsey · 3 Jan 2008 at 10:15

Part of the problem is CPU's find it extremely difficult to do 3d liquids at any decent speed. Its the type of thing you need a PPU for or a way more powerful CPU then we have today. You also have different types of blood colour but its a lot of work to make different colours come out of different parts of the body depending on wound.

hellforleather · 3 Jan 2008 at 18:07

use a ppu for blood?

Gerard · 3 Jan 2008 at 18:15

top pics sof2 not three

Indy500 · 3 Jan 2008 at 18:17

Jericho's already look reasonable.

Devious · 3 Jan 2008 at 18:47

Hl1 still has the best blood.

Indy500 · 3 Jan 2008 at 18:49

Lol, the last FEAR shot looks like paint, not blood.

WarBird · 3 Jan 2008 at 19:11

i think gow's is good, really suiting to the game. lol love soldier of fortune 3's

.:MBK:. · 3 Jan 2008 at 19:21

usually take an approach reflective and supportive of the overall design feel of the game, notice how all those games take a different approach to blood, have also have a fairly distinct graphical style to begin with

that and some pansy EU ratings muppet would probably ban the game if it had realistic gore/blood

psychas · 3 Jan 2008 at 19:52

well in counter strike source i think blood is kk if you play on high detail you even see the flesh wound

PhillyDee · 3 Jan 2008 at 19:58

psychas said:
well in counter strike source i think blood is kk if you play on high detail you even see the flesh wound

By flesh wound you mean coloured paint speck.

They do it this way is because its better than life. They give you what you expect, not what is real.