I dont wanna feel like im playing a 12 year olds game,
Me, I'm of the age of exactly 41 one now,
and I LOVE Drakensang 2 because it has NOT any gore or blood (at least until you zoom in very close) at all !!!
I know I'm at the rong side, but I'm actually very sick of the fact that i have to constantly defend myself because I DO NOT want ANY blood or ore in games - which makes me wonder what kind of people are those who force me to defend my taste ?
Me, I DO like light-hearted, colourful games with - if possible - no violence at all. (I come from the non-action adventure game genre, that's why).
And every time I tell someone on a forum I don't like Dragon Age for its blood and gore, I receive looks (I can feel that over their writing) as if I#m a 10 year old or as if I'm completely insane and should better spend the rest of my days in a rubber cell in some kind of "mental inanity hospital".
The current gaming world has evolved so,
that the darker, the more grim, the more bloody, the more grey, the moe muted colours, the more filled with hopelessness and despair a setting is,
the better.
No-one wants lighthearted fun anymore.
Everything HAS to be bad, bloody, an with the bowels hanging out of a scorched body, if possible. Or with blood fountains coming out of a body that is losing its had (his barbrian MMORPG, I forgot its name ...)
Blood and gore sells. The people want it. They want to be covered with it - I mean their charcters.
Me, I call THIS insanity.
Me, I'm currently playing Drakensang 2 for the third time.
And if this fashion in gaming goes on (it hasn't reached its peak yet), then this will be one of my last RPGs (still have to buy DKS, which I'll do of course during this year).
I quote myself from the official Drakensang forums :
I prefer a world like Aventuria - exactly with all of these fairy-tale aspects.
My main argument against setting like what you seem to prefer is this :
I have more than enough darkness and greyness in Reality. Political corruption, exploiting of people, wars here, there, and everywhere ... 9/11, Nazis, Mugabe, Taliban ... All of this is more than enough to consider.
I really don't want to have all of this stuff in a fantasy game I just want to enjoy. To me, this is true escapism. i need it, because I want to recharg my power cells with this kin of etting, be it in novels, video games, pictures etc ... whatever.
From my point of view, I just cannot understand how people really want to transport all of reality's problems into a fantsy world. Isn't Reality enough for them ? Do they have to let everything be stained with the murders of Taliban, the results of Agent Orange, the results of Tchernobyl, the exploitations of Mr. Mugabe, the poison gas assault on Kurdistan, the drug wars of Mexico, the assassination of people in the "Colonia Dignidad" in Chiler, the overwhelming corruption of African clans, the economical monopoly of american mega-compnies, the econimical destruction of European food companies selling heavily subsidised foods into African markts thus destroying the local farmer's income and thu making them slaves to the international market, and the autocracy of Lukaschenko of Belarus ? Why do they want to put all of this stuff into fantasy setting ?
I just can't undrstand it. To me, it is essential for human nature to have a place to regenerate from all of these daily affairs. And that's why I use these cliché-like fantasy settings, "where the world is still okay", so to say. And espcially : Where the drawn lines are clear. No meddling around with greyness like in Real Life.
If I want to see greyness in nature, then I just need to drive on any Autobahn or highway : There's more than enough grey concrete.
But I really prefer colourful flowers from the countrysides.
