AngryChicken
Eye of Cthulhu
I guess it is time to get desensitized then huh? Almost everyone does at some point xD
Other Remove Blood and gore
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Daimera
Terrarian
The only reason I could see this not being an option is the amount of work reskinning and retheming all the things that are gore-themed that aren't necessarily gibs. It reminds me of World of Warcraft, where HUGE SWATHS of the game during Wrath of the Lich King (an EXTREEEMELY undead-themed expansion) had to be reskinned for the China release because of some law regarding the depiction of skeletons and bones and death in general.
But as an OPTION, as in, something you can choose to enable or not, if you completely disregard the amount of work that'd go into it, I don't see why not... but that opens up a huge can of worms for people to start asking for other 'options' to take out things THEY don't like. Such as an arachnophobe mode. Which, IMO, would be a LOT easier to implement that removing gore. Or an option to change the 'dirty joke' names for certain mobs or other objects. Or an option to remove the female Blood Moon dialogue.
Once one thing starts being optionally censored, where would it end? How many options are gonna end up in the menu for disabling this or that if the devs have to acquiesce to every person who finds some small aspect of the game offensive or triggering?
But as an OPTION, as in, something you can choose to enable or not, if you completely disregard the amount of work that'd go into it, I don't see why not... but that opens up a huge can of worms for people to start asking for other 'options' to take out things THEY don't like. Such as an arachnophobe mode. Which, IMO, would be a LOT easier to implement that removing gore. Or an option to change the 'dirty joke' names for certain mobs or other objects. Or an option to remove the female Blood Moon dialogue.
Once one thing starts being optionally censored, where would it end? How many options are gonna end up in the menu for disabling this or that if the devs have to acquiesce to every person who finds some small aspect of the game offensive or triggering?
Thee Pie Man
Official Terrarian
Adding an option should be easy enough to program; I am not really for this but I wouldn't really care if there was an option to remove it; or if they removed it entirely I wouldn't care either- I'd like it to be noted however that when you take out the gore/etc you're taking out some of the immersion and what I see to as "Consequence" of the action. I think it helps people understand what they are doing is obliterating a little rabbit that they felt like killing or that accidentally walked into someone while they were swinging their Axe. Again; I don't care for or about gore/blood in either fashion.
I however can support that an option could be added to reduce some more skittish people.
I however can support that an option could be added to reduce some more skittish people.
Shinari
Terrarian
Oh, no. Noooo! What I've done!
Until now, I thought that I fight with plushies bubbling, splashing and squirting raspberry syrup.
My suggestion:
After complete off gore dying monster would disappear in animation similar to Cloud in Bottle.
Until now, I thought that I fight with plushies bubbling, splashing and squirting raspberry syrup.
I support it, to make option for more gore!!!
My suggestion:
After complete off gore dying monster would disappear in animation similar to Cloud in Bottle.
Are you suggesting enemies drop even MORE heads?
This actually used to happen to Pirate Captains, who would gib multiple heads on death.
Notso
Official Terrarian
And replacing all of the Crimson with poofs, too? Gateway boss should be the Wall of Poof?
I laughed too hard the Wall of Poof
Evilgrapez
Retinazer
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I'm never trusting these guys again.
XxMakeItRainxX
Plantera
I don't understand why gore is so disturbing to people. Maybe if it was more realistic. I'll even accept you being disturbed by gore IRL. But really? You're disturbed by pixels?
Gotcha!
Pumpking
You once trusted me? Thanks, man.
In my defense: I've played a lot of violent games when I was a kid, but I also picked up snails off the road and put them back in the bushes and saved the drowning flies out of our inflatable swimming pool.
What I am saying here is that violent games don't make violent people.
Evilgrapez
Retinazer
You once trusted me? Thanks, man.
In my defense: I've played a lot of violent games when I was a kid, but I also picked up snails off the road and put them back in the bushes and saved the drowning flies out of our inflatable swimming pool.
What I am saying here is that violent games don't make violent people.
Terraria was the first game I ever played with any gore. I grew up on Kirby and Mario, and I killed every fly, spider, and every other horrible creature I ever saw.
With acid. >=D
XxMakeItRainxX
Plantera
Omg. I can already imagine rainbows coming out of things when they die xD
Gotcha!
Pumpking
Aw. You're mean.
Evilgrapez
Retinazer
MegaMage314 🌳
Living Tree
That seems like way more effort then replacing the gore with the "poof" from enemies like wraiths
Treesmasher
Empress of Light
If all the blood and gore was to be removed from Terraria, that would basically, (Sorry for the Bluntness), It would pretty much rape terraria. The gore is what adds a level of fright to terraria and helps make it so fun and scary at times. How would the brain of cthulu look without its gore? It would be gone. Wall of Flesh? Gone. Eye of Cthulu? Gone. It would be completely stripped and those are not the only things that would be gone.
Notso
Official Terrarian
No, we don't all win. Turning off gore would require re-skinning an entire biome, along with its weapons and items, as well as the creation of new effects to replace the gore. This would consume valuable development time. Everyone who looked at the ESRB rating of the game knew there would be violence and blood when they bought the game, so for those of use who didn't have a problem with that, it is not a win-win situation.
I have nothing against games not having gore, but Terraria is not such a game. It is inherently gory and it is clear the developers meant it to be that way (e.g. "<charname>'s innards were turned into outards by Green Slime"). Personally I believe the game's creative vision would be ruined by the removal of gore. It's a game of Zombies and disembodied eyeballs - even entities which are usually portrayed in games as being kind or benevolent are violent murderers in Terraria (Unicorns, Faeries...).
DestroyerOfTheDestroyer
The Destroyer
I think he just meant to remove the gore EFFECTS.
Bethany
Empress of Light
The splatter when you strike an enemy looks to me like yet another particle system. If so, reducing that part of the grisliness would be very simple; just tweak a parameter or three and the droplets would become less plentiful, smaller, vanish faster, etc.
Whether this is something that should be done is another matter entirely. I mean, it's a game in which you use swords and stuff to hit things that are trying to kill you until they die. Having a giant eyeball with razor-sharp teeth poof into a smiley-face firework burst on death would, in a way, be creepier than a rain of icky giblets.
I wouldn't like to see realistic gore either but the silly, cartoonish violence in the game now is too unrealistic to bother me terribly.
Whether this is something that should be done is another matter entirely. I mean, it's a game in which you use swords and stuff to hit things that are trying to kill you until they die. Having a giant eyeball with razor-sharp teeth poof into a smiley-face firework burst on death would, in a way, be creepier than a rain of icky giblets.
I wouldn't like to see realistic gore either but the silly, cartoonish violence in the game now is too unrealistic to bother me terribly.
Necrogue
Brain of Cthulhu
You've made a good choice, not trusting me.
Time to defend myself: Blood is blood. Your cutting/shooting monsters up. I think that there would be blood and gore in real life too. Sure, not that much but....
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