I find myself strangely disturbed by Fallout 3 Gameplay video 4. For some reason, the chainsaw bayonet blood splatter in Gears of War is nasty but appropriate. This level of gore in Fallout seems plain Wrong.
I don’t know if it’s the slow-motion action or the exploding body parts that are more distateful. Perhaps it’s just that I always had the Fallout series pegged as “safe” and “funny” so this level of over-the-top violence is shocking. I also had Bethesda down as fairly innocuous, based on my experiences with Morrowind and Oblivion.
OTOH, I seem to recall that there was a good deal of comical cartoon splatter in the original Fallout RPGs. Is realistic graphic violence the necessary successor to cartoon violence?
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