GasBandit
Staff member
One thing that bugs me about these videos is how blatantly G-rated they are. Riot did the same thing with their League of Legends videos (the Jinx video is a particularly egregious example - she shoots up a city which is conveniently and inexplicably completely abandoned and the only "living" thing to shoot are robots which don't even have any kind of presence or representation in the game itself). They have guns and bombs and blades and they fight but somehow nobody ever gets shot or cut or wounded in any visible way other than nebulously depicted blunt force which never seems to do more than punch-level damage - but when they need to depict more graphic violence, it's against a robot, because robots aren't enough like people to raise the rating. It's a tremendous cop-out that just seems marketing driven to get the "Mom's seal of approval" for your game-which-involves-shooting-other-people-but-there's-no-blood-so-it's-ok.
Fer chrissakes, if Valve can get away with cartoonish bloody chunks in their TF2 videos, I think you can too, blizzard.
Fer chrissakes, if Valve can get away with cartoonish bloody chunks in their TF2 videos, I think you can too, blizzard.