Guild Wars 2

I was always wondering, why there’s no blood visual effects in this game?
We have Bleeding condition, but no actual bleeding, only numbers dropping
from body which is kinda wierd, and for most classes, especially Thief/Warrior,
blood visuals would make combat way more spectacular, isn’t it?
I mostly play as Elementalist, and I see how enemies burning, electicuting and
freezing, it looks great. Death animations of burned/electricuted/etc foes are
also there, but when I use earth magic, or swing huge Greatsword as Guardian,
no blood?…

I haven’t played this game for very long, and maybe there’s some reasons for it,
but I don’t think adding these effects will really affect something drastic. We can’t
seriously speak about violence in this game, can we?

Game is rated Teen. I believe showing blood would make that rating too low.

Yeah blood effects require a higher rating. Honestly they don’t add anything to the game and they often look more like a cheap visual effect rather than something convincing. I much prefer it without.

There is some blood when using certain skills on Risen Hands in Orr.

I’m not sure that applying blood in game like GW2 would affect rating of this game,
as it can be count among effects. Some enemies are turned into liquid on death, that
can be easily taken as blood.
With GW2 graphical style it would fit just fine, like strokes of the paint brush.
And you can’t miss when your hp drops low, screen gets red, drawing some
resemblance of bleeding.

Don’t know why this is posted in the Living World section, but way way back before launch they said that if they added a blood effect it would kick the game up to M. Hence why instead we get the lovely “red hit effect”

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Yeah blood effects require a higher rating. Honestly they don’t add anything to the game and they often look more like a cheap visual effect rather than something convincing. I much prefer it without.

BS, in WoW when you use skills like garrote or rupture blood spews all over the place. This isn’t the 90’s where a few blood splatters earns a game a M rating.

Senticon.3452:

I’m not sure that applying blood in game like GW2 would affect rating of this game,
as it can be count among effects. Some enemies are turned into liquid on death, that
can be easily taken as blood.
With GW2 graphical style it would fit just fine, like strokes of the paint brush.
And you can’t miss when your hp drops low, screen gets red, drawing some
resemblance of bleeding.

Honestly it’s because while the rating system DOES do some good, it’s archaic but games are forced to abide by it.

Of course that also depends on how much blood we’re talking.

Barabbas.8715:

BS, in WoW when you use skills like garrote or rupture blood spews all over the place. This isn’t the 90’s where a few blood splatters earns a game a M rating.

But then again WoW looks a bit like a cartoon, whilst GW2 have a much more realistic graphic.