Corpses: Stay Or Vanish?

[Dragu Slave]

Same question.

Would you want the corpses to stay or vanish?

Stay for me, and also insert some blood stains on the ground/walls when killing enemies.

[ladylinnycroft]

i was discussing this very same thing with my husband the other night...IMHO i think the kills should stay...it makes it more realistic....i think if lara comes back to the same area the body should still be there....it might help you with navigating games as well

[Headache]

Yeah I agree. With both ya'll.
But being me, if a deformed body of... something.... Were to just stay there, it'd make me nervous. That's just the way I act o_0 I guess Im afraid it'll spring up and attack me

[_mil]

yeah, agreed also. but perhaps this time lara wont run through the actually body of the person she just killed

something funny, perhaps trip over them... meh, to realistic i think
but i would actually love to have a corpse jump up and not be dead for a little bit, perhaps winded or some other form of unpleasantly which you never really see in a game. a body still partially alive and gets back up... par AOE 3 of course

[Treeble]

Don't really care.

[Terminatorvs]

I'd prefer the dead to stay instead of vanish, even though that was only in "TR1", "TR2" and "TR3". In "TR4", "TR5" and "TR7" the corpses slowly disappeared and in "TR6" they disappeared after blinking several times a-la Dendy arcade game.
The other question is: what is more common for "TR" games?

[tizerist]

this should be a no-brainer.

the original reason for disappearing bodies was to conserve computer memory.
the same reason why skid marks disappear in racing games.

anything from the dreamcast/ps2 onwards....theres NO excuse. bodies must stay.

[tizerist]

Originally Posted by _mil

yeah, agreed also. but perhaps this time lara wont run through the actually body of the person she just killed

something funny, perhaps trip over them... meh, to realistic i think
:

it wouldnt take much to have an automatic "hop over body" animation if you try to run through them.
also if you cant draw guns and stuff while that happens

[_mil]

Originally Posted by tizerist

also if you cant draw guns and stuff while that happens

you should be able to draw guns, there wouldnt be anything that would be preventing lara from doing so.... unless they decided not to include it of course

[burt_ie]

Stay without a doubt, much more realistic.

[shurik]

Originally Posted by burt_ie

Stay without a doubt, much more realistic.

It's much more realistic I agree, but it ruins the environment! I think what they did in LEGEND was a good idea!

[burt_ie]

What did they do in legend?
I cant remember!

[shurik]

Originally Posted by burt_ie

What did they do in legend?
I cant remember!

they just dissapeared after you killed them!

[LaraGirl216]

I think they should stay- only coz then you will know if you've been in that place before.


I also think one of the reasons they didn't do it in Legend is coz of how many mercenaries they're were. Imagine if they did stay- the beginning of Kazakhstan would be chaotic! LOL

[Verios]

I think a good compromise would be along the lines of the little "baddies" disappearing after a certain time (Ex: you run from the beginning of the level to about half way...and if you back track they'd no longer be there) however the larger enemies, like the T-Rex, Mummies, etc, should stay throughout the level.

[Alexlovesguns]

Bodies should stay, it breaks the imersion to see bodies disapearing just like that, some hundred years after someone might venture inside these tombs again, its only fair for them to find some skeletons and health packs left behind, and think:
"I wonder what happened here.." .

[ditom]

But if they stay it will be dirty

[StarChampagne]

Lara's just killed the T-rex, and then wham! It's gone! She wouldn't get the chance to take its head home to hang in her trophy room then, would she? Although how it would fit in that backpack I have no idea...

I'm not particularly bothered, but corpses staying are more realistic. And they act as a you've-been-here marker.

[Headache]

Originally Posted by StarChampagne

Lara's just killed the T-rex, and then wham! It's gone! She wouldn't get the chance to take its head home to hang in her trophy room then, would she? Although how it would fit in that backpack I have no idea...

Hmmm... Maybe she could call in a 'ship' to come pick it up. Just like in Carnivores 1-3... You kill a dino and you call in a ship to pick it up and take it to your trophy room.

[ChOnyD]

Really, I think the courpses should stay. It isn't really that bad because most of the things killed in Anniversary are probablly gonna be animals. Although, the posture of the corpses should change because in the first Tomb Raider the wolves looked really weird on the floor dead....So Stay

[Dad]

Good thing they dont add smell cause all those bodies lying around would start to smell bad. hehe....just had to say that.

[Deadly47]

Aman to that.

But what about black widows. What if there pregnet. You kill one and her babies come out. Wouldnt that be real?

Its happend before,that would be scray cause they look transparent when there babys.

[Kurtis Trent]

Originally Posted by Headache

Yeah I agree. With both ya'll.
But being me, if a deformed body of... something.... Were to just stay there, it'd make me nervous. That's just the way I act o_0 I guess Im afraid it'll spring up and attack me

Resident Evil REmake anyone? man Crimson Heads scared the crap outta me...

Anyway, I agree the bodies should stay, mostly as a flag saying you've been here.

[StarChampagne]

Originally Posted by Headache

Hmmm... Maybe she could call in a 'ship' to come pick it up. Just like in Carnivores 1-3... You kill a dino and you call in a ship to pick it up and take it to your trophy room.

Good idea Although how they'd find the 'lost' valley... (but then again, Larson seemed to manage just fine ).

Corpses springing up to attack? Doom 3, anyone? Corpses didn't disappear in that, and if you were reeally lucky they'd get up and attack you... Please don't do that to me CD I scare easily!

Or, and this might be ridiculous, they could have a toggle corpse option. Saw it done in Drakan - if you set the gore level to minimum, the dead would neatly fade into nothingness. Maximum, on the other hand, was quite a different story

[Deadly47]

Same with punisher on the pc. You could set it to make that way bulliets didnt dispear blood nore corps.