This is mostly towards the general lean of the thread, but since you've pretty much brought up the relevant points I figure it's more convenient to make one reply than to collect the individual quotes I want to address
The key issue here generally falls upon the fact that mixing gore and porn is, for most people, pretty distasteful where having one or the other simply isn't seen nearly as poorly...
This is just the "Global standards" argument in our niche's microcosm. Not something I'd give any credence after watching what Sony did to their partners with it. We should know better.
..bait and switch of gore porn.
This is just a matter of opinion to me. One of the scenes being complained about involves a quest about missing persons. Once you find the guy and call him out he basically says something like, "Why yes, I love abducting and butchering chicks!" while holding a butcher knife. Then he transforms and you fight him. Pretty straight forward. The other scenes are more vague but someone like me could easily say, "huh, I was wondering when you'd show up" especially given some of the scenes in Bullet Requiem. Sure, not as hard. But just as "out of nowhere" for a porny game.
its not exactly like the game itself has really painted itself out to be a game that would feature gore for the vast majority of its development.
Who gets to decide that? It's not even finished yet. Even so, D-lis wore his inspirations for this game on his sleeve pretty openly. It's not like anyone doesn't know how dark and brutal those games got. Hell, we should be glad that he's free to express things as dark and as brutal as he wants since he doesn't have to worry about appeasing ratings boards.
its a HUGE turn off for me as a whole
But not for others. Black Cyc and Clockup still get's business. Hell! They even get some of their stuff localized. I think it's just a matter of being more mature about consuming art. There's plenty of content I wish I could throw off of a rooftop. I just do my best to turn a blind eye to the stuff I dislike or drop it entirely. The last thing I try to do is try to rationalize why art should be altered to suit my tastes(or just mod it), even if it's extra-degenerate art.
and when not properly accounted for, makes me feel like I have to walk on eggshells at times just to avoid the content
I'm sure It'll get it's tags once it up for sale. But I'm sure we'll get some config toggles at some point.
I'd simply feel much better without them being included.
The risk of the PC being brutally murdered because you fucked with the wrong guy might be what gives the setting the context it needs to be believable/engaging/hot for some people. Why advocate for people to not have the things they like because someone else doesn't like them?
(clicker beware. You're in for a scare)
But, if the game is good enough, and has some content porn wise, or gameplay wise that can make me overlook it in in the porn game, I can generally live with it. I've made it through far worse at least, though, I still haven't taken the dive to see just how brutal the gore-y scenes in this game are, though I somewhat doubt they are as bad as others out there... but at the same time given the quality of animations in the game in general, I could imagine them being pretty painful to watch as well if given the same level of quality as the rest of the games animations.
This is the bit that made me question the wisdom of replying to this post. But like I said: it's just more convenient for me to address the thread this way