Most people would like that.
In the old games the corpses turned into skeletons relatively quickly and those skeletons are not very distracting.
I think it’s really cool to be able to go back and see the traces of old battles still be visible on the ground long after they took place.
They could also do things like place gravestones instead of something like that.
Dawn of War 1 did it more extremely, every unit that died just stayed as a corpse indefinitely. Not rotting away, just in the pose they died in. Only when they died in your FoV though.
And the game could have battles over a strategic part of the map going on for hours.
It was kinda cool seeing how you slowly advanced over a mountain of dead orcs.
Young audiences are watching skibbidi toilet videos and soft-p*rn on youtube. They don’t really care about RTS games. The only “RTS” game they play is Clash of Clans and on a tablet. Removing the skeletons from the game has no valid reason.
back when we were 11-14 we were happy and proud to play games on windows 98/2000. nowdays its common and kids get flooeded with it. back then seeing soft-prn you had to watch tv and stay awake till late night (i NEVER did this cough, cough. nowdays soft-prn is so easily to find (i mean sometimes something close is already on social media…) and drags some kids into its abysses… (hopefully with recovery.) and back then we didnt had twitch, youtube and so called influencers who play popular mainstream games and sometimes do unnecessary silly and sexy stuff. rts is no mainstream genre and i would never see big streamers and “influencers” stream or even play it. (which is in my opinion for the better…)
its great to have a relative effordable smartphone with camera and a relative effordable, relative stable/good internet but god damn how i hate sometimes how social media and youtube evolved…
back to topic: i really agree with someone who said that if the corpse decaying is missing then on purpose, intentionally by the devs and not cause they can’t do it. - maybe they really want to add it later on. (hopefully)
All Age titles are rated PEGI 12+ and ESRB T. For PEGI they would have to push the rating up for more realistic depictions of violence. Without blood, gore, or rotting bodies it falls pretty well under fantasy violence, the PEGI 12 category.
It’s a rating system audited by human reviewers, and the standards for ‘what determines realistic violence’ can shift as a result of better graphics or social standards changing. That would explain why it was there before but isn’t now.
Some countries are affected differently by ratings systems. It’s one of the more reasonable explanations that doesn’t rely on the developers not noticing/caring (which is a stretch considering its existence in the past). It likely is not a technical limitation as well.
Edit: I’m pro bodies for what it’s worth. Just trying to express my understanding on why it is what it is.
I should have changed windows 98 to windows xp. I just barely played on 98 i was not even 10 back then. What I played was jump n run and racing games no RTS games that started later and I didn’t even played as much as you it seems xD I just played AoM, Rise of Nations, Rise of Legends, Warcraft3,Dawn of War Warhammer and Armies of Exigo, (Spellforce) and I have to admit just barely AoE cause I loved fantasy and mythology way more (didn’t change much over the years x))
Sure, it’s a whole topic (we all know they’re not going to add bodies or blood because otherwise they’ll raise the game’s rating)…
Well, in my case, I bought my first PC in 2003 when I was 6 years old and it already came with Windows XP, although I had already tried other PCs with W98…
It’s the esthetics and immersion. The skeletons for each of the units are just .ddt textures in the art folder for EE, porting them to Retold might be difficult however, as they’re probably tied to each unit’s death animation model, and we can’t open the retold versions (yet)
It’s not like they can’t do it either, they just don’t want to. Either it’s laziness, or they just think us as kids being naughty playing games above their age.
This makes even less sense when you consider the fact that there’s an option to turn on blood in AOE2DE. It’s far more gory than most things in earlier versions of AOM, so it doesn’t exactly make sense.
