Removing the picture from SCP Labels.
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 6:17 am
Hello everyone,
Through my playthroughs of SCP:CB I've always noted that the signs indicating SCP's containment chambers have always looked funny with they're pictures right next to them and would personally like to see them removed.
Now I did bring a little more than just that, I've given some thought to it and realized that the pictures sort of 'give away' the SCP in the containment chamber and largely seem's unprofessional to show an image of the SCP inside. Here are basically my points:
1. The Unknown is what makes things frightening; do you really know if there isn't a monster under your bed or in your closet in the dark of night? Does your mirrors reflection still stay there when your not looking? We don't know what may be there, that's what alerts us and makes us cautious, anxious and fearful. The Unknown. Removing the image will put anyone on edge of what may in there, even if the label reads 'Keter', 'Euclid' or 'Safe'. The best we get is a little warning of it's sentience/possible violence.
2. Removing the image gives greater rise to players finding/reading the SCP's document to see a picture of it and be sure of what's inside, if they could obviously see the image is that of a giant snake that breathes fire already right outside the containment chamber, they're going to have a pretty good bet of what's inside there or what to expect.
3. I think the images look a bit silly.
I've went and made some minor edit's to each current SCP's label in they're containment chamber and took in-game screenshots, now I admit I'm not a texture/paint artist myself, but I think we can now or in the future come up with a better/different looking SCP Label too. But here's my image edits in-game:
SCP-173's Containment Chamber:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_1.png
You can get a better effect with 106 + 372:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_4.png
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_2.png
Bonus 079:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_3.png
Thoughts please??
Through my playthroughs of SCP:CB I've always noted that the signs indicating SCP's containment chambers have always looked funny with they're pictures right next to them and would personally like to see them removed.
Now I did bring a little more than just that, I've given some thought to it and realized that the pictures sort of 'give away' the SCP in the containment chamber and largely seem's unprofessional to show an image of the SCP inside. Here are basically my points:
1. The Unknown is what makes things frightening; do you really know if there isn't a monster under your bed or in your closet in the dark of night? Does your mirrors reflection still stay there when your not looking? We don't know what may be there, that's what alerts us and makes us cautious, anxious and fearful. The Unknown. Removing the image will put anyone on edge of what may in there, even if the label reads 'Keter', 'Euclid' or 'Safe'. The best we get is a little warning of it's sentience/possible violence.
2. Removing the image gives greater rise to players finding/reading the SCP's document to see a picture of it and be sure of what's inside, if they could obviously see the image is that of a giant snake that breathes fire already right outside the containment chamber, they're going to have a pretty good bet of what's inside there or what to expect.
3. I think the images look a bit silly.
I've went and made some minor edit's to each current SCP's label in they're containment chamber and took in-game screenshots, now I admit I'm not a texture/paint artist myself, but I think we can now or in the future come up with a better/different looking SCP Label too. But here's my image edits in-game:
SCP-173's Containment Chamber:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_1.png
You can get a better effect with 106 + 372:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_4.png
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_2.png
Bonus 079:
http://i336.photobucket.com/albums/n350 ... 8/ev_3.png
Thoughts please??