I just read something about it and I was wondering what the general opinion is about putting kids and animals in the next GTA, is it going to be good or bad? What do you guys think?
Children and/or Animals in the next GTA?
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Eh?
If they put animals in the next GTA game, I'll do whatever it takes to protect any cats.
As for children, hooray for knee-high meat-shields!
Uh, I mean...
This could end badly. Children in GTA games.
*Starts making plans for mini-meat shields*
If they put animals in the next GTA game, I'll do whatever it takes to protect any cats.
As for children, hooray for knee-high meat-shields!
Uh, I mean...
This could end badly. Children in GTA games.
*Starts making plans for mini-meat shields*
Eh, I doubt it'd make much difference to the actual gameplay, cosmetically, well, it'd make it seem more "Real".
Would the advantages be worth the overblown media circus?
Probably not, to be honest.
Would the advantages be worth the overblown media circus?
Probably not, to be honest.
The advantages would obviously be to make the game more realistic. I think that the media would start a full-throttle hatecampaign if rockstar would put animals and children in though.
IMO animals would be awesome, police dogs, wild animals in the woods, maybe a mission where you can release a bull in the city or something...
Children would go a bit too far though, but I can imagine that there are some weird people wanting to start school-shootouts or something... xD
On the other hand, in GTA IV you could already get into the hospital, maybe they will take it to the next level... Who knows?
IMO animals would be awesome, police dogs, wild animals in the woods, maybe a mission where you can release a bull in the city or something...
Children would go a bit too far though, but I can imagine that there are some weird people wanting to start school-shootouts or something... xD
On the other hand, in GTA IV you could already get into the hospital, maybe they will take it to the next level... Who knows?
This is exactly how I feel.Greyfox105 said:
Thhough if played right (IE: not like the tsaliban MOH and six days in fa;juah thing), I can see this a good thing,.
I'd quite happily go on an in-game school shootout but then again I also know they are only pixels of colour and not real.TenaciousTom said:
I'm also of the opinion that games don't make you a killer you are either already fucked in the head or you aren't and so killing 'kids' or anyone else for that matter ingame isn't going to make me do it in real life!
Case in point.....I've been playing games for at least 15 years many of those years I've been killing various things yet I have no desire to kill things in real life on a regular basis*!
*I squash the occasional spider as I have a huge phobia of them and kill fish when I catch them on the odd occasions I go fishing.
Honestly, it'd be funny to run over children. I wouldn't hurt animals unless they were violent back. I'm fine with children being slaughtered, but not animals.
You made me think of this, haha.
<youtube=TQKk99I3wTQ>BelfastSpartan said:
You made me think of this, haha.
I have to say that I'm lukewarm to the subject of kids in video games, especially in violent ones. They do not really add anything except cosmetics. I do not think anyone who goes on a murder spree in GTA would actually care if the target were grown ups or kids(I certainly wouldn't). Heck, they might even add some mini games involving children, or do the whole "lone wolf and cub"-thing and make you raise your own little snot machine. But honestly, I don't think the world is yet ready for something like that.
But on the other hand, IF Rockstar does include kids in the new GTA and IF they cave under the pressure of mass media, they could just slap some bears on the little things and call them midgets.
Because it's apparently all right to kill grown ups in video games these day, but not kids. Anyone wish to shed some light on this subject for me?
But on the other hand, IF Rockstar does include kids in the new GTA and IF they cave under the pressure of mass media, they could just slap some bears on the little things and call them midgets.
Because it's apparently all right to kill grown ups in video games these day, but not kids. Anyone wish to shed some light on this subject for me?
Police (/military) dogs are already in quite a lot of games without too big of an uproar and Fable lets you boot chickens about and shoot rabbits (even gives you achievements for both in Fable 2) so I doubt animals would be a big thing. Unless it featured dismemberment physics, I can imagine the media getting upitty about the remains of a horse wrapped both around and inside some humvee's grill.
Speaking of the media getting upitty: children. GTA gets enough stick for what it is and lets people do, and while I think taking a camper van through a pedestrian precinct at 90mph in GTA IV a great way of blowing off steam, certain ratings boards - and more importently certain polititions who believe that govornment censorship for people's own good is a good thing - would disagree. Would I love to see children in game for the few brief seconds before my bonnet launches them into the air to land crippled and in agony twenty feet behind my uncaring car? Yes. And for that exact sentance, they're not geting in. Doesn't matter that they're just pixels; the backlash against Rockstar would be too violent (massive irony). The publicity would probably actually increase sales yet the shareholders would get panicky and force them to take the kids out.
Actually, speaking of kids, did you know they were planned for San Andreas? Yeah, that didn't last long into development. Though having said that skateboards were also cut from the game relativly early so it could have just been time constraints. And Valve could release Ep3 tomorrow.
Speaking of the media getting upitty: children. GTA gets enough stick for what it is and lets people do, and while I think taking a camper van through a pedestrian precinct at 90mph in GTA IV a great way of blowing off steam, certain ratings boards - and more importently certain polititions who believe that govornment censorship for people's own good is a good thing - would disagree. Would I love to see children in game for the few brief seconds before my bonnet launches them into the air to land crippled and in agony twenty feet behind my uncaring car? Yes. And for that exact sentance, they're not geting in. Doesn't matter that they're just pixels; the backlash against Rockstar would be too violent (massive irony). The publicity would probably actually increase sales yet the shareholders would get panicky and force them to take the kids out.
Actually, speaking of kids, did you know they were planned for San Andreas? Yeah, that didn't last long into development. Though having said that skateboards were also cut from the game relativly early so it could have just been time constraints. And Valve could release Ep3 tomorrow.
TenaciousTom said:
O_O....really? Children?....innocent children? and Animals?
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Yea in Oblivion you can kill deer and other wildlife, as you can in many, many other games. I don't think animals would cause a big fuss.
Indeed, all the Hillary Clinton/Jack Thompson kinda people will have even more arguments to take the franchise down...
Well I don't know if I'd approve of animals, I'd hate to think of a bunch of defensless puppies and kitties getting hurt.
Children? Hell yeah, I wanna the shoot the little bastards!
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Children? Hell yeah, I wanna the shoot the little bastards!
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Pet kitten.TenaciousTom said:
Need I say more?
Eh, on the children part... dunno. If they are going to add that, I imagine it'll be little more than a controversy advertising thing. "omg child murder simulator!!!", anyone?