Letting children die horribly seems to be the new 'hook'. (Now includes video, due to popular demand
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Depends. Do you want them to die because they're short, thus making you have to aim down to shoot them in the head? If so, then no. (Basically like Oddjob on Goldeneye 64.)Harkonnen64 said:
If you want them to die for any other reason, then...uh...still no.
yeah, i did know that... it's just a pain in the arse. i get lazy, so i prefer to just remove the kids so i don't have to worry about it anymoreFr said:
granted, early in the game you can't really afford enough dynamite to kill all the pickpockets, and later in the game there's much less reason to visit the Den, but still. it was the principle of the matter!
Not quite as annoying as Roman. Speaking of GTA-IV, I wouldn't say killing children is the new in thing until it is revealed that GTA-V will feature a number of mini-games based upon the abduction, ransom and, murder of children.Cookiegerard said:
As I've said in another thread, Dead Space and Dead Space 2 featured creatures that looked and acted more like the infection forms of The Flood from the Halo series (granted they used to be babies but still: the point I made then is that you're not stomping around in a maternity ward)
As for Dead Rising 2...well, I never actually went back into the safe room after I let my ball-N-chain die so for all I know yeah, she did kill off everyone thanks to my neglect. The thing about that one though is, you don't actually see her turn and attack everyone else. Not in the video anyway...dammit, I need to go back and check that out now...this is gonna bug me.
I haven't seen the trailer for Dead Island but I've already seen the pattern: The children in these games are children in horror games. Not (strict)adventure, sci-fi, comedy, platformers, puzzle-games, turn-based RPG, RTS, etc.
I like to think that the horror genre get to take certain liberties. For example, you can kill a child in a horror movie or game due to it's context (or have a child murderer to make said horror venture possibly scarier). You couldn't have a movie or game in which Indiana Jones pushes a kid into an abyss, no matter how many snakes are being thrown at him. You couldn't kill a child in a comedy either (although beating the kid is another story where comedy in concerned).
A cool thing would be to let players kill kids in games. Then in sequels after that, have the kids grow up to be vendors for the best equipment.
Unless you kill them in the previous game of course. In which case, no BFG for you.
People will twiddle the save files, but it would be a neat way to make a point.
Unless you kill them in the previous game of course. In which case, no BFG for you.
People will twiddle the save files, but it would be a neat way to make a point.
Ugh, agreed. I like that they have that. It's so silly that children can't be included in things. At the same time, I hate when games use it as a crutch.Cookiegerard said:
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by and large, yes. If the kids annoying then it's a pro move, if they fall into the cute category then it becomes shady.Cookiegerard said:
Its not a hook; its the reality.
As much as society tries to make children out to be little angels that can do no wrong, in reality many adults see them for what they really are; incompetent, annoying parasites that serve little purpose other than to absorb the resources, time and patience of the adults around them. and have near-perfect immunity from any sort of backlash.
We want to see them die, or at the very least, go away.
As much as society tries to make children out to be little angels that can do no wrong, in reality many adults see them for what they really are; incompetent, annoying parasites that serve little purpose other than to absorb the resources, time and patience of the adults around them. and have near-perfect immunity from any sort of backlash.
We want to see them die, or at the very least, go away.
I didn't. I had the Child at Heart perk, and thus Little Lamplight became my absolute favorite town/item shop/resting place.RollForInitiative said:
Anyways, games are forever trying to shove the envelope. This is the next step.
Make something taboo and it will eventually (re)surface in full force.
Broadcasting standards, mass screen testings etc. have purged American media - and thus the stories told in them - of child deaths/murders for quite a while, so it's only natural that this somewhat unexplored angle will crop up in ways increasingly closer to that actual taboo (that'll probably still net an AO rating if a gameplay mechanic that's outright shown).
Heavy Rain touched upon it, and now it seems more direct use of it is around the corner, which certainly isn't a bad thing, unless it's just slapped on for shock value (and even then it's only bad for the artistically lazy "slapped on" part rather than the "shock" factor).
Broadcasting standards, mass screen testings etc. have purged American media - and thus the stories told in them - of child deaths/murders for quite a while, so it's only natural that this somewhat unexplored angle will crop up in ways increasingly closer to that actual taboo (that'll probably still net an AO rating if a gameplay mechanic that's outright shown).
Heavy Rain touched upon it, and now it seems more direct use of it is around the corner, which certainly isn't a bad thing, unless it's just slapped on for shock value (and even then it's only bad for the artistically lazy "slapped on" part rather than the "shock" factor).
And after that...foursomes with children? (Yeaaaah, I felt wrong even typing that. I apologize. I really do.)lacktheknack said:
Aaaaaanyway, technically, Dog of Raw 3 had a foursome. Well, technically it was just an orgy since it was two groups of two, but hey. Four people involved in sexual acts within very close proximity. That counts, right?