It has to be in a high-profile game. The envelope hasn't been sufficiently shoved if FOX News hasn't talked about it.Kopikatsu said:
Letting children die horribly seems to be the new 'hook'. (Now includes video, due to popular demand
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I agree with this 100%!Paragon Fury said:
Though in Dead Rising 2, if you didn't get the Zombrex, Katey doesn't murder everyone, she just turns and (I'm guessing here) she gets killed by all the other survivors.
As for the topic at hand: Why not have children die, especially in horror games. Horror games are supposed to unnerve and disturb you, if killing kids makes you uncomfortable, then the games succeed.
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Quoted for truth: anyway why is it whenever these threads come up a swarm of child-haters decend on it almost instanteously? No offense anyone but everytime I see a "I hate kids" post I just think "Oh look, another teenager/young adult who hasn't matured enough yet to understand parenting".lacktheknack said:
OT: I'm honestly not sure whether games where killing children by the player is possible should be allowed, on the one hand it's not harming anyone but then on the other hand... I fear for the mental stability of anyone who'd get pleasure out of that sort of thing. I'm OK with the enemies killing children though as that isn't the player doing the deed and so could be used for emotional effect.
It's funny you give this argument without showing the actual video, are you trying to harness the sympathy of people that not yet watching the video?Kopikatsu said:
Tbh, this video is not using a tasteless way to depict the children attacked by zombies, it was a sad reminder that when they have to survive a zombie attack, the possibilities of children get hurt is possible. And it was portrayed nicely, without resorting to "shocking" attempts.
So here the video, let others watch it first and take their own assumption.
its to envoke sadness. in dead space its pretty sad when you realize that all the babies and toddlers have been turned into necromorphs
and in dead rising 2, its a bit sad that his daughter has been bitten by a zombie and he has to do everything he can to keep her from turning
the dead island trailer was extremely saddening
but it was a fantastic trailer
and in dead rising 2, its a bit sad that his daughter has been bitten by a zombie and he has to do everything he can to keep her from turning
the dead island trailer was extremely saddening
but it was a fantastic trailer
Truth.9_6 said:
The whole "we can't kill children" hook was really, really annoying. You see children in games/movies and just know these kids won't die because they are kids. It's unrealistic and annoying. I'm not asking for a game about killing them, but it would be nice to give them the same possibility of death as the other characters for a change.
I never said it was tasteless, nor am I attempting to harness sympathy for...uh...what exactly would I be harnessing sympathy for? A sympathy powered death ray?RollingThunder said:
I'm one of the people who sat there punching kids in the face in Fallout 3, slowly getting more and more pissed off that the little bastard wasn't dying. I even used up my entire supply of mini-nukes trying to kill them.
As I said...it was an awesome trailer. It made me really want to go learn more about the game. (Sadly, most of the things that I found were screenshots with Rick Astley's 'Never gonna give you up' playing in the background.)
Edit: CURSE YOU, YOUTUBE! ONCE AGAIN, YOU HAVE FAILED MEEEEEE!
Too bad this hook didn't exist around the planning stages of Tokyo Mew Mew. A horrible character death would have really spiced it up a little.
Yeah, as I just commented in the other thread, I found it a little disturbing too. But I think it's a good thing. We've been way too overly protective of virtual children. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying those making those trailers and such aren't using it as a marketing hook cause of the shock value, but even so, I think it's good overall that we step over that taboo for the sake of storytelling in general.
I guess it would have been too controversial to animate a zombified little girl? Anyway, in her case, death would be merciful. They Forscythe goes on about how her sister allowed herself to turn because the drug was apparently making her life a misery, Katey would have to deal with that for the rest of her life.RatRace123 said:
...The case west expansion ends with the revelation of a cure, but the twat in charge would prefer to "punish mankind" or some such Wesker-ripoff. You know Capcom.
You can kill a kid who's possessed by a demon. There are other ways, but you can say "fuck it, murder the twerp."
Well, that's alright then, at least put the video so people can view it and give unbiased comments.Kopikatsu said: