Poll: Gritty realism... without killer children?

[Shaves with a machete]

I'm still waiting for a game where you can kill children.

For what reason? If all you're looking for is a game that allows you to do that, well, then you might be able to find one (I did mention one in my last post).

I wonder how a game would play out if it transpired that the principal antagonist (and therefore, the person who's ultimate goal of yours it is to take down) is actually a child. Would be interesting to get to the end of say, an FPS, and find that after stocking up on ammo, health and fighting your way to the final showdown, you're confronted by nothing more than an otherwise helpless child, but not deny you the opportunity to gun them down. Would be a real kick in the teeth for those awaiting some epic final battle for sure, but would be interesting how people would act on that, I think.

That does sound rather jarring, yet the child would be the master mind behind the whole game right? So he would be a antagonist?

 

[MarsProbe]

That does sound rather jarring, yet the child would be the master mind behind the whole game right? So he would be a antagonist?

Yeh, that would be the general idea. Perhaps even have them confined to a hospital bed and hooked up life support. They would of course still be a real nasty piece of work and the cause of all your problems, but would you really feel proud at cutting off some terminally ill kid's life support to "win" the game?

 

[Tonimata]

Just for the sake of making games about other thing than american dudes, YES! BRING THE WOMEN. MARINES ARE NO LONGER SEXUALLY APPEALING, NO MATTER HOW AWESOME THEY ARE!

 

[742]

well... lets just say im VERY glad the elder scrolls games dont have kids in them. but murdering children in bioshock? yeah, why not? child soldiers trying to kill you in africa; i see no problem with that being included in a game. and people trying to criticize it: "OUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO DO DRUGS, FLY TO AFRICA, AND START SHOOTING EACH OTHER IF THEY PLAY THIS GAME!"

i do however have a problem with developers using children as tear jerkers, im fucking tired of it, i honestly dont care if NPC#9807431534's kid died. that does not make me empathize with the character, it makes me want to call the cliche police on the writers. i think kids in video games should be used responsibly, like elderly mentors and people with red shirts. the protagonists parents are killed in front of them as a child, again, i call the cliche police, who in turn call in the national cliche guard.

as for women in games... do not belong in games about the crusades, but "OMG THAT SPACE MARINE I JUST KILLED HAD BOOBS! WRONG! EVIL EVIL! but those other 5 didnt, so that was ok" if you think like that, please kill yourself. twice if possible.

either way though, something like a real war where everyone COULD be shooting at you might make a good scary game. i know ide play.