I don't see the fun in killing video game children, the adults are already easy as hell to kill so the children...die like bunnies? Now if there was some huge moral reason, or impact to the story throw it in, but just killing weak little kids is pointless.
Poll: killing in-game kids?
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Most everything i have to say has been said, but i may as well throw it in for support.
No i wouldn't specifically kill children if the option was there.
Seeing children survive in the middle of battlefields does annoy me however.
Killing children shouldn't be the focus, merely children should be able to die.
No i wouldn't specifically kill children if the option was there.
Seeing children survive in the middle of battlefields does annoy me however.
Killing children shouldn't be the focus, merely children should be able to die.
Hell yes!
I would just love to cripple the legs of that fucking mayor in fallout 3, laugh as we tries to hobble away then shoot him head
(yes i do realise how insane i sound right now)
I would just love to cripple the legs of that fucking mayor in fallout 3, laugh as we tries to hobble away then shoot him head
(yes i do realise how insane i sound right now)
It's a sticky issue. It's annoying to sweep across a whole town in a sandbox game and then see three kids running around in the middle of a village of death and distruction without a care in the world. Aside from the small amount of annoyance however it doesn't bother me one bit if you can or cannot kill children in games.
It does bother those that are uninitiated in games so to speak. Those that don't understand that being able to, and having an intense desire to, do something in a game are not the same thing. They also don't understand that doing something in a game is not the same as doing something outside of game.
Better solution is to not even bother with children at all. I never even really notice the lack of children unless the game points it out to you.
It does bother those that are uninitiated in games so to speak. Those that don't understand that being able to, and having an intense desire to, do something in a game are not the same thing. They also don't understand that doing something in a game is not the same as doing something outside of game.
Better solution is to not even bother with children at all. I never even really notice the lack of children unless the game points it out to you.
Well if murdering the emperor to please the possessed corpse of an old woman fits into someone's idea of being a hero, then why can't killing a child? I'm confused. You argument seems to be "child killing is upsetting to me, so it shouldn't be in games," but that doesn't sound right. Did you switch sides while I wasn't paying attention? Or was that never your position to begin with?The_root_of_all_evil said:Elric of Melnibone? Prince Corwin of Amber? Rincewind? Moist Von Lipwig? I overstated for a reason."A HERO" means different things to different people - but it's still an "This is me turned up to 11" behind it - usually.
i dont care either way. kid in game or not, kids killable or not, doesnt matter to me.
but i do find it xtremely disturbing when people go out of their way to add killable kids to games. like that skyrim mod. that they want to kill ingame kids thatmuch that they take time away from the game and download a mod.
but i do find it xtremely disturbing when people go out of their way to add killable kids to games. like that skyrim mod. that they want to kill ingame kids thatmuch that they take time away from the game and download a mod.
I enjoy freedom in games and I like the idea of letting you kill everything. I just wish that games like Fallout and Skyrim which explicitly contain unkillable children would give you the option because quite frankly, it breaks the immersion and those kids are really really annoying.
They should be as killable as any other NPC. Personally, I would never, ever harm a video game child unless it was a COMPLETE asshole, like Mayor McCreedy or any kid in Skyrim that says "Oh, another adventurer come to lick my father's boots?" just like how I don't kill regular NPCs unless they attack me first or downright deserve it.
Or they're a completely blank slate. Then they're just a nonsentient robot.
Or they're a completely blank slate. Then they're just a nonsentient robot.
How did you get yours? (Legit question.)Fawxy said:
Good Example Of Child Killing: Open world games like Fallout/Skyrim, where you should be able to kill everyone you want to.
Bad Example Of Child Killing: Dead Space. The Pack is at least justified by the fact that you're in a residential space station, I can accept that. Lurkers I can accept, they're creepy space zombies that just happen to be babies. Crawlers are just sick. For the uninitiated, Crawlers are suicide bomber baby zombies. It's like they were trying to offend people.
Cherubs in Doom 3 were similar, but they were at least oversized and part insect, and they dissolved on death meaning that they were demons and not actual babies. Plus, they sounded creepy as all hell.
Little Sisters in Bioshock are possibly the best example of child killing, with actual morality tied to it.
The offense people take to killing children in games has always been kind of baffling to me, personally. It's just such an arbitrary thing. It's only a game. You're not killing an actual person, you're "killing" a collection of ones and zeros that looks like a person and anyone who can't tell the difference needs to seriously consider the state of their mental health.
I'm all for killing kids in certain games like Skyrim or Fallout but I just gotta say I really hate the it's just pixels arguments, there is a point in any media when a character becomes real to the viewer/player/reader and I think the it's just pixel thing fails to recognize the experiences that games are willing to give and insult writers and others that worked on the project. If we really believed games were nothing but pixels would we be spending are time discussing them?
Yeah, I love how people focus on a Skyrim mod, when there's stuff like this:Zero=Interrupt said:
I loved Drakengard, Nier, all of those, and the thing about this (and the Skyrim mod) is that ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE OPTIONAL.
Drakengard? It's a sidequest
Skyrim? You can just not attack the kids
Fallout? You CAN kill kids, but the Childkiller trait is very, very bad and makes the game quite a bit harder.
So I like the option of having killable kids in my games, but if they're gonna be involved, they deserve to be killable, otherwise they're an annoyance (like Little Lamplight)
for me it is fable 2 that comes to mind, I the main character is allowed to be shot out of a window as a child, but i am not allowed to attack children let alone my own kids. i found that strange and mildly upsetting...so i took it out on the wife (in game).