Poll: killing kids in games. is it so wrong?

[ZaxqZombie]

Ahhh the joys of mods.
Going to Little Lamplight with a Fatman, a Gatling Laser and a Minigun. It feels like Christmas.

OT: I don't think it's wrong wether you can kill children in games or not. They don't exist, and I play games so that I can ignore reality.

damn straight sir!

 

[jobobob]

You kill babies in dead space.

 

[Dancingman]

ESRB won't approve anything in which children are depicted being hurt by the player. Bioshock came about as close as possible.

Oblivion doesn't have children in it for that reason.

Apparently, it's a HUGE issue to the ESRB, but I don't see it as any more reprehensible than killing any other non-combatant. I suppose the easiest way to slide it into a game would be to make a game about the Vietnam War when kids were strapped with bombs and blew up the soldiers who tried to give them candy. Basically, no game professionally released will have child-killing.

Edit: I forgot about the original Fallout, how the hell did Interplay slip that through? I only killed them if they attacked me. Then again, the whole town went berzerk if you killed anyone.

ESRB was nowhere near the Puritanical pain-in-the-ass during Interplay's days than it is now.

 

[WestMountain]

It should be more justified to kill a child than a grown-up because to me they are just blank papers while grown-ups have gone thruogh stuff and have some text on their papers you know :]

 

[ProfessorLayton]

What I feel should be done is that killing a child in a game would be hard. Let's just say they have a lot of protection, and if you do kill one intentionally in cold blood, you would be penalised heavily. Not a fine or crap like that, a permanent loss to the player.

That keeps immersion in the game and teaches the player that killing children is wrong.

So killing children is wrong, but killing adults is ok? I think it's silly. You kill babies in Dead Space, and you can kill little girls in BioShock. I'm at the point where it doesn't really matter anymore who is being murdered, as long as someone is. That was a joke.

 

[ZaxqZombie]

Wish you could in Fable 2 you could kill your wife but no you couldn't kill the kids

Yahtzee pointed that one out in his Fable 2 review

Because they deserve to have a long and fulfilling life?
Also think of the media shitstorm that would happen if a game where you could kill children came out

they're not real. besides its not like i want there to be a game where the object of the game is to murder as many children as possible. its ment in addition to killing adults(which somewhere down the line became perfectly acceptable for some reason)

 

[ZaxqZombie]

It should be more justified to kill a child than a grown-up because to me they are just blank papers while grown-ups have gone thruogh stuff and have some text on their papers you know :]

haha thats right they contribute nothing to society

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Oh, I LOVED that bit in Fallout3! You obliterate an entire town, murder everything you come across for fun, but lo and behold, the little bundles of joy may murder and cannibalize one of their own, but can't be harmed. Talk about immersion breaking bullshit...

Here's my compromise: if a game features an open world (Fallout, Oblivion), there should be children in them. If you kill one, your wanted level (or whatever it happens to be) skyrockets, and nobody wants anything to do with you unless you make some costly amends.

 

[mad825]

I dont see any problems..

OH NOs!

Spoiler

O.O
Binary data have feelings too!, they need rights and protection from us humans to stop killing NPCs in games

[footnote]sorry for my immaturity[/footnote]

 

[Misterian]

Because they deserve to have a long and fulfilling life?
Also think of the media shitstorm that would happen if a game where you could kill children came out

Well, It's as Maiq The lair from Oblivion said: "Maiq thinks children are our future, but they shouldn't ruin our fun." or something like that.

Maybe games allowing the murder of kids might cause a media uproar, maybe it won't, but some game companies simply aren't taking any chances.

 

[Omikron009]

I've never been able to kill kids in any of the games I've played, despite wanting to with a passion. Those bastards in Little Lamplight really got on my nerves.

 

[The Singularity]

Yes, not being able to kill the children in Fallout 3 did really break the immersion. After strip mining Megaton I decided to kill everyone before nuking it. After a large shootout mostly between me and the robot I stood in the middle of town looking for survivors. Hearing noises I chased them and tried to kill them with explosives. Only to discover that it was invincible rats.
And Lamplight was much worse than that, their invincible rats that insult you then shoot you and you can do nothing.
If I was making Fallout 3 I just wouldn't put children in it, I mean they really didn't add much to the experience. Replace Lamplight with a Ghoul town or something. I mean its a nuclear wasteland so it wouldn't be that child friendly, not to mention that everyone would undoubtedly be sterile from all the radiation.

 

[Jark212]

I'd like the ability to kill children in games, like when you beat a game and get board so you go around killing everything in sight...

Killing children (including most other living beings excluding dinner) IRL is seriously messed up, Video games are fictitious, or not real so when your slaughtering Little Lamplight you shouldn't have to feel bad. It sucks something awful and breaks the game for me when children are invincible, Fallout 3 I'm looking at you...

 

[Baldry]

I don't know why, i've killed millions of OAP's and random adults I should be able to kill the youth...but I don't want to kill myself!

 

[ragestreet]

They're fictional so no I don't think it's wrong.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Children are annoying in reality and equally if not more annoying in video games. So we should at least be given the same option to kill them as we have in real life.