Poll: Where do you draw the line?

[viranimus]

Kill them all. They are simulated texture wrapped wire frames who exist for absolutely no other reason than for your entertainment, so without hesitation do without boundary absolutely any thing that passes through your mind with no qualms. No dog, No baby, no mass genocide too great.

However I do typically have trouble killing kittehs in games.

 

[Couch Radish]

Pfft please. Until they actually make me CARE about an in game character, I'll kill whatever.

Pretty much this.

 

[redisforever]

I can't kill people that look like people I know, and like.

Example: Tessio, in the Godfather game. He looks like my grandfather, and I really like his character. When you have to kill him, it was quite hard for me to do.

 

[VampSlayer]

I'm kinda a bad person in that I would kill just about anyone or anything in a game given the chance. I may even go out of my way to do it. One of my files in FO3 was populated almost entirely by children and mutated beasts.

 

[Post Tenebrae Morte]

Can't kill the innocent myself. I'm just not the type of person who derives mindless joy, even if the person is virtual and composed of 0's and 1's, from killing a person who has not done anything wrong. It especially bugs me if I kill someone beforehand, only to learn later on that they were framed or such.

~Efrit

 

[thelonewolf266]

Well considering they are not real I'll kill them all though I do feel uncomfortable killing animals sometimes.

 

[Aprilgold]

Kids and animals, I don't care if its mutated, I'm doing the mutated animals a favor. And with kids, has to be a living, breathing human kid, so robot, mutated or zombie kids loser their face, while the normal human ones live.

 

[TheDooD]

Shoot the past, Kill the Future

 

[Littlee300]

Depends on my mood.

Although if I am deeply immersed in the game then I won't kill innocents.

 

[an874]

I have no problem killing anything in front of me in a game because, no matter what anyone says about how they try to role play or whatever, who you are in a game is fairly different from who you are in real life. In real life I couldn't kill kids or dogs, but I've killed the later in Call of Duty and the former in Bioshock. You're playing as a character, not yourself, since it is (in my opinion) impossible to properly recreate yourself in even the best rpg ever, much less a shooter. Incidentally, this is why I had no trouble playing as a female in Mass Effect despite being a guy.

 

[Jegsimmons]

if they look at me wrong...shoot em.
if they scream in my enemies language...shoot em again.

 

[l3o2828]

It depends really.
If the dogs are skinless zombie dogs then i CAN kill them, but usually if the animal is a likeable one i feel awkard killing them.
i COULD kill children, but it also would feel weird if they were innocent ones and not demon children from silent hill...

 

[Lukirre]

I wish I could kill kids in games.
Tell me those little shits in little lamplight didn't deserve it.

They did.

I tried.

I tried everything.

In my opinion, you should be able to kill whatever you want. I personally won't draw the line anywhere until I start getting into character.

 

[kasperbbs]

I don't care, it's not real, one push of a button and that npc would be 'alive' again. But i don't usually kill harmless npc's in games, unless they annoy me (musicians from AC2 would be a good example). I never nuked Megaton in FO3, but i hated the fact that those brats in little lamp town (or w/e it was called) were immortal.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I'm against violence, but I have no problem with it at all in games. It's not real. And yeah, I think games should just allow you to kill whatever you feel like killing in the sorts of games that allow you to kill things. If you don't like killing, don't play the game. Simples.
It's annoying to say the least when you try to turn places into ghost towns in Fallout 3 and the likes, only to have kids running about moaning at you for killing their parents. Kind of spoils roleplaying. A lot.
I tried to play as a serial killer in Fallout 3 a while ago, then decided to turn Megaton into my base of sorts. But nooooo. The snot machines have to run around stealing my fun, despite how many times I plunged my fists into their faces.

 

[GodofCider]

Circumstantially based, but in general there is not a limit.

In Halo I find myself taking out platoons of Unggoy while they run screaming for their lives; on occasion walking them down into a choke and crushing their heads while they cower in terror.

Whereas in Fable I'll not even consider aggression towards anyone that is not attacking me; in so far as the situation allows.

In Minecraft I'll not think twice about knocking a sheep off a cliff; as it not only poses the risk of pushing me off, but more so that it is simply a dumb program. Of course, conversely one could argue something similar about biological life to a degree...

And in Starcraft II we'll see a bloody bath of death and carnage on both sides, where a primary goal of mine is to minimize losses on my side; not only in effort to assist in victory, but more that I do not want to see my units needlessly die. When the situation permitted I've gone so far as to transfuse hydralisks.

Incidentally, this is why I had no trouble playing as a female in Mass Effect despite being a guy.

More often than not, I've found myself playing as a female character. Usually based upon what I find to be aesthetically appealing in whatever game I find myself in. Mass Effect is a great example of this, where I think the males looked terrible I strongly favored playing female.

Of course, ironically my sexual preferences do not change in game, regardless of my characters gender; and so Shepard for me has always been in same sex relationships: enter the recent rabid rage of a proposed 'gay' male Shepard.

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

 

[Kopikatsu]

In video games? I can and will kill EVERYTHING.

In real life? I wouldn't hurt a fly. Honestly. I leave them to buzz their buzz.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I wouldn't generally kill children or anyone innocent which goes for animals too. That's only because it's unnecessary though, if a kitten started biting me then I'd try to get it off and ultimately put it down if I had to. I still like having the choice - it pisses me off when I can't kill a child in a game regardless of if I want to or not. Without that kind of choice, my morals are meaningless.

 

[viking97]

i was pretty pissed when my plasma rifle bursts just went through those little cannibal children in andale.
up until then i hadn't wanted to attack any kids in the game, but i wanted to fucking ERASE that town.
so ya i voted kill them all.

i played no russian, and my biggest gripe was my terrorist buddies kept getting in the way of my assault rifle then turning on me. i might have problems >__>