Poll: Where do you draw the line?
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It's a game. I can kill anyone and anything. Drawing arbitrary lines in the sand just feels stupid.
That said, even though I can kill anyone or anything, I rarely do if I am presented with the opportunity.
(I kill things by accident sometimes, which is annoying.)
I get the odd impulse to go on an insane killing spree if a game will let me, or purposely do things the game mechanics imply are bad...
But that feeling doesn't usually last beyond a few minutes, at which point I go back to being almost obnoxiously good.
I remember games where you have the option of knocking out, rather than killing your enemies...
I did that too just for the fun of it, a lot of the time.
Thing is, it's not real. And I don't see what's so horrible about killing a fake depiction of a child compared to killing a fake depiction of an adult.
It's still killing. (And I don't really get the mentality anyway. Aside from the fact that most kids are defenseless compared to adults, and it's messed up harming people who don't stand much of a chance of defending themselves, I don't really see it as being any different.)
That said, even though I can kill anyone or anything, I rarely do if I am presented with the opportunity.
(I kill things by accident sometimes, which is annoying.)
I get the odd impulse to go on an insane killing spree if a game will let me, or purposely do things the game mechanics imply are bad...
But that feeling doesn't usually last beyond a few minutes, at which point I go back to being almost obnoxiously good.
I remember games where you have the option of knocking out, rather than killing your enemies...
I did that too just for the fun of it, a lot of the time.
Thing is, it's not real. And I don't see what's so horrible about killing a fake depiction of a child compared to killing a fake depiction of an adult.
It's still killing. (And I don't really get the mentality anyway. Aside from the fact that most kids are defenseless compared to adults, and it's messed up harming people who don't stand much of a chance of defending themselves, I don't really see it as being any different.)
The only problem I ever have is say when you kill a dog, that little yelp noise they make. Doesn't last long though. Little fuckers grouping up on me on WaW...
I'll usually avoid pointless killing whenever I can.
The exceptions being a few GTA rampages and I don't save when doing those. Slaughtering nearly all of Bravil in Oblivion on one of my characters, but I haven't touched that character in a couple of years. Also Twisted Metal Black, but it's nearly impossible NOT to run people over in that game.
Literally, I will do my best to actually avoid pedestrians in sandbox games like GTA4 and Just Cause 2. I'm not kidding.
The exceptions being a few GTA rampages and I don't save when doing those. Slaughtering nearly all of Bravil in Oblivion on one of my characters, but I haven't touched that character in a couple of years. Also Twisted Metal Black, but it's nearly impossible NOT to run people over in that game.
Literally, I will do my best to actually avoid pedestrians in sandbox games like GTA4 and Just Cause 2. I'm not kidding.
Depends on the game really, when I'm playing GTA IV half the fun comes from running over old women, shooting down news helicopters, and beating up taxi drivers.
If I'm playing a game like Fallout New Vegas and I'm trying to be the Jesus of the Mojave I tend to only kill the heathen raiders.
If I'm playing a game like Fallout New Vegas and I'm trying to be the Jesus of the Mojave I tend to only kill the heathen raiders.
Can't kill innocents for me.
The only times I do is whenever I try to play a new playthrough as an evil character.This being the only exception.
The only times I do is whenever I try to play a new playthrough as an evil character.This being the only exception.
I kill everyone and everything, even occasionally killing trees in crysis with my bare fists... nothing like running around shooting rats, crabs, turtles, dogs, childeren, innocents and enemys alike. Cats are about the only one i will think twice about, but the answer will come down to, why the hell not?
I'll generally kill anyone or anything that's hostile. However when it comes to RPGs like Fallout or Oblivion where I have some discretion, I try to avoid killing innocent people and creatures that aren't hostile; although I will if I absolutely have to. For example in the original Fallout there's these assasination missions you can take from this guy in the Hub and one of them invovles killing the leader of the local Children of the Cathedral Temple and any witnesses (which means anyone in the place at the time, which inc. a kid). Now I always take these missions because money is hard to come by that early in the game and legit methods of making money take too long and you have a time limit (150 in-game days).
I can't kill dogs or cats but the airport level of Mordern Warfare 2 is one of my favorite levels ever. Also I did mod Fallout 3 so I could off those kids in little lamplight, they were just too annoying.
I can never bring myself to kill Waddle Dees in Kirby's Epic Yarn. They've never particularity been all that threatening before, but in Epic Yarn they cover their faces in fear when you're in the UFO, and there's a couple of them sitting under a tree in the first level with beads in a heart shape over their heads. They're completely harmless, (though so is everything in that game) and it feels wrong to kill them. When I do have to get a Waddle Dee out of my way, I twirl them up, then set the ball back down on the ground behind me.