Should you be allowed to hurt/kill kids in video games?

[Paragon Fury]

I don't think so. It serves absolutely no purpose than to be utterly sadistic and sick for your own amusement.

It needs to be in the game.

I need to be able to kill that little brat from Mothership Zeta.

 

[theultimateend]

Out of curiosity, why would they?

If they make it so you can murder children, their game will get a higher rating, a lot of complaints, and so on and so forth in that fashion.

Is it really necessary to be able to kill a child in a game? It makes more hassle for the game developers, the retail stores where the games are sold, and the parents who SHOULD be paying attention to what their kids are playing.

Is any feature in a game really necessary?

Nope. You want it to sell, you add in shiny gimmicky shit.

The ability to kill children would create a huge controversy and probably help the game sell for a short while, but I think it'd be more hassle than it's worth. They should just remove kids from games altogether.

Rarely do these games actually create controversy. A few news stations say they do, most people don't care, and it all cools down.

There are a few small exceptions but even those required a few anal people to pester the ever loving shit out of law makers.

I just don't see how this is any less gimmicky then letting you do just about anything else besides bouncing a ball between two plungers (which is itself gimmicky).

Edit: But to each their own. I'm not here to push my big throbbing views into your warm wet mind.

 

[GrimTuesday]

Well everybody knows that people are actually invincible up until their 18th birthday.

come on its ridicules not to let us kill children or at the very least let us hurt them especially in Fable which is all about "choice", well then my choice is to kill children and therein become the most evil SOB ever by killing children. It would just make me happy and besides they respwan every ten minute

 

[theultimateend]

On a side note. Just because you CAN kill someone in a game doesn't mean you must.

I used to try and drive around legitly in GTA for shits and giggles. I looked at it as a challenge .

 

[Space Spoons]

I think you should be allowed to, yes. On the coldly logical side of things, a child's life shouldn't have any more value than that of an adult's, and therefore they shouldn't be exempted from the colorful experience of being run over in Grand Theft Auto.

 

[A.A.K]

yes. i hate kids. and in games, theyre even worse. and since i cant kill kids because a life sentence in jail isnt particularly entertaining, its much better to do it in games...

and i was pissed off in FO3 that you couldnt kill kids...
but we made a mod so we could...next time Bryan Wilkes complains about his dad-he gets a face full of lead...hehehe

 

[Sanguinius- The Angel]

Yes. And for the simple reason that Children are 'worth' no more than a normal person. People always get so high strung if something happens to a child, but if it's to a grown person, the care is much less.

So, in shorter words.. Yes, it should be allowed.

Edit: Ninja'd.

 

[JaredXE]

I'll go further. You should be able to rape, kill, explode, steal, and/or torture whatever pixels you want in a video game as long as it's developed as such.


I have trust in the human race that we understand the difference from fantasy and reality.

Billions of people believe that there is an invisible man who lives in the clouds...... don't expect much from humans.


That said, yeah, allow kids to die in games. They aren't sacrosanct. Kids get killed all the time: drive-bys, war, poverty, disease, human sacrifice.....so digital recreations of little people now suddenly are exempt from death? Doesn't make much sense to me.

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Yea you should, I normally play good characters in choice games but I still say yes.

 

[Cliff_m85]

I'll go further. You should be able to rape, kill, explode, steal, and/or torture whatever pixels you want in a video game as long as it's developed as such.


I have trust in the human race that we understand the difference from fantasy and reality.

Billions of humans believe that there is an invisible man who lives in the clouds...... don't expect much from people.


That said, yeah, allow kids to die in games. They aren't sacrosanct. Kids get killed all the time: drive-bys, war, poverty, disease, human sacrifice.....so digital recreations of little people now suddenly are exempt from death? Doesn't make much sense to me.

True, but I think more people are likely to do something evil in the name of religion than do evil in the name of pixels.

 

[Maze1125]

If a game is about freedom to do what you want, including killing who you want and that game has children in it, then yes, you should be able to kill them too.

If they make it so you can murder children, their game will get a higher rating, a lot of complaints, and so on and so forth in that fashion.

Both Deus Ex games disagree with you.

 

[klakkat]

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to. If the developers want, they can always include harsh consequences (a la Fallout 2). If you're going to let the character be completely evil, I don't see how killing a kid is THAT much worse than killing an innocent adult, yet the later is almost always allowed in "moral choice" games.

 

[Emphraim]

I oppose any and all censoring in video games so yes you should be able to kill kids in videogames. What's the difference between killing a pixel representation of kids and a pixel representation of adults?

 

[Sanguinius- The Angel]

Yes. And for the simple reason that Children are 'worth' no more than a normal person. People always get so high strung if something happens to a child, but if it's to a grown person, the care is much less.

So, in shorter words.. Yes, it should be allowed.

Edit: Ninja'd.

Don't get me started! "they had so much to live for!" It wrecks my head, a life is a life no matter the age.

Exactly, finally, someone who gets it. A child has the exact same potential as say, a 30 year old man, to cure cancer. So what makes the kid so special? He's young? So what. I realize this sounds cold, but really, get over it. >.>

 

[Undeed]

Okay, philosophy time:

People need to be able to put whatever they want in games, simple as that. It's a matter of free speech and censorship. People don't seem to want to put child killing in games, and I'm inclined to agree, but any sensible adult is able to tell reality from entertainment. Any insensible adult will reveal themselves as such in short order and be removed to a special facility. It's exactly the same as the rape game discussion: Both are horrible acts. This doesn't mean that they shouldn't be in games, lesser evils such as regular murder, burglary, and theft are regular staples in games and even films. It means consumers should know that these acts are in the game before they buy it, but they should be informed about any game they buy in the first place by the ESRB at least. If there is an audience, the genre of games so realistic you can kill children will succed but we will only be able to tell after the controversy has ended and the novelty worn off.

In short: Let people make and sell whatever they want. Buy what you like. Don't buy what you don't like. Whatever succeds is acceptable at large, and whatever fails was too outrageous to consider. Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[Danny Skonez]

Until I'm allowed to cut off their ears and nail themto my sheild, or sever the head/kidney for a hat I must say no. Why would you want to, hell killing in some games is fun, but killing kids it's not that it's moraley wrong or sanity wrong, it's jsut well it's simply just wrong. There is no need to go and slaughter an elementary school or even a random kid. Im not saying killing in video games shouldn't be allowed i mean hell it was the best part of fallout 3. Also can you imagine the step anti video game activists would get if devs allowed you to kill kids? No one wants that.