Poll: How many people do you think you killed?

[Baldry]

I've been gaming since I was 3...I've probably killed too many people to count so I'll assume the highest amount from the given list and return to murdering all who oppose me.

 

[TecnoMonkey]

Well, I'm the kind of gamer that kills only if provoked, but if we are counting deaths that were originated from story choices, like for example the Dark Age ending from Deus Ex, I've probably reached 1 billion kills a long time ago.

 

[Radoh]

Well it depends on what we count. Directly killed ourselves? I'd say around three hundred thousand.
If we count indirect kills, like allowing a cruise liner to be destroyed in Double Agent, then about forty million.
All kills, both be it monsters, indirect kills, direct kills and the Total War games, several hundred million.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I used to play DEFCON, and that's global thermonuclear war so in the Billions. Factor in the 4X space games wheree you could destroy planets... Yeah LOTS of virtual people have died at my hands.

In my defence they were all dicks. I still don't understand why the Federation declared war on me that time in Birth of the Federation I feel justified in bombing the planet from orbit.

 

[Sombra Negra]

played sins, several civ games, defcon, hearts of iron (Nazism! yay!) and various others. couple of billion in this case (don't forget you bomb planets to remove the entire population in sins). if you want my personal count, then i'd imagine 10,000-100,000. dropped a few thousand in TF2 alone, i'm sure.

 

[blackrave]

Well, plenty, back in RTS and 4X days
Now I mostly stick to RPG and FPS games, so less

In Spore I went on killing spree on Grox
Cleared ~2/3 of their colonies (took me 6 months of intensive gaming)
I think that alone is around 1 billion

captcha: more better
Well, if you're talking about body count then yes, more is always better

 

[Iron Criterion]

I've been gaming for almost twenty years, with my preferred genres being: FPS, ARPG and RTS, I'd say that I've clocked up a good number of kills. In Skyrim I had killed 300ish people just on my serial killer playthrough. So yeah, I'm going with a lot, somewhere around 100,000 to 1,000,000.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Well, I've played a lot of Dawn of War, Total War and Civilisation: Revolution (In which I followed the policy of 'the fuck is diplomacy?'), so that's a few dozen continents worth of people.
Then there's every CoD/Battlefield/Generic Brown Shooter game I've played, plus Borderlands 1&2 and all the Halos.
And Final Fantasy 7,8,10,1-2,12 and 13 pushes it up higher.
Then, onto RPGs. Demon's Souls, Oblivion (+both expansions), Skyrim, Deus Ex: HR, Prototype, Fallout 3, FO:NV, Fable 2/3, Dragon Age: Origins/2...

I've probably committed apocalyptic genocide a few dozen times over.
And I liked it.

 

[Whoatemysupper]

If you play Civ V, think of this: Based on the demographics page,you can easily work out that each unit of population in a city is 300,000 people. Nukes + Me = easily over a billion. I think each nuke strike is at least 900,000 peeps.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Oh shit, with all the American paratroopers that mindlessly paradropped onto my base in Red Alert 2 skimishes only to get massacred by my defenses, I couldn't even begin to guess. Gotta be in the millions anyway.

Edit:

If you play Civ V, think of this: Based on the demographics page,you can easily work out that each unit of population in a city is 300,000 people. Nukes + Me = easily over a billion. I think each nuke strike is at least 900,000 peeps.

Crap, I never thought of that. Of course I don't like to use Nukes, I prefer to use the Giant Death Robot. Much more fun. Anyway I suppose that puts my kill count up into the billions, possibly the 10's of billions.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Easily over 30 billion. All thanks to Plague Inc.
Although I may have played other mass murder games, but I can't remember.

 

[Random berk]

Jesus, I don't know. If we're strictly going with humans that I've personally shot, stabbed, poisoned, blown up, run over, consumed, elbow dropped from a skyscraper, beaten to death with a flying cow etc... I'd still say over 100,000. I would instantly count Mass Effect, because Turians and Krogan are people too, by video game rules... adding zombies, robots, Locust, Uruk-Hai and similar monsters slaughtered by troops under my command, would surely bring the count close to a million. Include flash games like Pandemic 1 & 2 in that, and I've committed crimes against nature that I can't even begin to comprehend. I've probably wiped out enough people to impress an entire Warhammer 40K faction.


And to think, I'd most likely be considered Lawful Good...

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Well, in Sword of The Stars I've wiped out several planets, for example, so I'm pretty sure my kill count is way over a billion.

 

[Random berk]

I don't think many of you truly grasp how large of a number 1 billion is. You are not going to get a count in the billions just by playing FPS games, or hell, even games like Starcraft.


That being said, you can kill a lot of people in games like Pandemic and Total War.

Honestly, even in Total War (or at least the ones I've played) a seriously epic battle would only allow about 1500 soldiers on either side. Unless the more recent ones have far greater numbers, or someone plays a whole lot of different campaigns, taking over the whole world, then I can't see it accounting for more than a million kills, maybe two. Pandemic on the other hand, has you literally killing billions per playthrough without even doing anything, even if you don't do that well. I've got it on in the background right now, and the disease is probably going continental without me even watching what's happening.

 

[Winthrop]

Medieval Total War. Kill ALL the peasants.

But yeah seriously between Dynasty Warriors, Total War, and Dungeon Defenders (Got it the other day, but every game it seems like I get at least 1000 kills) I've gotten a huge amount of kills. Throw in other games and I'm sure it would break a billion.

EDIT: Forgot about pandemic until I saw others mention it. That accounts for ridiculous numbers of game deaths.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Well my GTA rampages, constant Hotline Miami retries, Saints Row and Painkiller probably get me towards the late Hundreds of Thousands plus Sins of a Solar Empire in which I kill planets and Total War in which I kill countries as well as several other games I'd asy withing the 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 area...

 

[Something Amyss]

I've destroyed whole planets. That's got to be in the billions right there.

 

[Random berk]

I don't think many of you truly grasp how large of a number 1 billion is. You are not going to get a count in the billions just by playing FPS games, or hell, even games like Starcraft.


That being said, you can kill a lot of people in games like Pandemic and Total War.

Honestly, even in Total War (or at least the ones I've played) a seriously epic battle would only allow about 1500 soldiers on either side. Unless the more recent ones have far greater numbers, or someone plays a whole lot of different campaigns, taking over the whole world, then I can't see it accounting for more than a million kills, maybe two. Pandemic on the other hand, has you literally killing billions per playthrough without even doing anything, even if you don't do that well. I've got it on in the background right now, and the disease is probably going continental without me even watching what's happening.

I'm referring to your ability to massacre the populace of a city you've conquered. The number can eventually add up, especially if you play all the way to the late-game in most of your campaigns.

Ah, good point. I mostly occupied or enslaved the populations, unless morale was low enough to cause a serious riot risk at the front lines, in which case I would cull the population as a deterrent. Happened more and more often in the Roman campaign where I pretty much took the whole map, until a massive resource deficit meant that the rebels and Egyptian holdouts managed to start driving me back.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Xenocide is my default strategy in all space 4x games.

So, numbers beyond possible count.

 

[Darknacht]

In some games I kill billions in a single game, this poll needs bigger numbers.