Poll: SPOILERS Dead Space 2 has gone too far.

[GiglameshSoulEater]

That part is a perfect example of why the inability to kill kids in RPGs like Fallout 3/New Vegas, Oblivion and Fable 1/2/3 is completely idiotic. So exploding babies is fine, (and fun) but killing a 10 year old kid is off limits?

Anyway, to the OP: Apparently it wasn't THAT bad as you could have just turned off the game when the first baby appeared, but to each in his own I guess.

I always thought for Fallout 3 (The Pitt expansion), you so should get the third option of eating the baby and absorbing its powers - otherwise its just either one dick in charge or another. That would give it true choices!

OT: As many have said: Lurkers.
Look 'em up.

 

[Atmos Duality]

If that imagery disturbs you, then I kindly suggest to better seperate fiction from reality.
Trying to use video games as a morality barometer is pointless, because you aren't thinking with the same mindset/logic while gaming that you do in real life (suspension of disbelief, anyone?)

 

[Pandaman1911]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there feral fetal frightening monstrosities in Dead Space 1? The little things that crawled around and jumped all over the place and had tentacles that basically looked like Link's hookshot from hell?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Er...the part I find most disturbing was actually in Dead Space. Finding the babies that are still human, floating in the vats. They are still alive. They are moving and wiggling around, completely oblivious and content. Knowing that there's nothing you can do to save from what is certain to happen to them is was gets me.

 

[Wintermoot]

I gues that,s what thye call dead baby humor YEEEEEEAH!!!!!!!!!!
pun humor aside
its their game and they decide what,s okay its not intended for people who cant handle it (conservative moms and kids)

 

[witheringsanity]

you're not killing them, they're already dead

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

The game isn't trying to offend anyone (intentionally) and it isn't just doing this because it thinks this is funny. It's trying to be scary, if you don't think the concept of a dark nursery filled with crying that just suddenly stops and now it sounds a little like laughing and there's this little tapping noise coming from behind you is scary, then why are you criticizing a game you made, EA game drone 372?

It's just a shame that Dead Space knows how to do horror the same why I know how to please a woman.....I'm so lonely ;_;

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

The part where you see the first exploding baby hug the woman almost made me cry with laughter. But maybe i'm just a little sick.

Anyway, killing the children seems more like a favour than anything else, when you play the Airport in MW2, or the Taliban in MoH (if they hadn't pussied out) your killing innocents or you're playing the bad guy. It's a completely different situation in Dead Space.

They're evil mutants for fuck sake.

 

[Veldel]

whats wrong with killing children in games?

Answer: Nothing


Personaly I enjoy gunning the lil buggers down like in Fallout 2 I use a gattling gun
Am I twisted and messsed up no its a game I honestly dont care same reason I played rapelay becouse its a game somthing not real or anything


If it was real life stuff then ya id be against it but as far as fake pixels go I have no problam gunning down even a pregnent mother protecting her children

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Spin

As Yahtzee once said a LONG time ago, being forced to do something that is both sickening and untasteful is quite scary isn't. Your forced to throw out your own morality and your good decsency to survive.

Of course in practice, that section of Dead Space has caused more inappropriate laughter then that one "pocessed Donkey" scene from the Rite.

 

[Veldel]

Nothing is sacred when there is money at stake.

Nothing is sacred period. Sacrements are drawn with thin lines of subjectivity that can be easily over-written by others.

Where as you(O.P.) find that children are sacred grounds, never to be touched, someone else could find the actual act of killing children to be a sacred right. Though that is a bad example I believe I've made my point.

If a game offers the chance to kill a child optinal or not I always kill the child dues that make me a bad person but ya its a sacred thing I do so enjoy in GAMES not real life

 

[sindremaster]

A game can't go too far because it's a game.

 

[spartan773]

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

you have been warned.

basically, im playing thorugh Dead Space 2 now, im about 3 hours through, and i'm shooting babies. i've already shot about 60 children no older than 12, but im now walking thorugh a nursery, listening to crying children and shooting mutated babies, which explode.

fuck MW2's airport scene, fuck Medal of Honours Taliban, this strikes me as over the line. had i known in advance there was this sort of content i would probably not have bought it.

it's just a game, would you, in real life, honestly gun down a place were children are found?

if the answer is yes, then you have problems.

if no, then you have nothing to worry about.

 

[Jandau]

I'm mixed on this.

On one hand, if there's one thing that creeps me out it's deformed children in any horror setting. The first time I met one of those tentacle babies in DS1, I was seriously creeped out.

On the other hand, I seem to have hardened over the years, since the tentacle babies don't affect me much anymore. The Pack (the bunch of swarming kids) from DS2 was just annoying. And the exploding infants are for the most part just silly.

The little baby heads that roll away when you blow them up are a bit freaky, I give you that...

 

[Trasken]

ohhhh look at me i have a moral high ground and that entitles me to tell people when they are crossing the line and expect to be taken seriously!
Next thing you'll tell is that going vegan will be the only way to save mankind...... you dirty hippy

 

[Perfice]

Yeah, the lurkers in the first game were babies also.

I also refuse there to believe there is someone who doesn't get offended by anything.

EDIT :: It's kinda funny though, when I saw that scence I immediately thought to myself 'Someone is going to get offended by this...'

 

[AngloDoom]

It's a horror game...

If it doesn't push boundaries and make you uncomfortable it's just an action-adventure with the brightness turned down.

 

[Perfice]

Hahaha, exploding babies? Sounds way better than the first Dead Space already. No wonder my mother hates this. XD

Just like with comedy, there should never be anything that's over the line in gaming.

I'm not offended by this but I also don't believe being in comedy or gaming does it entitle it to moral immunity. For example, if there was a game where you had vivdly rape a twelve year old girl in the game in order to progress then it better atleast have some kind of warning on it's label that says so because that's most certainly over the line for me.

 

[yellowhead]

I can understand why you would be upset or offended but i have to disagree with you for 2 reasons.

1) You felt unsettled and you didn't like what you were doing in the game. That is horror. The game has done it's job because it's a horror game.

2) Movies, books, music videos and graphic novels have done similiar things to what you were doing in Dead Space 2. There have been many instances of on-screen child massacres in film and the same can be said for horror novels and some graphic novels. If those materials can get away with it, then why can't videogames? Videogames are an art-form as well, but people won't judge the material on content but because of the fact that it took place in a videogame.

 

[karloss01]

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

you have been warned.

basically, im playing thorugh Dead Space 2 now, im about 3 hours through, and i'm shooting babies. i've already shot about 60 children no older than 12, but im now walking thorugh a nursery, listening to crying children and shooting mutated babies, which explode.

fuck MW2's airport scene, fuck Medal of Honours Taliban, this strikes me as over the line. had i known in advance there was this sort of content i would probably not have bought it.

Lurker in Dead Space 1

you know this a baby right? find it in the first one in a area full of incubation chambers with babies in, and NOW your feeling offended that babies now explode?