Poll: SPOILERS Dead Space 2 has gone too far.
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When you take a nice happy place like a nursery and flip flop it, the result is pretty damn scary. That's what horror is.HotFezz8 said:
Are you kidding? I played Doom 3 and went around smacking the babies in that with the flashlight while singing BYOB, only it was adapted to mean "Bring Your Own Babies" and my friend who was watching me play couldn't stop laughing his ass off.
...Maybe you're just a better person than me? XD
...Maybe you're just a better person than me? XD
I'm pretty sure a lot of games have us do horrendous things, when you think about it. Isn't the goal of most any MMO to slaughter wildlife, (granted, wildlife that often attacks adventurers, their natural predator, on sight) cut them up, and bring the parts to some lazy, psychotic shclub? In your average shooter, those mercs and terrorists probably had families and friends, you may have killed them earilier in the game. In Minecraft, you're pretty much walking environmental damage, taking and reshaping it for your own needs with no regard to the ecosystem. Little big planet... eh, I'll bet there's something I haven't picked up on.
Nothing is sacred period. Sacrements are drawn with thin lines of subjectivity that can be easily over-written by others.Pararaptor said:
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.
how was that a spoiler? I haven't played either dead space and I knew you shot babies, does sound pretty funny though.it always annoyed me that thing involving death and destruction seemed to skim over the young, like your immune to death until your old enough to drink.
I dont play dead space 1 or 2 very often. I am still stinging a little from the cod "No Russian" mission. That affected me a lot more than I thought it would.
This is just one of those issues that will never be settled (except by an arbitrary government ruling). What is okay to be put into a game and what isn't. I like how in Fable and Fallout you can't kill kids. They might sometimes annoy you so much you want to smack them back to last week, but such violence is a little over the line (IMO)
This is just one of those issues that will never be settled (except by an arbitrary government ruling). What is okay to be put into a game and what isn't. I like how in Fable and Fallout you can't kill kids. They might sometimes annoy you so much you want to smack them back to last week, but such violence is a little over the line (IMO)
Yeah, because artistic expression is never worth it if it's offensive.
You should commend the game for challenging your sensibilities the way it did. It's called leaving your comfort zone.
You should commend the game for challenging your sensibilities the way it did. It's called leaving your comfort zone.
^^This.Gralian said:
I understand if you were a little surprised when you first got to that part in the game but Dead Space is a very, very violent game, and Dead Space 2, more so. Also, it's not like they are perfectly healthy, innocent children, they are alien-demon things.
Good. You found it wrong, disturbing, unnerving... unsettling. It made you feel uneasy and took you out of your comfort zone. It did what it was supposed to do.HotFezz8 said:
Infants, babies... children... are often viewed as the perfect visage of innocence. Purity... happiness.
So, seeing such a visage destroyed and twisted is supposed to make people step back and recoil. It's supposed to make you feel that way. That was the whole point.
The Lurkers in Dead Space (babies who mutated and their backs would split open and their intestines launched spikes at you) were intended for the same effect. As were the unbaptized babies in Dante's Inferno.
In Dead Space 1 and 2 the Necromorphs are horrible, just simply horrific. They have no limits, no human is out of reach for their mutation and infestation. And to keep that image and theme going... children would have to be used.
A giant space station such as the Sprawl would have children. And they would need to be "used" by the Necromorphs otherwise the entire setup behind them would be lost.
And really, there's absolutely no way the school could've been bright and happy. It needed to be one of the more unsettling moments in the game. It had to be.
