Everything is fair game except companion animals. For example, Dogmeat. Would never kill Dogmeat. Also never kill horses, EVER, for example, RDR. Never killed a horse, at least on purpose. That's pretty much it.
Poll: Where do you draw the line?
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It's a video game. I have no problem killing anyone or anything in the game because it's not real. Nobody is actually getting hurt, so why worry about it? Sure, put a bullet in that dog's head. Throw a sticky bomb on that kid and watch him go boom. They're all just a bunch of polygons in a game, not real creatures.
Is it a bad thing if I thought we were talking IRL here and answered with "Can't Kill Innocents"? But in video games, I'd go with what seems like everyone is answering, "Can't Kill Anything That Will Give Me Negative Karma" call me a nerd, but I always play Lawful Good.
I see all as being in one of three categories: allies, who I help as much as possible; neutrals, who I try to keep out of the way; and enemies, who I destroy with extreme prejudice. Doesn't matter who or what the enemy is, they will die once I've declared them such.
So, no innocents.
So, no innocents.
Yeah, I have issues with how your poll is organized. Why are animals easier to spare than innocents?
Generally I play a pretty decent human being. Well, as decent as a gun-toting homicidal maniac can be when discussing most shooters. Every once in awhile someone just comes off the wrong way and ends up getting shot for basically nothing, but it happens less if the game gives me a wider choice of diplomatic options.
Kill them all or kill no one that I can avoid killing, depends on whether there is a Karma system to the game or not, if not, it's open season on everybody, if there is then I'm good the first time around then I'll slaughter everybody the second playthrough.
The Rangers from Metro 2033 said it the best "If It's Hostile, You Kill It."
Usually ingames I have no problems killing people or animals that are attacking me, because I say it's self defence. But with the innocent people that have done nothing to me... that is a harder thing.
Usually ingames I have no problems killing people or animals that are attacking me, because I say it's self defence. But with the innocent people that have done nothing to me... that is a harder thing.
I have no problem killing anything in a game - if the game itself demands it. But I don't go round the game world killing everyone I find of my own volition.
I also try to avoid killing children and animals, if I can. They lack the capacity to do evil.
I also try to avoid killing children and animals, if I can. They lack the capacity to do evil.
What makes me mad is that no one cares about a person dying in a game (except "some" people) but somehow it is wrong to kill an animal! A human being is an advanced evolved super-being that is capable of developing technology to destroy the universe!!! Some animals eat their own crap and stand around being useless, yet it is wrong to shoot them in the head with a shotgun 15 times, which I just did to the guy around the corner for trying to take my spaceship!?! Granted the animal wasn't trying to take my spaceship, but you can't take chances in this economy! XD
Okay... I cant kill innocent,defenseless and pretty ladies due to me being a boy, i cant kill children and i cant kill tiny kitty cats. Everybody/everything else that i happen to come by depends partially on who they are and what day is it.
Yep, that sounds like something Renegade Shepherd would say =)Sir Boss said:
Little Lamplight was the biggest trolling of any game I could imagine, people (kids) who you wanted to knock out so badly but couldn't do anything to. They did it on purpose, those designers.
But no, I wouldn't really kill kids or animals in games just for fun, unless I was attacked first of course. And innocent people. Although it sometimes comes to that if I'm trying to explore the 'being an asshole' side of a game for the most negative karma points I can gather. In KoTor that can lead to some surprisingly horrible acts against humanity.
