Poll: Where do you draw the line?

[DanDeFool]

Not that it particularly bothers me when I step outside this restriction, but I will kill anything in a game provided I have a reason in gameplay for it to be dead.

That is, unless I've gone into full-on "I'm going to be a dick for lulz" mode. Then I'll kill everything that I can get my mitts on.

That reminds me, I need to track down a copy of the Phantom Menace PC game, so I can make C3PO beg for his life after decapitating R2-D2 with a lightsaber.

 

[endplanets]

I have a weird split personality on this. I can play No Russian, Jak 3, Pandemic, run over people in GTA and play Hulk Ultimate Destruction (come on at least a couple of civilians have to have died) and not feel any remorse at all.
But in Fallout 3 when the bully asked me to save his aunt I wussed out and saved her. And I have not killed almost any NPC in Mass Effect either. And in GTA 4 I let the boyfriend guy live. Basically if they have a face they are more likely to live.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I draw the line right where I'm gonna cut their heads off.

Oh, you mean the moral line...
I don't draw any of those.

In fact, I really annoyed by the immortality of children in games like Fallout 3 and otherwise by the lack of children.

I'm also quite annoyed by the lack of detail in killing in general. (The Saw movies have got pretty good detail, but those contraptions are a bit impersonal.)

And then there's the shortage of mass murder like where you blow up Megaton...

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

The line must be drawn here! This far and no further!

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[ColeusRattus]

I voted for "kill em all".

Not only because it's a nice album, but becaue it's true. I'm able to discern between video games and real life, and as of yet there hasn't been any videogame with characters lifelike enough to make me regret killing it. And I don't mean just graphically, but in being a real person or character.

In real life though, I the only things I can kill without feeling bad are flour moths and mosquitos, so no, I am no psychopath. Characters/animals/other beings in games are just not real to me to care, even if I am "immersed" or drawn in by the narrative.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

Depends, in a sandbox game where the innocents have no personality, I can kill them all, but in games where the characters actually feel real, even the NPC innocent people, then I have serious problems and being the nice guy I am I can rarely force myself to make the bad choices involving killing even when I specifically try and play the evil bad character >.<

 

[Snotnarok]

They're all just polygons or sprites anyway, no real death occurring so let 'em all die in polyhell.

 

[Exocet]

There's nothing I can't kill,but if I can avoid it,I won't kill innocents.Ie:if there's one bad guy in the middle of a crowd using a box of kittens as shield,I won't pull out a handgrenade,but I won't mind firing at him.

As you can see,the question of morality and ethics is much simpler in a game for me,since I'm perfectly capable of making the distinction between a living organism and a bunch of pixels.

 

[Cazza]

It's only a game. I kill whatever I want. I don't normally go on a mass killing spree and when I do I don't save. I don't feel any moral wrong. Maybe if they made a really realistic game and/or gave me a strong attachment to the character and I couldn't just load up and change my mind. Then I probably wouldn't do it to anyone.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I'd kill anyone if they piss me off enough. I wouldn't have a problem killing a dog, if it attacked me, and I wanted to kill the kids in Little Lamplight. (Show your elders som respect!)

But if it's just someone random on the street(/wasteland), I have no grudge against what so ever, I can't really kill them. Doesn't feel right.
(Unless I'm offered a LOT of caps/money)

 

[Sarah Pain]

Other: I never draw the line, it's all or nothing!!

 

[sanomaton]

I don't really have a problem with killing dogs or innocent by-standers but I could never kill a cat though. That'd just be too horrible.

"The more I understand humans, the more I love my cat"

 

[evilomega13]

*shrug* Dependant on mood, character, and game.

But if I'm on a sandbox game in a bad mood...

Locals best take cover, be they man, woman, child, or goomba.




Especially if I have explosives >:3

 

[karloss01]

I kill them all if i could, but children are immortal.

 

[Valdus]

If they go for me first I don't care who they are they're fair game. I'll leave a hyper-destructive man alone if he does the same for me, but if a kid comes at me with an uzi he's getting more lead in his diet.

 

[Tonimata]

I feel the need to quote Metallica on this one, but that would just sound dumb

 

[Tanis]

It's digital, w/e, just kill it.

 

[Shio]

I'll kill anyone in a video game.

Not like the pixel police are gonna arrest me, and I'm pretty sure those same pixels have no feelings or families to grieve their loss.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

I can kill anything in a game.

Why? It's a GAME

I second this. Purge those mother fucking pixels!

 

[joshuaayt]

I'll happily remove any NPC who stands in my way. I'll also remove NPCs who are standing off to the side of my way, and possibly even go *out* of my way to do much the same thing.

Especially in inFamous- even as Good Cole, I find myself rampaging against the populace. Of course, bad Cole has that sweet jubilee-grenade thing, so it's generally more fun to be a recognised dick too.

Of course, give the NPC a personality? A name, a job? That's a little harder.