Why cant you kill kids?
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Then don't kill childrenstevetastic said:
I hate when people don't do things just because idiots will take it the wrong way
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It's not real children so who cares.
Aww, I actually liked them, although that one ***** pissed me off, I simply called her bluff by saying that what's his name spends more time with whatsherface to try to progress the conversation farther and after that the game I assumed I did it to make the little girl cry and subtracted from my karma, which is total fucking bullshit.Gado911 said:
What really confuses me about how bethesda did it in fallout 3.
So you magically can't fire your gun while aiming at them and grenades just don't effect them. Go moms! But wait!
YOU CAN NUKE A CITY. There's two children in there if I recall, and I don't think they would've 'wandered off to explore the wastes' at the time of the explosion.
Is it because I can't emulate that action that it's ok? Well I'm off to prove them wrong (let's see how long till the FBI gets over here)
So you magically can't fire your gun while aiming at them and grenades just don't effect them. Go moms! But wait!
YOU CAN NUKE A CITY. There's two children in there if I recall, and I don't think they would've 'wandered off to explore the wastes' at the time of the explosion.
Is it because I can't emulate that action that it's ok? Well I'm off to prove them wrong (let's see how long till the FBI gets over here)
Because that would summon Jack Thompson and his mighty crushing feet of incompetence!
Only this time he would have a reason to come out of his Hellhole in Florida.
Only this time he would have a reason to come out of his Hellhole in Florida.
Funny thing is, is that the game that's been called a wimpy girl game is the only game that does not only let you kill kids, but also lets you torture kids and even todlers. Obviously I'm talking about the Sims series here. Burn em, drown em, starve em, neglect them, you can do it all. And why didn't Jack Thompson slaughter this game yet?
Awww yea he was awesome, I usually enjoy blowing up robots in Fallout 3, but I just couldn't shoot that little bugger. Same with Harold, I let him live. But Little Lamplight....ooooo how did I want to exterminate that hellhole...Gerazzi said:
Why is it that when someone turns 18, their life suddenly becomes worth less than that of a child's?
I don't remember Oblivion having an AO rating. You can kill the adoring fan, over and over again..that little prick....
It'd be interesting to make a survival horror game with a Virus that only affects adults, so the survivors (i.e. you) would not only be constantly surrounded by feral mutated adults, but have perfectly normal kids mixed in with the crowd.
I think that'd be a great survival horror game as you would be so hesitant to actually fire on your aggressors for fear of hitting an innocent child that you'd be shitting yourself the entire game. In dark levels you wouldn't know whether those footsteps coming towards you would be infected or children, how in the hell would you find the total lack of compassion to fire indiscriminately? That's about the only way I'd find killing children acceptable, since the only true horror these days is when we are forced to go against our own morality.
Also, the taboo around killing children is because they are naturally weaker than adults, so it's a little unfair to make them the bad guys, even if they're somehow turned feral. While turned adults could be considered to be on equal ground to your character, that's never the case with children. Even the poster game for child cruelty, Bioshock, gave them a big burly protector and the option to save them rather than chop them up to get at their tasty bits.
I think that'd be a great survival horror game as you would be so hesitant to actually fire on your aggressors for fear of hitting an innocent child that you'd be shitting yourself the entire game. In dark levels you wouldn't know whether those footsteps coming towards you would be infected or children, how in the hell would you find the total lack of compassion to fire indiscriminately? That's about the only way I'd find killing children acceptable, since the only true horror these days is when we are forced to go against our own morality.
Also, the taboo around killing children is because they are naturally weaker than adults, so it's a little unfair to make them the bad guys, even if they're somehow turned feral. While turned adults could be considered to be on equal ground to your character, that's never the case with children. Even the poster game for child cruelty, Bioshock, gave them a big burly protector and the option to save them rather than chop them up to get at their tasty bits.
I'm going to glare at you now,Remleiz said:
and while I do that I'm going to put on a big daddy costume,
and of course continue glareing.
Ah but they're religious zealots, that's equivalent to being infected ferals anyway.Mornelithe said:
Wait, a "Cole" mine? Do you have a cloning laboratory somewhere Dr. Venture??Time Travelling Toaster said:Dammit >.> you know to much, ignore the van tomorrow morning, it's just...maintenece...honestlyJinxzy said:yes the future to run your cole mine when you take over with your evil empire, MuahahaTime Travelling Toaster said:Because children are our future dude
Seriously though I think it's because it's to much of a taboo to kill kids yet =/.
i feel like this question was asked by one of those kids in class who sits there and doesnt do work and occasionally asks questions just for the attention, even though he knew the answer.
If you think parents are targeting games NOW, then watch what happens the second one has the option of killing a child. The parents are going to take to the streets with torches, pitchforks, tar, and feathers while the media covers the whole bloody thing.
Oh, and people don't do shit about animals who EAT THEIR OWN CHILDREN now do they? The death of a child is in nature damn it!
Oh, and people don't do shit about animals who EAT THEIR OWN CHILDREN now do they? The death of a child is in nature damn it!
As others as well as myself have mentioned repeatedly, it was possible to kill children in the Deus Ex titles...for the PS2 and X-Box, no less.
Another title which the casual killing of children was featured in was South Park for the Nintendo 64. Of course, it was mostly the child who the show writer-creators had killed repeatedly in the show at the time, Kenny.
The death of children as a negative outcome to be avoided (ideally, anyway)is a factor in The Sims series. None of the Sims could be a child killer but household accidents as well as player caused 'accidents' could ready them for a visit from the Grim Reaper.
It is mostly a matter of Bethesda playing it safe rather than some absolute moral law of video game production. It wouldn't increase their profit significantly to off-set the legal fees were a Moral Guardian group to file a lawsuit or worse, a series of lawsuits, against them.
Another title which the casual killing of children was featured in was South Park for the Nintendo 64. Of course, it was mostly the child who the show writer-creators had killed repeatedly in the show at the time, Kenny.
The death of children as a negative outcome to be avoided (ideally, anyway)is a factor in The Sims series. None of the Sims could be a child killer but household accidents as well as player caused 'accidents' could ready them for a visit from the Grim Reaper.
It is mostly a matter of Bethesda playing it safe rather than some absolute moral law of video game production. It wouldn't increase their profit significantly to off-set the legal fees were a Moral Guardian group to file a lawsuit or worse, a series of lawsuits, against them.
