Killing children in video games

What happened? When did killing kids in video games become not acceptable and why? Fallout 1 and 2 you could kill kids, and that was 1997 and 1998. So what year did it change?

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wow just wow no, you crossed the line on that one.

THINK OF THE KIDS

You could kill kids in Deus Ex Invisible War, right? That was 2003.

to become a developer you have to goto college, colleges are liberal brainwashing facilities.

Pillars of Eternity lets you kill kids

Remind me again what camp associates abortions with murdering children.

the Think Of The Kids mentality
killing vidya people/humanoides is fine tho, they are not real

>Watch anime
>Child character introduced as being really friendly and adorable.
>They die horribly three episodes later.

>Play video game.
>Child character introduced as being the most annoying and infuriating pile of shit ever conceived.
>You are forced to protect them

liberals live in fantasy land, where a man in a wig is a real woman and killing pixel babies is murder.

they're both ruling class

>Watch anime

But aren't college educated people all in favor of abortion?

I really wanted to beat up girls and kick them in the nuts in Bully but as soon as you start getting violent towards them you instantly get warned and they run away.

I had to use an Action Replay code to keep the warning meter down so I could enact violence against girls.

It's ok if it's Berserk

>watch anime

Back to facebook.

it was never acceptable to begin with, just look at your own examples
if you kill kids in fallout 1/2 you get slapped with a permanent negative perk that screws you out of most of the content in the game and sets yojr karma to the lowest level

I dont know man.. In contrast to you who is a kid, I *have* kids. Dont want little punks like you to be getting any ideas, you know what I mean?

Social media ruined the world.

Nobody can do anything without a social media outrage, companies are really afraid of that happening too.

More important question: why do you hate girls so much?

What if a kid plays a 18+ game and kills a kid in it?

>When did killing kids in video games become not acceptable and why? Fallout 1 and 2 you could kill kids, and that was 1997 and 1998.
It was never acceptable, there was an outrage when FO1 and even 2 came out. Where do you think the dank memes about games turning children into killing machines come from?

>there was an outrage when FO1 and even 2 came out
really?

>you know what I mean?

THIS THIS THIS
For the exact same reason I also support banning anything sexist/racist from this medium. Nobody should have those ideas.

Not only that, but you'll also have bounty hunters chasing after you for the rest of the game. The more children you kill, the better the equipment they'll be carrying.

It was the SJW!

Seriously though. Companies lost too many sales because certain countries would ban the game.

Dude, Why would SJWs oppose killing kids?

They're all pro-choice.

I'm not sorry for icing those pickpockets in the Den. I'm also not sorry for having good loot early in the game

It's all fun and games until the bounty hunters start wearing power armor

It started back in year 8, I think. This girl brought a banana to school and I was like, "Fuck yeah, watching her eat that will be like porn". But then, after peeling the banana, she broke off pieces with her fingers and put the pieces in her mouth, as opposed to just biting off pieces. It sparked a very deep and very strong rage within me. I was furious that this girl was denying me sexual gratification without even knowing it. I felt like females in general had spurned me because of what this one girl did.

No they aren't. They want free speech restricted so that it's illegal to offend someone.

HATRED 2 will fix this problem. Destructive Creations is the savior gaming needs.

>666x666
Wat?

Don't judge me or my lifestyle.

If I catch you so much as even looking at my little girl, you twirp...

Invincible NPCs in general are so fucking infuriating. I'd rather kill an essential NPC and get a game over than watch them run away and make every other NPC hostile against me.

Same. Let me kill anyone and break the game. Don't make me feel like a retard for wasting ammo on a faggot NPC that's invincible for no reason. That's the opposite of roleplaying, but game developers don't seem to understand that.

My brother as severe autism. So seveere that he doesn't play with his toys, he just stares at them and imagines that he plays with them, at least that's what i think, he's 16 and hasn't ever said a word. Some days he gets so caught up in his imagination that he forgets to go to the bathroom, prompting my tired mother to clean him up all while he stares at his toys. but despite how bad he is, this comment still takes the top place for the most autistic thing i have ever witnessed.

Did you misquote me? I'm on your side.

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He's gonna kill you and your mother. Just watch. I'd buy a gun if I were you.

>kick girls in the nuts

>When did killing kids in video games become not acceptable

thing is it's always "not been acceptable". for a number of reasons too. you can even remove all the social reasons and there's still a bunch of them.

>most games just don't have kids in them at all, obviously prohibiting you from killing them
>most games only allow you to kill combatants, which aren't children because children aren't soldiers/warriors etc
>allowing you to kill children would be extra work just to please an incredibly small audience, with extra voice acting/animation/texture/whatever work having to be put in for dead and dying kids
>enabling you to kill children will get your game banned in most places and will most likely bring the age rating up

it's like asking why necrophilia isn't allowed. work would be required to put it into the game and the small audience that likes it won't be enough to make up for the work, hate, controversy and bans the game will face as a result.

The whole point of blood borne was to kill some baby, you also steal and eat their umbilical cord, and you even murder a pregnant woman in an optional dungeon. And it's goty in 2015, so op is a retard trying to stir up controversy where none exists

The first time I remember not being able to kill children was Fable and I would spend hours whacking the fuck out of them

my sides are embracing heaven

Fucking hell

>Age rating

This is a really good point though, Oblivion didn't let you murder kids, but the ESRB got bumped up to mature just for Lucien Lachance's corpse. It's the kind of moral panic thing that instantly gets you shafted into a higher ESRB than your original target audience.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESRB_re-rating_of_The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion

Graphic violence toward children in media gets you an instant 18+ rating, modern media avoids this rating like the plague.

Cutting the head and limbs off an adult? Meh, 12+, seeing a child die in a fire? 18+ holy shit think of the children what if people would try to reenact what they saw in media!!!

>Kid in the subway is annoying
>cant kill them

>Join Imperials
>Come across a Stormcloak camp
>Go to kill everyone
>A handful of them are essential despite none of them having actual names

You never see girls in this situation in the media, laying on the ground in the fetal position nursing damage to their crotch.

It's why cunt punts turn me on. It's such an unseen thing that I find it kinky.

why would you want to kill an innocent child?

Why do you assume a child can be innocent?

Because they are still basically a blank slate and they don't think for themselves, they just copy the adults and other people around them.

Why do you imply a child can't be innocent?

I want to be able to kill children not because I want to but theres an emergent reality added when you ignore morality and actually are in a game world where you have TRUE reign in your actions.

I like how in fallout you get "the berserker" title if you kill a bunch of kids, great sense of humor.

Dont get frisky with me you little punk. The internet is not so unlike the old times that I cant plant my boot up your irreverent teeth

>watch anime

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When the suits running the corporations started cracking down on literally anything that could potentially hurt the bottom line, encouraging homogenized garbage.
This is also one of the reasons why vidya is largely shit now.

>playing Deus Ex
>see a kid walking through the level
>shoot him in the face
>he drops dead in a pool of blood

I thought you are in favor of censoring?

In the case of bethesda games, I probably wouldn't mind as much if they didn't make kids the most insufferable fucking NPC's in their respective games. Little Lamplight was the most horseshit town I have ever had the displeasure of experiencing even beyond the illogical backstory because literally every inhabitant was an obnoxious little asshole and you couldn't do a thing about it without mods.

I never really feel the need to kill kids in games where they are killable, but my god, it's like they do it on fucking purpose in bethesda games. They know you can't do a damn thing to these little faggots, so they just go out of their way to make each of them the worst thing ever because they know you can't do anything about it outside of mods.

Well you can easily just down the prefects by kiting them with the fireworks launcher or spud gun when you're later in the game and then do what you must

Fallout 1 and 2 didn't have realistic graphics. If you could kill kids in GTA III you can bet your ass that game would have been pulled from the shelves

>work would be required to put it into the game
More work goes into making sure it's not possible to kill children in fallout than it would be to just leave them like the rest of the NPCs.

I'm in favor of protecting my kids from rotten ones and punishing naughtiness. Did your naughtiness ever lead to any consequence, or maybe that's why you're a no good piece of shit?

What game?

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have you ever played fallout 2 and been to the den

Yeah. This is the one thing I really cannot understand in beth games. After EVERYBODY hated little shitlight, why in the hell did they pull the same shit again in Skyrim?

Your goal in Resident Evil 7 is to kill a little girl. Sure she has aged rapidly into a granny but that doesn't change anything. You also get to rip the arm of a mummified kid corpse

Yeah I actually have. I played FO1 and FO2 when they were new

The worst part isn't that you cant shoot the little twats, it's that developers make it so that the unkillable little fucks are the most possibly annoying NPC in the game.

>flip one flag that's used on many npc's already
OH MY GOD, SO MUCH WORK

>flip one more flag than you needed to because muh children
Work still went into making sure that flag was checked for every single child NPC.
Never reply to me again, you mouth breathing faggot.

I think it all started with GTA.
And i don't mean GTA3.

>shooting him in the face
>not blowing him up with a LAM after he threatens to get the Triads to kill you
I can't for the life of me find that specific video where that happens, so have the next best thing.
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>THINK OF THE KIDS

We are, that's why we want to kill them.

Except it is arguable that late-term abortions are murder. The difference between murder and medical procedure is only a couple of weeks, and that is why it is up for debate. Have you ever seen an abortion done on a woman who is several months pregnant? It very much looks like a baby being torn apart and pulled out piece by piece.

Not even baiting my man. You kids these days are entitled, frivolously paranoid about your perceived entitlements, and thouroughly amoral. I'm genuinely frightened at the thought of my little ones growing up among you. Answer this: why do you even think you deserve to live, considering how shit you are? Protip: you cant.

I don't know what kind of cerebral palsy addled fuckload you are if you think ticking a checkbox is anything more than an insignificant amount of effort.

And by the same token, you old faggots these days are overprotective, antiquated morons who are needlessly concerned with protecting children's weak and innocent minds by censoring entertainment rated for 17 year olds and up. Answer this: why do you even think you deserve to change someone else's creation, would you like it if I tried to change your child to suit my tastes more because I deemed what you were doing to be offensive? Protip: you can't.

do you consider everyone below age 18 a kid? Because there are juveniles/teens and there are actual kids, and juveniles are not quite as innocent. Anyone under 15 is still pretty much a kid; anyone under 12 definitely

Not an argument. It is a literal fact that it takes more work to make sure you can't kill child NPCs than it would be to leave them alone.

>you can beat up your pregnant girlfriend
>you can walk into the sea hand in hand with her and drown together
What a game.

You're literally posting in a thread complaining that not being allowed to murder innocent children in - check this out - every *single video game on the market * is a marxist plot.

When civilization reaches the point when your average teenager is this rotten, it really makes you wonder if it's not better to have some test to identify the ones that still has any chance at all of being saved and putting a bullet to the head of the rest.

>a marxist plot
No, I just think it's fucking retarded, as are you. Obviously I didn't answer your question because it was rhetorical, but why didn't you answer mine?
Because you know I'm right.
Anyway, your posting style reeks of falseflag, so enjoy your last (You) from me.

childkiller fucks up alot of quests, tho.
you cant get cassidy in your group if you are a childkiller.
also alot of NPCs wont talk to you

The violence in Fallout is much more down to Earth, gory and serious than in GTA

GTA 3 by comparison is cartoon violence, although I love that game

You don't get childkiller if you reverse pickpocket a live grenade into their inventory and blow them up.

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Does it matter? The end result will be the same if you abort the 1st month and the last.

holy shit
a buckley comic that I enjoyed

what in the fuck

It's a condenced edit. The original has like 4 other panels and explains the joke.

prepare to be disappointed

If it was falseflag, why would I point out how objectively morally bankrupt you faggots are. I mean, this is some real actual degeneracy right here, not the Sup Forums meme variety either.

Truth of the matter is that there might be some value in there being one or a few video games where you can slaughter innocent kids (and bear the consequences). Being obsessed with doing so and demanding it from every game is just a sign of the perverted mind of an evil human being.

Surprisingly, it's still a step up from Buckley's standard fare.

Not really what I meant, the differences of GTA V and HATRED are a whole different episode from the differences of GTA 3 and Fallout

In GTA 3 you take a baseball bat or a gun and shoot some people

Cartoony WHACK WHACK UNNGGHH BLAM BLAM ensues

There's some blood particles on the floor and an ambulance shows up to revive the people who died indefinitely no matter how many bullets you put in them

In Fallout not only is the violence more gory but it's serious

The game over screens give you a damn existential crisis by showing a picture of your dried up skeleton and reminding you about how irreversible death is

How can someone be so dense after all these years to continue to ruin every 'joke' with WORDSWORDSWORDS. Does he really think that this is superior to ?

what's the deal with CRPG fans always wanting to kill kids