Comments on: Fallout 3 to feature “slavery, children, drugs and addiction” http://www.vg247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/ VG247.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:24:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TJ http://www.vg247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-18344 TJ Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:21:44 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/#comment-18344 You know, I realise there's a big stigma over killing kids, but killing innocents in general is pretty nasty - why have one without the other? You know, I realise there’s a big stigma over killing kids, but killing innocents in general is pretty nasty – why have one without the other?

]]> By: mightyhokie http://www.vg247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-18035 mightyhokie Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:30:26 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/#comment-18035 I have no problem at all with not being allowed to kill virtual kids...especially very realistic kids. I mean, I don't believe it would make anyone go out and kill a child, but just the concept is fucked up. I can't imagine being disappointed because the game won't let me kill the children in the game. That's sick thinking. As for 'their art suffering', well, is it really? If the point is to be pure evil then yeah, it takes away a powerful storytelling element. However, short of wanting to make your character as evil as Saddam or Bin Ladin, it shouldn't affect the game at all. It's okay to have you 'try' and kill a kid and have the people attack and kill you. It's just not necessary. I know it is just a game and the characters are not real so it really shouldn't be an issue, but lets face it, the concept is pretty fucked up. Sure, games give us an opportunity to live lives we would never be able to live, or even want to live, in real life, but I think we can leave the kid killing off the plate unless it is reeeally necessary. Just my opinion. I have no problem at all with not being allowed to kill virtual kids…especially very realistic kids. I mean, I don’t believe it would make anyone go out and kill a child, but just the concept is fucked up. I can’t imagine being disappointed because the game won’t let me kill the children in the game. That’s sick thinking.

As for ‘their art suffering’, well, is it really? If the point is to be pure evil then yeah, it takes away a powerful storytelling element. However, short of wanting to make your character as evil as Saddam or Bin Ladin, it shouldn’t affect the game at all. It’s okay to have you ‘try’ and kill a kid and have the people attack and kill you. It’s just not necessary.

I know it is just a game and the characters are not real so it really shouldn’t be an issue, but lets face it, the concept is pretty fucked up. Sure, games give us an opportunity to live lives we would never be able to live, or even want to live, in real life, but I think we can leave the kid killing off the plate unless it is reeeally necessary.

Just my opinion.

]]> By: SticKboy http://www.vg247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-17989 SticKboy Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:51:30 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/#comment-17989 @ Whizzo - true, but I think the change in perspective for Fallout 3, as well as the hyper-realistic GFX, kind of make killing children more problematic in this game than in the 2D, isometric, tiny-sprited original. Also, there was less media attention on games back then. I fully understand the commercial pressures Bethesda are under, but I agree it's a shame their art has to suffer as a result. @ Whizzo – true, but I think the change in perspective for Fallout 3, as well as the hyper-realistic GFX, kind of make killing children more problematic in this game than in the 2D, isometric, tiny-sprited original.

Also, there was less media attention on games back then. I fully understand the commercial pressures Bethesda are under, but I agree it’s a shame their art has to suffer as a result.

]]> By: Whizzo http://www.vg247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/comment-page-1/#comment-17944 Whizzo Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:53:15 +0000 http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/07/08/fallout-3-to-feature-slavery-children-drugs-and-addiction/#comment-17944 Child killing was perfectly possible in the original games, it wasn't encouraged and you gained nothing but if you did it there was a pretty severe penalty. It's all about giving people options, having kids magically just running away from a guy in powered armour shooting a turbo plasma rifle at them seems a bit daft. Child killing was perfectly possible in the original games, it wasn’t encouraged and you gained nothing but if you did it there was a pretty severe penalty. It’s all about giving people options, having kids magically just running away from a guy in powered armour shooting a turbo plasma rifle at them seems a bit daft.

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