Children and animals in GTAIV?!?

[WarlordOfWar]

In VC stories (or LC stories, I don't know) was a cutscene where was a little kid, oh and look at Blizzard Entertainment's "Warcraft3", go into the World Editor, place children as enemies and some sniper for you. Though it isn't an acion-megakill-game like GTA4, but you can kill children there. 

 

[phbbbt107]

On the other hand adding children is one good reason form millions of gamers to buy yet another GTA and the publicity it gets is good reasons for another million.

Assuming the ESRB doesn't just automatically give the game an AO rating, effectively banning it from retail sale in the US.

 

[Buxton]

More for Britain and Europe, about time too, not nice being third-wheel.

 

[WarlordOfWar]

Well, I think if they really do babies and animals in GTA4, but they don't make missions like kidnapping or kill 100 gorillas in 1 hour or that you will be able to kill them, there will be some crazy modders who make missions about kidnapping and animal-torturing and make it so that you can kill children and animals. 

 

[zelda12]

More for Britain and Europe, about time too, not nice being third-wheel.

Unless the laws have changed it'll get hit with the same stuff that Fallout and Fallout 2 did, which is why both games had to have children removed in their UK/European releases. Of course there was soon a mod which put them back in but given how long it takes Rockstar to put games out onto PC I really wouln't hold your breath.

 

[An4Sh]

Well, I think if they really do babies and animals in GTA4, but they don't make missions like kidnapping or kill 100 gorillas in 1 hour or that you will be able to kill them, there will be some crazy modders who make missions about kidnapping and animal-torturing and make it so that you can kill children and animals. 

Can't they simply do some children models and give them custom voices in any other GTA game without kids?

 

[Guan_Chung]

How am I the only one who thinks it should just be children? I like animals and wouldn't want to hurt one, but children on the other hand...

 

[WarlordOfWar]

How am I the only one who thinks it should just be children? I like animals and wouldn't want to hurt one, but children on the other hand...

Omg, hello? Children are like animals living entities with a heart, a soul and a brain. (Ok plants are living entities too, I know.)
So what I try to say is WTF? You like animals, but no children, so what is with the children of the animals?

 

[Seff]

Except that all plants, children, cars and humans in gta aren't living entities, they are model, texture, animation and sound, so I have no problem killing them.

 

[Guan_Chung]

Omg, hello? Children are like animals living entities with a heart, a soul and a brain. (Ok plants are living entities too, I know.)
So what I try to say is WTF? You like animals, but no children, so what is with the children of the animals?

Why are people so slow when it comes to satire and macabre humor nowadays?

 

[WarlordOfWar]

Don't make jokes or sarcasm about dead children\killing children. 

 

[Ilex]

Omg, hello? Children are like animals living entities with a heart, a soul and a brain.

And terrorists are.. (or any human hostile or not)? Oh, I forgot, pawns of Satan.

 

[Cleaning agent]

(you had a blank quote there Ilex...)

Personally I'm against having children in the game. Not for any moral reasons. As has been stated they're only textures and 3d  models, hardly anything to worry about! but for the reason that people are sometimes easily affected by what they see in the virtual world and will go and copy these things in the real world.

I doubt it would affect any more than perhaps one person ever, but that would happen, and that twat would go out and buy an uzi, kill kids and get confused when he doesn't see his "wanted level" displayed in mid-air. For that reason it isn't worth the risk. Killing adults is already an accepted thing in the computer game universe, so there's no point in claiming that we might as well take killing out completely, but children might cause problems.

Animals ont he other hand I have no problems with. And I don't see why the player shouldn't have his/her OWN kid. But killable kids in the street... no.

 

[DSparil]

Personally I'm against having children in the game. Not for any moral reasons. As has been stated they're only textures and 3d  models, hardly anything to worry about! but for the reason that people are sometimes easily affected by what they see in the virtual world and will go and copy these things in the real world.

I doubt it would affect any more than perhaps one person ever, but that would happen, and that twat would go out and buy an uzi, kill kids and get confused when he doesn't see his "wanted level" displayed in mid-air. For that reason it isn't worth the risk. Killing adults is already an accepted thing in the computer game universe, so there's no point in claiming that we might as well take killing out completely, but children might cause problems.

Animals ont he other hand I have no problems with. And I don't see why the player shouldn't have his/her OWN kid. But killable kids in the street... no.

Your new hero

 

[Cleaning agent]

Oh yeah that guy, the one who wanted the Sims 2 banned because you could see their bodies naked but blurred. 

There's prudence and stupidity... I like to think I go for the former, and he goes for the latter

 

[An4Sh]

Don't make jokes or sarcasm about dead children\killing children. 

How many kids does it take to paint a wall?
Depends on how hard you throw them.

That gave me an idea for a great new addition to the graphite thing in GTA san andreas.

 

[DJNad]

How am I the only one who thinks it should just be children? I like animals and wouldn't want to hurt one, but children on the other hand...

Omg, hello? Children are like animals living entities with a heart, a soul and a brain. (Ok plants are living entities too, I know.)
So what I try to say is WTF? You like animals, but no children, so what is with the children of the animals?

Animals can't argue back.

 

[Dryvus]

Animals have hearts and brains (not sure what that has to do with anything, they're simply organs), and I'd say souls too. But it's pointless to argue over that, so let's not.

 

[Orion]

Oh, sure, let's get all tight-assed about killing POOR DEFENSELESS ANIMALS in a GTA.

Of course, let's also convienently overlook hunting games, fishing games, and anything else that already has animals in it. Here's another example for you: Mount & Blade. We have horses! Horses are animals. You can kill the horses. Hell, you can even injure them and let them suffer for a while before you kill them! How totally badass is that?! Of course, all of this means nothing. We absolutely can NOT have animals in GTAIV, because people would be inclined to kill them. How cruel and heartless. Who would do such a thing?

 

[Guan_Chung]

Ted Nugent?