Why is it that killing children in games is forbidden but killing women is not?

I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

That means that they are equal, if a man can die in a game so can a woman, both are adults.

Killing children is just crossing the line, exept if they are zombie children than its apparently okay...

I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child.

GAMESHARQ

But men killing men is ok. And women killing men is good. Am I right?

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I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child.

ReddestSkies

But men killing men is ok. And women killing men is good. Am I right?

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I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child.

GAMESHARQ

But men killing men is ok. And women killing men is good. Am I right?

That's nonsense. If a female game character can kill a male character, the opposite has to be possible. :|

In the UK its illegal to sell video games depicting the murder of children. Since most games are sold at a global market, instead of creating two versions of a game (UK and non-UK), its just easier to make one and sell to both.

Well, i suppose two versions COULD be made.... but its a tough sell to the publisher to put in the extra money for additional versions solely on the basis that its important to your game to have children be murdered.

EDIT: Fallout 1 and 2 allowed you the ability to kill children. When they made a UK version later, they simply removed all children.

If it's not just put there for the sake of it, it should be permissable.

Legally, I think even if it's put there for the sake of it, it should be allowed. As bad as it might sound, it doesn't really harm anyone directly. I don't see being able to kill 'innocent' adult NPC's in video games a huge step above that, either ( though usually it's not just mindless killing ).

Never mind considering the crap that's allowed on TV.

I really hated invulnerable children in Fallout 3. You even get one that threatens to blow your head off, and your character still has to travel halfway across the map to rescue a bunch of kids.

I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

GAMESHARQ

Thats just sexist. If in a game men can kill men, than they can kill women, and women can kill women and men. DeX2010

Women are a different breed of animal. We can kill animals right...

I am just kidding , i am kidding, Jeez.....:P

There are some high profile games out there where you can kill children.

[spoiler] I learned that the hard way in Deus Ex :( [/spoiler]

Because women can also be the bad guy in a game. Not just men.

I would definatly say killing children is accepted to be worse by most people. dkdk999

Which is why dead Space 2 is so shocking at times. I've played through the campaign five times at least and still haven't really gotten over how messed up the Pack and Necromorph babies are.

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I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

Black_Knight_00

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I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

Black_Knight_00

Are we seriously making no distinction between the real world with consequences and the virtuell world? It's totally disturbing that no one makes this distinction in their arguments.

That's a good question, but I think it's even a more important question as to why include a scene in a game where a kid witnesses the murder of his parents done execution-style by the North Korean soldiers in Homefront? And yes, the woman in that game was killed, if I recall.

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I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

kaealy

Are we seriously making no distinction between the real world with consequences and the virtuell world? It's totally disturbing that no one makes this distinction in their arguments.

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[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"] So killing men is ok?Black_Knight_00

Are we seriously making no distinction between the real world with consequences and the virtuell world? It's totally disturbing that no one makes this distinction in their arguments.

You kill "children" in Bioshock aswell, it's not uncommon really.

I think it was in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, but I do recall a mission in the game where you have to earn a certain amount of money before you bring it to the kidnappers, who decided to kill the woman anyway. Some videogames can get away with that.

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sinpkr

Equal rights, they fought for it.

Equal rights, they fought for it.

SouL-Tak3R

I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

GAMESHARQ

lol get real, woman are adults too, if they banned killing woman then men too and we would have no one to kill xD

That's a good question, but I think it's even a more important question as to why include a scene in a game where a kid witnesses the murder of his parents done execution-style by the North Korean soldiers in Homefront? And yes, the woman in that game was killed, if I recall.

Metamania

You're talking as if the kid is a real child. The most of the child in real life do would cry, but not witnessing such brutatility. Regardless, that scene pisses me off- like the writers are trying to shove down our throats at koreans are eeeEBiL. So much bs really.

Games like Harvester--now that's where you outright kill life-like children who acts on green screens. Utube Harvester game floor 3.

Why does it matter if women is allowed to be depicted to be killed or not? What you deem as right may not be so for others. It's a question without a clear cut answer.

Children could be killed in the old Fallout games, but the versions you buy from digital distributors now have the kids edited out.

Children could be killed in the old Fallout games, but the versions you buy from digital distributors now have the kids edited out.

Bubble_Man

But they can be patched back in.

i find fun killing people in games but have no desire in real life, so the games turning into killers is bs, probably just wakes some already mentally disturbed people, after all is just a game.

As for tc, lol at trying to compare grown people with kids. Do you really think woman should have that kind of special treatment? woman wanted to be treated equally that goes both ways, the good and the bad

Do you really think woman should have that kind of special treatment? woman wanted to be treated equally that goes both ways, the good and the badKrelian-co

That is some really poor rationalizing. And I never said that women deserve special treatment.

My point (which you're obviously not intelligent enough to comprehend) was that if devs are so against killing children in video games based on real life taboos, they should be equally against killing women in video games. The reason devs don't put child killing in video games is because it's considered despicable in real life. But the same could be said about killing women in real life. If a man beats a woman, he's considered garbage. If a woman beats a man, it's frowned upon but not nearly as much. That's just the way society is.

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]Do you really think woman should have that kind of special treatment? woman wanted to be treated equally that goes both ways, the good and the badGAMESHARQ

That is some really poor rationalizing. And I never said that women deserve special treatment.

My point (which you're obviously not intelligent enough to comprehend) was that if devs are so against killing children in video games based on real life taboos, they should be equally against killing women in video games. The reason devs don't put child killing in video games is because it's considered despicable in real life. But the same could be said about killing women in real life. If a man beats a woman, he's considered garbage. If a woman beats a man, it's frowned upon but not nearly as much. That's just the way society is.

the only one lacking intelligence here is you, you start with "i dont think woman deserve special treatment" then you continue to compare woman to kids and basically state that it should be ok to kill man but not woman in games, shockiing surprise that is special treatment, i fail to see how killing a woman its taboo? its the same as killing a man or anyone else for that matter, kids are special because many reasons stated in this thread.

im sorry if i hurt your feelings xD

It's not a men vs women issue.

Children = not okay.

Adults = fair game.

It's not a men vs women issue.

Children = not okay.

Adults = fair game.

JediXMan7

I always thought a man killing a woman was just as bad as killing a child. Isn't that why there's an expression that says "save the women and children first"?

GAMESHARQ

In the Bioshock franchise you can kill kids.. Your not gunning them down, but 'Harvesting' them.

IMO killing anything without a weapon isn't okay. I think it'ss okay to shoot down children if they attack you with MGs, but it isn't okay to kill an unarmed woman as an exapmle ... but the ESRB seems to have their own definitions