Should adopted kids be allowed to die? : V

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:45 am

You know, for realism. Im not saying beth should allow us as the players to kill children, but maybe the adopted kids should be allowed to be killed by hostile NPC's (what is the point of protecting your home from giants and rats like the trailer shows, if your the only one who can be killed by those things?). This game is rated M after all.

Or maybe something like disease could potentially kill your adopted child (perhaps a quest in which your kid gets a horrible illness and you have to make/find a cure before he/she dies)? Or should there be no true threats to children at all?

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:29 pm

Hmm.... Maybe run away. but i could never see death as an option,

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:35 pm

They should for immersion purposes, but it won't happen.

It would be pretty awsome to go on a personal quest to hunt down the bandit chief responsible for ordering the attack that killed your children.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:39 pm

Dead kids are not an option.
Bethesda is not the only game company to observe this rule.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:27 am

Well the rule is more like no kid killing simulating (I really don't want to turn this thread into that).

I think it'd be interesting if your children could die of an illness, however. Maybe even kidnapped by bandits. IIRC, in Fable II there was a quest where your kid got lost in a cave of hobbits, which were children that mutated into nasty little monsters. Imagine your kid getting lost in a cave of Falmer? Or being held ransom by some bandits? Of course this shouldn't happen if you have a good enough security (now that you can turn followers into bodyguards, WHOA). It'd be pretty cool.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:06 pm

Umm.. Well I don't wanna be Casey Anthony 2.0.. If that was the question

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:11 pm

Bethesda won't do it. There's a reason why children are essential.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:20 pm

They are the future of Skyrim they are far to essential to die.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:47 am

They are the future of Skyrim they are far to essential to die.

So the 10 kids in skyrim is the future of Skyrim? The population will go from 1000 -->20

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:49 am

How are children the future if the Thalmor are going to delete Skyrim from Nirn?

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:35 pm

How are children the future if the Thalmor are going to delete Skyrim from Nirn?

Perhaps if somebody sent all the thalmor ahead in time like they did the dragons.. Problem solved..

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:16 pm

People can see kids die in movies, or read about a child dying in a book. So if kids die in other parts of fiction, why not in a video game?

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:12 pm

People can see kids die in movies, or read about a child dying in a book, so why not a video game?

No you mean why not a Bethesda game.. Because im sure there are games that allow it..

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:58 pm

So the 10 kids in skyrim is the future of Skyrim? The population will go from 1000 -->20

Hey there are still people who are able to have children, and some people may move to Skyrim at a certain age.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:10 pm

Hey there are still people who are able to have children, and some people may move to Skyrim at a certain age.

Lets remember.. Skyrim is the land of the Nords.. Last time I checked Nords aren't flocking to skyrim..

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:00 pm

How are children the future if the Thalmor are going to delete Skyrim from Nirn?

Nirn will have immortals. Unless no one has been decapitated by someone yelling, "There can only be one!" already. *checks* Nirn is full of sick people.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:44 pm

No you mean why not a Bethesda game.. Because im sure there are games that allow it..

Ok then, why not a beth game?

I was wondering, has any beth game (even those that arn't elder scrolls) ever shown a child being killed?

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:26 pm

Because the game would be vilified in the media. Sales would plummet and many countries would refuse it classification. In the old Fallout games you could kill children. With modern graphics it's a different story.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 2:45 pm

No you mean why not a Bethesda game.. Because im sure there are games that allow it..

It's odd that in GTA, you never see any kids walking around...
Child slaughter in video games would very much be frowned upon because it is YOU the player, doing it. If it were in a cutscene and the big bad guy was killing an innocent little girl, it'd be acceptable because it was for the advancement of the plot like in a movie or in a book. But video games are interactive, and the media thinks that kids are influenced by the things they are able to do in video games.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 3:40 pm

Soccer Moms and the ESRB would never allow it.

Also, this is destined to be locked, cause kids dying is not allowed in Soviet Bethesda. ;D

(I humbly jest and am trying to be silly)

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:04 am

It's odd that in GTA, you never see any kids walking around...

For a reason.. They are really annoying..

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:49 am

Soccer Moms and the ESRB would never allow it.

Also, this is destined to be locked, cause kids dying is not allowed in Soviet Bethesda. ;D

(I humbly jest and am trying to be silly)

I was going to post a bunch of inb4locks, then decided that vikings singing about spam was a terrible punishment.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 2:43 pm

Because the game would be vilified in the media. Sales would plummet and many countries would refuse it classification. In the old Fallout games you could kill children. With modern graphics it's a different story.

It's not like Fallout though where you can hack people's limbs off. In the Elder Scrolls it acts like you are beating people to daeth with baseball bats. It wouldn't be anymore violent than what Bully is. The only diffence is that the kids won't move or talk.

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:41 am

I was going to post a bunch of inb4locks, then decided that vikings singing about spam was a terrible punishment.

http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g322/Incarnadine_Vagrant/inB4.gif

» Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:19 pm

It's odd that in GTA, you never see any kids walking around...

Maybe in GTAV. The guy in the trailer mentions he has kids.