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Do You Ever Feel Bad for Killing Enemies in Games?
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I always feel for the Yakuza who harass me in the streets when I play the Yakuza games. Straight up it's a slaughter for them. Like yeah I started the fight by bumping into them but I doubt they realized I was about to unleash a hell storm of pain on them.
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Yes I do. Realistic representation of innocent humans and animals npc I do feel bad.
I rather shoot demons, zombies and robots/cyborgs
I rather shoot demons, zombies and robots/cyborgs
Yes, especially mook that are only doing their job. Example : Guards in Dishonored.
Enemies in Division :
Cleaners : Straight up insane, their want to burn everyone to death including civilian.
LMB : Private Military Corps.
Rikers : Escaped convicts killing everyone with uniform (police, firemen, medic, etc), often in gruesome way.
Rioters : Thugs, gang members and criminals.
Enemies in Division :
Cleaners : Straight up insane, their want to burn everyone to death including civilian.
LMB : Private Military Corps.
Rikers : Escaped convicts killing everyone with uniform (police, firemen, medic, etc), often in gruesome way.
Rioters : Thugs, gang members and criminals.
No I actually enjoy it. In multiplayer games Ill do the john wick or mafia style low double tap on knocked characters in fortnite.
Hate killing dogs.
The moment I know the goons have enemies I struggle. MGS2 with the dog tags was very effective for this. For whatever reason, the moment I have a name, the illusion just dissipates.
Hitman Blood Money obviously with its first mission. Hitman 2 is also very good at setting up stories for your targets and the people around said target.
The moment I know the goons have enemies I struggle. MGS2 with the dog tags was very effective for this. For whatever reason, the moment I have a name, the illusion just dissipates.
Hitman Blood Money obviously with its first mission. Hitman 2 is also very good at setting up stories for your targets and the people around said target.
Shadow of the colossus.
:( poor things. Just wandering the world and I come along and kill them. Sad.
:( poor things. Just wandering the world and I come along and kill them. Sad.
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Story? Context? Design? Reason? Same reason you'd feel anything playing any type of game.
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Not really, no. Actually, the more cruel, gruesome and realistic the better.
It's just a game, let me be the monster.
It's just a game, let me be the monster.
I don't like killing humans and never really have. I don't like to play CoD, GTA, RDR, and many others because of it.
It's part of why I have traditionally preferred Xbox over Playstation, actually. Halo and Gears you aren't killing humans, Uncharted and Last of Us, you are. I played Last of Us and I did like it but I didn't love it partially because of that. Uncharted also makes me feel icky.
Oddly, I love Borderlands tho and it never bothers me in that game. Art style? Never taking itself seriously? Not sure exactly why it doesn't bother me there.
It's part of why I have traditionally preferred Xbox over Playstation, actually. Halo and Gears you aren't killing humans, Uncharted and Last of Us, you are. I played Last of Us and I did like it but I didn't love it partially because of that. Uncharted also makes me feel icky.
Oddly, I love Borderlands tho and it never bothers me in that game. Art style? Never taking itself seriously? Not sure exactly why it doesn't bother me there.
Hmmmm maybe I just don't have empathy when it comes to games.
Yeah I wanted to try and get into it but once I read the animals limp away and whimper...nope.
I didn't kill the doctors. I made no such choice whatsover. The game did it for me I had no part in it so I felt no guilt. I did however feel anger.
Sif in Dark Souls actually starts to limp after taking enough damage
Basically everyone in Undertale but special shoutout to Sans and Papyrus
Xion in KH 358/2 Days. By the end she's adopted a "I kill you or you kill me" outlook and is actively goading you into fighting her. It's heartbreaking
Basically everyone in Undertale but special shoutout to Sans and Papyrus
But Papyrus is already dead and people feel bad about killing him...
Playing Days Gone right now and feel bad whenever I kill scavenger types.
It's a cruel world yo.
It's a cruel world yo.
I get that view. But in my mind, I was forced to just like Joel felt he was forced to. I still hit the buttons.
Usually not but there was that one mission in Phantom Pain....
You know the one I'm talking about.
You know the one I'm talking about.
Only in Shadow of the Colossus.
The only other time recently that I remember felling bad was in Red Dead Redemption 2,I shot a stag's leg and he ran for a few yards limping until he fells, when I got close he seemed to be agonizing of pain, so I finished the job.But this is not a enemie.
The only other time recently that I remember felling bad was in Red Dead Redemption 2,I shot a stag's leg and he ran for a few yards limping until he fells, when I got close he seemed to be agonizing of pain, so I finished the job.But this is not a enemie.
Only the first doctor with scalpel is forced to kill.The others don't.I never killed the others.
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I usually don't kill everything on sight and I do pacifist runs when the game gives me the option. Of course it depends on the game.
I feel that lots of people are missing the point, yes they are pixels moved by lines of code, but they are still visual representations (realistic or not) of people, animals and their stories. Like movies, even though the situation presented is purely fictional and no one is getting hurt, there is still an emotional response and that's perfectly normal.
I feel that lots of people are missing the point, yes they are pixels moved by lines of code, but they are still visual representations (realistic or not) of people, animals and their stories. Like movies, even though the situation presented is purely fictional and no one is getting hurt, there is still an emotional response and that's perfectly normal.
Not enemies, but I do feel like more and more RPGs are putting more of an emphasis on hunting and it's getting worse. Now there's games like GoW and Days Gone, which I love both games, but they basically have you shoot a deer and wait for it to bleed out. Now we have animals not even dying right away and have to show them suffer. They seem to also be getting more and more graphic with the skinning and butchering afterwards.
I wouldn't mind if they just went back to, you shoot it, its dead, press a button, collect it's things.
I wouldn't mind if they just went back to, you shoot it, its dead, press a button, collect it's things.
For some dumb reason I still have feelings of regret over killing two characters in the matrix game for Xbox/ps2. I think it was called Enter the Matrix.
First level is an airport looking place/company and as you come in you can either let the helpless innocent security guard go or kill them. And I killed them then immediately thought to myself these men were in theory coming in to clock in clock out, getting a low wage, are begging you to spare them with no violence from their end, have digital families and I just killed them.
I felt like shit my whole playthrough haha.
First level is an airport looking place/company and as you come in you can either let the helpless innocent security guard go or kill them. And I killed them then immediately thought to myself these men were in theory coming in to clock in clock out, getting a low wage, are begging you to spare them with no violence from their end, have digital families and I just killed them.
I felt like shit my whole playthrough haha.
Shadow of Rome on Ps2. You can dismember enemies and their are times when you hack off both thier arms so they just sorta helplessly meander about.
Oh how I wish for a sequel or even a port/remake...
Oh how I wish for a sequel or even a port/remake...