Children

[Corto 34]

Haha, having children would be sick. If I find it difficult to decide whether to shoot someone wielding a ranged weapon right now, I think it would more difficult if I see a child with a weapon. Things could get really dark.

[burkino_026@yahoo.com 14]

Haha, having children would be sick. If I find it difficult to decide whether to shoot someone wielding a ranged weapon right now, I think it would more difficult if I see a child with a weapon. Things could get really dark.

watch Memorial Day and 71 Into The Fire for examples.

[mareak 50]

why not this is a good idea. DayZ need to be unique in its own way so that the game become more interesting and can be play for a long time. 

[glowfow@hotmail.com 55]

What if instead of spawning as a child, players would actually need to "make" them ?

There are already male and female characters ingame but so far only one of the fundamental aspect of our life is represented.

Love is something completely absent of the game mechanics.

 

You could choose to meet with another character for the opposite sex and...well...have babies !

No need to add unnecessary controversy, you wouldn't see anything. You'd need, say, one of those small tent, you'd enter it with another player and that's it ! That's how babies are done in DayZ :)

 

Now the female character would get pregnant for some time. She would need more food, would run slowler and be less agile.

After a while a baby would born. At first he could be just represented as an item you constantly need to carry.

If you take good care of him, feed him, keep him warm, etc he would eventually become a playable character.

This would open a "child" slot in the server. The parents could either choose who is spawning into their child or not.

 

That might take it a bit far and make it even more of a hassle to implement, but I like it! "Shut him up honey, they're hearing us!" .... "Not with the g'damn rattle!" *gives off hateful look and cocks gun for approaching bandits*.

 

It's a bit of an alternative route to 'end' game instead of boarding up houses, maintaining vehicles and building bases. What would happen to the baby if you can't find anyone to spawn into the child though? Just remain a baby? Turn into an NPC child (I wouldn't like this)? Or cannibalism?

 

Also with pregnant woman there might be another reason to refrain from KoS because of RL implications with more emotional involvement than any artificial system would.

[Kumo420 1]

I think it would be awesome to play as a child/teen, or to be-friend another player (Who is a child.) I think it wouldn't be that "Controversial" to be able to play as a child character, I mean you can choose to play a girl. And people, you got to remember its a CHOICE, just like the choice to play female. (I've seen more horrible things done to woman in this game than males.) And of course there is going to be those sick headed people who will do that kinda f***ed up stuff to children/teen and woman. But their would be those kind of people in-real life, there is people like that living right now as we speak. This game is suppose to be an interpretation/simulation of an actual Zombie Apocalypse. Murder, Rape, and Banditry would happen if there was an actual apocalypse. There is no doubt about it. There is a lot worse things in other games then killing children or pregnant women, take GTA V for an example, you can walk into any strip joint and get lap dances, etc. You can see the strippers tits, ass and everything the good lord gave her. How is that more acceptable then killing a child or a pregnant women? Sex in video games makes much more sense then simple killing... Right? Not in my opinion. I mean if your that upset or have that much of problem that a child got stabbed, shot, stripped, handcuffed, then murdered. Then what are you doing playing this game? This game is rated NC-17 or 18+ (Depends where you live.) Go play a different game if you can't handle it or if your mental ability can't handle it, this is a VIDEO GAME people remember that. The most scary thing is what I'm about to say right now...

 

I find what you do in this game is a "Mirror" or a "Reflection" of what you would do in-real life when those kind of situations are brought to you. So... How are you going to handle it? Or can you even handle it?

[So Sexy 259]

Have any of you never played any other of the games I've mentioned? NMRIH, TLOU, The Phantom Menace, The Incredible Hulk, the old Deus Ex games?

In ALL of those you can kill children living or undead, or be a child and freaking die brutal deaths? No big fuss over those!

But none of those is a sandbox game, with an incredible amount of sadistic players.

[Pandema 352]

Child zombies would be fine.

 

But with the amount of shit we can do to other people in this game I think being able to play them would be a bit far....I know its a game and all but stumbling upon a child who's been stripped, cuffed, and has a bag over their heads and is dying from being poisoned is a little much.

[Duenan 226]

I don't understand how Bethesda is able to have children in Fallout 3/New Vegas and nobody complains.

 

I seriously think we're past the "OMG a kid in a game lets' be offended"

 

Nobody complained about Ellie in the last of Us DLC literally partially severing a zombies head or in the main game stabbing a grown man to death

 

Some countries would ban it (not that it matters people will get bogus copies anyways) but I think the main reason they won't implement children is because of marketing.

 

(Even though bad press would actually be a positive and probably get even more people to buy the game)

[Duenan 226]

Also dont forget people

 

In case you never heard of the movie Kickass or Kickass 2 the idea of a young kid dismembering adults is not really as raunchy as you might think.

[Chaingunfighter 917]

I don't understand how Bethesda is able to have children in Fallout 3/New Vegas and nobody complains.

 

I seriously think we're past the "OMG a kid in a game lets' be offended"

 

Nobody complained about Ellie in the last of Us DLC literally partially severing a zombies head or in the main game stabbing a grown man to death

 

Some countries would ban it (not that it matters people will get bogus copies anyways) but I think the main reason they won't implement children is because of marketing.

 

(Even though bad press would actually be a positive and probably get even more people to buy the game)

 

The stuff you can do in DayZ is many, many times more sadistic than what happens in TLOU. 

[Duenan 226]

The stuff you can do in DayZ is many, many times more sadistic than what happens in TLOU. 

 

Fallout is even worse especially with some of the mods. But thats not the issue. The issue is probably marketing. Since places like Austrailia would insta-ban the game

 

Still I think it would give the game a bit more depth if you could either have zombie kids or choose to have your character be an old guy or a young kid. Or perhaps a fat guy

[Pandema 352]

I don't understand how Bethesda is able to have children in Fallout 3/New Vegas and nobody complains.

 

I seriously think we're past the "OMG a kid in a game lets' be offended"

 

Nobody complained about Ellie in the last of Us DLC literally partially severing a zombies head or in the main game stabbing a grown man to death

 

Some countries would ban it (not that it matters people will get bogus copies anyways) but I think the main reason they won't implement children is because of marketing.

 

(Even though bad press would actually be a positive and probably get even more people to buy the game)

It's not "OMG a kid in a game let's be offended!" TLOU and and the Fallout games aren't DayZ.

In TLOU you don't have the option to brutally murder Ellie, you can't strip her and but a bag on her head. In Bethesda games children can't be killed unless you download a 3rd party mod. 

 

And I think the Aussies would love it if they could play this game as well.

[burkino_026@yahoo.com 14]

make it a mod then. There. Everybody's happy!

[mithrawndo 166]

I simply don't understand why any of the things being done to adults in this game are any worse when applied to a child? I could understand why the game might because of these acts being possible that in in morally condescending regions it might garner a severe age restriction, but as to the acts being purported to a child as opposed to an adult? Doesn't murder and torture carry the same sentence regardless of the victims age? More importantly, shouldn't it? Why therefore are we even entertaining the principle that it is somehow "more wrong" to allow this to happen to polygonal children?

 

One of the more bizarre threads I've read. People in this thread talking about folks needing to "get help"? Definite cases of pot calling the kettle black on the go!

 

TL;DR - either it's all okay, or none of it is.

[gemellus 77]

I'm okay with evidence of kids, like toys and kids rooms, but I really don't care for adding children zombies.

[Eight Ball 26]

Funny how those white knights jump on anyone suggesting to add children in the game and on the other hand they don't give a flying fuck that their entire PC setup, their clothes, their shoes and the vast majority of stuff they buy for pure enjoyment is build by 12 years old in Asia.

 

I guess that's how those virtuous people cope with the fact that in reality they're just selfish Aholes like everyone else...

 

People have a lot of beliefs... and tend to live by none of them.

Edited March 2, 2014 by Sooke

[glowfow@hotmail.com 55]

People have a lot of beliefs... and tend to live by none of them.

 

Hypocracy; the 2nd most recorded thing that comes out of people's mouths, right after breathing.

 

[Chaingunfighter 917]

Fallout is even worse especially with some of the mods. But thats not the issue. The issue is probably marketing. Since places like Austrailia would insta-ban the game

 

Still I think it would give the game a bit more depth if you could either have zombie kids or choose to have your character be an old guy or a young kid. Or perhaps a fat guy

With mods, yes, but we're talking core DayZ Standalone here. The most I've ever seen with mods is just to allow you to kill them, the more sadistic Fallout/Skyrim mods do not apply to in-game children. DayZ allows you to strip people down, tie them up and force feed them rotten food, poison, even bullets! That goes further than just killing them.

 

Besides all of the problems that come with having children in the game, they also have to set up a new skeletal structure and sizing and would have to justify clothes specifically for them. 

[mithrawndo 166]

Again, why is it so horrid to think of these acts being done to a pixelated, polygonal child as opposed to an adult of the same? The act and it's perpetrator are the sickening bit that should be reviled, not the victim.

 

Besides all of the problems that come with having children in the game, they also have to set up a new skeletal structure and sizing and would have to justify clothes specifically for them.

 

The latter half of this sentence is however, a very good point.

[Chaingunfighter 917]

Again, why is it so horrid to think of these acts being done to a pixelated, polygonal child as opposed to an adult of the same? The act and it's perpetrator are the sickening bit that should be reviled, not the victim.

 

I'm not speaking (mainly) from my point of view, but moreso of other players and general society. Allowing the same things done to adults in-game to be done to children is not something I can imagine would go well for BIS and countries like Australia and Germany would probably ban it. Left 4 Dead 2 was nearly banned there just because the zombie gore was "too high", and Valve had to remove gore from the clientside views of players in those countries. For a game like DayZ, I'm not sure how they would remove a clientside action which can be performed by anyone to be seen by anyone without limiting players of banned countries to specific servers. It wouldn't be worth the trouble of that, at least to me.

 

I will admit, however, that it would be unnerving to watch the cruel things happening to someone essentially helpless, ala children. Also note that realistically they'd have to be weaker with punching/melee, carry less, have more weapon recoil and run slightly slower, so most people wouldn't honestly play as a child unless they were roleplaying, trolling, or actually wanted to see said sickening things.

Edited March 2, 2014 by Chaingunfighter

[NagsterTheGangster 388]

Children players, I don't think so, although personally I'd be down for it. Just as you said id do the whole RP family thing lol or use my kid to trick survivors for me to rob lol. But now zombie children, I cant see being too far fetched? Ive played games with zombie children and shit alike that before and theyre quite often scary as fuck!

 

But quite frankly I don't draw the line very close on anything lol. So maybe its just me.

 

p.s. Buddy makes a great point, the way you can make people drink disinfectant etc would shut this shit down soooo fast