A former developer of the Slenderman inspired mod Faceless has started his own free-to-play game using the Unreal Engine. It has just started conceptual stages and is called Alas Mortis.
Justin from Pixel Gate writes:
A controversial topic. Should killable children be implemented into games, or is it just plain wrong? It all depends on how the developers incorporate it, and if it’s not done in bad taste, so it very much relies on the execution of the whole thing (no pun intended).
Honestly many gamers ask for realism and so far certain games like Skyrim all are judge on a moral code, so if you want to be evil, give players that option. It is all about choice.
Yeah it's fine.
If a kid can't handle it, then his parents shouldn't be letting him play it.
I don't think developers and publishers would mind but they fear by implementing such feature would result in a public backlash. Not only that but the ESRB would definitely give it an Adult Only rating. Which mean popular retailers would opt out carrying the game. Which means less sales.
Remember what happen with MoH(2010) MP that allow you play as the Taliban? If killing children was allowed we having an incident 10X worse than what happen with MoH.
I wouldn't have a problem with unkillable children in Skyrim if Bethesda didn't make them such dicks. It's like they purposely make children say things that make you mad and make them unkillable just to mess with you.
That is exactly the point I made. The whole unkillable children thing would be fine if those kids wasn't so damn rude.
Developers go out of their way to make kids so damn annoying in games that you would have to be a saint to not want to kill them. The kids in Skyrim are so rude and Fallout has annoying kids as well. Developers do that crap on purpose because they know they have set the kids to being immune to death.
People seek out kill kids mods for games, not because they want to kill kids in a game but because they are sick and tired of this annoying npc being the rudest character in the GAME and getting away with it. It would be one think if these kids actually behaved like well mannered children, but they don't.
Not really pro or against it , i dont even feel like doing it . the problem is that some games insist on publicizing the impression you can do whatever you want , and then force kids in the game or even subs stories , that are portrayed in a more annoying way than in real life . So it can be an immersion breaker and grievance .
In the same way some of us used to feel aggravated by games with pre rendered cgi backgrounds , on wich very little interraction where possible . leading to stuff like a bazooka wielder being stuck in front of an almost broken wooden fence
I doubt so few people didnt feel like strangling some of the kids from the Fable 1 prologue . Well at least most people i knew that heard the french version wanted to :p
Yeah french dubs are horrible (I actually got in a car accident once driving in a snow storm because they gave me the french version of Mass Effect. I was like wtf I specifically asked for english- anyway)... but pre-rendered backgrounds are pure awesome. Final Fantasy VII to IX, Baldur's Gate and all the other IE games.
Still the killing kids thing I don't really get it. I don't think I ever tried killing a kid in Skyrim.
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“Alas Mortis” revolves around a group of ten humans trying to survive against a bat-like demonoid hunting them down in a variety of environments.
I’m aiming to get it on early access on Steam, but for right now we’re in the very early stages revolving around minor bits of programming, modelling, level design, and mostly concept work. Today, I’ll be showing off our newest character reveal, Amelia Stuart and hopefully we won’t see too much controversy for putting her in-game.
I know it's hard to say this with it being a touchy subject, the most obvious response is "You want to kill children" but I'm glad a developer is not scared of this sort of stuff. It killed Fallout 3 for me in some ways because I just feel like having invincible characters ruins the flow of the game which is about surviving and morale choices.
I mean that Mayor Mcreedy guy in Little Lamp Light when it threatens to "blow your head off", I was like "you little s*** who the hell do you think you are" as I raised my shotgun to him but realized I couldn't hurt him
Imagine accidentally killing someones child in Fallout or Elder Scrolls only for their parents to either send assassins/Mercs on you or end up trying to kill you themselves in a random event. It would defiantly add some tough morale choices in the game
Not to mention I find it off how games like GTA for example don't have children walking around the streets or schools for the matter.
The closest thing i can think of in a mainstream game is in Prey where you see a young kid get impaled on a pole by a possessed kid.
http://youtu.be/5QEt7UZdaEE
here is the link if you guys want to check it out. Disturbing in every possible way, and provocative
Dead Space 2 exploding babies we're pretty close....but since they are necromorphs it apparently doesn't count....it's fine /s
If they are infected I don't see why Zombie kids are a problem in Zombie games
@itisallaboutps
I know, that really shocked me when i played it all those years ago. I think that game's super underrated. Obviously the gunplay is a little meh but the atmosphere is cool, gun designs are cool, and the puzzles and effects are still awesome and fresh. I think if the game actually sold well enough that would've been all over Fox and CNN.
so you tried killing kids in fallout and because they didn't die it ruined the flow? what kinda sick bastard are you :P
@Foxtrot Oh god i hated Lamp Light! i wanted murder that POS mayor lol.
I don't know if anyone remembers a little gem on the PS2/Xbox called:
The Suffering: Ties that Bind, awesome game that was. Anyway, there was one part of the game where you can kill a baby for evil karma, seriously, although the baby was covered by a blanket.
And then the media comes in...
I'm pretty happy that they're taking a risk with this. There were so many times in FFXIII where I wished Hope would just die. We see children and teens die in movies all the time. Hell, The Last of Us had a depressing opening which hit me right in the feels.
And on the PS2 in "clock Tower 3" you saw a little girl get bludgeoned by a ghost with a giant sledgehammer. I didn't see that one coming. added a whole new level of fear to the game
Yup the media will hit them hard. They will be blamed for whatever bad happens in the next 10 years... sadly
The older Fallout games used to have the option to do this as well until they got Bethesda'd.
This game will be pirated a lot and sell 'okay' because of this one thing alone. It is kinda sad, but at least they are getting their name out there, which can end up being a huge positive in the long run.
That said, I can't wait for Fox News to get wind of this (and the article :p) and turn it into another "Mass Effect is all about having sex" segment.
Justin from TMSGamer drops some details about the upcoming indie-horror game by Fiddlehead Games titled 'Alas Mortis'. They reveal a playable character which draws inspiration from a certain rabbit in Silent Hill, and talk more about the modes that will expected in the game upon release.
