Is Skyrim's Killable Children Mod Okay With You?

Skyrim's "Killable Children" mod has been quite the cause for debate across the Internet in recent months. Do you think it's a step too far down the wrong path, or is the mod just a harmless bit of fun?

[Letros]

Yes, it's just a game.

[Yi-Long]

... I don't feel children in games should somehow be magically exempt from harm, just because they're kids.

It's just strange that in a game like Fable you can't kill the kids, yet you can kill everything else. What's weirder is that a game like GTA4 doesn't even HAVE kids running around in it.

Skyrim does have kids, and when you shoot one through the head with an arrow or slash one with an axe, it's just stupid when somehow the kids is invincible.

I don't like censorship, nor self-censorship. Let the gamers decide what they do and won't do in a game, when the game is claiming to have that freedom.

It's just a game.

[JhawkFootball06]

I secretly buy games that allow me to kill children.

/s

[Gohadouken]

Always found it annoying in western rpgs . It's not about wanting to harms kids , even if ultimately who cares it's a game .

It's about the weird sense of censorship , and being bugs whenever a game that claims to let you roam free place arbitrary hurdles as such .

Just have a decent counter-punishement measure if needed .

[Legionaire2005]

Funny how a good old game like Deus EX: Invisible War for the original xbox and PC actually allow you to kill kids!!

[Krew_92]

^ That.

[adonis183]

It's ok to kill a kid in a game if his like a monster. But If it's just some random kid playing on the yard doing no harm and you kill him then that's just sick.

[cannon8800]

Sometimes the little bastards need some good old "quality time" with the old belt, or ax... which ever comes first.

[theonlylolking]

It is more cruel to kill a whole city filled with people and only the children having to fend for themselves then to have them also perish at the same time.

Anyone in their right minds would not kill anyone let alone children in real life.If killing in a game is wrong then also killing a robot that does not have a conscience, soul, spirit, etc... is wrong. A robot is just mechanical parts programmed to think how the programmer(s) programmed it to think and do. A video game is a digital image programmed to do what the programmer(s) programmed it to think and do. So if "killing" a digital image is wrong than also "killing" robots is wrong.

[NYC_Gamer]

i have no problem with the mod because the gamer isn't killing real children just pixel images

[DonaldBeck]

forget skyrim, the real issue is adults killing kids in real life.

[Hufandpuf]

even though its a game, I still have a problem with it.

[NYC_Gamer]

i hope you're not alright with killing adult/animal pixel images then.

[Hufandpuf]

Actually I am. they are over 18 and are usually trying to kill me.

[Davoh]

I'm curious, what if the children could start attacking you and trying to kill you?

[Rainstorm81]

So HUfandPuf

You have never killed any pixelated character that didnt try and kill you???

Have you played SR, GTA, GOW, Just Cause, RDR, if so im not inclined to believe you.....besides....ITS JUST A GAME!!!!!!!

[Baka-akaB]

I hope you never played and enjoyed any tomb raider then ?

Cause last i checked "you" were intruding on those wolves , bears , tigers and bats' territories and killing them to access a treasure .

[MidnytRain]

^^^^^^^^
Lol, look at everyone on this man's D. XD

[Hufandpuf]

@Davoh
I don't/Haven't even selected the bad option in Bioshock when you take the little girl's Adam.

@Raiinstorm81
Yes I've played GTA, SR, and other open world games, and yes I have killed innocent people. But those innocent people weren't children.

@Baka-akab
I don't really play Tomb Raider, but I'm pretty sure they are just animals, not children. (Edit) well then I or whoever is playing the game has no control over that. And honestly, I don't play Tomb Raider to beat the game. However the new TR looks amazing and it doesn't look like she's the one attacking this time, just trying to survive.

I can't believe people disagreed with me for ME not liking the idea of harming children.

[Baka-akaB]

Just poking fun there , and wasnt my point . You mentioned them trying to kill you .

In tomb raider you are the one attacking

[jsc249jobal]

I believe in a game of choice, you should be able to choose to kill animated children or not. It lets you murder everything else in a game and many of the living things only attack to defend their life. If you only get upset because of the children, it is because you, for whatever reason, do not see that the previous actions you have been performing are wrong in the same exact sense of killing children. You just have to be mature enough (hint MA rating) to understand the difference between reality and fiction.

I actually find a release in games that let me do things I would not normally do in the real world. In GTA 3, I became hooked because I could act like I was driving as normal and then when someone was a dick hole, which will happen when you put alot of cars on the road, I could put out my rocket laucher and blow them up or pull them out of the car and beat with a bat. It helped me with dealing with the injustices that can happen on the road, which you normally will be put in jail.

At the end of the day, it is up to each person to decide what they will and what they will not find morally unacceptable, period.

[Tose]

Exactly. I might sound a little dramatic in saying this but it's right; it's insulting that a game rated mature doesn't think people can have the ability to kill kids going on the assumption that people won't be able to tell the difference between reality and a game. and to that guy above with the owl pic- killing animals and innocent people is just as wrong as killing kids. that's why you got disagrees.

[Stickeesox]

Lol, so ur okay with adult murder but not child murder. Because the game aspect is irrelevant. If it is relevant, then why exactly is killing kids wrong? Mind you, theyre not kids. Your irrational fears are censoring things for the rest of us.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I'm against it, pixels should have a chance to grow into the Tetris blocks they could be.....

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

Just cause they are children don't mean they are exempt. I'd love to kill children in video games... but Im not Kaycee Anthony either!

[Gamer-Z]

Lol i'm always wailing on those little bastards, i just cant help it :P

[WhiteLightning]

I've seen people argue on here and on other sites in the past when this is brought up saying things like how it's sick, not cool, unacceptable etc....

but the thing is, if games allowed you to do this when gaming evolved and the feature was included without any concern then those people arguing about how "wrong" it is now would be fine playing it if it was featured when gaming evolved and was just a common everyday thing in videogames.

I hope Fallout 4 will let you do this, I can't be the only one who wanted to blow Mayor Mcreedys head off when you first enterd little lamplight and he threaterned to blow your head off.

[yezz]

yea i dont mind, its just a game.. but the thing is that some people do and i think that is the reason why for example gta doesnt even have kids... the game is already hated by stupid parents and so on, so they know there would be even more "excuses" to quit the series or something..

[HeavenlySnipes]

Am I concerned with people killing fake children in a fake world filled with Dragons and trolls? Nope

[RememberThe357]

The bigger issue is the people who want to go around killing kids. This is just a game and the goal isn't to kill children, but people going out of their way to kill kids because they're kids is just weird. I suppose I'd rather have them killing kids in a video game than in real life, but they might want to go see a shrink and work on some of their issues. Cuz if you hurt a child, they wont bother taking your backside, they'll hit you 47 times and let you bleed out in the lunch line.

But for everyone else it's not really even worth talking about.

[Gohadouken]

for the most part the argument isnt about fulfilling a need to kill kids in game , but how out of place and weird it feels in some games .

It jarringly reveal flaws in a game as Fable from the very beginning , when you first wave a weapon by accident .

Some people are fine with such oddities , other feels it breaks the immersion in game's who primary goal or at least one of them is the impression of freedom and choices .

[Stickeesox]

Then they should block killing civilians and animals too. The murder aspect is wrong in real life, if the devs are looking to censor someone's perverse goals in a game, theres no reason they should censor just one psychopaths wet dream and leave the rest. In any case, theyre not kids, you know that, i know that, the child molester next door knows it, we're all projecting. Fact of the matter is we're all going around committing atrocities in our own minds.

[RememberThe357]

I was just pointing out that it's kind of weird that people would go out of their way to kill kids, even if only in a fictional sense. That could also be attributed to half the stuff you do in GTA or Saints Row as well. But you do make a good point, and one I don't intend to argue because your right.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

It's okay...

as long as it's in our movies, ONLY!

[D3mons0ul]

You're crazy if you even care about this.

peace

[Ninjamonkey82]

"Its just a game." We coin that phrase so well don't we.

Give that term to a Psychiatrist and im sure he could cause quite the sh*tstorm :D.

End the day though it don't effect what happens in real life no matter how often these idiots write up there conculsions.

A killer will kill with are without games ffs :)Hell they force feed that to us don't they.

"And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." (Genesis 4:8 KJV)

The original killer.

Im not religious but there you go did Cain have Xbox are PS3?. don't think so lol.

[theeg]

free hat mccullough!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Stickeesox]

If I can run into a town and enter killall into the console then I should be able to lay out bickering kids. I fail to see how genocide is acceptable while baby murder is wrong. Especially when the kids aren't actual kids.

[Hyperbomb69]

some of those kids in little lamplight deserved to die....
damn pottymouths!

[Tose]

rofl, and assuming yorda is a child, she definitely deserves to die. what's more frustrating than beating away the shadow monsters in Ico? Not being able to turn around and lace Yorda with a thousand digs for how unbelievably retarded she is!

[danieldeath]

YES!! Its OK, so SHUT UP and go nag about something else!!!

[Da_Evil_Monkey]

I don't care either way. The mod is there for people to download if they choose, choosing to use it is fine, just as choosing not to use it is fine. What I have a problem with is other people forcing their own morals on people over a petty thing such as a video game mod. If you don't like it shut-up and move on, if you like the mod don't moan at people that don't download it.

[overlorduk]

Absolutely...I hate kids.

[edgeofblade]

Maybe that foul dog fighting girl might have turned out to be a very different girl if her father had administered a few fatal beatings early on.