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Arcane
Teepo said:Not everything a developer does is done because of the reaction they want to incite/avoid. People have the right to control what is and isn't included in their product, and Bethesda has made it clear that they don't want to devote resources to allow sick people to enact personal fantasies of infanticide. Its the same reason why I wouldn't expect them to include a feature that lets you rape woman and mutilate bodies. Its simply a moral black hole that the game would rather tactfully avoid rather than try to shatter the narrative tone for the sociopath market.
I don't want Elder Scrolls trying to ram hardcore dark fantasy down my throat like every pretentious RPG today, I want the game to be fun, and if people can't have fun without seeing dead children then I simply have no words for them.
Besides the point, if you just really cant get off without seeing dead children then download the mod, Bethesda won't stop you. But don't try to say that you are somehow entitled to your right to kill kids in a videogame. The only way I could see it tastefully handled is if it was similar to the original Fallouts, where killing a child resulted with all NPCs in the area turning hostile, an instant demotion to the special lowest karma rating, most quest givers/merchants refusing to talk to you and occasionally groups of bounty hunters attack, really just a non-standard gameover.
Also: cocks.
Killable children allow for meaningful escort quests involving children (little Timmy fell into a well, getting him out involves a grotto full of undead, goblins or undead goblins) and make a nice collateral damage hazard. It's also logical when you can already murder innocent adults, including women and elderly.
Besides, Deus Ex allowed you to spray little kids with tear gas, set them on fire, then blow them into tiny chunks of meat. It also tended to reward playing as at least partial pacifist, but I guess it's all merely a smokescreen to conceal its true nature - a kid murder simulator for deranged fucks.
And I don't know about dark fantasy, but one thing I don't want rammed down my throat is morality. Any morality. I have my own.
Also: cocks.
Don't want those rammed down my throat either.