I really don't want to. Please don't make someone ask for their skins for a quest.
And please don't make their fur a necessary component in crafting. I love crafting, but I also love cute animals. The anguish would probably tear me apart.
It would be by far the most difficult moral dilemma that Bioware has ever put in front of me.
Oh geez... another guy that would never have survived in ancient times. "Me hungry. Me wanna eat. There pig. Won't kill pig - to cute. Me starve." - lol.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GAMES. Do you really feel guilty by killing pixels and polygones? So you rather shoot Humans than animals? That's sooooo awkward.
How did humanity ever achieve getting on top of the food chain? Beyond me.
I probably wouldn't survive in ancient times either. Mostly because I don't live in ancient times and don't need to have the same skillset that they need.
No need to get on a poster's case because they prefer to not kill animals in games. This type of agency is what I love about video gaming.
what i meant is this increasing behavior of treating animals like humans - hell, sometimes even better.
And what we're talking about here ain't even a real living beeing. We're talking about a part of a game... a programm an artificial thing consisting on 0 and 1.
So why are there people flipping out about something which is usual in real life and even more in a mevieval society, which Dragon Age expresses?
The same kind of people who buy their leather-shoes and jackets not thinking about the animals which died for it in real.
The same kind of people who angers the noise of children playing in the afternoon but not the barking of their dog at 3:00 oclock in the morning.
The same kind of people who don't care shooting a bazillion of humans in Far cry 3 but don't like to kill some deer for it's leather.
So i don't care what sort of animal it is in the GAME. If there's meaning in killing it (for crafting or XP) i do. And i won't feel bad because i know how to differ betwen reality and a virtual world inside a game.
Is anyone suggesting that you should feel bad? Are people flipping out or was this thread mostly created for fun (because I took the OP to be more playful in nature).
I'll admit I went over the thread stupendously quickly so I may have missed some of that.
You could argue that the the indifference towards killing people, but not cute animals, is perhaps a result of our desensitization towards violence towards people. Or we feel that a human's are less innocent than animals? There's a host of reasons that someone may not want to kill cute animals in a video game. Those reason's are theirs alone and shouldn't affect you. I don't think appealing to the realism nature of medieval society is particularly relevant either.
You're right, it's just a game. So if people don't want to kill cute critters that's up to them. Note, I'm not saying that we have (or have not) taken this feedback and adjusted content to fall in line with it.
Aggressive... hmm... maybe... it just seems so unbelievable unreasonable.
All this "ah sweet, innocent animal" and "bad, mean human"
I go for: if something is accepted as usual und regular in real life, why not in games? If killing humans and humanlike-beings in games has become standard as usual, then animals should be all the more.
Well, in real life you get save the pandas campaigns, and outcries against hunting baby seals. I'm of the opinion that a large part of this is because of the cuteness each animal has for a lot of people (not all).
But ain't that the saddest thing? Caring more for pandas and baby seals than for children starving in africa?
Geez, i don't say : goo and kill'em all, but why all this controversial now and especial in a field where it's standart for more than 20 years: digital media knonw as "games"?
No one ever felt bad for all the Koopa-Tropers, rats, bats and all the other stuff that players killed or hunted in games back then. So why now?
And still i want to express that it's about something that never really lived - other than real life animals: game models. If it wasn't a fox but a deer or bugbear, would the outcry be the same? Is that all what matters: Cuteness?
Has anyone here stated that they are "caring more for pandas and baby seals than for children starving in africa?"
If you don't understand why people might not want to kill cute creatures, I think it's best for you to simply concede that "you don't understand" because continuing to post in this thread doesn't come across as any sort of attempt to understand, but rather to tell other people that you feel their priorities are wrong. It's okay to not understand or to not relate with their position.
You're giving me achievement suggestion ideas...
Evidently the deepstalkers were originally slated to be spiders. Lots and lots and lots of spiders.
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