Children?

whatusername · Jul 22, 2006

Will there be children in the game?

Vault Dweller · Jul 22, 2006

No. They play no role and are, therefore, irrelevant.

Frau Bishop · Jul 22, 2006

Like in Fallout, german version? :wink:
But, serious, how can children be irrelevant? Why don't they play a role in your design? After all they are an important part of.. well, any living society.

Vault Dweller · Jul 22, 2006

Frau Bishop said:
But, serious, how can children be irrelevant? Why don't they play a role in your design?

No idea. Didn't find a fitting role, I guess.

After all they are an important part of.. well, any living society.

So are pets, livestock, food markets, etc, yet they are not in the game. You can't buy food in the game, but you assume that it's somewhere there. Same with kids.

Claw · Jul 22, 2006

Wait.. no chickens? Talk about a letdown.

obediah · Jul 22, 2006

Will my character be able to have an abortion? Or is an unwanted child one of these consequences we've been hearing so much about?

(I promise I'm just posting this to be a smart ass, not derail this thread.)

Spazmo · Jul 22, 2006

The real reason there's no kids in this game is because of a court ruling against VD that states that he can't go anywhere near children. It was judged that designing child NPCs in a video game would be a violation of his parole.

mytgroo · Jul 23, 2006

Good reason not to put them in.

Hmm. Having them as unkillable background characters is interesting in towns. Just animations. Spiderwebsoftware does this. You will run into problems selling RPGs in Europe if you put kids in weirdly violent situations with kids. The sensors will get you-- they had Fallout remove the kids from the gam. There was a quest to cure a sick child in one of the games. If you are playing with factions-- having characters who will inherit position makes sense. Royals and lords have placeholders.

kingcomrade · Jul 23, 2006

yurop sux

Stalin · Jul 23, 2006

How about midgets dressed up as children that would get the censors of your back

Elwro · Jul 23, 2006

You could call them "hobbbits" to avoid a suit from The Tolkien (tm) Enterprises (c)(tm)(wtf).

Bradylama · Jul 25, 2006

What about children informants, or families with children? Kids are easily manipulable, it was impossible to come up with a way for a child to play a role in a quest or something? Children could have also been a part of the 40 Thieves.

I don't know. I know it's not my game, but you couldn't think of roles for children to play?

whatusername · Jul 26, 2006

I have another question.

Can you make your character masturbate using the 'streetsmarts' skill?

FrancoTAU · Aug 1, 2006

What about kid lookouts for the thieves guild. I always dug that part in a good fantasy book.

merry andrew · Aug 2, 2006

whatusername said:
Can you make your character masturbate using the 'skeetsmarts' skill?

fixed

Leo Valesko · Oct 2, 2006

I don't really think that children or chickens are really vital to the RPG. Unless you want all of the RPG's to be Fable-clones

Stark · Oct 2, 2006

whatusername said:
Will there be children in the game?

VD said:
No

We finally figured out which part of anatomy that AoD folks "decadence" off.

Greatatlantic · Oct 2, 2006

Spazmo said:
The real reason there's no kids in this game is because of a court ruling against VD that states that he can't go anywhere near children. It was judged that designing child NPCs in a video game would be a violation of his parole.

Save it for the news posts, Spazmo.

Immortality · Oct 3, 2006

I do think children/chickens/markets/etc are relevant to the game, simple because its a RPG.

Id probably wouldnt want to have children in Battlefield II, as its a FPS, but when you are creating a game so extensive and with so many options, people and cities as AoD then the thing changes...

The storyline is no doubt for grown-ups, but that doesnt mean you can insert a child NPC here and there. I am a Baldur's Gate lover, and you had some small kids running around, and of course, chickens.

They dont really need to have big parts in the game, but it definitelly adds to it. Take the Morrowind mod that adds children for example.

Now... another and way different thing to think about is the amount of time and work that creating children and putting them in game as a mere diversion for the eyes takes. ...then thinking about this, probably making children isnt a priority.

Vault Dweller · Oct 3, 2006

Immortality said:
...then thinking about this, probably making children isnt a priority.

Pretty much. It's always a matter of time, and we're already running out of it.

JrK · Oct 3, 2006

Elwro said:
You could call them "hobbbits" to avoid a suit from The Tolkien (tm) Enterprises (c)(tm)(wtf).

That's like butter spread over too much bread.

Jim Kata · Oct 3, 2006

If I can't roleplay as Le Daupin, that makes me sad.

suibhne · Oct 4, 2006

There goes the Mark Foley role-playing option.

/low-hanging fruit

jiujitsu · Oct 4, 2006

suibhne said:
There goes the Mark Foley role-playing option.

/low-hanging fruit

Haha!

Well, you could just drop the console and type in sexually explicit things to an imaginary 16 year old boy. You won't get a reply, but I doubt he always did anyway. :lol:

Cruces · Oct 13, 2006

are there at least women in the game? I can't see any female char screenshots from the gallery

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