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BioShock: Are you comfortable killing little girls?

xsynergyx | August 24, 2007 | News | PC XBOX 360 
A Massachusetts paper accuses BioShock of its gameplay, saying that gamers have a choice of either killing 'Little Sisters' for maxed out strength or saving them, but only getting half of killing them. Some gamers are a bit uncomfortable going around killing little girls and this could arouse some problems since if you spare them, you'll be half as successful. What do you do?
Rather than marginalize gaming as a weapon of mass destruction, the article accurately describes the gameplay in which players decide if they want to terminate the "Little Sisters" for maximum strength, or rescuing the little boogers for only half the "serum."

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  • 0 thumbs!
    Vito Raliffe | August 25, 2007
    I haven't harvested a single Little Sister yet. Why? Cause when games give me moral choices, I always try and play as myself the first time through. Even if they aren't considered a little girl, if they look and act like one I would feel like shit if I killed it. I actually got a 200 Adam bonus after saving a few anyways.
    • 0 thumbs!
      FRoGBuster | August 25, 2007
      interesting insight. I wonder if it's a moral dilemma if they put in little boys.
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    Play ISDF | August 25, 2007
    I knew this was gonna come from someone sometime soon.

    If you have a major problem with the game, don't play it. If you can't follow that advice, then please, go put yourself in a mental hospital and request a straight-jacket and a lot of meds.
  • -1 thumbs!
    Final Blade | August 25, 2007
    it won't matter, stuff like this is like sugar for
    JT type people.
  • 0 thumbs!
    chaosmonkix | August 25, 2007
    in the countless hours i've put into this game since release i can remember many times i have thought "omg, i should use my plasmid powers to steal the adam from my neighbors daughter." wow small world, i guess me and the people that run that paper have something in common, we are sick and twisted indeed.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Silver Mirror | August 25, 2007
    Putting children in a violent game has always been a morale dilemma in the game industry, Bethasda with Fallout 3 in particular are trying to deciding whether to include children
  • 3 thumbs!
    Theory of Chaos | August 25, 2007
    If you're not willing to kill a little girl for power, then I guess you really don't want power.

    Jesus, it's a video game. Video games are just that... games. Playing Monopoly doesn't make me want to have an imperium on the world. Playing this won't make me kill little girls. I hope.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Riku31069 | August 25, 2007
      Agreed. This is just a video game, so leave it be. But killing people is a serious offence, so I try not to do them.
  • 1 thumbs!
    iLLmatic | August 25, 2007
    I've been harvesting so much I should start building my own farm. Really though (and I can't say it enough), its a damn videogame and in this case, they're not even human. Seriously, find a hobby.
  • 0 thumbs!
    FRoGBuster | August 25, 2007
    ask yourself: are you comfortable with killing in the first place?
    What are you really asking when you are trying to distinguish which you are comfortable killing and which you are not?
  • 0 thumbs!
    DragoniteBallZ | August 25, 2007
    Hey. This game didn't get a 96/100 average score for nothing. Killing little girls FTW!!!
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    Revenger of Wastelan | August 25, 2007
    I say screw those guys who mercy little girls, and shoot the girls up.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Trojanman | August 26, 2007
    I'm pretty sure this isn't the first game involving killing some devilish child. Not a problem for me though, I'll kill anything that is trying to tear me apart.
  • 0 thumbs!
    tallteen86 | August 26, 2007
    I'd do it, if I had this game (which I don't)..

    I'm not sure if I'll ever get this game...maybe if I can get it on the cheap...

    But I saw the vid featuring these girls...I don't think normal little girls have glowing eyes neh?

    I heard that, even when you try to 'save' them, they still die anyhow?
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    chaosmonkix | August 26, 2007
    they dont die when you try to save them and @trojanman they dont try to attack you unless you attack them and even then its the big daddy's that get ya. you get roughly double the adam for harvesting but the better option is rescuing in the long run, since better opportunities open. i dont really see a moral problem since its virtual and not all children are innocent, they're in fact more capable of being dangerously more deceptive than an adult may be.
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    Linkin Park Fan | August 26, 2007
    There not even human? So theres nothing wrong with it
    • 0 thumbs!
      Miller | August 26, 2007
      Yes they are. They have a sea slug in their belly and have been trained since birth to harvest ADAM but they are still children. You can't hurt them anyway.

      I didn't harvest any Little Sisters, The rewards for saving them outweigh the extra ADAM you recieve. I don't like to kill innocents in games. I however never had any complaint about blowing the litte bastards in Fallout 2 up, you know the ones in The Den that pickpocket you at most doors. Ticking dynamite + Thief child = win.

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