[2023] vile child

Originally posted by Saizo19_: There will never be a game that allows you to kill a child.
For some reason killing a adult human is ok but killing a child is not.
Other games that include children make it impossible to hurt or hit them or they just disappearing.

There have been games that allow the player character to kill a child character for well over twenty years. Deus Ex 1, for example.

• No, it wasn’t some obscure or unpopular game no one’s heard of (named best PC game of all time by PC Gamer).
  
• No, it wasn’t some horror creature with merely childlike features.
  
• No, it wasn’t some carefully scripted non-gameplay sequence.
  
• No, it wasn’t some unintended glitch (as evidenced by a unique VO line playing on death).
  
• No, it wasn’t some ‘more innocent time’ before the ESRB existed or mass shootings of children were in the public consciousness.

I’m tired of this false narrative persisting, like it’s a bedrock rule for all games. So I wanted to set the record straight on that.

Now, with that said, the developers have stated they have no interest in implementing child zombies in this particular game. And I can respect that decision they’ve made.

Originally posted by Bromius: …something that would bring a challenge and them things in D2 were fast and hurt alot but was fun to play…

Originally posted by Crashtian: …♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrifying because they are fast and small.

When people propose child zombies, this seems to usually be what they really have in mind: an enemy that presents a different challenge due to being small and nimble. I think animals can fill that role in 7DtD. Dogs are basically there already: they’re smaller, faster, and able to get places full sized enemies don’t. And I find that the hardest enemy to hit, even if not much of a threat, are snakes with their small ‘strike zone.’