Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
As an aside, am I the only one who doesn't go out of his way to kill innocents in these open world action games? I've maybe purposely killed like 5 innocents in my lifetime of gaming (though you could argue what have the goombas done to deserve being squashed?).
Not only that, but I don't pick up items I don't need either.

Because it's a waste of my time. I'm kind of single-minded when I play a game, I want to get to the end and kick the last boss to the curb with a minimum of time and frustration. So I don't go after every single enemy. Some I just leave alone and move on my way.

Interestingly, there's a mechanic in Legend of Zelda that rewards mercy. If you kill all the enemies on the screen, they'll reappear after you have gone a certain radius away from that screen. But if you leave one enemy alive, there will always be one enemy on that screen.

That aside; I started to get disillusioned with games as they got bloodier and gorier...I'm kind of...uh...sensitive? To that stuff.

Even though Batman: Arkham City wasn't particularly bloody, the violence still kind of got to me. I'm ok when it's stylized to the point it is in something like Marvel Vs. Capcom or say, the Tekken series, but something about the animation and collision physics in Arkham City made me queasy for a reason I can't quite put my finger on.

Hatred, then, I can assume will put me off my soup. I haven't watched the trailer, and I'm not gonna cuz I like my stomach right-side in, and I like being conscious.