Because video game AI has so much agency, huh.
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Far Cry New Dawn's Animal (Dog) Cruelty is sadistic and waaaay over the line
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Because video game AI has so much agency, huh.
Well then problem solved. You exercised your right of choice as a consumer and the people who don't take offense to this can play and enjoy the game.
You still experience it and that is real. Virtual realities are realities.
I have to agree with what others have said. Don't play the game. But you are killing humans right and left.
Don't tell your wife to check how many real life dogs police shoot daily.
I don't care personally but I understand why people would.
The dogs not being real doesn't stop his wife from feeling bad about it. Bad argument.
I don't care personally but I understand why people would.
I'm fine with torture in FC, child rape is illegal to be depicted but I don't think the theme/topic itself should be off-limits.
Basically this .. I know you're being tongue in cheek but this still rings true
Watch_Dogs 2 and Division 2(demo) had things with dogs too.
In one mission in WD2 you had to go to this building where people were actually having dog fights. Best believe I murdered every single one of the people that attended the place. It's only a game, I know, but I despise dogfighting.
Division 2 has a part as well where you see dead dogs on the ground in what clearly was a fighting area/arena for them.
Division 2 has a part as well where you see dead dogs on the ground in what clearly was a fighting area/arena for them.
What about the boss Sif in Dark Souls? That doggie killed me at least 15 times.
Don't play it then. Not all games are for all people. Nor should they be.
This actually reminds me a lot of the discussion around the launch of Monster Hunter World, with a lot of people having empathy for the monsters.
Even though those were super-fantastical creatures with little basis in reality, I honestly understood those comments more just because of how well realize the monsters' limping and whimpering were. I'd imagine the Far Cry dogs die pretty quickly.
Never watch John Carpenter's The Thing, OP
Or any John Carpenter film for that matter
Or any John Carpenter film for that matter
Or watch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
I mean, I love dogs - I have two of my own who I deeply love - but I really don't have much of a problem to kill a dog in a videogame if it's attacking me.. I'm more disturbed by people who say that when they hear a real life story where innocent people (and dogs for example ) were harmed - or worse - they say stuff like:"I don't care for the people, but did the dogs make it safe out of there?" - that's just really disturbing behavior and mental state in my opinion
You've always been able to kill innocent animals in Far Cry, at least since Ubi took over the IP. Much of the time to get materials to upgrade your stuff. Primal had way more animals than people.
I don't see the logic in saying killing virtual humans is fine, but killing virtual animals is not. It's a game. Both those things are clearly wrong in real life, though I would note that killing humans is, in fact, much more serious than animals.
I don't see the logic in saying killing virtual humans is fine, but killing virtual animals is not. It's a game. Both those things are clearly wrong in real life, though I would note that killing humans is, in fact, much more serious than animals.
Making it easier and easier not to buy this game.
The whole bomb dogs things is too fucking horrendous.
The whole bomb dogs things is too fucking horrendous.
I'll never understand being more sensitive to violence against animals than humans. So strange.
And the "I'm going to eat a puppy mwahaha" is such a weak and cliche way of being like "Look, I'm a bad guy!"
And the "I'm going to eat a puppy mwahaha" is such a weak and cliche way of being like "Look, I'm a bad guy!"
I get why people would get upset/uncomfortable/triggered/traumatized.
But the way some people go about it is just... *sigh*
Proposed solution: Email/Tweet/Contact devs about putting disclaimers/scene skips/trigger warnings/gore or sensitive material toggles.
But the way some people go about it is just... *sigh*
Proposed solution: Email/Tweet/Contact devs about putting disclaimers/scene skips/trigger warnings/gore or sensitive material toggles.
Come on people, it's not that weird to be put off by animal violence. Yes, even when that same context involves human violence as well. For many people there is a different emotional response between portrayal of the two, and that does not make one a hypocrite.
Shitting on OP and his wife is completely uncalled for.
Grow some fucking empathy.
Shitting on OP and his wife is completely uncalled for.
Grow some fucking empathy.
Sure and i dont say you cant feel bad about it and understand it.
My comment was more about it being "over the line" and wanting Ubisoft to take it out.
For sure that stuff is pretty much a health bar. However if what I read was true forcing a bull to fuck a cow only to blow them up, taking drugs and beating a pigs head in, etc. Like who the fuck actually thought those were good missions, or thought those would be fun for a game?
Edit: This is FC5 too, not "post-apoc".
I take more offense to the title of the article.
I assume the OP also had an issue with the killing of other animals in previous far cry games, some who were endangered?
I assume the OP also had an issue with the killing of other animals in previous far cry games, some who were endangered?
A very selfish one, because it's easier to love and be loved by a dog, hence:
Let's be real, you didn't need to see this "news" in order to have an excuse not to buy the game. You probably already had a laundry list of reasons, some valid, some not, and you saw this information and decided to use it to publicly announce that you were finally pushed over the edge, and are now passing on the game.
Is this your first post-apocalyptic game, OP?
As someone who was raped as a child, I'm gonna have to tell you to kindly shut the fuck up with this bullshit false equivalency.
As someone who was raped as a child, I'm gonna have to tell you to kindly shut the fuck up with this bullshit false equivalency.
Nobody has agency other than the player character lol.
It is a recurring issue with Far Cry and the reason I don't play these games anymore. It's not that there's violence towards animals, many games include them as enemies or hunting mechanics, it's the way it portraits and glorifies animal cruelty against completely innocent animals.
Far Cry 5 only encourages the player to be violent against humans when they are evil. It shows torturing people under a negative light. Yet, when it comes to animals, innocent, non aggressive animals, it wants you to torture them to death and then laugh.
It's fucking gross.
Far Cry 5 only encourages the player to be violent against humans when they are evil. It shows torturing people under a negative light. Yet, when it comes to animals, innocent, non aggressive animals, it wants you to torture them to death and then laugh.
It's fucking gross.
I agree that it's weirdly morbid for a game as whacky and flamboyant as Far Cry but come on, this series is built on inflicting massive amounts of cruelty to animals in the name of upgrading menial perks and items. I'm not sure why we're suddenly now drawing the line at dogs considering that dogs were basically the struggle meals of human civilization for thousands of years. It's only recently that we've even begun to question the notion of consuming the flesh of an animal.
Also, no ones forcing anyone to play this game. I wouldn't tell someone who was a victim of gun violence to "suck it up" if they found the gun violence of a game off putting. I'd simply tell them to find their entertainment elsewhere.
Also, no ones forcing anyone to play this game. I wouldn't tell someone who was a victim of gun violence to "suck it up" if they found the gun violence of a game off putting. I'd simply tell them to find their entertainment elsewhere.
Bomb dogs is an awesome 2 word string
I understand it's an issue for you, but I was dissapointed that you couldn't strap C4 to monkeys in Snake Eater. :P
/dead
Obviously. I'm not saying people who enjoy the game are monsters or anything, it's just some of the replies here are pretty idiotic.
