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Edit: Doesn’t Dead by Daylight break the 18+ survivor rule?
I know Dead by Daylight has a rule of having a survivor to be 18+ years old to be in the game but the other day I was watching Halloween: H20 (The third movie following the events of the original) and Laurie confirms that she was 17 years old the night of the boogeyman’s attack (so not 18=breaking the 18+ rule). So if we were to ever get a pennywise chapter, will they allow the kids to be survivors? or an original chapter to have smaller people.? I think this was the reason they didn’t have any of the kids from The Stranger Things series but who knows (aren’t the kids from stranger thing technically teens in the show on season 3). I just think it will be fun to be a short survivor.
Edit: So maybe this question got a bit out of hand and I want to rephrase my Question. Why does Dead by daylight break the rule of 18+ survivors.
Laurie 17, Quentin 17, Nancy 16, Steve 17
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Its not that characters chosen aren't 18+, its that everyone in the game is 18+, also just... kids would not be great for PR "look at this game where you can murder children"
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1) kids are smaller. they would be OP for hiding.
2) Violence including kids in your video game will get your game a heavier rating.
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Dude, you're dark.
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I mean if you think about it the survivors never really die
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Lol imagine kids hiding in the yamaoka maps, yikes
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The real question is "Why would anyone WANT to kill kids in the game?". Most horror movies don't kill kids, and even in the movies where teens get killed, they are usually played by older actors. Video games have been avoiding killing kids in games forever. Sure, there are some, but it's not worth the controversy. Not to mention, all of the content creators would likely get their stuff demonetized or removed. All would be bad for the game.
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Well, with two of the three final statuses being "DEAD" or "SACRIFICED" then having literal children is kind of a different story.
I'm strictly against child murder in horror, but it's how you go about it.
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It’s not dark. I would honestly let the killer take me and let any kid survivor live #IWillSacrificeMyselfForBillDenbrough
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remember this game rating is mature... so the survivor also need to be mature... or else will be child abuse... or child murder...
this normal survivor already hard to detect.. why make smaller ?
and why no small killer also like chucky ? because that still the best for right now...
Maybe ..if, Devs want to change the whole match game-play small killer and small survivor will be available...
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Pennywise would like to speak with you
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I don't think this would work, moris are designed for tall Survivors.
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Society is not prepared to that. The "protect the kids" team would come to BHVR like "ey, bud fiction kids are kids too... WhAt aRe YoU dOiNg?".
It's not good for the company, not good for the game and not worth for the players. So I think (besides it's fiction and shouldn't matter) It won't happen, also Pennywise has more in common with the entity itself than with any killer, I suspect the entity is inspired in IT a lot.
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That's why I said "most". I know that there are movies that do, but most do not. That's why I hate it when i see kids in horror movies. They try to create drama around the kid getting killed, but you know it's not going to happen, so the drama falls flat.
Now, Stephen King will kill anyone, including kids. You never know what to expect from him.
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2018 Michael had an innocent kid get killed by Michael. Not bullied.
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Again, I said "MOST" and I also used the word "USUALLY". Mentioning one or two movies does not change the fact that the vast majority don't. Even some TV shows have started doing it for the surprise value, but most won't touch that type of thing, and they wouldn't do it as a staple.
Putting it into a video game where people are killing them over and over again, and hanging them on hooks, would be a PR nightmare. Especially when you start getting content creators making a meme out of it.
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"I know Dead by Daylight has a rule of having survivor to be 18+ years old to be in the game"
You answered your own question.
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Maybe she had teabagged him?
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But I questioned my question by breaking the question by bringing up that Laurie is 17
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because having a 50kg teen as killer is already ridiculous.
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Well, I wouldn't consider Laurie a child, more like a teenager. Maybe that is a grey area. But like if you're expecting 8 year Olds to be hooked and moried, then nah, X to doubt.
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Come on, you already know the answer to this. Behaviour doesn’t want to add kids to their game where people are chainsawed in the back, slashed with various weapons, caught in bear traps, murdered and have their organs eaten, and get thrown onto a meat hook. Because people would freak out and complain, for obvious reasons. It would be a stupid move and would open them up to negative consequences, and it really wouldn’t benefit them in any way to do it.
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You probably gave the best response. :). Hopefully this doesn’t affect our chances of getting a Child’s Play Chapter and IT Chapter
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They would have to up the rating from mature to adult (which search engines censor, because games in that category are iffy at best), and they would have to deal with the backlash.
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Since we are adding kids
Can we had disabled survivors as well. Like one in a wheelchair would be fun to play
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Its an ethics thing, its the same reason horror movies don't show babies getting murdered. Or if kids do die, it happens off camera. Having kids in this game would really push the rating above what even the goriest horror movies portray.
Example, you have a monster movie, the monster picks up a baby carriage where the audience assumes theres still a baby in the carriage, the monster then throws the carriage 100 feet into the air out of the shot then the movie cuts to another shot, never explaining to the audience what happened to the baby, or even if there was a baby in the carriage. <----Thats as far as you can go.
Another example, Murderer enters a home, 3 kids sitting in front of the TV, murderer enters the room and at best you can show the shocked face of these kids for a split second before cutting away with NO sound effects. Hero comes into the room and finds the bodies of said children, but all the audience sees are small snips and odd camera angles never showing the childrens bodies, and no blood. Scene cuts away and the movie continues. <----Again even for kids under 18 thats as far as you can go.
You can show a child who's been drowned where its assumed it was an accidental death, you can show a child under 18 in a morgue where its assumed the death isn't traumatic, but no disfigured corpse, as in you can paint their faces white so the audience assumes what happened, but no bloating. You can show a ghost baby with zombie like makeup on it, but you can't show a baby being bitten by a zombie.
You get it? There's ethical degrees to this ######### where you can push the limit, and with DBD being the game it is, with the blood, and the attacking, they wouldn't be able to get away with it without it going way too far. And on top of that, some of the perverted side of this community really don't need more fuel to turn into borderline illegal content.....
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Weirdest thread ever.
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They can still do those chapters, but the catch is, they would have to use adult characters as the survivors. No matter how much it clashes with the lore of the original movies. And if you look at those movies, even though they did use kids and teenagers, they were EXTREMELY careful with the portrayal of violence to make sure things were up to standards and practices.
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think this is the dummest question I saw on this forum and I saw a lot
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That would actually be pretty sweet, but how would they vault?
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WYM the game features babies already.
If killing babies isn't enough for you then... you have problems man.
Sounds like a challenge.
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Nah it’s just more of a discussion than a question and beside I’ve seen people asking for a Noed, spine chill and resilience nerf or a DS buff.
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That won’t happen. Even if devs’s be dark enough there is consoles with their dumb laws. I Guess Laurie isn’t excatly 18, but her actress was way over 20 and she’s from a slasher horror anyway so nobody really had a reason to legally point that out. According to lore, the Legon members like Susie or Joey are not much legal either yet. But smashing pallets on some naughty teen’s head is not as bad as killing them.
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Agony untared did it though. Eeww that game.
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Agreed
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Is this a serious post?
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What's interesting is i believe Steve and Nancy's designs are their Season 1 styles, it also makes sense because they were a thing in Season 1. This would mean Nancy is 16 and Steve is 17 in DbD if this was the case.
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The game would be banned in many countries for killing the kids, that would be terrible expierience for dead by daylight.
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You must be kidding me.
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.....o-oh #########....I mean, that's h-horrible!!!
*phew*
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Technically Steve, Nancy, & Laurie (unsure about Quentin) all grow up within their series. By season 3, Nancy & Steve are struggling adults with jobs. Laurie would have been 18+ by the next movie. They do however use Nancy & Steve's original outfits from season 1, so that is a push, but they also have their season 3 attire, and the looks do pass for someone being a young adult. So as of being put into the game, those 3 were considered adults.
I'd personally be against putting someone who looks like a child into the game. For both personal and rating reasons. They could put the adults from the second It film though, if we go with the first paragraphs logic.
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1.5 speed boost
No vaults
Or does a flip by grabbing the window with both hands and flipping chair overhead and going through wheels first.
1/16 chance animation does a mctwist instead.
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Micheal Myers would also like to speak with you.
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'bout what?
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It's not necessarily that the survivors are 18+ right? The actors themselves are all over 18. So they aren't actually killing kids.
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I don't know. I think DBD could get away with killing kids and keep the mature rating. Most adult rated games are all porn ones or casino based ones with the couple violence ones I could find being rather old and Hatred being a rather weird one.
As an example Dante's Inferno has quite a bit of nudity (both female and male) and you kill babies that were sent to hell because they weren't baptized and it kept a mature rating.
I also don't think Dbd's violence is realistic enough to warrant a higher rating even if kids were introduced. None of the damage is very visual lasting on the characters and even the mori's aren't exactly gore-y.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think children should be in the game either but if they ever did for whatever reason, I think it'd probably be able to keep it's rating without too much worry. It seems more like a just because we can doesn't mean we should kind of thing as it'd definitely raise some eyebrows.
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Solution to make a small survivor: the poltergeist chapter
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didn't the devs semi-explained it in the Stranger Things DLC announcement video? I remember 3 different things about it (haven't seen the video for a while so don't quote me)
- They answered a rhetorical question about why it was Steve and Nancy that was chosen and not the kids, and they said that "it would not be pleasant" and used the Hag's mori as an example why they did not use them.
- They said that, dispite looking like their season 1 counterparts, the Steve and Nancy they used are based from season 3 of the show, therefore, making them at/over 18.
- They do not explain it, but they said that ALL survivors and killers are 18+ (I assume it's because they decided for the Entity to take an alternate version of Laurie and Quentin where the only difference is that they are 18+
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I mean are there not countries here that consider 16 adult? We try violent 12 year olds as adults depending on severity of crime.
Not advocating child abuse/murder just saying....
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"Could"?
I'm sorry but I'm going to need better confirmation than that if I am to feel good about all that rule 34 I've watc- ahhh I mean I've b-been told people have w-watched...
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(-.- ) phew...close one.
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