"No Dead Babies" Option, Please

Yes, another one of those "Blood & Gore" topics.

I, too, have had a kid -- in my case a 9 year-old boy -- tell me that the blood & gore was just gross. He also asked why anyone would want that in a game?

I couldn't tell him why because I have absolutely no idea, personally. But I don't get the appeal of slasher horror movies, either, so go figure.

OK, so, we can argue about whether including a blood & gore pref level is worth the time.

But the gratuitous dead baby on the starter beach? Seriously?

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us parents the option of not seeing what is the single most upsetting image we can possibly see.

Dead babies == not fun.

Thanks.

There should be a check box in options:
dead babies (yes/no)

In all seriousness though, I appreciate that the game isn't too cuddly, but I think gore for gore's sake is probably unnecessary. Whatever they can do without meaningfully affecting development to allow levels to gore appropriate to various audiences would probably be best.

Not really a game for 9 year old kids this.

Also that's not a dead baby, that's a baby doll.
Which belonged to a child that was eaten by sharks.
But that happened off screen, so we're cool.

I would like to see baby zombies. Muahahah.
But seriously, this is a game, a grim horror game with monsters and all. I dont see the problem. To me, it only adds a little atmosphere of really dark and morbid world.

It's clearly a baby doll. Stop thinking of dead babies, you sick people.

Sometimes people must take responsibility for their own domain. Don't expect the world to change for you.

This game is not teddy bears and lolly pops, it's zombies and monsters trying to eat you. I think when my son is old enough to stand behind the computer and see what is on screen I will not be playing anything more risky than tetris.

No offence, and maybe there are others out there that agree with you, but perhaps Dad should not be playing PoE with son watching......

The dead babies should at least drop some loot. As it is now, the dead babies are just there. It's not funny, it's not scary, it's just... sick.

There's really no other way to put it.

Even Rockstar doesn't put children in its games, and they push the envelope in every possible way. They have no problem with allowing you to hire a hooker and kill her in GTA, but at least they have the decency to draw the line somewhere. Dead babies? Simply disgusting.

I am going to sign up for a closed beta of a clearly defined dark and gritty adult RPG and complain about the gore that I was warned about before playing...

It's a game where your main task is killing things.. babies can die.. so can adults.. If you don't want to see it don't play. It really bothers me when powerful majestic felines are killed... Yet I'm forced to murder them on the beaches.. j/k.

Bring on the gore.. bring on the adult content!