• nyahlathotep
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    Can you give an example of another game with unambiguous premeditated murder on the part of the main character, that isn’t either in self-defense or as part of a war? I’m trying to think of any but I’m coming up short.

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      I can’t find the ratings for the original (the game may be older than ERSB) but black and white 2 is T for teen. It has sacrifice, murder, child abuse, etc as a mechanic for the “evil” route.

      Link to ersb page for bw2

      I’m sure there are more games like this. I remember drowning my Sims for fun as a child and I’m pretty sure that game is also T.

      I have played cult of the lamb, and there wasn’t really anything in it a highscooller shouldn’t see.

      (Edit: I have done no research on the dlc. The marketing does look edgy, but that doesn’t mean the content is inappropriate. I don’t plan on buying the DLC. Imho the art was cute but the gameplay was mid. Also, personal opinion, poop management as a mechanic is boring and dumb.)

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      Skyrim, you have a whole questline being an assassin for a god of death.

      In Oblivion you could only join them by murdering a random innocent person.

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        I intended that to be T and under games with premeditated murder by the player in them, but I realize looking back that I didn’t say that so you are correct. They are, however, both M rated. Although, Oblivion was famously T rated before being rerated to M because of some PC mods with nudity in them. Even the console version was changed to M, which I remember thinking at the time was BS. So I’m going to call that a T rated game with murder in it.

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          I remember the official Bethesda word on that back then was “whatever, Oblivion should have been rated M to begin with anyway”.

          However, Morrowind has stayed ESRB T and has an assassin group you can join too. it’s technically legal in-universe, but they’re assassins nonetheless.

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      1 year ago

      Final Fantasy series, along with a lot other JRPGs?

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        FF is typically self defense and/or war, but there are probably some murders in there somewhere I guess

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      Interesting question honestly. Sims 4 (rated T) certainly allows you to kill off Sims, but you’re an omnipotent being, it doesn’t have Sim-on-Sim murder. I think this is true for a lot of simulation games where the player isn’t a character in the world. Cult of the Lamb is obviously inspired by those games, but also makes the leap to you being represented by a character.