Western cartoons typically get a lot of money pushed to the animation, whether it be through sponsoring or in general being connected to a big private corporation or studio in one way or another. If you look up costs for cartoons, Western animation usually costs more. Many anime studios do not necessarily have this luxury. Time is a factor too. As Yami and some others said, it's too keep up with the manga. Last biggest reason is for stylistic purposes, an homage to previous gen animes. Old anime's, say in the 60s were drawn very minimalistic compared to say...the fluidity of Disney cartoons at the time, because it was easier and faster to produce. That basically transitioned into a "staple" in what anime looks and feels like and keeps to today.
I suppose those are as good a reason as any to hold onto that style of animation, but it's still not for me. I can almost tolerate stilted body movements, but the way lips just flap binarily (open, close, open, close, 1, 0, on, off, green light, red light) with no regard to vowel or consonant shape feels incredibly lazy to me. I guess that's the budget/time restraints shining through, but...eh. No one's forcing me to watch it, so I don't.
Gotta congratulate the guys at Bethesda for finally adding children to a game... They made a boy model and a girl model (probably recycled from Fallout 3), and only for one of the ten races. Also, Bethesda doesn't allow players to kill child characters, but these mods are still legal? :v
I'm surprised to find I get birthday messages posted on my visitor section on here anymore; nay - even from people I don't personally know. Nature is magical.
Well, see that's actually where the barrier lies between those who find it something taboo and those who don't and the tough decisions the devs and companies need to make. I personally don't have an issue with visible child NPC deaths in games, however I do feel in video games there's a time and a place when it is appropriate. It's important to respect that not all gamers want to see dead children. In a game like Skyrim, it's not really fair to say "Don't play it then," since even though you do a lot of killing, that's not necessarily the focal point of why people like Skyrim. I feel that's why Bethesda drew the line they did, plus maybe they just didn't want to hear all the parents cry about it. That's also why I feel for example, Bioshock, the action of consuming a Little Sister does not show the death/dying of the child - because it's not really a focal point of the game and players who aren't keen on seeing the explicit death of children shouldn't be kept out of playing. Games like Dead Space however, where the biggest focal point is annihilating re-animated corpses plaguing humanity, well that's your own fault for playing if you are afraid of killing babies and that should be the least of your worries with that game. I will say though that with Skyrim, that it does indeed detract realism that the children npcs can't die, which is why I think it should have been at least a toggle-able (word?) setting. I know you were being light-hearted with your response, but I find socially acceptable vs taboo topics interesting. So forgive me. :derpe:
The unkillable NPCs in Skyrim made sense, up to a point. Most of them became killable after you finished whatever quest made them being alive necessary. However, either by glitch or design, there were a few characters that simply wouldn't die, no matter how useless they were. As for the unkillable children, I'm guessing that Bethesda was trying to avoid the "M" rating that Skyrim ended up getting anyway.
you could cut off heads. That game was getting M no matter what. They don't do kids because of the SJW crap that would come with it. People were made at gta 5 because you could kill animals. Humans were fair game though.
Well that sounds interesting. Good thing they took it out. Wouldn't want anything interesting to happen in a game.
That would have been an amazing quest line. So creepy and gruesome. In other news, I am currently awaiting a second interview at Walmart for that overnight stocker position.
I wouldn't believe any of it. That's circulated around deviant art and other forums. There isn't really any source to it. Probably just a stupid creepy pasta. Sent from my XT1080M using Tapatalk
No, don't ruin the moment. Though, why I modder hasn't made this a thing is a wee bit sad. I have enough mods for the game anyway.
