"or it would get the game banned"
Just for having kids in it? or because, you know, every time anyone see a kid, they automaticaly want to kill them?
Like this?
Personnaly, I was talking about "mature view" of them, not just "they are kids, they are fragile" who is pretty much what any soccermom should think about any kid they see. but more something like in the line of today, when you talk to teenagers, they watch porn on internet, had their first relation at 12 or close, some smokes cigarette (even drugs...), and do a lot of crappy stuff that i wouldn't even conceveid at their age, like Skins party and likes.
Thanks Internet.
An Immature view would be actually to think that kids are "bland", in reality, they're just "sponge" to the world surrounding them.
Give them a fucked up world, you'll have fucked up kids....
Also, just seeing kids, to make the world deeper and much more realist like AnimalFather said.
In CP77 you aren't born in a cuve or something, and the first day of your life, you're not 16.
There isn't only in matrix that the kids are involved (even if they just stays as background characters) Read "Hardwired", at one time, Cowboy and Sarah goes to negociate with a corporate, an ugly bastard who keep the orphan from the streets, brainwash them, and use them as sex slaves... and you know, NOTHING IS TOLD, there's no "the things i like the most in the world is to rape kids" with this running in background:
[video=youtube;yw7lUMC-m3Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw7lUMC-m3Q[/video]
They just go to meet him, and the athmosphere is so disgusting, without anything said or shown, but everyone understand that some digusting stuff are going there.
Or there's this moment in "Count Zero", before Bobby gets stabbed for his console, when he watches two kids, playing with toxic chemical waste or something, he told them "Get out! it's dangerous!" they answer him "Fuck you oldies" or something like this, before fleeing with the toxic waste.
Or in the Neuromancer, when Case has the flashback with the hornet-nest, and it's says that he was living alone with his Gf at 13/14 yo or something (Kids/teen).
Those are just some example thought, anyway, it's up to CDPR to incorporate them or not.
Personnaly i wouldn't mind if there were no kid at all, but as i said, they could be used as plot device or something, or just being in a few places.
Sure, if there's no kids, no problem, but kid aren't in the game for the only purpose to be killed, there's actually a lot of stuff to show with them, like "how are they educated?" "How do a kid feels when he lives in a world like this", "how do they see their future?", "Who is their family? corporation, people, gang, nomads, etc..." lot of stuff that could be nice to see, not only child soldiers or "meat bags" to fire at.
Even some funny side-mission with kids (like the Goonies movie) could be actually fun, to break from the "seriousness" of the game (even if CDPR told they were aiming for a Tarantinesque style of humor *witch i dig*)
Or as gameplay mechanics, like, you need to go in a stealth mission, you can give money to street kids to distract the guard at the entrance or something like this.
Pay them to watch around for cops if you sell drug with a fixer, etc...
no need to kill them,but
IF you can, i doubt it would be a big deal if it's done "correctly", like if you make a shootout in a residential area, there's good chances that some kids are gonna eat bullets if they run around.
Also, i remember to read : "No need to kill anyone, you can't kill anyone in the Witcher"
Guys, it's cyberpunk, you know, a game where you're supposed to be a "punk", with a big gun, your blood loaded with drugs.
Yes, you can also be a good guy, who kill no innocents people, and who take only "Good" drugs, because he's aware of his own health... But you should be able do play a psycho who like to do crazy and stupid stuffs,
Honnestly, i want the same freedom as in Fallout or those kind of game, where i can choose who i want to kill or not, it's Cyberpunk guys you know, there's CYBER and there's PUNK, being punk isn't just having a mohawk and listening to Green Day, The Exploited or those kind of stuff (I know a bunch of punks who would call them posers), nowadays "real punks" (crust punks), at least, the closer descripted in Cyberpunk 2020, don't listen to "punk rock" they listen to brutal stuff like this:
They drink, riot, mosh, take drugs (thought some don't, like in the Straight edge movement), etc...
This is the "Punk" feeling i want to have in the game, not the "mass media punk cliché" you can see on Disney Channel.
I want mohawk, i want stud, i want strong language, i want bloody gunfights
I want to deal drugs, and beat the guys who bought some from me... because it's cool...because it's fun... BECAUSE IT'S PUNK!!!
So if you set the game in 2077, no one is killable, the punks are just retards with pink mohawk, looking at their outfit like a bunch of girls, it's not Cyberpunk, it's CyberPansies.
Rather stay on the PnP if you can do less stuff in the game (gameplay wise) than on the pnp, no talking about kid or whatever, but you're "free" in the rpg, so pulling a bullet in you own brain, your friend hand, or fire at someone at the other side of the street should be possible, because even if Cyberpunk need a good story, it's also action packed.
Personnaly, i'm not interested to play a "Cyberpunk 2077" point and click.
I want a deep, immersive world, with a "TRUE" dark and grim world with bits of gore and stuff like that.
Not a PG 13 "dark and grim world".
In fact, i want CDPR to show some balls "Here we come, and we're gonna kick ass".
No being affraid by censor or whatever, because censor is what kill creativity.
Phantasy Star Online is nice, but i don't want CP ending looking like this.
In fact that would suck big time (with so much content, and just erasing them out because "that would shock people", that said i can understand that there's some stuff that can't be pulled in, but an "Adult Only" game could have strong content involved without much problem imo, if it work with movies, why not video games?)
With all that said, it's just my opinion, not attacking anyone.
