Oh god.
Oh god no.
I can see it now.
Driving around the hood, doing 100mph around corners, laughing as the crimson jam that used to be pedestrians smears your bonnet, when- boom
You hit a dog.
Evening ruined.
I am getting the GTA 4 game (this is not the first time I've ever played it) and getting GTA 5 for my birthday.
And funny story about GTA 4, I was younger and I was playing GTA 4, I was on it for 2 minutes until I crashed and died. So I handed the controller to my brother. And he played for like 20 minutes and then it was handed to my cousin. Then to me. Then to my cousin.
My brother complained he wasn't getting a turn so he flipped his dresser. What a dick
Including children would lead to one of two things, based on what you can do to them.
If you could kill and **** up children like you could any other NPC, the moral outcry would be intense and many, if not most, countries would ban it.
If you couldn't, and children weren't killable, many gamers would complain about the pussifying of a hardcore series.
Either way, they lose sales.
It's there, it's obvious, we all know it, we wont acknowledge it though.
That dog will take a bullet for the black guy, or the other way around, we'll get attached, and then BANG all the feels. Everyone will act surprised, but deep down, we all know it's coming.