Stay with me.
I love RED DEAD REDEMPTION. I have beaten both 1 & 2.
I’m not some kind of pacifist. I just get tired of shooting at imaginary people.
So… I thought one day I would get some practice with the sniper rifle killing stray dogs.
Holy shit!
The game threw a fit!
Full on murderous possie immediately.
But here’s what’s worse: the game HID ALL THE DOGS.
So… it just made shooting the dogs more special. Btw— I did this more in 1 than 2.
And I can’t find dogs in GTAV.
Mostly I won’t shoot imaginary people anymore. Just dogs. It’s a thrill.
Not really surprising at all.
No different than attacking the Cucco (chickens) in a Legend of Zelda game.
https://zeldawiki.wiki/wiki/Cucco#Cucco’s_Revenge_Squad
Or the Bovine Defense Force in The Witcher 3 if you kill a bunch of cows.
https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Bovine_Defense_Force_Initiative
There is a discussion to be had about how we code the games to fight you for killing animals, while civilization slaughters them by the millions daily. And while killing innocent humans in games usually has few negatives, if any at all. The comment section here probably isn’t the best place for that though.