Games where you can kill literally anybody- What do you think?

Morrowind

• GTA
• Elder scrolls (mostly everybody)
• Saint's Row

Dishonored. Though often you get a game over screen for killing someone vital to the story.

You can't kill children in (unmodded) Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 has TONS of people you can't kill. :p

Morrowind on the other hand is a perfect example of what you're asking for, everything can die, even the gods. :p

Other good examples are Fallout 1 and 2, Postal 2 and Baldur's Gate.

I prefer the Fallouts because they actually adapt to you killing everybody in a lot of circumstances.

Pac-Man.

Was gonna mention Postal 2..

Dark Souls -> kill essential npc -> no problem bro, go ahead!

Mafia II Yeeeah (but you can't kill friendly storyline characters)

With mods enabled, you shouldbe able to kill everyone in all Bethesda games.
You can kill nearly everyone in all GTA/SR/SD/etc. type games except quest/story mobs.

DLC Quest, there's even an achievement for it - Anything For An Awardment.

I'm not sure, but Dark Souls? Never tried to kill everyone.

payday 2

Hitman Absolution.....its kinda scary really. esp when you are in the chinatown level and there is a sea of people.

Prototype? But it goes to slaughter rather than kill.

dark souls :]

Spelunky

dark souls and demon souls can kill every npc

edit : oh and dark souls i think there is at least only 1 npc who you cant kill btw ;)

I don't necessarily have a problem with being able to kill anyone, including children. The problem that arises with your premise is that it's almost impossible to code for events where a character who features in the story gets killed. I'm thinking along the lines of someone who gives you a mission, or who is otherwise crucial to the plot later on. You'd seemingly have to either detect hen they died and have branching plotlines for the rest of the entire game: a lot of code and additional writing, acting, etc., or else you'd have to inexplicably end the game right then and there. In the end, the only feasible solution is to, well, not allow them to be killed. Not in terms of 'if you shoot them, nothing will happen', but in terms of a mission failure and their eventual off-screen resurrection so you can play through it again.

Definitely Dark Souls!:)

Manhunt?

It gets boring rather quickly. Mainly because games usually don't have all that many NPC's and after a good refreshing massacre you'll find yourself in a barren world with nothing to do.

Gothic 1

if i remember correctly you could kill everyone in neverwinter nights 1