The developers of the Half-life 2 mod "Outcast" recently posted this update: moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-outca… In it they detail a side-project they are working on. A choice they made with it was to include a few child characters, since the project they are working on predates Half-life 2 chronologically and that is possible. Another choice they made was to have zombified versions of said children as well, which to me makes logical sense, headcrabs are animals they don't have notions like "don't hurt the child", they just want to... well, eat. One person in the comments disliked the addition of headcrabbed children, and there was a conversation about it afterwards; that made me wonder, what would it have been like if Valve *did* include children in Half-life 2? How do you feel about that idea in general? I think perhaps they dodged a bullet, since it may have made Half-life 2 a little bit controversial, depending on what happens to them, it's …
