Warning: Apparently should be rated M

[klkitchens]

If you watch the very first trailer, there's a F-bomb (unnecessary as usual)... so those of us who appreciate mature language over immature profanity be warned.

I don't care if you flame me, I'm not a troll. Saw this sale, the game was highly recommended, so I watched the trailer to get an idea and was really getting drawn in and then *F-BOMB*!!!

Come on people. The game would be just as good (if not better) without it. No one has ever left a move or played a game and thought "Man there should have been more profanity."

Lost a sale here folks. All you kiddos can spam this thread however you want, but facts are facts and this is a seriously written complaint to the developers/writers.

This world is getting crazy.

[rochrist]

You do know that actual people use that word in real actual life, right?

[MaestroTheRanger]

The languge suits the game well, it is used spareingly, and speaking as someone who has been on hikeing trips in areas like this, when you are out there and fall down a cliff, you swear your ****ing head off. I know I did... The languge makes the game much more belivable. And honestly if you can't handle as single "♥♥♥♥" this game subject matter is most likely far to mature for you anyways. It deals with topics much worse than swearing it a very deep way so I apprecite someone who can understand when a piece of work is over there head and don't even attempt it.
Kudos

[MaestroTheRanger]

Yes I relize he is a troll account (but good for others to know anyways)

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

Well, I sort of tend to agree with OP on swearing subject, not only in this game but in general as well. Sometimes it's just unnecessary. But you also should realize this game is for mature audience (and, if you read the game description on the main page, developers do warn you this game is about adult people having an adult conversation), but in a different way. It has more deeper and mature content, rather than f-bombs here and there. And yes, there are lots of swearing in the game, so if you don't like it I would say you better avoid it.

However I feel you and can understand. As being not a native English person, I may feel a little different about cursing in English, and quite frankly, I use that f word from time to time myself. For me it's just feels natural and sometimes, yeah, it may sound weird, but I feel satisfaction of expressing myself that way. You cannot hold everything inside, and as far as it's not a personal insult I think it's fine.

The game feels more believable because of that, and it is even more about real life than it appears at first. It was the first game that did for me that and for that I am grateful. And by the way, to actually trigger that exact dialog in the game you have to think, so you may well miss it and have an actual calm and intelligent conversation instead, that is true. But still, lots of swearing nevertheless. Just a warning

Thank you for this topic, take care.

[Strangepowers]

Enough with the ultra sensitive politically correct bullsheet rethoric.

[nsaine]

Nice troll lvl 1 account you ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[pietr1122]

no one gives a fu ck.

[klkitchens]

LOL... just checked back tonight and saw the nonesense replies (save one of course).

Clearly I am not a troll account, nor am I trolling by creating this thread. You folks need to learn meaning of words before using them. Just because someone offers a valid comment of concern to the developer does not make them a troll as any thinking person would realize. I don't expect this to get fixed for this game, but I do hope that such unnecessary language will be left out of future titles. New DOOM has it too and the old DOOM was just fine without it. They didn't make it better, they made it worse.

Yes, people do use that language and I have sadly, sunk to such levels myself in the past. However that doesn't mean it needs to be included and as I stated in the OP, no one would care if it were not there. But there i no need to make a conscious choice to include such immature language in a game. Especially one that is not ESRB rated to at least warn people.

The game looks awesome... but again, the needless profanity has barred the mature from being able to play it. For example, in the trailer, the actor could have yelled "Stupid kids" with the exact same inflection and gotten the point across. But nope... the writer took the low road.

Oh well, as I predicted, the unthinking haters (who are too young for this game in most cases) are gonna spew their vile nonsense instead of having intelligent conversation.

Thanks to those who read this and didn't feel the need to respond in such a childish fashion.

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

That funny you mentioned 'Stupid kids' reply as in the PS 4 trailer it was the exact response from the main character, and it did sound like a fine one, with the same level of emotions.

Developers do read this forum and I believe the may take this message as an advice for their future project, who knows.

[vaddius]

Did you even bother to read the store page, in the ABOUT THIS GAME section they specifically state: "A Note: Firewatch is a video game about adults having adult conversations about adult things. If you plan on playing with a younger gamer, that might be good to know going in."

Also, if you don't buy it because of the trailer, that's better than if you bought it and then asked for a refund. So don't buy it and be glad they saved you the wasted time.

[Light]

I think you've got some serious problems if you think the game is unplayable due to profanity.

[galacticcorgi]

I feel you could benefit from this quote, OP:

"Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - CS Lewis

[the_ewan]

Originally posted by klkitchens:

Clearly I am not a troll account, nor am I trolling by creating this thread.

You may think that's clear, but it's really not. When you say things like:

needless profanity has barred the mature from being able to play it

That does read as rather troll like - a reasonable person would understand that they have a particular, indeed rather minority, view on the use of swearwords, not the one and only Truth. The game's use of language does not, in fact, make it unplayable, it simply makes it not to your very particular taste.

Your apparently thoughtless, indeed unthinking, conviction that your view is the only good view and that everyone else is wrong, silly, and immature looks like classic trolling. It's possible that it's actually sincerely held naivete coupled with a hefty lack of empathy, but in either case there’s really nothing of substance for anyone else to engage with.

[Nebula]

𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮

[Strangepowers]

Originally posted by klkitchens:

"Thanks to those who read this and didn't feel the need to respond in such a childish fashion."

You do realize that in itself is a childish response? Pot meet kettle.

When trolls try to convince themselves that they are not trolling... what's the term for this? The Dunning-Kruger effect... too dumb to realize how dumb they are... very dangerous to have folks amongst us like this in society. Add a little self-righteous indignation and entitlement and we get the OP in full glory. Toughen up buttercup, if you truely let language bar you it only is an indication of your inability to handle life on it's terms and you have a long road of fustration and dissapopintment ahead of you in life in general. To put it bluntly, harden up or stfu.