Censoring the cut-scenes

[AKMARK5000]

Censoring the cut-scenes

The off-color bad language bothers a few of my SS3 Coop friends. I showed each player where they could turn off Sam's voice in the options menu of each individual player's game. However, that option only covers the times in-between cut scenes.

So, is there any way to censor or block the cut scenes on an individual basis? And in a worse case scenario, is there a way to set the cut scenes to automatically not play… on each of the few players computers?

[Delta]

lol, the language bothers them but the intense gore and grotesque nature of this game doesn't. Somehow I find that to be hilariously backwards. You do know you can SKIP the cutscenes, right?

[AKMARK5000]

Yeah, I think it is strange that the swearing language bothers them, but the violence does not, but hey, there my friends so I just have to deal with it.

Yes, I know the cut-scenes can be skipped by a vote, but that is not what I ment... I want to be able to disable the cut scenes on their individual game.

[zero254]

You can always play with the sound off.

[milkfat]

I always found it a bit silly that they have "kids" mode for gore, but they do not censor the in-game dialogue or cutscenes. There isn't any way to skip the in-game dialogue.

[AKMARK5000]

Let's see...

*you can turn Sam's voice off, but that does not cover any cut-scenes

*you can turn off the "gib" feature

*you can turn off the "gore" or make it something different such as "kid", but as Milkfat indicated is pretty lame

*you can skip the cut-scenes buy all players voting during the game as each cut-scene begins

*you can get a workshop item/mod that covers up the naked Harpy

So what's the deal with not offering an option to censor the bad language for the audio in cut-scenes? Also, would it be beyond the current modders to make some kind of mo the addresses the "bad language" issue?

[Warxa]

Your friends need to get serious

[Solais]

It is not an issue really, unless you're really young, whom the game is not made for. I can get the naked harpy being a bother even to older people, but not bad language.

[AlenL]

How do you envision we do that? Add a second set of audio with words like "frelled" or "fracked"? Or should we "beep" over it? And subtitles? Perhaps we should blackout the offending parts or... no wait! We should replace them with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pink hearts! Yes! That's a good idea. Will write it down. :P

Edit: bummer, steam's hearths are not pink anymore. :(

[Muleke_Trairao]

AlenL, i laughed of your comment hahahahah
"♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pink hearts!"
"What a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass load of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" - James Rolfe(AVGN)

[Solais]

Obviously you need to add a BRITISH locale, where Sam speaks in a very British voice, and every "F*ck" is replaced with "fiddlesticks".

[Mars]

Bit of a weird complaint. I'd advise your friends to practice their swearing at home. Perhaps they'll feel more comfortable around Sam then.

[rubregg]

bwwaahhaahhaa @AlenL's comment XD

[milkfat]

Originally posted by AlenL:

How do you envision we do that? Add a second set of audio with words like "frelled" or "fracked"? Or should we "beep" over it? And subtitles? Perhaps we should blackout the offending parts or... no wait! We should replace them with ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pink hearts! Yes! That's a good idea. Will write it down. :P

Edit: bummer, steam's hearths are not pink anymore. :(

I realize you were trying to be funny, but perhaps you forgot about "hippie" and "kids" gore modes... they exist on an entirely different level of funniness and were actually implemented into the game! At the very least for subtitles: I would expect there to be giant, pulsating, cartoony, special characters (shift+number on the keyboard). On the dialogue side of things: I would expect offending words to be covered by various percussive instruments (clown honks, drum hits, siren whistles, cymbal crashes, etc.).

You should write those ideas down!

[zero254]

If sam said fiddle sticks

I would probably die. Laughing.

[AlenL]

Originally posted by milkfat:

I realize you were trying to be funny, but perhaps you forgot about "hippie" and "kids" gore modes... they exist on an entirely different level of funniness and were actually implemented into the game! At the very least for subtitles: I would expect there to be giant, pulsating, cartoony, special characters (shift+number on the keyboard). On the dialogue side of things: I would expect offending words to be covered by various percussive instruments (clown honks, drum hits, siren whistles, cymbal crashes, etc.).

You should write those ideas down!

I was dead serious. Pardon the pun. Both of them. :P

But it is funny. Isn't it? ;) I mean the entire situation is funny. The kids/hippie modes were always in Sam games, but they were not added purely for censoring reasons. They are more of a joke on the meaninglessness of this kind of censoring. Initially, we were asked by the one of the publishers, IIRC, to add "censoring options". But I ask you, does making people explode into flowers or candy when you shoot them with a rocket seem more appropriate to show to kids than real blood? While I'm with most psychologists on the boat that fantasy violence is _not_ harmful (but quite on the contrary, it can be helpful!), if you take this at a face value, one could say that teaching kids that if you shoot someone in their face they will burst into flowers - it just might be _worse_ than showing real blood. If you catch my drift....

But anyway, I _am_ taking down notes about your ideas. They just might pop up in the future games. :P