Can Profanity be Blocked in game?

[matt8]

I can tolerate a few profane words but not constant profanity. If there is constant profanity in the game and there is no option to block it then I wont purchase the game. How much profanity would you say, how many profane words in the game and can they be blocked or "beeped" out?

[oldboy]

Perhaps a more mature game like Disco Elysium isn't for you, if you're this sensitive.

[Americanpsycho20132014]

Don't worry about the comments here. I'm able to tolerate a fair level of obscenity, vulgarity, morbidity, gore, and cursing, but my overall favorite experiences tend to be the games and other entertainment than don't have heavy cursing and those other elements. No matter how much you can tolerate it, hearing someone swear just never sounds good, even when you swear yourself.

[Americanpsycho20132014]

Originally posted by kedvesimre:

Originally posted by matt8:

Thats just it, not only do I dont want my kids to hear profanity, I dont want to hear loads of it myself, I can tolerate a few profane words here or there. There is a place where profanity and cursing is habitual, and its a place I dont want to go to, and that place starts with an H.

The game is back on sale so its tempting, if only they could hash out all the profanity.

Just imagine a video game which is about a "place that starts with an H" with all cursing removed. How that bad it would be? The game takes place in the slums of an occupied nation with violent history. Sugarcoating the language would make it horribly unauthentic.

You'd be surprised.
Not everyone wants authentic, not everyone plays games for a challenge or for realism, some people play to relax since that's the point of games, to have fun, and not everyone thinks it's funny or relaxing to hear a bunch of swearing. It's called a preference and I'm not sure why everyone is jumping up and down on them so much. There are plenty of games that don't have swearing.

That said, wasn't there a filter for the swearing?

[kedvesimre]

Originally posted by PetParent:

Originally posted by kedvesimre:

Just imagine a video game which is about a "place that starts with an H" with all cursing removed. How that bad it would be? The game takes place in the slums of an occupied nation with violent history. Sugarcoating the language would make it horribly unauthentic.

You'd be surprised.
Not everyone wants authentic, not everyone plays games for a challenge or for realism, some people play to relax since that's the point of games, to have fun, and not everyone thinks it's funny or relaxing to hear a bunch of swearing. It's called a preference and I'm not sure why everyone is jumping up and down on them so much. There are plenty of games that don't have swearing.

That said, wasn't there a filter for the swearing?

Not every developer wants to spend resources on watering down the tone of their games to gain some extra audiance. That's their choice to create an universe they imagined, and yours to play or ignore it.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by FamilialBrood:

Originally posted by kedvesimre:

Just imagine a video game which is about a "place that starts with an H" with all cursing removed. How that bad it would be? The game takes place in the slums of an occupied nation with violent history. Sugarcoating the language would make it horribly unauthentic.

You'd be surprised.
Not everyone wants authentic, not everyone plays games for a challenge or for realism, some people play to relax since that's the point of games, to have fun, and not everyone thinks it's funny or relaxing to hear a bunch of swearing. It's called a preference and I'm not sure why everyone is jumping up and down on them so much. There are plenty of games that don't have swearing.

That said, wasn't there a filter for the swearing?

That's fine, if you have a preference against something then the logical choice is to just avoid media featuring that preference. It's why I don't watch chick flicks or romantic comedies - as opposed to suggesting they come with a mode with the romance or lame crap removed.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by FamilialBrood:

Originally posted by kedvesimre:

Just imagine a video game which is about a "place that starts with an H" with all cursing removed. How that bad it would be? The game takes place in the slums of an occupied nation with violent history. Sugarcoating the language would make it horribly unauthentic.

You'd be surprised.
Not everyone wants authentic, not everyone plays games for a challenge or for realism, some people play to relax since that's the point of games, to have fun, and not everyone thinks it's funny or relaxing to hear a bunch of swearing. It's called a preference and I'm not sure why everyone is jumping up and down on them so much. There are plenty of games that don't have swearing.

That said, wasn't there a filter for the swearing?

No, but they do censor one word for what seems like no reason whatsoever. Apparently they have something against bundles of sticks...

[Jerimee]

a) OP asks a simple question, and/or requests a simple feature, and

b) if you ain't down with OP that's fine; no problem, all you got to do is stfu - why in the good good you got to weigh in? Why you use your time to ♥♥♥♥ on a feature request worded both polite and specific? This is we don't deserve nice things

[Flesh]

Originally posted by matt8:

I can tolerate a few profane words but not constant profanity. If there is constant profanity in the game and there is no option to block it then I wont purchase the game. How much profanity would you say, how many profane words in the game and can they be blocked or "beeped" out?

Poor guy, full blown Christian thinking profanity means you go to hell. Listen man, this game tackles DEEP topics. The N word is replaced with "kipt" and is used quite often by the more racist characters. Children will call you a homosexual, big muscle men will try to convince you that racism is good, your character can take copious amounts of drugs.

You can even punch a child.

Most RPGs have darker tones, especially CRPGs. The old school ones especially. I don't know how you could be a fan of CRPG and even find a game that isn't violent.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by Karma:

Originally posted by matt8:

I can tolerate a few profane words but not constant profanity. If there is constant profanity in the game and there is no option to block it then I wont purchase the game. How much profanity would you say, how many profane words in the game and can they be blocked or "beeped" out?

Poor guy, full blown Christian thinking profanity means you go to hell. Listen man, this game tackles DEEP topics. The N word is replaced with "kipt" and is used quite often by the more racist characters. Children will call you a homosexual, big muscle men will try to convince you that racism is good, your character can take copious amounts of drugs.

You can even punch a child.

Most RPGs have darker tones, especially CRPGs. The old school ones especially. I don't know how you could be a fan of CRPG and even find a game that isn't violent.

I'd hazard a guess that violence isn't an issue. There are many violent things in the Bible, which are needed to reinforce the fact that bad things happen to you if you give in to the more sinister sins such as adultery, watching porn, smoking weed, and blasphemy.

This bizarre attitude isn't just restricted to religious types, but most societies seem to have a higher tolerance for violence than foul language or naked bodies.

[matt8]

Here the thing. You can simulate violence and not sin for instance by showing a dead body lets say to show the message that someone was killed. But even actors in a movie sin by simulating things such as blasphemy, sexual content, and profanity(although the sin would be small.) So blasphemy and sexual content in a movie makes a movie bad whereas a few profane words may not make a movie or video game bad but alot of profanity may make a movie or game bad as it would be unwatchable due to its frequency.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by matt8:

Here the thing. You can simulate violence and not sin for instance by showing a dead body lets say to show the message that someone was killed. But even actors in a movie sin by simulating things such as blasphemy, sexual content, and profanity(although the sin would be small.) So blasphemy and sexual content in a movie makes a movie bad whereas a few profane words may not make a movie or video game bad but alot of profanity may make a movie or game bad as it would be unwatchable due to its frequency.

"Unwatchable due to its frequency" - I guess that all comes down to personal taste and preference in the end.

Personally, it depends on the setting and what it's trying to achieve. I know there are groups of people who swear constantly as part of regular conversation, that's just what they do. Often because said groups of people are try-hards who want to appear "gangsta" or something similar. So a movie about a group of people like that, IMO constant swearing would make sense - but it's understandable some people may not enjoy watching something like that.

On the simulation of violence - naturally most (or all) violence in a movie has to be simulated, otherwise it'd probably be illegal. But it's still depicted in such a way that it looks real on some level (though most movies don't obey the laws of physics in this regard, many people don't notice). On that note, all movies that are not pornography only "simulate" sex.

[Klauth]

Originally posted by matt8:

Originally posted by John&Johnson:

Even if profanity is optional, I still do not recommend you to play this game if you are looking for a fun family game. This game tackles topics like politics and includes HEAVY alcoholism and drug use. Even if the game does present alcoholism and drug use as a vice as a whole, there will be parts where you are encouraged to drink alcohol and use drugs. You can even become a drug addict.

But can you choose not to do drugs and flee from vice? The reason I was attracted to this game was because you could choose to do good. I remember playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic for XBOX and it was one of my favorite games. The ability to make choices to be on the light side(and the semi turned base battles) appealed to me.

You can choose to redeem yourself in the game. I went this route for my first PT.
I only drank one glass plus took drugs only once, to finish quests, I think.

From a moral standpoint, going from a fully trashed person to a successful investigator can be appealing. And it is possible :)

For profanity, apart from a certain kid, it can be manageable, but YMMV.

[MoreEvilSquid]

Originally posted by Klauth:

Originally posted by matt8:

But can you choose not to do drugs and flee from vice? The reason I was attracted to this game was because you could choose to do good. I remember playing Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic for XBOX and it was one of my favorite games. The ability to make choices to be on the light side(and the semi turned base battles) appealed to me.

You can choose to redeem yourself in the game. I went this route for my first PT.
I only drank one glass plus took drugs only once, to finish quests, I think.

From a moral standpoint, going from a fully trashed person to a successful investigator can be appealing. And it is possible :)

For profanity, apart from a certain kid, it can be manageable, but YMMV.

Oh yeah it's definitely possible to beat the game going completely stone-cold sober (and possibly also drug-free - although the game seems to kind of want you to be EITHER not drunk OR not on drugs, but not both, it's definitely possible) - even on "HAAAAAARDCORE!".

There are literally two "thought cabinet" thoughts for each of these, which provide unique bonuses complementing this play style.

It's definitely worth trying no-drugs and/or no alcohol at least for one run, as there are a number of areas where the dialog is markedly different.

[kcoleman5]

No

[Klauth]

Originally posted by MoreEvilSquid:

Originally posted by Klauth:

You can choose to redeem yourself in the game. I went this route for my first PT.
I only drank one glass plus took drugs only once, to finish quests, I think.

From a moral standpoint, going from a fully trashed person to a successful investigator can be appealing. And it is possible :)

For profanity, apart from a certain kid, it can be manageable, but YMMV.

Oh yeah it's definitely possible to beat the game going completely stone-cold sober (and possibly also drug-free - although the game seems to kind of want you to be EITHER not drunk OR not on drugs, but not both, it's definitely possible) - even on "HAAAAAARDCORE!".

There are literally two "thought cabinet" thoughts for each of these, which provide unique bonuses complementing this play style.

It's definitely worth trying no-drugs and/or no alcohol at least for one run, as there are a number of areas where the dialog is markedly different.

My next PT will be all junky mode, I think. Just for the Lulz :)
After all, games are here to be able to do what you won't do in real life !