Profanity in games

[Forest Dweller]

There were some pretty fucking :monocle: writers who weren't afraid to scrawl out a curse word now and again buddy.

That's pretty much the whole point.

When the "now and again" becomes "every other page"...

Delivery's also got a lot to do with it. I was kinda surprised when someone pointed out earlier that AP had swearing. I don't remember any of it. Why? because it was used naturally enough that I didn't really notice it, and it didn't stick. ME2, on the other hand...

The reason ME2 profanity didn't fit that well is because it was mostly limited to that one character. Having Sheppard and a few others swear as well at times would have helped a lot. Also it doesn't fit with the first game.

 

[MetalCraze]

I guess the bottomline here is

The game geared towards adults is the one that has "fuck" in it.

 

[Eyeball]

I actually think Max Payne 2 might have a place in the history of bringing the word "fuck" to a wide videogame audience. Sure, FO2 had a lot of profanity in it unless you were playing the sanitised ELV version and Kingpin was fucktastic, but neither game really had that wide appeal due to slow gameplay in the case of FO or just mildly dull gameplay for Kingpin.

Max Payne 2, on the other hand, featured more F-bombs than a Joe Pesci gangster movie and had widespread appeal, not so much due to its own gameplay, which was mediocre, but because of it being the sequel to an extremely popular game. I think MP2 might be the missing link here.

It should also be noted that the GTA games didn't have profanity until San Andreas, where it was kind of required, being a "badass ghettopimp nigga from tha hood yo" type of story.

Have you played GTA 1?

As for fuck bombs, soldiers in some countries tend to use fucks as punctuation marks.

I did play GTA1 - it had no swearing in it. My version was European, though - was there an international fuckniggershitfaggot version?

 

[Eyeball]

On the topic: I recommend fans of GTA3 and Scarface to play the Scarface game. It plays like Vice City with a more developed economic model (dope running), an excellent voice actor impersonating early 80ies Al Pacino and more fucking fucks than you could fucking fuck fuck FUCK!

Seriously, it has a "taunt" button which you can either use to yell badass things at enemies after killing them for more points or simply scream "Shitass fuck!" and other pleasantries at random passersby. If you ever wondered what it would be like to be a homicidal drug addicted midget with Tourettes syndrome, Scarface is the game for you.

 

[Monk]

Maybe one of the early IF games.

 

[spectre]

On the topic: I recommend fans of GTA3 and Scarface to play the Scarface game. It plays like Vice City with a more developed economic model (dope running), an excellent voice actor impersonating early 80ies Al Pacino and more fucking fucks than you could fucking fuck fuck FUCK!

Ye gods, the controls on this shit were atrocious. Still, that Al Pacino impersonation was solid gold.

 

[Ladders & Snakes]

But Scarface is a bad movie

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I actually think Max Payne 2 might have a place in the history of bringing the word "fuck" to a wide videogame audience. Sure, FO2 had a lot of profanity in it unless you were playing the sanitised ELV version and Kingpin was fucktastic, but neither game really had that wide appeal due to slow gameplay in the case of FO or just mildly dull gameplay for Kingpin.

Max Payne 2, on the other hand, featured more F-bombs than a Joe Pesci gangster movie and had widespread appeal, not so much due to its own gameplay, which was mediocre, but because of it being the sequel to an extremely popular game. I think MP2 might be the missing link here.

It should also be noted that the GTA games didn't have profanity until San Andreas, where it was kind of required, being a "badass ghettopimp nigga from tha hood yo" type of story.

Have you played GTA 1?

As for fuck bombs, soldiers in some countries tend to use fucks as punctuation marks.

I did play GTA1 - it had no swearing in it. My version was European, though - was there an international fuckniggershitfaggot version?

I played a Polish version it had tons of profanity.

 

[Eyeball]

As in "Game was in Polish" or "Non-pussified English version released for the benefit of the savage Polacks?"

 

[Luzur]

some of those homemade C64 porno games used fuck and whatnot.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

As in "Game was in Polish" or "Non-pussified English version released for the benefit of the savage Polacks?"

The first.

 

[Forest Dweller]

What does IF stand for?

 

[Jim Cojones]

It might have been a version translated by pirates. The game wasn't translated officially until four years after it was available in English. And non-official ones often changed a lot in the script.

 

[JarlFrank]

What does IF stand for?

Interactive Fiction.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

It might have been a version translated by pirates. The game wasn't translated officially until four years after it was available in English. And non-official ones often changed a lot in the script.

Original 1st edition of GTA in Poland came with a diskette that had an official polish translation patch.