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Does Profanity Equal Realism?

June 07, 2010 in Blog comments 12

In their recent editorial piece, GameZone weighs the good and bad of profanity and if it brings forth a better sense of realism for video games and their storytelling.

Does constant profanity in games hinder the overall experience the video game is trying to present?
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  • 0
    Daweii Jun 7, 10
    In the society we live for many people profanity is a staple of their daily vocabulary. So yes profanity does add realism.
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    Hideo1 Jun 7, 10
    Does re-hashing the same subjects as every other god damn site equal journalism?
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    Seproth Jun 7, 10
    Yes, profanity equals realism. Forget about everything else that goes into a story, it's one single facet of human language that is the key to realism. Well done, you've won.
  • 1
    HisServant77 Jun 7, 10
    Sorry, but no.
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      Fatal Error Jun 7, 10
      It definitely does. At the very least, it adds a lot more realism than people using 10 the language of 10 year olds.
    • 1
      redneonfish Jun 8, 10
      I agree with you. I'm surprised almost everybody has said yes. In moderation, perhaps, yes it does. But when it's in almost every other line -> See Rico from KZ. It totally detracts from the character.
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    DragoniteBallZ Jun 7, 10
    Sure. Everyone curses. But it's how much. If it's the level of cursing like you see in Saints Row or something that's when it starts sounding really douchey.
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    Shattered Jun 7, 10
    douchey?
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    SebKus Jun 7, 10
    Course it does, shit-fer-brains!
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    Aussie Legend Jun 8, 10
    As long as its not throw in there just for the sake of it I'm completely fine with swearing in games.

    Red Dead for instance, used swearing sparingly but everytime swearing was required it was used. And it worked really well.
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      Daweii Jun 8, 10
      Red Dead went with the times though. In 1911 swearing was still very much taboo the words were not used regularly.
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        Hideo1 Jun 8, 10
        Have you ever seen Deadwood, I think it's called? They did a similar thing. Swearing wasn't taboo at all, they just said things like "What in tarnations?" which is the equivalent of "What the *bleep*?" and darn instead of shit and stuff, because such words didn't even exist back then. All they did was translate it to modern words so it didn't sound silly.

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