Profanity in mods, [split by Baronius; Domi's request] Options

[Domi]

BG1 is a PG13 game, so the developper to start with did not intend it for children. There are characters in BG1 that say stuff like "Will one of you rugged adventurers give me a good, hard shag?"

The mods/mods components are sometimes rated as well (for example some of BG1NPC Romances are rated R for language or adult situations), while the mod itself is the same as the game, to avoid embaracing the selective players. It will be nice, if people used the rating system more vigorously.

I guess this is why most sci-fi/fantasy tv creates new profanities - frac, frell etc

And that is why the authors who have guts to carter to adult audience and have no pangs of guilt about it, read so real and have their own appreciative following. (Points to Martin).

In other words, do what you feel is right, just warn the consummer about it. I always make a point of explaining that Martin is gritty, uses the obscenities and does not draw curtains when his characters decided to make love, when I recommend his books. Yes, I love what he does. No, I don't expect everyone to agree with me that it is how it should be done.

This post has been edited by Domi: Jan 9 2006, 09:03 PM

[Rabain]

@Sorrow - Real world profanites detract from the game in my opinion. They add absolutely nothing. Invented profanites that makes sense in the game world have more power.

I don't think anyone could create a mod that used real world profanities liberally and didn't add a sense of 4th wall breakage.

How could not using profanities give an impression that the author is trying to avoid using profanites? I could understand if you add frell to the end of every sentence but likewise adding f*ck to the end of every sentence isn't going to make it more powerful either. To me adding real world profanity gives the impression that the author is adding it just to add it.

@Domi - we are not talking about Martin here. Adding profanity to a mod is not about having guts to cater to an adult audience. Adult content is a different matter if it is done tastefully. Unneccessary profanity is about bad writing if you can't say what you mean in plain english. You will see more "damns, shards, hells" etc in fantasy literature than you will "f*cks, w*nkers and d*cks" and to me it is the former that has more power than the latter.