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]

I'm just pointing out that words noble or grand aren't a good description of murder and that murder isn't less dirty or cheap than rape.

And pretty much the only way of adding these options to the game is via dialog. I think most players know that if they launch a fireball at a group of commoners in the game it is going to result in death and that would be murder. Rape in the game would be a whole different affair which is why I think it is a bad idea to add it as any kind of random act you can choose to perpetrate. You can't launch a rape at someone and see the effects.

In BG words are pretty much all you have to describe any action other than what is covered by creature animations.

I think the point trying to be made here is that rape is considered more degrading an act than murder. Murder does have a finality that rape does not have, one can murder for various reasons but the result is the same, the death of the victim. Rape on the other hand has lasting and various ill effects on the victim. A rapist goes in to a rape attack with the foreknowledge of this and that is what makes it low, they know that the act they are commiting will effect the victim for a long time to come.

If someone thinks that grand villains are less cheap and dirty than common criminals, I advise googling for pictures of: holocaust, bodies (IMO Hitler was the grandest and the "coolest" villain of XXnd century, who not only had a "cool" and fanatical army, but also thought that he is the good guy.).

The statement wasn't about villains but about the acts commited. You could have the coolest looking rapist on the planet or the most vicious looking murderer, it makes no difference how cool they are. It is the act they are commiting that is being judged. In relation to the game, it would be very hard to make a rapist "look" cool but I do admit that it might be possible to do that with a murderer, sad though that is.

The Hitler statement didn't really make sense, you imply Hitler was cheap and dirty as a grand villain and yet state that he was the "coolest". You think cheap and dirty is cool?