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Bulletstorm to ship with language censors

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People are often amazed that I am quite happy playing over the top violent games, have a mouth like a sailor but generally don’t like it when my games constantly swear at me.

I just find that when a game decides it can use swear words it simply goes overboard and ends up being an audial assault for all the wrong reasons.

So when I read this morning that Bulletstorm, the over the top violent FPS from Epic and People Can Fly, was going to have a setting to tone down the language I was pleased, very pleased.

It’s not like it’s an incredibly tough thing to include so I don’t know why all games don’t do the same. There is a target market out there which doesn’t like over the top language, like me.

Bad language won’t stop me getting a game but it will stop me recommending it to the family and swearing in the multiplayer portion is guaranteed to push me onto something else.

Source: Kotaku

Last Updated: December 23, 2010

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  1. Xtrearer

    December 23, 2010 at 16:03

    Wait, so you’re fine with violence, but naughty words makes you uncomfortable? So it would be ok to recommend a game where soldiers hack a hooked knife into the back of the enemies head to kill them by mushing up their brains inside their skulls, but not one where someone swears? Ridiculous.

    Games should be viewed by their ratings the same way movies are, if I recommend a game that has been Rated 18 for violence and language, then they should know it is not going to involve family values and educational material. Usually a game that has fowl language, will have some sort of other age restricted content. Allowing you to simply remove one and leave the other is not helping at all and voids the age rating it was given in order to prevent this in the 1st place.

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  2. Parker

    December 23, 2010 at 16:26

    The very concept of swearing is retarded in the first place.

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  3. Gavin Mannion

    December 24, 2010 at 08:08

    Gears 1 shipped with the ability to turn off the extra gore factor and blood splatter. Doing the same for language makes sense to me.

    It’s not that bad language makes me uncomfortable it just sometimes annoys me. It’s generally easy to spot the stupidest person in the room as they are the one swearing loud and proud when there are strangers/kids around.

    Killing someone in a war game is part of the core mechanic… Saying “Oh shit” when the roof explodes makes perfect sense as well.

    Shoving fuck into every sentence to make yoru character sound manly is juvenile and annoying

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  4. dkjg

    December 30, 2010 at 03:10

    can someone plz let me know if there will be a gore filter it looks fun and i really want the gears of war 3 beta

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  5. Gavin Mannion

    December 30, 2010 at 09:41

    I have asked, if they answer I will let you know :ninja:

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  6. Rez

    December 30, 2010 at 10:03

    What would be awesome is if they make up their own swear words we do not understand. Why should people from a galaxy far away swear like us.

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