Maybe 2k games can add "language filter" to their games?
Maybe 2k games can add "language filter" to their games?
It would be a nice feature, I would love to see this. I have younger kids in my house so it is tough to always have the sound muted, or simply not play the game.
it would be a constant censor in games like mafia 2
just put yo headphones on
Personally, I think all games should have some sort of violence/gore filter. I remember playing Unreal Tournament and only being allowed to do so when the gore and swearing was turned right down. What was even more amusing is my dad and I used to play it together...
I honestly think that games would stop being viewed by the majority of people as "degenerative" or "nerdy" were they actually comfortable to sit down with their kids and play them with them. But hey... that would require the parents to be willing to do that, wouldn't it?
Maybe if games had this option, we wouldn't be seeing the current rage over wanting to censor all games completely... It would be an interesting direction to take the argument.
Last edited by Codex; 10-22-2010 at 04:40 AM.
Yes it would be really nice. thanks for the support. We hope such concerned developers must really work on this for the sake of other players.
I don't know why gore and language is ever a problem. Maybe it's just me.
I've been playing games like Serious Sam, Duke Nukem and Onimusha since I was... what? four or five, I think.
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I hope and my friends get a shot from 2k about this filter gore/ language in the options menu. Game developers will surely put this in the future. Really hopes this will work.
Well, if the Supreme Court case in the states goes the way people are worried it will, it's quite possible we'll never see another video game that has more gore/violence/"obscene" content than one that tells the tale of George the Happy Bunny on his trek through Sunshine and Rainbow land.
Oh don't even get me started there…
As far as this goes, I think it would definitely be a nice option for people to be able to utilize when playing around children, but at the same time, I could never bring myself to play an altered version of the game.
Just like film, there are many different demographics for games, and I don't think that a game should necessarily be altered from it's original intent to be more appropriate for people who were never intended to play it in the first place. Again, comparing games to film, al too often movies are re-cut from an R to hit PG-13 and PG films get ramped up with 'edgier' content to hit PG-13 and in many cases the films are weaker for it. While video games have the added ability of making it an optional filter which you can turn on and off, it still waters down the content in a way that diminishes the artists' vision.
I think the biggest problem right now is there's currently too big of a gulf between children's games and adult games. You have lots of M-rated, ultra-real shooters, and you have lots of E-rated party games. While each are fine in their own right, there's a sad lack of games that are intended to appeal to a wide audience. Games like Little Big Planet and Super Mario Galaxy are games that have been received warmly by both adults and children and they're games that you can play together as a family.
Now understand, BioShock, Mass Effect, and Gears of War are some of my favorite franchises, and I'm NOT proposing that they stop producing games like that. I'm also not proposing that party games go away; it's great that there are games like these for the people who enjoy them to play. What I AM proposing is that more effort me made to produce titles that bridge the gap between the two gamers rather than altering the titles that are currently being made for adults or the ones that are being made for children. I do NOT want to see BioShock minus the language and the gore, and I do NOT want to see Wii Party with a FPS mini-game mode. What I do want to see are more games like Super Mario Galaxy, Little Big Planet, Epic Mickey, and Donkey Kong Country Returns, in addition to the titles we're currently enjoying.
Okay
Well, on many levels I agree with you. But, simply put ALL games have violence in them. Kirby eats people, Donkey Kong pounds their heads in with his meaty gorilla fists - violence is everywhere in video games, and I can see this puritanical blue law that's been proposed not only effecting games like Bioshock/Gears/Mass Defect (I kid I kid...) but even effecting games so that you have nothing more offensive than Cooking Mama or more intellectually stimulating in the region of innovation than Brain Age.
Speaking of which I'd really like to see Mama's voracious, closed-fisted bread kneading techniques toned down a bit.
Surely a simple, non-threatening open-handed caress of the dough is sufficient??
You're right! That's it, the kids can't have Cooking Mama either.
^ NOT ANY MORE ^
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I think that a language/gore filter, even if it does cut away from the artist's vision, should be included in games so you can flip it on when a kid wants to watch.
Just like Serious Sam where you can choose red/green/hippie blood, hippie blood being flowers.
It's a possibility, I know they will do it. And yes, im still waiting for that one. Or maybe another method is to use weaker words. what do ya think?
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