Filters have been around in videogames ever since you could toggle the blood in old fighting games. It's amazing, then, that it's taken this long for a videogame to make a filter that's actually part of the game and quite amusing. Brütal Legend takes a novel approach to censorship, with a rather novel way of letting you decide whether or not you want swearing in your game.
The swear filter comes by way of a cinematic that Double Fine showed off at PAX, with Eddie Riggs talking to a member of his wannabe metal band, Kabbage Boy. The bandmate is crawling around on top of Riggs' opulent stonehenge setpiece, as he shouts, "I don't know how many times I've told you not to crawl around up there! I don't know what the F ..."
Before Eddie can finish the "F" word, the game freezes and a menu pops up asking you to choose whether or not you want swearing. Voila! Dynamic cursing, courtesy of Double Fine. Apparently this is one of two such filtering options in the game, although the second is yet to be revealed and may possibly have to do with the violence.
Those wacky chaps at Double Fine just don't play by the book, do they?
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9:00 AM on 09.07.2009
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It's optional. I DO agree with you in regards to "they shouldn't have it", because I'm a huge fan of artistic integrity, but...
If Brutal Legend did not have it, Tim would risk alienating a lot of prospective buyers: a chance he cannot take after the failure of Psychonauts.
Hilariously enough, when I talked to him recently, he said the censorship feature was essentially a response to their recording sessions with Ozzy Osbourne!
Ah, so there's not turning back? Not that I would want but I was just curious. I can't find the actual video because it's not here and not on the website linked in the article.
You think after all the brilliance pumped into this title somehow they would make the stupid decision to NOT have it reversible?
I really hope that a bunch of whiners don't come in here and start bitching how dumb this feature is like back at Joystiq.
If you think this is stupid consider it a great joke at the PMRC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Cz4JNKKCw#t=2m25
Brutal Legend contains some blood and gore, including dismemberment and occasional beheadings, whenever it is necessary for the plot, historical accuracy, or to look awesome.
"Yes, but only when it would look very awesome"
"No gore, please!"
What he said.
I can inly imagune the other idea is freezing the action and implanting a blow up mace instead of a hammer.
Awesomely awesome.
I am ya silly cunt.
This looks quite promising, I hope the developers go out of their way and think of bizarre words and phrases to fill in the blanks.
Thank God, there is a presence out there that says "hey, we don't have to swear, and it'll still be cool and awesome."
Not like the dickless fucks out their crying about "artistic integrity." Oh, and I drew a flower out of the vomit on my wall so that qualifies me as an artist btw.
I see what you did thar.