You may have a point there. It’s also age related: when I was younger I swore a lot more than now…with a wife and kids I’ve toned down my language (though not perfectly) and now don’t like hearing a lot of thrown in swearing unless it is genuinely funny like In Bruges. In most workplaces that language isn’t a good thing either.

Game developers still think most gamers are that teen-twenty-something age bracket…and a lot are. Like I said, there’s no problem with the swearing to denote tension and fear, but when it is overdone it just becomes annoying for some (even those that do swear) and offensive to others. As a younger man I might have thought differently…

@ Allegionary

I think though they know that teens play their games they hide under the “It’s rated mature or whatever” excuse. So depending on how old you are they think only the older teens who apparently like swearing will play it.

Easy thing is just as Axis has said: the Epic filter option as used in Gears 2. Not that hard.

Then i miss out.

I think Australia is a lot more of family orientated country (Heck we get tax bonuses for having one), so we are a little bit more aware of the content that our children are being exposed to.

Now I’m not saying that this doesn’t apply to “Nameless” country. It just seam that most of the gamers in said “Nameless” country are single and love their explicit dictionary. Each to his own.

It just seems that more and more games are throwing it in as a “we’re trying to be a mature game” on one hand and “we’re trying to make our bad guys and goodies tough and cool”. Many games end up failing at both.

Rico was the most annoying character in a game this generation – half the words out of his mouth were ‘F***!* or ‘Mother f***er!’

Completely destroys all immersion.

I didn’t have a problem with it in the original Chronicles of Riddick though – it seemed in context and not there just for the sake of it.