Well, this thread has taken off since I posted it, So I see two points to clear up. First, These could be for phones because they're the only device primative enough to handle them well, but I did mean also making these for actual platforms. Oregins, Chronicals and Anthology did well enough, why not write more old style games for ps2? I would have said psx but that's kinda too dead now....
and my entire point with language is not, let's make a conscious effort to take it out, but more like, let's not make an effort to put it in. really, ninjas and samurais wouldn't say anything like a western swear word, they'd say some curse more in line with their charector. Let's face it, swearing has become cliche. (sorry I don't know how to make the little accent over the e) Think about it, what kind of charector development does one try to achieve when one makes their charector swear. nowadays, everyone curses in games, movies, etc. If someone just had their entire family killed, they could go off into a long monologue about it which shows their individual, specific pain which they feel, or they could just go "bleep bleep you bleeping bleepers" like all of the other bleeping bleepers in modern stories. I'm not going to take the point that swearing should be avoided at all costs, but in modern games it's become detrimental. It may have a place, but it's become so overused and gratuitous that it's meaningless, it's just there to shock people, instead of show them what the charector feels.
for a good example of overused swearing, regardless of what you think of sci fi, watch star trek IV. Spock was taught to swear every other word. do you really want your ff to turn into this? | 
05-02-2004, 05:39 PM
