House of the Dead: Most profane game ever
Sega's The House of the Dead: Overkill for the Nintendo Wii console has broken into the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition for the most swearing in a video game, with a whopping 189 uses of the f-word.
"It is a dubious honor to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often, the fruits of your labors are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible," said Jonathan Burroughs, the game's writer. "But in the case of House Of The Dead: Overkill, a little puerility was the order of business. Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong's objective, and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it."
Clearly, this game is geared toward an adult audience, though you probably don't want to show your grandmother how to play the Nintendo Wii with House of The Dead as your example game.
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Oh wait, they are.
lol nicely put
Then after I am done, I can go play RE5 for the racism ;) </sarcasm>
C'mon. Seriously, there's no such thing as a "dirty" word. Words have only the meanings we choose to give them.
Totally agreed.
It is interesting what people regard as foul language. Years ago you couldn't say 'damn' on television now people don't give a damn. I was bleeped on TV for saying 'stuff' (as in 'I couldn't give a stuff'). The 'c' word was used in Victorian English as an acceptable word for that part of the anatomy (though often in the form cunny). Somewhere between then and now it has become the 'worst' word in the English language.
It is a strange situation where parents are happy to let their kids sit for hours playing games where the sole object is to kill as many people as possible, but get upset if their vocabulary strays a bit.
But the mutant zombies won't be eliminated with excessive profanity. That's just purely unnecessary. Besides, they call them "curse words" for a reason.
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- by W1gglesnarf March 18, 2009 11:52 AM PDT
- Sadly i grew up in the same situation as "alangerow" did... violence and swearing was fine but nakedness was not... as for the game... If I was being pounded by horde's of zombies / mutants i would be swearing too!
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