Thursday, August 6, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: Brutal Legend Will Have a Filter to Prevent Its Brutality

HTTP:: Brutal Legend Will Have a Filter to Prevent Its Brutality
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Brutal Legend is one of the most interesting games to appear at the end of this year and one of the very few that aren't sequels and which are based on a more unusual premise in terms of story and design. Created by famous designer Tim Schafer, it will tell the story of a heavy-metal odyssey in which symbols of the famous music genre will be plentiful. But, as most of you know, heavy metal isn't exactly the best thing you can expose a small child to, so the team at Double Fine, which is developing the title, has revealed that a profanity filter will be emplaced so that parents and children can play the game together and enjoy the great experience that is Brutal Legend. Tim Schafer revealed that the profanity filters would bleep out all the swearing and that the whole idea was inspired from a previous Tim Schafer game, Psychonauts, which was registered T, while Brutal Legend is M. “I got a lot of letters after Psychonauts saying 'I really like playing this game with my k!
ids', and so the next thing that we thought about was that people liked to do that,” Schafer said. “But there's a certain age where - there are certain players who are old enough, but just don't really like playing with all that stuff. So we actually put two things up: there's a profanity filter i...
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Brutal-Legend-Will-Have-a-Filter-To-Prevent-Its-Brutality-118510.shtml


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