As I am sure some of you have spotted, Obsidian/Atari have decided that we should be spared the more "creative" words in the English language - words such as cockerel and shitsu - which they feel are not right for inclusion in our character names ;)
It has also come to my attention that players wishing to list certain professions in their name have been prevented! For example, "Gregor the Analyst" was unhappy to find his name become "Gregor the lolyst".
Further more, fans of ice skating were horrified to discover that they were unable to make a character based on their favourite skater, Irina Slutskaya - "Irina ladyskaya" just didn't have the same ring to it!
Here is a UI modification that lifts the restriction on the names of our more amusing wildlife and professions in our player character names :)
At any rate, it's easy to dodge the censorship in character naming, at least in my version of the game. Just insert some random letter in the middle of the word you know is gonna be censured. After finishing typing the whole name, position the cursor back to that letter, and delete it. The game will accept it as is.
For an example, instead of "Slutskaya", type "Sleutskaya". Then, just put the cursor back in front of the "e" and delete it.
Bah... I eventually managed to downlaod this, but dropping it in the My Documents/Newevinter Nights 2/ui folder did nothig. Ditto when I tried dropping it in the Override. _________________________ Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it was something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexpliciably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
Posted by NWN DM at 2011-03-04 15:15:20 Voted 10.00 on 03/04/11
How do I install this? Drop into Override Directory in NWN2/My Documents or what?
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Posted by wycked at 2010-08-21 02:06:46 Voted 10.00 on 08/21/10
quote Sumguy:
"Censorship in a singleplayer game is just plain stupid; damn corporate political correctness and soccer-mom's self-righteous complaining."
I so agree, and what they fail to realise is that we're not all from english speaking countries and so are not OK to have our traditional names flagged as being naughty just because they (or part of them) have some other, not politically correct meaning in english!
Posted by Sumguy at 2010-04-02 14:22:31 Voted 10.00 on 04/02/10
Censorship in a singleplayer game is just plain stupid; damn corporate political correctness and soccer-mom's self-righteous complaining.
Posted by therico at 2010-03-31 16:04:10 Voted 10.00 on 03/31/10
Free speech, and misspellings are my right
Posted by Warlock of Faerun at 2009-06-29 05:37:15 Voted 10.00 on 06/29/09
NWN2 Voting Standards:
10 - A Masterpiece, Genuinely Groundbreaking
9 - ......
That should say all.
MoTB and SOZ users should also see the "warlocks outfit fix" by Dragoon001
Posted by jcw928 at 2009-03-16 14:24:50 Voted 10.00 on 03/16/09
Just amazing, as others have said I can understand censoring the campaign they built, but this is just ridiculous.
Posted by Gemini63 at 2009-03-12 19:50:18 Voted 10.00 on 03/12/09
They can take our land, but they will never take our freedom!
Posted by jksk at 2009-03-07 03:38:17 Voted 9.00 on 03/07/09
I would characterize this as "a must have", thusly 9 / 10. Censorship is *bleep*ing moronic.
NwN2 isn't censored in Scandinavia... I created "funny" PC names without any problem. Even 'real names', eg. Adolf Hitler, Iosif Stalin - the game didn't object.
Maybe in US of A. _________________________ ::RAWR::
Posted by Tilly89 at 2009-02-09 20:07:56 Voted 10.00 on 02/09/09
FTW!
Posted by Mazena at 2009-01-27 08:29:07 Voted 10.00 on 01/27/09
Holy ****... I didn't know NWN2 was censored! You did a good deed by releasing this! 10! _________________________ Link Crystals of The Lost Developement Blog
Posted by akibara at 2009-01-05 14:00:55 Voted 10.00 on 01/05/09
only a moron censors language in a game, it pleases no one, not the parents, and not the players.
The only game Ive seen it done well in was Dewprism.
Posted by darkbolt at 2008-03-21 12:26:12 Voted 10.00 on 03/21/08
Freedom is an illusion, And there never was such a thing as free speech it does not exsist. So what ever happen to free speech? It never happend in the 1st place and religion is the the biggest opposition of free speech. Take a look at history and all the people the church killed for speaking the truth :D
Hi, 'shitsu' is not a word in any language. What you're looking for is 'shih tzu'.
Not that it isn't totally *bleep*ing ridiculous that *bleep*ers put profanity filters in all their *bleep*ing*bleep*. But Bioware is not the only *bleep* that does it.
Posted by Vidal at 2007-11-03 15:51:20 Voted 10.00
Well I was the first to post and I want to be the first to congratulate you! You did us all a great favor and now it has reached the Hall of Fame... well done!
Though I must add: I wish one day things like this UI modification won't be necessary anymore.
People should start to study History... the road which starts with censorship usually leads to a rather unpleasant end... it is better to avoid it.
Posted by Caradog at 2007-10-28 11:37:15 Voted 10.00 on 10/28/07
I'm not likely to ever need this as most of my character's names are based on Welsh history/mythology or are just ones I think sound good! However, being dead against censorship I'm all for this mod, whilst I understand the fact that Obsidian HAVE to censor to get a certain rating, that doesn't mean I have to like it. Score one for freedom. _________________________ "Never be afraid to be the first one to resort to violence"
Posted by fardoche77 at 2007-10-27 10:03:05 Voted 10.00 on 10/27/07
Props for making this! We should be able to choose our own names. Plus, the censor "tool" is biased language-wise, censoring legitimate names in russian, polish, etc
Posted by slygeezer at 2007-10-27 07:10:42 Voted 10.00 on 10/27/07
Whatever happened to free speech?
Posted by Aratirn at 2007-10-13 23:20:09 Voted 10.00 on 10/13/07
That they want to censor themselves is silly, but respectable... that they want to censor others (meaning each one of their players) is intolerable.
Great work... a pitty it is necesary.
Posted by Allvaldr at 2007-10-08 07:12:08 Voted 10.00 on 10/08/07
Yay. 1000th download. Do I win anything?
Anyway, a 10. Because this genuinely IS groundbreaking and therefore definitely fits the 10 in the voting standards. It IS groundbreaking to all the censoring christian *ssh*l*s who try to ruin the world for everyone else because they're too ret*rded to deal with life.
Posted by Ming-Ming at 2007-09-23 01:16:03 Voted 10.00 on 09/23/07
I never thought I would need this hak, until I did need it. It's a lovely humble piece of work, and I love it for keeping my names and phonetics looking "right". Thank you!
Posted by ADK at 2007-09-09 05:33:30 Voted 10.00 on 09/09/07
I say that there is quite enough censorship in the video game industry as it is. We should be able to choose our own names. Good work! _________________________ ADK
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Posted by zokushi at 2007-08-17 12:33:31 Voted 10.00 on 08/17/07
People who vote a 1 on this for no reason are the cause of game companies getting away with censorship in the first place. If the parents of a child are lax enough to let their kid play the game and not care what the child uses as a character name why is it the game companies job to step in and parent for them? _________________________ "Save Early, Save Often"
Posted by fire&ice at 2007-08-08 15:29:35 Voted 8.00 on 08/08/07
Posted by AnthroPlayer at 2007-07-29 15:33:28 Voted 10.00 on 07/29/07
This deserves a 10 for being a ground breaking acheivement against evil corporate christian America, which is slowly suffocating not only all sources of fun, but all sources of imagination, creativity, knowledge, and society as we know it.
I reccommend all people please download this now and rate a 10.
All people who come to this download and rate it less then 8 are obviously complete *bleep*ing morons with no sense of honor, dignity, or even intelligence. _________________________ @===============================================@
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Posted by frankie at 2007-07-06 09:38:39 Voted 9.00 on 07/06/07
jeff_m, you are using such an exaggerated definition of "censorship" that the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that you are not in fact trolling.
Your game? Evidently you've never read the EULA. You purchased the privelige of placing the software on one computer. They still own the software so they can censor anything they like since they still own it.
Besides, this is a silly argument: everyone censors. Anytime you believe something, you must censor its opposite. You can't believe two opposing docrines (at least in a sane manner) at the same time. You can't even have law without censorship, since laws censor actions that it deems morally, politically, etc objectionable.
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