As I'm playing through Cyberpunk 2077, I'm starting to notice that there is something a little off with how CD-Projekt writes dialogue. Specifically, the way they use profanity.
I talked about it in my video on The Witcher games, but people in their games tend to swear like wounded pirates. Now, people like this--people who use profanity as punctuation--certainly exist in real life, but in a CDPR games it seems like SO MANY NPCs talk in these short, barking sentences peppered with profanity REGARDLESS of their economic station. Conversations in their games sound to my ears like:
"Shit's fucked up." "What is?" "Fucking all of it! You fucking stupid or something, you dumb cunt?"
And you couldn't tell if that were a king speaking to his ministers or a conversation between two milkmaids. As a native English speaker, it just sounds like the writers are trying WAY too hard to make dialogue sound like a David Mamet or Quentin Tarantino film.
If I had to guess as to why is this, I might say it has something to do with the writers being Polish, but I don't know enough about the Polish language or how it handles profanity to make that call.
The Victorian
As I'm playing through Cyberpunk 2077, I'm starting to notice that there is something a little off with how CD-Projekt writes dialogue. Specifically, the way they use profanity.
I talked about it in my video on The Witcher games, but people in their games tend to swear like wounded pirates. Now, people like this--people who use profanity as punctuation--certainly exist in real life, but in a CDPR games it seems like SO MANY NPCs talk in these short, barking sentences peppered with profanity REGARDLESS of their economic station. Conversations in their games sound to my ears like:
"Shit's fucked up."
"What is?"
"Fucking all of it! You fucking stupid or something, you dumb cunt?"
And you couldn't tell if that were a king speaking to his ministers or a conversation between two milkmaids. As a native English speaker, it just sounds like the writers are trying WAY too hard to make dialogue sound like a David Mamet or Quentin Tarantino film.
If I had to guess as to why is this, I might say it has something to do with the writers being Polish, but I don't know enough about the Polish language or how it handles profanity to make that call.
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