VERSALIA'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
Game creators are bad writers in general. Profanity is just one example of the more overarching problem that their characters do not always (or even often) speak "in character." If you have a character who is a street criminal, a drill instructor, or extremely angry, cursing is fine. But different characters should speak in different ways. Maybe the meathead warrior can speak simply and abruptly, the learned sage can talk too much and overexplain things, and the valley girl mage in a polka-dot hat can sound excited about everything and use exclamation marks after almost every sentence. In amateur fiction the characters typically all speak the way the author speaks in real life, which is jarring. It just so happens that the way a lot of teenagers and young adults speak in real life is that they curse too much in inappropriate situations, so that is what gets transferred to the silver screen, so to speak.

I do have to disagree with the argument about "those swear words didn't exist." Swear words exist in almost every language. They have existed for an extremely long time. What doesn't exist in your world is the English language - but even though the characters are presumably talking in Common or Elvish or something, you are going to write their dialogue in English. So when they curse, you are going to write an English curse word. Obviously they didn't say "shit", they said "pfoodoo" or something, but if you're translating the other 99.9% of the game to English, you've gotta translate the swear words too. So this is not really a valid argument against cursing, though it is perhaps a valid argument against the characters making puns. (But when a movie or something is being translated in real life and has a pun in it, a really good translator will try to find an equivalent pun in the new language. So you can still maybe justify puns that way.)

author=Dudesoft
All the super villains of the city were definitely not invited