Mar 17 2009The World's Most Cussingest Video Game
Goes to Sega's The House of the Dead: Overkill for the Wii, with over 189 f-bombs dropped throughout the game. This knowledge comes to us from the ever diligent Guiness World Book of Records, who have apparently started recording the number of bad words in video games in addition to the world's longest toenails. Good for you. And what did Headstrong Games' writer Jonathan Burroughs have to say about the feat?
It is a dubious honour to receive such an accolade working in an industry where so often the fruits of your labours are derided and dismissed for being puerile or irresponsible, but in the case of The House of the Dead: OVERKILL a little puerility was the order of business. Parodying the profane excess of grindhouse cinema was Headstrong Games' objective and I am flattered that this record acknowledges that we not only rose to that challenge, but entirely exceeded it.
Nice. Do you see what happens? Do you see what happens, Jonathan? DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!?! Congratulations. And also, OVER THE LINE! Mark it zero dude, next frame.
House Of The Dead: Overkill Sets World Record For Swearing [vgchartz]
Thanks to Julian, who once got kicked out of a class in college for cussing but then went to visit his professor during office hours and totally made out with her. Yeah, on her gradebook and everything. So, high-five for that, Julian.
Reader Comments
1. Adrian - March 17, 2009 1:41 PM
First
2. nicole a - March 17, 2009 1:42 PM
sick shit FIRST
3. naas - March 17, 2009 1:44 PM
Cussingest? There's a batman symbol on the sky for fSN
4. Calum Gilchrist - March 17, 2009 1:49 PM
Shouldn't 50 Cent's Blood in the Sand receive this award? As you are given the option to swear whenever you want with the taunt button. I guess that it would have to be pre-scripted f-*bombs* then?
5. Deetz - March 17, 2009 1:50 PM
It's about time, I was playing all these video games and thinking,
"These games aren't breaking enough world records for pointless things!"
6. LSDiesel - March 17, 2009 1:50 PM
That picture is...suggestive.
Zombie Child molesters?
7. poop on my small shaft - March 17, 2009 1:57 PM
Throw-up into my Butthole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. teh interwebz - March 17, 2009 1:59 PM
@7 posted by softlicious.
9. poop on my small shaft - March 17, 2009 1:59 PM
[email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]@[email protected][email protected]@!
10. poop on my small shaft - March 17, 2009 2:00 PM
@8 your mom
11. Daisy - March 17, 2009 2:02 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and his friends decide to go into business together and open up a restaurant. Max's friend Larry doesn't like one of the chefs they interview, so they have to hire someone else at the last minute. On opening night, everyone realizes the chef has tourettes when he starts cursing like crazy while cooking. Max pretends the cursing is part of the "dining experience" and joins in by yelling out curse words at random. Soon, everyone in the restaurant joins in and they all have a great laugh.
12. Ocelot - March 17, 2009 2:12 PM
I have conceded that the apocalypse will not happen by zombies, or robots, or evil crazed vampires. It will come by the hands of internet idiots, mainly people that slur "First!" at the slightest chance of being noticed, and people calling themselves "Daisy." These morons will unwittingly open Pandora's Box, unleashing hellfire and death upon us all. Unfortunately there is no way to prepare for this particular brand of apocalypse, so you can be sure we all will fall. God help us all...
13. poop on my small shaft - March 17, 2009 2:15 PM
@12 FIRST!
14. finfan - March 17, 2009 2:28 PM
*shivers* The... The zombies ar-are coming for me.... THE GOD DAMN ZOMBIES ARE COMING FOR ME!!! *insert terrible blood curdling scream here*
15. Pew³ - March 17, 2009 2:42 PM
Wow. If you told me the record setting game for cuss words was under 200 times, I wouldn't fücking believe it. As a matter of fact. I still don't fücking believe it.
Video games need to step it up. More fücking cussing!!
16. Pew³ - March 17, 2009 2:43 PM
By the way....
Where's gizmoduck?!?!
17. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 17, 2009 2:48 PM
shit
piss
fück
cünt
cöcksucker
motherfücker
and tìts
18. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 17, 2009 2:49 PM
@16
She found out where you live and she's on her way to kill your stalker ass. Or, she's baking a pie. I'm not sure which.
19. Steve-o - March 17, 2009 2:50 PM
What the hell is going on in that picture???
F-bombs are no surprise after seeing that!
20. Pew³ - March 17, 2009 3:04 PM
@18. Sweet. I hope it's pumpkin pie!
21. catch22 - March 17, 2009 3:15 PM
fuk'n a!
22. Leeshka - March 17, 2009 3:34 PM
More than Madworld... huh.
23. Math Nerd - March 17, 2009 5:49 PM
@ #20
Your name would make more sense mathematically if it was (Pew)³. I know you were trying to be cute with the whole "Pew to the 3rd power" thing but if you are going to be nerdy about it, why not do it right? As it stands, Pew³ would actually be (P)(E)(W)(W)(W), as exponents only apply to the base directly to the left. Putting P, E and W in brackets however groups them together as the base making it essentially (PEW)(PEW)(PEW).
24. Mr Smith - March 17, 2009 6:41 PM
The swearing becomes tiresome in this game.
25. Watch - March 17, 2009 6:49 PM
FUC K
26. Pew³ - March 17, 2009 7:43 PM
23 Yet, somehow everyone gets the point without me having to put parenthesis around my name.
Thanks, but no thanks.
27. Pew³ - March 17, 2009 7:58 PM
@23 OK Math nerd I have a question.
What does 100³ equal.
Your assuming that the value of Pew as three separate values. But what if pew is one value? Ah ha!!!!
Pew³ is still correct.
28. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 17, 2009 8:09 PM
Sorry naas, "cussingest" seems to be spelled correctly and is used in the proper context here. No crime, no foul...
29. Math Nerd - March 17, 2009 9:14 PM
Yes Pew³, you are correct, 100³ is equal to (100)³. But, in the universal language of math, individual letters of the alphabet are used as symbols to represent values. These symbols are known as variables. Variables, when not in number form, can express any or no value. The only values that a variable cannot represent is the value of a different variable. Three different variables, three different values. Furthermore, when you put two variables side by side, they become a juxtaposition which means basically that they are to be multiplied together despite there being no multiplication sign.
e.g. P x E = PE.
The problem is that PE is still not a whole value, it is merely the product of P and E, and we dont know what P equals or what E equals.
Now, I understand what you are saying, that "Pew" is a whole value and not a combination of three values. But in the language of math, the only way to show that it is a whole value and not three individual varaibles would be to put it in brackets.
Here's the deal though, you can say that "Pew" is a whole value or whatever, I couldn't stop you if I wanted to. Not that I'm saying that I'd want to, mind you. You can do whatever you want. I'm just trying to dole out some information. And really, if people understand what you are trying to get across, then cool, whatever, I'm not going to begrudge you that. But, solely in the context of math and its universalness, PEW³ is the product of P x E x W x W x W whereas (PEW)³ is the product of (PEW)x(PEW)x(PEW). Another way to write it accurately, if you dont like the whole brackets deal would be P³E³W³.
Unfortunately with the internets being what they are, I find it highly unlikely that you will acknowledge that you are indeed wrong. Well, lets say "less right" because you are right, "Pew" COULD represent a single value. But in a STRICTLY mathematical sense, you ARE wrong. Personally, I perfered your answer in #26 where you basically said, "yeah, you may be right, but who cares, people get it." I respect that more than trying to argue a wrong point.
Personally, I like Pew³ and I totally get it. That doesnt make it correct mathematically though. Thats allz I'm sayin' dog.
Aside from your math, I'd brush up on your grammar too. The sentence "What does 100³ equal." is a question and should end with a question mark and "Your assuming..." is the possessive form of you meaning that it would be my assuming. You cant own an "assuming"... as far as I know. I think what you were looking to say is "You're assuming..." which is the contraction of "you" and "are".
P.S. Sorry about that last paragraph, that was just me being a do.uchebag for do.uchebaggieness sake. My apologies.
30. Adam - March 17, 2009 10:23 PM
Grindhouse and exploitation films really didn't have that much swearing in them.
31. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 17, 2009 11:07 PM
@29: Holy fcuk, you are annoying...
By your logic, anyone who uses an (!) is claiming a word to be a factorial. Get a life dude, seriously...
32. Math Nerd - March 18, 2009 12:08 AM
Geez, calm down #31. I'm just having a little fun. No need to get so upset about it. Do you need a bottle? Maybe a burping or a nap? Perhaps you would like it better if I sat around all day waiting for new posts so I could rush in and type "FIRST"? Would I still need to get a life then? I suppose a little bit of irrelevant intellegent debate is too much for some poeple. Next time I'll just dumn myself down to internet standards and type "dood Pew³ ur stoopidz LOLZ".
33. brian - March 18, 2009 1:41 AM
How many f-bombs did Yakuza have
34. paul - March 18, 2009 1:44 AM
Jonathan Burroughs should know something about f-bombs: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1338542/
35. Daisy (TRO) - March 18, 2009 6:59 AM
(F(A(K(E!)!)!)!) naw....
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max got a job driving a racing car for a guy who didn't understand why hamburger helper was called hamburger helper, because it was pretty good by itself. When he tried to stop for gas, the crew was eating ice creams, and he had to wait.
36. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 18, 2009 7:31 AM
@29
What's with the text book, asshat?
37. naas - March 18, 2009 10:39 AM
@28 damn, after questioning that word I googled "define: cussingest" to see the results. Being aware of it's definition, google yielded nothing.
While I'm aware google doesn't cover everything (ex: the jive dialect from a modernized papua new guinea) it does seems a good place to check
38. Worm - March 18, 2009 11:08 AM
KINGPIN HAD MORE F'IN CURSES THAN THAT
39. Dan - March 18, 2009 1:21 PM
@ 31 I agree
And relating to the post more fücks = fück off math nerd.
40. Jim Jones - March 18, 2009 1:27 PM
Really? House of the Dead on the Wii? Has the Guinness committee not played Grand Theft Auto San Andreas?
41. That guy - March 18, 2009 6:05 PM
I'm guessing the origial article was written prior to the release of MadWorld (also on the Wii). The background commentators in MadWorld can't speak without cursing.
42. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 19, 2009 1:26 AM
@32: You know no one likes you, right? There's a reason you don't have any friends.
43. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 21, 2009 11:31 AM
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There's a reason math majors are virgins, and this math nerd is that reason
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How the hell we can't say Fück in this post is beyond me.
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Math Nerd - stop trying to feel superior byu arguing mathematic THEORY with people who get laid. Stop being an asshat and find someone to play with. And for goodness' sake, please don't correct their ( ) usage.
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