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King of Fighters Censored for Stateside Release
Coreyh writes "The just-released King of Fighters 2000/2001 game compilation for the PlayStation 2 has been censored.
The content removed from the 2D fighter includes blood, guns, and Mai's 'bouncing.' Apparently SNK Japan is a bit cautious about the USA's acceptance of content. I wish SNK USA had more control over this sort of thing. The content changed seems very mild to me.
King of Fighters 2003 has also had a limited Jamma PCB release for arcades around the world this week. Here is a trailer of the opening and gameplay. It has tagging and interesting new characters along with old favorites."
Noooooooo!!
The brutal killographys will contaminate our precious bodily fluids... They flourinate the water! It's a conspiracy!
Save me from the violent 2d fighter...
Sounds like Mortal Kombat's controversy all over again... well maybe not that wide-spread.
This must be a marketing ploy. Now I must have an uncensored version of this game, and this is the first time I've ever heard of it.
Apparently SNK Japan is a bit cautious about the USA's acceptance of content.
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Huh? Isn't "Blood, guns and boobs" the premise of 99% of the movies made in hollywood today?
I would think americans wouldn't accept a game without guns blood and boobs.
I don't use Windows Media formats you insensitive clod!
I'm pretty sure a kid shouldn't be playing a game called "King Of Figthers" anyway.
Besides, you know.. people beating the crap out of eachother is fine.. But that damn bouncing and those evil guns.. That just makes it morally deplorable.
the blood being taken out, i find typical, unnecessary, but nothing to whine about. it's just my opinion -- blood makes a fighting game gaudy, the same way excessive blood makes a war movie gaudy and even unrealistic.
and i agree wholeheartedly with taking out the guns. no fighting game should involve weapons, that's how i feel. i was pissed that scorpion was allowed into the mortal kombat tournament. i mean, nobody else showed up with synthetic weapons, they all used mystic forces. whether subzero's icy blasts could have actually been technologically produced or not is up to debate -- i say it was magic. i didn't even like the metallic fan thing in the sequel. i don't like weapons in empty-hand fighting games, they belong in samurai fighting games where at least a sword is expected. do you think it's fair to take a sword against honda? he'll never get out of the way or block more than one strike. he's a sumo wrestler -- that's why people like he and zangeif joined the tournament, to fight with their hands, not weapons. keep the guns and crap hidden under samurai showdown kimonos. in fact, take guns out of the fighting games. leave them in the war games. nobody wants to escape back to a time long ago when any moron could pick up a gun and negate evolution. that's not why we play fighting games. we play them to revel in a style of doing battle that has been outdated by something so easy to use that eugenics may as well be abandoned while inbreds rule the world.
but, i digress. while i can tolerate censoring blood, and i think guns shouldn't be in fist/magic/combo-fighting games, this junk about removing 'bouncing' is intolerable.
there is probably nothing more distracting to the gamer than the first time they run into a pair of realistically jiggling boobs on what they had hoped would be an easy-to-beat opponent. it's seriously disarming. any realistically portrayed part of female anatomy is disarming to other gamers, sometimes especially other females.
it's a great feat of human ingenuity to take pixels that are often so large you can see them as clearly as lego-blocks on your bedroom floor and turn them into an illusion of anatomy so realistic that the player can be aroused by it. for this technology to be stifled is a real shame in the pants. you think this is bad, wait until they censor 'falling/flying/f**king' (lawnmower man.) now that's outrage.
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Ah yes. Unused to natural breasts, millions of Americans go into shock when subjected to "Bouncing".
We'll probably never see any more of this sort of thing coming from Japan's entertainment industry.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
Yeah, let them play a violent game BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T LET CHILDREN SEE BOOBS.(because I would have to explain to them the "things of life" and it's really embarassing...)War is cool, sex is bad.
You would think SNK would be quite aware of what its competitors are doing
Many of KoF's competitors are rated T for Teen by the ESRB. Many video game stores have begun to require state-issued identification in order to sell M rated games. I'm guessing Playmore wants to sell to kids who don't have fake IDs.
yeah, but I punched it in wrong and got bouncing blood, while Mai turned into a man
I mean the best content as far as blood and guns is available on CNN anyway.
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