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A Survey of Nintendo's Game Censorship Policies
ccnull writes "Found a page which offers a survey of Nintendo's policies on censorship, paying particular attention to how U.S. games differ from their Japanese counterparts. It's not just blood splatters, the author has interesting comparative screen grabs showing "clothed" statues and de-Nazified Hitlers."
in the world again?
yes.
yes it does.
Gore and sex don't make a bad game good, but taking them out can make a good game bad. The Wolfenstein example stands out, to me. If I bought that game expecting to be Blake Blastowitz (or whatever his name was) raiding Nazi castles on my quest to destroy Hitler, I would be very insulted to find he'd been transformed to some generic guy in a brown coat.
It absolutely has an effect on the public's perception of the system and the company. When I think of the X-box, I think of Halo, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The PS2 I associate with RPGs, sports games, and generally games with an adult theme. The Gamecube is all about Mario, Link, Pikmin... kiddy stuff. Everyone tells me how fun the games are, but my cool friends have PS2s and X-boxes. My gay friend has a Gamecube.
Blame the very vocal "think of the children" advocates in America.
Joe Motherfucking Lieberman.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Troll? No, that wasn't a troll. I actually have 3 good friends that own consoles. (They are all "cool".) One owns a PS2. One owns a PS2 and an X-box. One owns a Gamecube. The latter is gay, and I assert that this fact may not be a coincidence.
Stupid fucking mods. Read the article. They took the Nazis out of Wolfenstein 3D. Wolfenstein 3D was ABOUT Nazis. That is retarded.