The CENSORSHIP Thread!
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TheSpiritedWarrior
Never gives up a fight
Towns Folk
I guess so, but remember that Japan has a culture where nudity is completely normal, unlike other places.
For some odd reason, I am glad for censorship. I can play a video game knowing that my little sister or Mom and Dad won't have to see some suggestive things. Also, because of censorship, games are rated Teen and not Mature, so I am able to buy them without needing parent permission.
Tho
An old-school gamer & anime freak!
Banned User
Well, that may only be for you, as here a ten-year-old can just go to the store and get whatever games they want, even 18+, making game ratings obsolete, but censorship REALLY annoying! I want nudity, gore, violence, fear and so on in my games if that was in the original too! Thankfully, only a handful of games get censored here, which is a pretty good thing! I want to enjoy games the way they were meant to, so if they start censoring more, I'll have to get pirated uncensored versions or order the originals from abroad!
TheSpiritedWarrior
Never gives up a fight
Towns Folk
Tho
An old-school gamer & anime freak!
Banned User
Censoring things like skin just because it may remotely indicate something sexual is really annoying! Most of the censorship is because some parents are way too irresponsible to bother pay attention to their kid, leaving the companies to do what is actually the parent's responsibility, while the rest is because of all those idiots who get offended by every little thing! And if you think about it, censoring is a completely retarded method of "protecting" younger audiences, since a 10 year old kid can just go on an adult website and the only means of protection measure is a "Are you at least 18 years old?" yes/no question, like anyone will hit no!
But what really has bugged me the most is how some developers have actually censored 18+ games, like how they were gonna make a gore-free version of God of War for a couple of countries!
Bobcam7!
*Consuming itself*
Towns Folk
I really detest the censorship. I mean, if censoring it makes sure that Fire Emblem Fates isn't M (Because unlike the rest of the general population, I'm not allowed to play M rated games) I'm okay with it, but I think that this:
Is true. And I'm not a guy who plays Hunie Pop everyday, but so what? There's a bit of nudity? It's called a swimsuit.
Tho
An old-school gamer & anime freak!
Banned User
Tho
An old-school gamer & anime freak!
Banned User
If people don't buy it, why localize it? They only censor games in order to localized them! You gotta consider how much it costs to localize something, meaning that unless it sells well, there's no point in it! It's either censor or not localize, simple! However, difficulty has nothing to do with censoring! Mario 2 didn't get censored, it got replaced entirely, Devil May Cry 1-3 didn't get censored, they simply had the difficulty lowered and so on! Censoring means nudity, gore, etc..
Starry Windy
Everything will be Daijoubu.
Towns Folk
Most of the time, I'm glad that there are censorship, because this guarantees several games to be able to released overseas, not to mention that my country doesn't like it if objectionable content is in any medias without their consent (especially nudity, which is obviously taboo in my place). Besides, some gamers want to play games without said content as well. However, I've seen some cases that censorship can cause more issues if it's done in the wrong way.
TsukikoKozlova
Shadow Manipulating Vampire Princess
Towns Folk
Anybody remember The Electric Soldier Porygon? Where Pikachu's attack causing seizures caused Porygon to unfairly never be seen in the anime? Like, just have the regional nerd (Bill, for example) show that, with technology, they can now give data flesh. No need for digitized lightning, no risk of seizures. Porygon wouldn't even need to do much butblook happy in the suggested scenario.
Tho
An old-school gamer & anime freak!
Banned User
The main reason is that back in the day it was too much trouble making episodes, so when it got pulled, there wasn't any worth in remaking the episode or making a new one! If we go about censoring in Pokemon though, don't forget that Dratini has never been shown outside of Japan since the Pokemon Safari episode included a gun-wielding warden, making it inappropriate for kids in the west. I just wish People would be less annoying when it comes to censoring, since if there weren't problems like this we would have a Pokemon Adventures anime, based on the manga, with deaths, beheadings and so on, instead of a lame guy who can't even evolve 6 Pokemon in 70 episodes and beat the prelims for the Pokemon League!
Blue Knight
Water Spirit
Towns Folk
I think the main problem with the Pokemon anime is how it tries so hard to make it seem as though violence and sexuality don't exist, to the point it gets seriously absurd.
Look at the games, for example. They don't SHOW explicit content, but at the same time they don't try hiding them, they just go without mention. In the anime, they go out of their way to make the world seem like a sugar bowl, which is not how it is.
They can have the subtle implication of it, but not actively try to deny it exists. It's quite baffling when one second you have Pokemon on the TV, with all it's sanctity, then you turn on the news and we get war, death, dismemberment, assassinations and whatnot
Look at the games, for example. They don't SHOW explicit content, but at the same time they don't try hiding them, they just go without mention. In the anime, they go out of their way to make the world seem like a sugar bowl, which is not how it is.
They can have the subtle implication of it, but not actively try to deny it exists. It's quite baffling when one second you have Pokemon on the TV, with all it's sanctity, then you turn on the news and we get war, death, dismemberment, assassinations and whatnot
TsukikoKozlova
Shadow Manipulating Vampire Princess
Towns Folk