Popular Post The_Mighty_Ducks Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 Anyone else feel like Playstation censoring games is making you want to buy the Xbox Series X or the rumored Switch Pro and just buy a PS5 for their exclusives? Obviously you're not going to buy both consoles at the same time, unless you're well off or already saved up the money to buy both the PS5 and the XSX. Ever since they moved their HQ to California.. They've gone all SJW... This is not being a SJW.. This is being anti consumer and making your competition gain support. If you think a game is offensive, don't buy it.. But don't take away other peoples freedom of purchasing it. 48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MidnightDragon Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 Not really, no. 117 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DEI2EK Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 I mean I hate their censorship crusade but all it does is make me skip the game or get it on sale as I still want to play it already have a gaming pc but I prefer trophies so I stay on Sony consoles 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Mayus Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 What censoring are you talking about? And no I wouldn't switch, obviously i have 0 idea what they are even censoring so I am sure it doesn't really matter. 52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Weskerfan75 Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 Not really. I can live without a panty shot or 2cm less of cleavage. 95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Priere Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Esteemed judge and jury of this court i would like to point to this contradiction here. Quote Ever since they moved their HQ to California.. They've gone all SJW... This is not being a SJW.. This is being anti consumer and making your competition gain support. Edited October 11, 2020 by YaoiGod 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The_Mighty_Ducks Posted October 11, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, Weskerfan75 said: Not really. I can live without a panty shot or 2cm less of cleavage. Lol same here, but I just don't like censorship in general. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Bane999 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 I don't like censorship but I still buy the games despite that for Sony's Consoles, as their consoles are what I play the most of. Besides that I may pick up an uncensored version for Switch or PC if available and the difference is that big. Agony for example buggy game as it can be I own on PS4, Switch and PC for the different censored versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cobbsquatch Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 No... I dont really give a crap about being able to see anime tiddies. 41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Shadiochao Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 No. I think the reasons they're doing it is silly and I wish they'd stop, but in the end it's just minor changes to a tiny amount of games. The worst thing is how they make small developers jump through hoops to meet their arbitrary requirements, which may ultimately end up pushing them away. But even that doesn't make up for the fact that there are literally thousands of other games that are unaffected. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ExistentialSolid Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Regardless of Sony's questionable censorship policies in recent years, you have to remember that you're on a trophy hunting website. This strange, seemingly irrational hobby is trapped on Sony's platform so I don't think many of us could just leave and "move away from the brand" even if we wanted to. Our community-shared addiction to trophy hunting runs too deep to quit now. Trophies have gradually wormed their way into the reward centers of our brains and, I at least, am going to be stuck here for quite some time. Edited October 11, 2020 by ExistentialSolid 48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_WatsonAU Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Could you provide some links so those of us who don’t keep up with the latest faux internet outrage. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post FilmFanatic Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 36 minutes ago, Dr_Mayus said: What censoring are you talking about? And no I wouldn't switch, obviously i have 0 idea what they are even censoring so I am sure it doesn't really matter. 3 minutes ago, Dan_WatsonAU said: Could you provide some links so those of us who don’t keep up with the latest faux internet outrage. Censorship wouldn’t make me change (nothing would actually) but it would make me think twice about buying a censored game. Maybe one day I will get an NA copy of South Park: The Stick Of Truth since the EU version is censored. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRodriguez87 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) It's more often than not done for dumb reasons, but I can't say that that alone would make me jump from... well, any one system to the next. Game censorship was a thing back then, a thing now, and it's something that's probably never going to go away. Choosing to play or not play something based on censorship would probably leave all of us with only a handful to choose from. Edited October 11, 2020 by RedRodriguez87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ccase137 Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 Sony's recent censorship changes seem to affect Japanese games the most, and a lot of them are visual novels. This has made me realize that a lot of visual novels are also available on the PC and actually cheaper there too. Even my really poorly spec'd computer can run them so contrary to a lot of the replies already, I have been purchasing more of those kind of games on PC now and forgoing the Trophy goodness. Other games, not so much given that it still runs the best on PS4 for me as they are way more expensive on the Switch, my PC can't run it, or not released for Xbox. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railshock Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 This is the first I hear of any censorship, but I doubt any version of a game will be less censored on Switch than it is on PS5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccessEngage21 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 to me censorship "never" is a big deal when it comes to games quality in general, you dont play a senran kagura game just for the obvious fanservice, a game also need other things like graphics, music, gameplay, modes of game, etc. Based the success or failure of a company in general just because they censor a certain cutscene in a game, or certain character didnt show that much skin in a game is giving fanservice too much importance (by the way, nintendo technically has censor some of thier First party games this generation, did they technically also deserved to be called SWJ for that?), also be careful about all this because if you really put so much effort into critic sony because they decide to censor a certian scene/character dress, you pretty much are telling people that you care more about the fanservice that the game in general, and that is a dangerous thing this days, especially when you going around telling people "this people tried to censor my titties!, is a crime against human rights!" or something like that, just because you cant see a chick in a hot bikini in one scene because of it does not mean that the game is doomed to fail or that sony is censor everything that has a hint of fanservice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The_Mighty_Ducks Posted October 11, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, Dan_WatsonAU said: Could you provide some links so those of us who don’t keep up with the latest faux internet outrage. Devil May Cry V has a scene where a lady is naked and you see her backside. But in the U.S. version there's lens flare covering it. Japanese developers are getting annoyed cause of Sony's written guidelines regarding sexual content, and repeated requests for adjustments were inconsistent. Not sure if the guidelines have finally been cleared up, but that's what all the noise was about. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusPunisher Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 I'm always against censorship, but if it's not anything egregious where it doesn't tamper with the gameplay or the story of the game, I can live with that. And if that ever happens, I will just not buy the game. I have pass on games I anticipated for worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Weskerfan75 Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 6 minutes ago, The_Mighty_Ducks said: Lol same here, but I just don't like censorship in general. Well, I get it. But I think it's all a matter of perspective. Games get censored, or even banned, all the time when shipped to other countries to appease their culture. Americans get all rowdy when Sony censors lewd shots or outfits from Japanese games but they don't realize that Sony does the same for violence in Japan. Games like TLOU, Resistance and Uncharted have toned down violence and in some cases, like the last two, blood is entirely removed. America views nudity as inhenerently sexual, Japan does not. America finds it acceptable to sell games with Nazi imagery, Germany doesn't. America thinks it's fine to call a weapon "Fat Man", but Japan doesn't. So on and so forth. Trivial censorship in gaming is as old as consoles themselves (see here): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regionally_censored_video_games As long as the general gameplay, story and message of the game remain intact, "censorship" like this is forgivable. 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dreakon13 Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 What censorship? Is it a weeb thing? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MarcusPunisher Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 7 minutes ago, The_Mighty_Ducks said: Devil May Cry V has a scene where a lady is naked and you see her backside. But in the U.S. version there's lens flare covering it. Japanese developers are getting annoyed cause of Sony's written guidelines regarding sexual content, and repeated requests for adjustments were inconsistent. Not sure if the guidelines have finally been cleared up, but that's what all the noise was about. Little unfair to the Japanese developers since games like Mass Effect Andromeda and Witcher 3 can display almost full nudity without any problem. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artum-sama Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Move away from the brand not so much. It is however interesting to watch them more or less change places with Nintendo when it comes to this kind of thing. I won't be picking up a PS5 anytime soon for a number of reasons and though I stand firmly on the side of not wanting my games to be altered, or developers feeling the need to preemptively make changes to avoid having to make alterations later, it's pretty low in overall consideration so far as the entire platform is concerned. If a title is heavily altered, I might pick it up on a different platform, but a decent number of the "censorship" concerns are occurring in already heavily censored console releases. The Nintendo version might have less censorship than Sony's, but the PC release will often be 18+ with actual explicit content. So far as exclusives go, well, I've dealt with Nintendo for years, and while I don't particularly enjoy supporting heavily altered titles like Tokyo Mirage Sessions I'm also fully aware that not supporting such titles is the worse option as it will mean fewer or at least cheaper localization in the future. Ultimately, it's down to the individual to weigh all these things and remain informed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KingGuy420 Posted October 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) I play video games for gameplay. They could strip a game down to wireframes and I'd be fine with it as long as it played good. I really couldn't care less about a little bit of censorship. Edited October 11, 2020 by KingGuy420 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky0ne16 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 when it comes to censorship, i usually don't pay much attention to it since i am usually focusing on the game itself vs the nudity in the game. i can usually live without it, if i wanted to see nudity i would look online. its mostly the gameplay that i have fun playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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