Game Censorship & Localization General Thread

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Lone Star said:
So? He goes "Aha, how telling...!" on this kind of shit every day. Not like he'll do anything with the information.
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I find it hilarious when Elon Musk retweets something (basically saying nothing more than he noticed something) is enough to send leftists/wokists into a rage.
 
SSj_Ness said:
Do you want him to buy Square-Enix or shoot their offices up or what? Not sure what you expect.
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I don't expect anything. I just always scratch my head when people make a big deal out of Elon acknowledging something.

David Kirk Ginder said:
I find it hilarious when Elon Musk retweets something (basically saying nothing more than he noticed something) is enough to send leftists/wokists into a rage.
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Can't deny that that's amusing.
 
Mojo Thief said:
Not sure where else to put this, but I came across this interview with the creator of Dragon Quest where he confirms Western Wokism (which he calls a "religious concept") is what is forcing him and other Japanese developers to include the body type BS in modern RPGs

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Gotta say, "religious concept" is a pretty accurate take, wokism is like a secular religion these days
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All those retards that were like "Umm actually chud the Japanese made this decision themselves we didn't goad them into anything :)" are really fucking quiet all of a sudden...
 
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Lone Star said:
I don't expect anything. I just always scratch my head when people make a big deal out of Elon acknowledging something.
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If you had a GoFundMe, would you like him to retweet it saying "this is cool" or something vaguely positive about it like that? If he did, and someone told you, "oh hey Elon retweeted it", would you say "and?"
 
@esjesjesj my least favorite kike( yes he is Jewish, he says he is a communist and a Jew in his bio), a faggot who calls everyone a nazi, who says there is no good reason to be against illegal immigration, who constantly seethes over Elon, and has repeatedly acted like he knows whats best for Japan like replacement migration has been getring destroyed on X.

His first post is deleted so this is where the thread starts. He tried to blame Christianity on what the creators were talking about.
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He then goes full mask off racist against all of Japan.

Does this fag have a thread yet?
 
Mojo Thief said:
Not sure where else to put this, but I came across this interview with the creator of Dragon Quest where he confirms Western Wokism (which he calls a "religious concept") is what is forcing him and other Japanese developers to include the body type BS in modern RPGs

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Gotta say, "religious concept" is a pretty accurate take, wokism is like a secular religion these days
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So he's talking about how much he detests woke gender ideology... while putting woke gender ideology in his game... then complains about the people who put woke gender ideology in their games... as he does the very thing he's complaining about.
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I don't know what 5D underwater backgammon he's trying to pull, all I know is that I'm an american who was going to buy DQ3 until I saw the Type 1/2 thing and nope'd out. Unless he's trying to say Square Enix as a company made him do it, in which case I commend his extremely bold strategy of shitting on his own game and employers before it's even released.
 
Two Dollars said:
So he's talking about how much he detests woke gender ideology... while putting woke gender ideology in his game... then complains about the people who put woke gender ideology in their games... as he does the very thing he's complaining about.
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I don't know what 5D underwater backgammon he's trying to pull, all I know is that I'm an american who was going to buy DQ3 until I saw the Type 1/2 thing and nope'd out. Unless he's trying to say Square Enix as a company made him do it, in which case I commend his extremely bold strategy of shitting on his own game and employers before it's even released.
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He already got paid and is like 70 years old. This is potentially one of the last projects he's going to be directly involved in. As far as he's concerned, the time to start burning bridges is now.
 
Mojo Thief said:
Not sure where else to put this, but I came across this interview with the creator of Dragon Quest where he confirms Western Wokism (which he calls a "religious concept") is what is forcing him and other Japanese developers to include the body type BS in modern RPGs

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Gotta say, "religious concept" is a pretty accurate take, wokism is like a secular religion these days
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In the interest of fairness, a recently published article by Nintendoeverything provides a full transcript of the interview (because the account the quoted user links from has since been suspended, so the post is now gone). Within that article, there is also a link to a post in which there's a fully translated video of this segment.

Of note, while, yes, the devs do give some commentary about how age ratings overseas tends to create problems that lead to changes like this due to "compliance", they also had this to say at the beginning and end of the segment:

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Make of that as you will.
 
Gravemind said:
Make of that as you will.
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So more western class warfare bullshit? Seems to be the only reason games went from an actual interactive art medium with writers behind it, even in Japanese Visual Novels, to Scammers, grifters, discordniggers and tranny jannies banning anyone who doesn't tow the current narrative that vidya is lost and totally can't ever be saved while spamming as much "DID YOU SEE WHAT DA (thing you obviously don't like) DID?" Like the culture war grift of 2016 never ended and making endless excuses and censorship as to why the proles only ever deserve the half baked slop of the last decade.

While of course having private clients who get actually decent games free of all this nonsense that are never released to the public. Given the absolutely magical stuff modern technology is capable of.

Meanwhile I grew up with the likes of Halo being a cultural phenomenon. So all of this "vidya is lost" bullshit is just like saying because books like "The Hunger Games" or "Twilight" released, that all books and literature is a lost medium. Which simply isn't true. They're just being hysterical and retarded while tearing down and demoralizing anyone who actually does attempt to make something original. All it takes is one decent game for this false narrative to be challenged successfully. Like Space Marine 2.
 
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I'm seeing that interview everyone now. If I found the right video on youtube, the whole thing is an hour long. Does anyone have any choice clips from that interview that relate to censorship and how Japanese feel about it specifically?
 
30+GameOvers said:
I'm seeing that interview everyone now. If I found the right video on youtube, the whole thing is an hour long. Does anyone have any choice clips from that interview that relate to censorship and how Japanese feel about it specifically?
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I mean the Japanese have a pretty broad spectrum of opinions. You have right-wing culture war grifters, you have woke tranny grifters, you have coomers etc. The median Japanese opinion is likely somewhere along the lines of, "Well rules are rules and [BIG CORPORATION] says it must be so so it must be so. しょうがない。"

Japanese game devs have always had an extremely uneasy relationship with censorship and the most outspoken about it are probably dudes between Sakurai and Horii's age as they experienced the Japanese game industry when it was basically the fuckin wild west before you started to see much more self-censorship starting in the 90s.

None of this is to excuse shit that tranny grifters are doing to fuck with games, it's just that the Japanese response to this is going to be, "welp more of the same what can you do" rather than some massive outcry that's going to exert market pressure on companies to behave differently.
 
Dewey Decimal said:
Meanwhile I grew up with the likes of Halo being a cultural phenomenon. So all of this "vidya is lost" bullshit is just like saying because books like "The Hunger Games" or "Twilight" released, that all books and literature is a lost medium. Which simply isn't true. They're just being hysterical and retarded while tearing down and demoralizing anyone who actually does attempt to make something original. All it takes is one decent game for this false narrative to be challenged successfully. Like Space Marine 2.
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If theres one thing I dont like its doomers who say that gaming is over. There are plenty of games that come out every year that are worth playing. You just have to know where to look. For me, I have found some games this year, (I'll admit its less than last year) that were fun and worth playing. But they were mostly Switch games/ Eastern games (Stellar Blade for ex.). And there are SOME indies that I found on Steam worth playing. So vidya isn't lost its more like getting all this woke shit out of the industry. Rn the woke propaganda is being exposed.

Its like u have a bad stomach ache, so u take a pill and then u have to shit. So u go shit bomb into the toilet. Then u feel better afterwards. The gaming industry is going through the shit bomb phase. U will see more shit being shat out (Assassins Creed Shadows) before things get better.
 
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The Dokapon Kingdom remaster suffers from similar censorship to DQ3. And once again it's across all versions and not just the western release. In this case they added some unnecessary stockings just in case you get offended by bikini armor. There's also some unnecessary coloring added to the yellow female character's bra. In all cases it's some weird off black. It looks ok on the red female fighter but ridiculous on the yellow girl. It looks so pasted on.

Not sure what the point was. Dokapon Kingdom for PS2 and Wii were rated E. It was ok in 2008 but in 2023 it suddenly wasn't. Maybe it's one of those things where the chibi art causes pearl clutchers to think it's pedo porn.

I guess we'll be seeing a lot of this. Maybe someone will mod the original art back into DQ3.
 
Dysnomia said:
The Dokapon Kingdom remaster suffers from similar censorship to DQ3. And once again it's across all versions and not just the western release. In this case they added some unnecessary stockings just in case you get offended by bikini armor. There's also some unnecessary coloring added to the yellow female character's bra. In all cases it's some weird off black. It looks ok on the red female fighter but ridiculous on the yellow girl. It looks so pasted on.

Not sure what the point was. Dokapon Kingdom for PS2 and Wii were rated E. It was ok in 2008 but in 2023 it suddenly wasn't. Maybe it's one of those things where the chibi art causes pearl clutchers to think it's pedo porn.

I guess we'll be seeing a lot of this. Maybe someone will mod the original art back into DQ3.
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Dokapon also got hit with changes in the Japanese version due to CERO ratings changes. CERO actually *has* gotten demonstrably stricter over the last decade or so and actually a lot of JP gamers are mad because foreign games from the US and Europe are often butchered or completely blocked by CERO (Until Dawn got butchered, Callisto Protocol was completely blocked for example). One of the many reasons why Steam has become popular in the country is because you can use a VPN to buy the US version of games and most of the time the US release will include 'Japanese' in its language settings.

Unfortunately there's not really a good option in reverse. Trannylators make sure to get exclusive publishing rights for the English translation so you can only buy it from them.
 
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