Did my codextroll alarm go broke? It's yelling like crazy.
Anyway…
A couple to mention are Fallout 2 where was impossible to get childkiller perk (children removed from the game) and The Stick of Truth with censored swastika.
Everyone already knows what I feel about censoring, but I'll repeat it again. Censoring and censorship is the worst possible thing in modern civilization that stops or prevents artists to express. Censorers are parasytes who are paid for nothing with our taxmoney.
There is obscure or maybe I should say cult german comics postapoc series titled Andrax made by Peter Wiechmann. In one episode he deals with censorship idiocy by creating a world where circle shaped objects are banned because a circle shaped "demon" exists, which is actually a nuke. Of course, there is also Van Gogh's descendant who out of protest makes painting that contain circles. Etc, can't remember the exact episode title, I have the comic somewhere but can't dive among my old "trash" now, sorry*. What I want to say, artists hate censorship. Pasionattely.
Sadly, it's not just Germany with strict censorship problem.
Recently Kotaku reported that only this year 200 games were banned in Australia.
Also a reminder that in India, Dragon Age Inquisition is banned.
Today, we deal with censorship by making gamers for gamers mods. That remove censor blur (for example in Sims) or add the lacking data (for example adding children back mod for german FO2). Gamers in India probably play cracked DA:I. etc.
IMO censoring the content has a negative effect on the market and overall economy, and as such has to stop.
What needs to be censored/banned is not the "disturbing" content, hell, it's games, digital dolls, virtual worlds we're talking about here, not reality. Instead of censoring the art, these things IMO should be censored/banned or taxed with 90% at least:
- pay2win games
- virtual currency based games
- gambling falsely advertised as videogames
Fallout4 won't be any of those three and this Bethesda's move is awsome. But even if it doesn't pass, if happens it's impossible to make it in the end, modders will come to the rescue.
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* google saves the day, I think it's this one, although the cover of my (localized) issue was completely different:
http://www.amazon.de/Andrax-5-Gnadenlose-Peter-Wiechmann/dp/3936480796