Final Fantasy XV (was Versus XIII)

Blade

Blade

That Man
AKA
Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
I'm starting to think all this censorship is getting downright absurd.

We live in an age where it's parental responsibility to allow or not allow games to be played, but if adults can't handle superstitions and ghosts and the occasional panty shot, you might as well not bother with those regions at all.

And, I'm of the belief that censoring women almost exclusively is borderline sexist.
 
Lulcielid

Lulcielid

Eyes of the Lord
AKA
Lulcy
All 3 collaborations are Windows Edition exclusive.

Comrades standalone release has been delayed, no news about the four new Episode DLCs.

EDIT: Tomb Raider collab brings music from Shadow of Tomb Raider and skins for Comrades. The third one brings music. Terra Wars collab is a small level featuring Noctis and TW girl.


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X-SOLDIER

X-SOLDIER

Harbinger O Great Justice
AKA
X
Blade said:
I'm starting to think all this censorship is getting downright absurd.

And, I'm of the belief that censoring women almost exclusively is borderline sexist.
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I'd argue that MOST censorship in media of all kinds is continually improving. Most of that's just more obvious now because of the Internet. This Film is Not Yet Rated is an old favourite of mine, because it exposes how corrupt the MPAA was in enforcing their own cultural opinions on things, like pushing R ratings on sexual Indy films to ensure that they'd have a harder time succeeding or reaching an audience. When it comes to the games world, there's some recent news pointing towards that improving as well, since Steam allows 100% uncensored sex games now. Additionally, I think that it's also moving towards getting more equal all the time, which makes examples where it's not stand out more prominently. I think that the nipple issue is still at the core of most of that side of it, and once THAT'S no longer a societal issue, we'll see echoes of that coming across with better equality in games and other media. Again – That's also gonna depend on which region the game was made in. Speaking of regions:

Blade said:
We live in an age where it's parental responsibility to allow or not allow games to be played, but if adults can't handle superstitions and ghosts and the occasional panty shot, you might as well not bother with those regions at all.[/MEDIA]

That largely all comes down to the rate at which cultures' own societies are individually ok with the depiction of particular things. As a good example: Germany can now have games that depict Nazis. Not everyone's country exists in the same microcosm of thought, and many of those countries actually have legal restrictions that would prevent something like that.

So because of those factors, when it comes to regions, there's one main thing that's considered – Risk/Cost analysis.

Would it cost less to've make a "Germany" patch that altered the swastikas into different symbols for some WWII games than those games would make in that region? Would doing that noticeably impact the release to other regions? Would a staggered release to that region significantly impact its sales?

Additionally, if you're not bothering with those other regions, that culture's going to have less things that allow it to slowly change from the ground up. China's a massive market, but they also have VERY censored internet and other things. Getting media in to places like that will help to slowly shift perspective of the populace that consumes that content on those things until they're not seen as taboo/abhorrent by the majority culture – at which point laws around them start to change.




X :neo:
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Lulcielid

Lulcielid

Eyes of the Lord
AKA
Lulcy
Lucis Caelum said:
All 3 collaborations are Windows Edition exclusive.

Comrades standalone release has been delayed, no news about the four new Episode DLCs.

EDIT: Tomb Raider collab brings music from Shadow of Tomb Raider and skins for Comrades. The third one brings music. Terra Wars collab is a small level featuring Noctis and TW girl.


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I may have jumped a bit too early, the Twitch stream made it sound that the collabs would be Windows only but it's unclear. Waiting for Square Enix press on the matter
 
lithiumkatana17

lithiumkatana17

Pro Adventurer
AKA
Lith
I agree that the censorship is a bit ridiculous, but I do agree with X that it is getting better. Didn't Germany just lift a censorship on portrayals of Hitler and Nazis in the media? I know their censorship of this was most noticeable in Wolfenstein II.

I mean heck, in Crisis Core they literally changed the model for the goddess statue in the western version because of its resemblance to the Virgin Mary. :closedmonster:

As far as the female characters and monsters and not being able to zoom in on them in the bestiary... yeah that irked me. More so because I'm a sucker for costume design and details, so I always want a closer look.

As far as the reaper worship in Lucis being changed... I'm glad they got rid of that concept, as cool as it was. Whether it was for censorship reasons or because they were trying to get away from some of Nomura's concepts, to me it just wouldn't have been worth it to keep the concept in if you had to censor it for half of the world. That drags down the creator's vision for the project.
 
Ami

Ami

Playing All The Stuff!
AKA
Amizon, Commander Shepard, Ellie, Rinoa Heartilly, Xena, Clara Oswald, Gamora, Lana Kane, Tifa Lockhart, Jodie Holmes, Chloe Price.
Finished the story for the second time yesterday and it still gets me...

I really liked the stuff they added in for the Royal Edition, particularly
the parts where each of the bros got to shine at the end before the throne room.
 
Blade

Blade

That Man
AKA
Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
I'm gonna say I still prefer the Royal Arms to anything else, especially now that I've got two Megaphones to regen my HP.

Plus, having the Founder's Sigil makes most bosses die in one combo other than Max Angelus.
 
T@ctic

T@ctic

Pro Adventurer
AKA
Orah, Iju
hey guys, i saw a video that included an interview for 15, and one of the developers said withing the interview is marketed to teens and 20yr olds, but he wasn't going to delete the 30yr old fans. i wanted to know if you any of you remember that interview???
 
T@ctic

T@ctic

Pro Adventurer
AKA
Orah, Iju
nearing the end of chap 6 and i must say i like the personality of noctis. looking at his design one would suspect he would be emo but he actually reminds me of ichigo in the beginning of bleach. a character with a judgemental exterior but is actually very kind internally.

if i could, i would have suggested that his father get kidnapped rather than being killed, since we and seemingly noctis didn't bond well with the king. like seriously, he only showed emotion of his father for half a chapter lol
 
M

Miicah

Rookie Adventurer
AKA
Marie
There should be a DLC for Regis lol Or a novel or something. He gets a lot of flack but there's so much to him that we could learn and get a better feel of him, too. Definitely wished there was more of Aulea.
 
Blade

Blade

That Man
AKA
Darkside-Ky/Mimeblade
T@ctic said:
nearing the end of chap 6 and i must say i like the personality of noctis. looking at his design one would suspect he would be emo but he actually reminds me of ichigo in the beginning of bleach. a character with a judgemental exterior but is actually very kind internally.

if i could, i would have suggested that his father get kidnapped rather than being killed, since we and seemingly noctis didn't bond well with the king. like seriously, he only showed emotion of his father for half a chapter lol
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If Tres can eventually find time to play FFXV, then I hope you'll find time to spot a Steam or PS4 sale to buy and play this game.

No offense, but this "spectator's perspective" on FF games doesn't rub me the right way.
 
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