Regional changes that make no sense

[Anonymous No.6147049]

[Anonymous No.6147059]

>>6147049
They were probably afraid it looked too much like an angel and could potentially offend certain people.

[Anonymous No.6147065]

>>6147059
I don’t think they get how much we appreciate their weird take on Christianity. I fucking love that stuff. It gets a little different with Satanic imagery, because that shit soccer moms WILL flip out over, but angels tend to be fine.

[Anonymous No.6147073]

Wipeout 2097/Wipeout XL

Psygnosis changed the name because one exec was certain Americans were too stupid to understand that 2097 was a year in the future.

[Anonymous No.6147353]

>>6147065
Nintendo were ridiculous with this shit back in the day.

[Anonymous No.6147385]

Japanese don't understand exactly what it is about Christian stuff that Americans get worked up about, so in those days when they were even more ignorant about what Americans are like than they are now, they were just trying to be safe.

[Anonymous No.6147386]

>>6147065
You maybe, but it was being released to the general US public who are notorious for being religiously retarded. It's no surprise they'd change a sprite if it might mean a handful more sales to sensitive burgers.

[Anonymous No.6147392]

>>6147386
What's ironic is that the religious moms cared more about stuff like depictions of magic (e.g. harry potter is satanic because only god can cause miracles). Turning an angel into "a floating green person" makes it much more "offensive" to them, not less.

[Anonymous No.6147457]

>>6147073
Thanks, Larry.

[Anonymous No.6147527]

>>6147049
>also fucked up her dress palette so that it doesn't resemble some sort of judeo-christian biblical dress
christ fuck

[Anonymous No.6147550]

>>6147049
What version is this? I was under the gumption that the only time Puyo got localized was as Kirby and Sanic reskins.

[Anonymous No.6147563]

>Balrog
>African-American boxer

>Balrog
>Spanish ninja

which makes less sense

[Anonymous No.6147570]

>switch the black kid and the white guy's outfit colors
although Blaze looks nice

[Anonymous No.6147578]

>>6147550
Arcade version. It was recently re-released for Nintendo Switch.

[Anonymous No.6147654]

>>6147550
Extremely rare English arcade version.

Besides that, Puyo Puyo 1 was officially licensed and localized as:
- Puzlow Kids (GameGear) - direct localization included in Puyo Puyo 1 Game Gear when used on non-JP carts
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (GEN/GameGear)
- Kirby's Avalanche (SNES)
- Qwirks (Mac)
- Bug Drop, in Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games (PC versions only)

Then SNK localized Puyo Puyo 2 on the NGP Color.
That was it.

[Anonymous No.6147682]

>>6147570
I'm trying to remember, they didn't even change the cutscenes to accommodate did they? SoR3 is like a fever dream of bizarre choices, especially with how neutered the plot got.

[Anonymous No.6147683]

Tons of changes in German Nintendo games of the NES/SNES era that were mostly due to the translator being a massive hack that would rather put in some attempts at creating memes than actually give a fuck.

>>6147353
It's especially baffling in Lufia 2 but not because of the censorship iteslf but how it ended up fucking the tilesets of important plot locations among other things to the point where one has to wonder just how the hell it even ended up in stores in that state.
It must've been a MASSIVE rushjob since they didn't even manage to remove all crosses in the game and the ones in the tileset for when Gordovan gets destroyed are still there.

[Anonymous No.6147685]

>>6147049
Japanese didn’t want to make the Christians mad because back then America was still highly religious and parents and politicians alike were always looking for excuses to moral harangue on the basis of religion. That’s why Nintendo back then had a no religious symbolism in games, hence why the non Japanese Castlevania games had crosses and the like removed (bloodlines aside because SEGA doesn’t give a fuck).

Same thing is happening today except with sexuality, now sjw types (for lack of a better term) are haranguing about Japanese games that have anything remotely sexy in them, so now all the Japanese publishers are censoring the western copies of games.

Anyway, that games has an angel in it, that was a big no no back then.

[Anonymous No.6147901]

>>6147654
Wasn't that Puyo 2?

[Anonymous No.6147905]

>>6147685
>because SEGA doesn’t give a fuck
lol no, all big three publishers then (sega, nintendo, nec) had rules against direct religious references, and then many sony third parties still did it (silhouette mirage, star ocean 2, xenogears...)

as for sega, Christian crusaders in Exile were renamed in both its genesis and tg-16 versions, pentagrams removed from Lunar, and the plot of Soleil/Crusader of Centy (and any crosses) heavily butchered in the US but not the Euro translation. Then there was an attempt on the DreamCast to localize Black Matrix, a SMT-wannabe SRPG, but the highly irreverent religious-themed undertones of the anime plot caused an external force (sega? publisher? retailers?) to force a cancellation.

That was because of a moral panic about satanist cults sacrificing children lured by Dungeon & Dragon board games and novels.

>Same thing is happening today except with sexuality
What's happening today is arguably worse. The censorship net is cast far wide than just illegal digital lolis or boobs, now even "problematic interactions reinforcing gender roles" such as "You are talented at cooking! I didn't know you hid that feminine side to you behind your cold exterior" said by another woman in the same situation, as a compliment, or as sony put it in their words, anything that's "out of place in a post #metoo era". Super Seducer is a pickup artist visual novel that does all the cautionary talk against problematic sexist behavior right, and it still got pulled BY SONY one day after release because some journalist on twitter complained that the idea of pickup culture dating is, by itself, problematic. Meanwhile they allow woke child porn in Life Is Strange 2.

What happens now, it's is out of the publisher's hand entirely, and rating boards no longer protect them. Your game can be arbitrarily banned if it has any "problematic" content. We had wooden swords, wedding dresses, navels and bad endings for villains can be "problematic". Now what?

[Anonymous No.6148003]

[Anonymous No.6148023]

Is this a puyopuyo thread?

[Anonymous No.6148032]

>>6148023
No, puyoposting goes here >>6138015

[Anonymous No.6148054]

>>6148003
europe doesn't want to play as buff goebbles / hitler

[Anonymous No.6148094]

>>6147563
Boxer?

[Anonymous No.6148119]

>>6148023
S U C H

[Anonymous No.6148137]

>>6148003
lmao I never knew about that. I'm still mad they took away Hulk Hogan's mustache and made Bruce Lee a Korean in the sequel.

[Anonymous No.6148150]

Slowpoke's belly lines in Silver.

[Anonymous No.6148192]

>>6147065
Digimon in 2018 (self) censored a Nun with crucifix guns because of the Christians here. But they have literal Angel's and Lucifer like SMT and shit. They had them during the satanic panic on fox fucking kids. I will never understand it.

Incidentally it was designed by someone who did a lot of classic Pokemon card art.

[Anonymous No.6148225]

>>6147685
>Americans were more religious in the 80s-90s
>so we, uh, remove religious imagery from games?
There's some kind of logical disconnect here.

[Anonymous No.6148362]

>>6147905
>That was because of a moral panic about satanist cults sacrificing children lured by Dungeon & Dragon board games and novels.
that moral panic peaked in the early-mid 80s but yeah it had an effect on things for a long time

[Anonymous No.6148380]

>>6148225
I think it was more like the Japanese had a lot of satanic shit in their games (just becasue it looked cool), got a few moral-panic related complaint letters/news reports from the US in the mid 80s, then decided "we don't get their culture so we'll just take anything we can determine is related to christian religion out of our games just to play it safe"

[Anonymous No.6148574]

>>6147685
The SJW's are infinitely worse than the religious soccer mom's ever were. The soccer mom's just wanted the content to be labelled. The SJW's want it out-right removed, history re-written, and the entire industry over-turned. Fuck SJW's.

[Anonymous No.6148770]

>>6148574
cool dude

[Anonymous No.6148787]

>>6147073
Wasn't a problem for Rush 2049 or whatever. Americans might be 'stupid', but we don't need IDs to buy plastic picnic cutlery.

[Anonymous No.6148879]

>>6147073
>>6148787
I dunno man maybe I'm a brainlet but this shit is legit confusing at points

[Anonymous No.6148882]

>>6148003
They still have to yank out anything that looks like a Nazi for the yuros due to German law.

[Anonymous No.6148917]

>>6148879
>tfw they didn't remake that last year

[Anonymous No.6148927]

>>6148054
Looks more like Rommel

[Anonymous No.6148935]

>>6148054
Says who? The jews?

[Anonymous No.6149085]

>>6148054

We want to, but Germany pretends WW2 never happened.
it's like having 3 brothers aged 16 but we can't play Mortal Kombat because mom feels we shouldn't play games that our 10 year old sister can't play.
Germany being that annoying fucking kid here that keeps the rest of us from enjoying the good stuff.

[Anonymous No.6149101]

>>6148192
That nun looks like marill.

[Anonymous No.6149123]

>>6148003
It's surprising because the European AES/MVS version still has the original. So it's not like we were unaware of him...

[Anonymous No.6149140]

>>6148787
I think the problem lies in the person WHO thought that muricans were that stupid...

[Anonymous No.6149889]

No winky faces in western releases of pokemon. I guess winks are just too damn sexual for non-jap children to tolerate.

[Anonymous No.6149902]

>>6148574
Even if you don't always agree with Christfags, at least they mean well and believe they're saving you. SJWs seek only to destroy.

[Anonymous No.6149905]

>>6147570
i like silver blaze and axel's black pants more desu, the other changes in sor3 suck shit though

[Anonymous No.6149957]

>>6148192
Is "here" the US? Because those mean ol' KKKristians haven't held any power or relevance in the US for 20 years.

[Anonymous No.6149970]

>>6148192
They censored it because Jews don't want you to accept Christ, anon.

[Anonymous No.6149981]

>>6149957
more places than the US exist and are full of christians
like the entire third world
i remember getting some cigarettes from the philippines that are usually called 'black devil' but were changed to 'black bat' because of all the catholics

[Anonymous No.6149982]

>>6149981
Mexico is very conservative and Catholic and a lot of things would also get censored here for same reason.

[Anonymous No.6150040]

[Anonymous No.6150293]

Same game.

[Anonymous No.6150307]

>>6150040
This one seems more an improvement desu. Like fuck yeah I'd play a golf game with robots.

[Anonymous No.6150316]

>>6147905
>woke child porn
pardon?

[Anonymous No.6150327]

>>6150316
https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/2/20679924/life-is-strange-2-sex-scene-cassidy-sean-dontnod

[Anonymous No.6150406]

>>6148574
what? "soccermoms" (conservative boomers) were calling pokemon the spawn of the devil ie all evil itself back in the late 90s. no need to revise history to scapegoat it with a more modern boogieman

[Anonymous No.6150408]

They removed most of the dialogue, and changed a lot of other stuff just because.
https://tcrf.net/Dynamite_Headdy_(Genesis)

[Dillweed No.6150939]

Where do I even start

[Anonymous No.6150973]

>>6147049
Ristar have a few
No I'm not gonna say the fact that they made him look pissed off, cause at least that does make some sense.
They changed the story a bit, for example they removed the sprite of that Green Star Goddess in the Mega Drive/Genesis version, but not the Game Gear version. Also they changed the ending in the US version where Ristar is greeted by his father, who looks like a huge Ristar. I find that cliché to be honest.
One other change is that they changed the boss's appearance to remove the reference of the Japanese idiom that someone is said to have a cat's tongue if they don't like hot food. Why the hell did they go through all that effort to change a reference that people wouldn't get, I mean the boss looked fine as a cat monster thing, it's not like people are going to make fun of the game for having a cat monster as boss when the main character is a star with limbs.

[Anonymous No.6151015]

>>6150316
>>6150316
>>6150316

He's referring to the fact that the main characters are under the age of consent and have several (homoerotic as well as straight shota) sex sequences. One with a dirty older hippy girl, and another with a dirty older hippy boy.

(These scenes are not censored).

[Anonymous No.6151016]

>>6150973

>"DAD!"

[Anonymous No.6151019]

>>6150040
Reminds me of that "Tintin in America" eurocomic that had all of its blacks changed to whities for the north american translation, because the publisher had... particular "opinions" about black people, even in a gangster setting in the traditional stereotype role for black people they can't mix with whites.

[Anonymous No.6151789]

>>6148054
He is more likely based on Göring. Unlike Hitler and Goebbels, he had a buff appearance (under right angles) in earlier years and often wore full parade military uniform. On the other hand Hitler preferred lighter outfits and Goebbels was a goofy looking civilian.

[Anonymous No.6151874]

>>6147049
Spoiler: Regional changes / localisation NEVER makes sense. Culture is culture, it hurts no one to learn about another culture and so on.

[Anonymous No.6151889]

>>6150040
This kinda makes sense in the fact that obviously a Japanese golf celebrity isn't going to to be known outside of Japan, so they changed it to something "cool" to attract customers. The real why comes from why even bother localizing a game like that in the first place.

[Anonymous No.6151891]

>>6150406
This is untrue in my experience. Everyone I knew, no matter how religious their parents were, had Pokemon cards/games/vhs etc. I even remember a soccer mom saying the anime was wholesome, even if odd.
The only negative I remember seeing was the media calling it "virtual cockfighting" a couple times and no one seemed to care. And that one South Park episode.
I feel like you're just trying to cover for sjws, who are, as the other poster said, far worse, at least in my lifetime. And sjw apologists are almost always sjws themselves.

[Anonymous No.6151895]

>>6151891
To add, it was doom that caught shit, to my memory, and that seemed to be less of a religious thing and more of a violence thing, especially after Colombine.
And, unlike the sjws that infected the industry through quota hires, those people never got the game or it's sequels censored in the US.

[Anonymous No.6152020]

>>6151891
that's just your personal, probably biased experience. it doesn't speak for the general attitudes of these people or their influence. if everyone was online back then like they are now their presence would be just as known as any sjw's

there's no such thing as an "sjw quota" either. did you pick up that brainworm from /v/ or funnyjunk or something?

[Anonymous No.6152030]

>>6151015
This is how you know poltards dont play the shit they complain about

Character isnt underage by that point in the story, neither hipster are that older than them and theres no sex scene for the homo (and you see two seconds of boobs for the girl)

[Anonymous No.6152036]

>>6150293
1. that first game looks awfully British. Why would the British make a basketball game?

2. while I never played the game, all I dimly remember about Bill Laimbeer as a basketball player was that he'd play rough and start fights so that's actually fitting and funny

[Anonymous No.6152040]

>>6152020
Sounds like I hit a nerve.
Yes, it's my personal experience, as well as many others, as opposed to your utterly fabricated and absolutely biased statement.
No, but there are quotas for young women, who make up 99% of sjws, whom can only get jobs in worthless positions like HR, PR, or as """idea guys""" on the writing team, fucking with the final product while others do the real work. It's always subversion and destruction with you types, never creation.
It's pretty obvious you are a woman and sjw yourself, what with taking offense at the term "soccer mom", who were women with nothing better to do, much like most sjws, and calling sjws a "boogeyman" when they've negatively impacted the industry far more than the Bible thumpers could have ever hoped to. I'm not defending them either; I'm agnostic, and they were a pain.
But despite your pitiable efforts, you stick out here like a sore thumb. Back you go.

[Anonymons No.6152046]

>>6151889
but can you imagine having a video game featuring you, but then being replaced by a fucking robot in Europe for some reason?

ow, my sense of self-worth...

[Anonymous No.6152050]

>>6152046
if i was an old fart japanese golfer i would find great to be turned into a mecha

[Anonymous No.6152051]

>>6150973
What also made no sense was removing "the Shooting Star" from the title screen and leaving an awkward blank space

[Anonymous No.6152092]

>>6147049
I have 3 explanations for this shit:
1. America is a cancerous place, christians raped america at its very core, back when Texas was all about cowboys, now its a place full of religionfags.
Fuck american "soccer" mons and fuck religious scumbags, if you seethe over a angel in vidya, then do the world's favor, get a life.
2. Nintendo tries to pretend the whole happening, not the seething part, the oporsite.
To not invest american children to join their cults, so they decide to hide religion stuff, just to not brainwash them.
3. Some localizer from Nintendo is a shizo retard, i mean look at Actraiser.

[Anonymous No.6152104]

>>6152092
Christians don't get offended by depictions of angels, or the hardcore ones wouldn't have them covering half their interior.
NoA was just pants on head when it came to censorship. It's the reason Poison was sold as a hermaphrodite to the US; they were worried people would be offended by the idea of fighting a full blown woman.

[Anonymous No.6152112]

>>6152104
Actually, I guess poison was Capcom themselves. Same principle, though. Japs walked on eggshells because they weren't sure what would offend us.

[Anonymous No.6152175]

>>6151891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHrExOM-ww

[Anonymous No.6152190]

>>6152104
but they were ok with the intro sequence of Double Dragon where the baddies punch Billy Lee's girlfriend

[Anonymous No.6152194]

>>6152112
Why did Pokemon replace Brock with some gay 80s aerobics nerd in Season 2? They somehow convinced themselves that because Brock had slanty eyes, Americans would think he was an offensive Asian stereotype.

[Anonymous No.6152206]

It can't be any worse than Yurop banning the word "ninja."

[Anonymous No.6152207]

>>6152194
They brought him back later on, though.

[Anonymous No.6152214]

Actually the anime as a whole was watered down after Season 1 with tamer jokes, not as much slapstick, and less experimentation after they realized it was going to be broadcast internationally.

[Anonymous No.6152221]

>>6152206
Britbongs, to be exact.

[Anonymous No.6152249]

>>6152221
pretty sure it wasn't even banned, just some moral panic shit
tmnt became hero turtles but i distinctly remember having ninja power rangers toys

[Anonymous No.6152274]

>that potentially awesome Indiana Jones adventure game we never got because it would get censored in Germany

[Anonymous No.6152295]

>>6152190
Again, this is about the Japs playing it overly better-safe-than-sorry, not the actual reaction that the original would have elicited from the West.

[Anonymous No.6152298]

>>6152175
>one no name televangelist
C'mon, even 99% of Christian's know those guys are money grubbers that play it up for the crazies.

[Anonymous No.6152302]

>>6152214
>>6152194
I wasn't aware. Who the fuck watched past first season?

[Anonymous No.6152363]

Rocket Ranger
You are the hero with a jetpack and fight nazis who built a base on the moon.
For the German version, all nazi related story elements were removed and the nazis were turned into an alien race called The Leutonians. Probably intentionally close to the word Leutnant/Lieutenant. There's other amusing parts like "aliens" flying around in WW2 planes and zeppelins with removed swastika markings, and aliens wearing German uniforms.
These changes made no sense because nazis clearly were the enemy and no nazi ideals or symbolism was glorified, but early 90s laws were very strict in that regard. Showing a swastika in a videogame meant instant ban. You couldn't purchase it anywhere, not under the counter, no mail order and if you drove to the Netherlands to purchase it over there and got caught at the still existing border, you committed a felony.
The Amiga was really popular in Germany, and this is probably why Cinemaware even made this version and didn't just say fuck it, we're not releasing it.

[Anonymous No.6152364]

>>6152214
I remember Season 1 was the only one I liked, never thought at the time that there were external reasons for the show getting shittier as it went on

[Anonymous No.6152370]

>>6152051
To b e fair the english logo is snazzier at least

[Anonymous No.6152381]

>>6152370
I disagree, it's the same but now with "Ristar" looking off-center thanks to the empty space

I'm at a loss as to why they got rid of "the shooting star", Columbine hadn't even happened yet

[Anonymous No.6152397]

>>6148225
You have many subsets of christianity who disagree on a million things. Some people don’t think God should be depicted, some people don’t believe Jesus was hung on a cross but rather a pole, some don’t think Jesus had long hair as often depicted, and some people will take offense to their religious figures being depicted alongside supernatural beings (being occultism). Anything is blasphemous if you ask the right person.

[Anonymous No.6152417]

>>6147905
>some journalist on twitter complained that the idea of pickup culture dating is, by itself, problematic.

I will never understand how pickup is seen as any different than meeting a woman naturally. It’s like they gave human interaction a new name and suddenly it’s eeeevil.

Like you can’t go up to a woman in hopes of getting laid, everything from introdution to sex has to be complete chance and without intent. If not, well that’s borderline rape you evil predatory scumbag.

[Anonymous No.6152421]

>>6152363
it reminds me of that discussion on Lemon64 about those shitty German C64 BASIC games where you manage a concentration camp. usually made by edgy teens who'd pass out cassette copies to kids on the playground. there was one called KZ Simulator and another called Hitler Diktator which was a hack of some other game.

[Anonymous No.6152430]

>>6152363
it reminds me of that discussion on Lemon64 about those shitty German C64 BASIC games where you manage a concentration camp. usually made by edgy teens who'd pass out cassette copies to kids on the playground. there was one called KZ Manager and another called Hitler Diktator which was a hack of some other game. as well as one called Judentod. if you live in Germany it's illegal to distribute any such game and can carry up to 5 years in prison.

[Anonymous No.6152440]

>>6152040
Not the guy you’re replying to, but you are a dumbshit. There has been a shitload of religious outrage over Pokemon, not just in the US, and it doesn’t matter that your sheltered existence didn’t cross paths with it. I’ve met not only Christians, but everything from Muslims to Jehovas Witnesses who didn’t allow Pokemon in their household.

[Anonymous No.6152446]

Based: The Thread XD

[Anonymous No.6152456]

>>6152440
No need to project, trigglet.
I'm only talking about in the states. Were there Christian against it? Yes, a small amount. Were there non Christian's against it? Yes, a small amount.
Acting like there was some widespread Christian cabal conspiring against Pokemon is as retarded as you are.
My scout troop and school banned Pokemon cards, not even allowed during down time, yet my church didn't care (no longer religious) as long as you didn't do it during service.
Calm down and tip your fedora elsewhere, reddit.

[Anonymous No.6152476]

>>6152456
>I'm only talking about in the states.
Moving the goalpost, great job

>Were there Christian against it? Yes, a small amount. Were there non Christian's against it? Yes, a small amount.
You have no idea of the amount, and it was obviously significant enough that people noticed.

>Acting like there was some widespread Christian cabal conspiring against Pokemon is as retarded as you are.
I didn’t say any such thing

>My scout troop and school banned Pokemon cards, not even allowed during down time, yet my church didn't care (no longer religious) as long as you didn't do it during service.
But no one mentioned churches until you did, you fucking retard. We’re talking about households, what families did in their home.

[Anonymous No.6152483]

>>6152476
I was only ever talking about the US. Y'know, the place with the most Christian's exposed to Pokemon in the world. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough for you, retard.
It was not significant. It was maybe 1% of the outrage caused by things like MK.
You defended the person that said such thing.
Suddenly you're not talking about religion when the discussion centered on religion to begin with. So you were projecting about the goalposts.
Way to go, dumbass. Now fuck off.

[Anonymous No.6152485]

>>6147059
>They were probably afraid it looked too much like an angel and could potentially offend certain people.

Makes no sense considering the final boss is literally a dude with horns named Satan.

[Anonymous No.6152486]

>>6152483
>you should be able to read my thoughts, so I didn’t move the goalpost!!
>more ass-pulled percentages
>Christians have nothing to do with religion reeee
Holy fuck you are dumb.

[Anonymous No.6152487]

>>6152486
Cool strawman, bro. Take the L with what little dignity you have intact.

[Anonymous No.6152494]

What made no sense is this localization.

[Anonymous No.6152498]

>>6152487
Lol nigga yall are anonymous, like how tf can you lose dignity here.

[Anonymous No.6152507]

>>6152498
One can be looked down upon and lose self respect (if not shameless) even when anonymous. It's not like virtue signalling where it needs to confer a long term acceptance and promise of conformity within a social group to apply. But I can understand your confusion.

[Anonymous No.6152596]

>>6152494
Nah it makes total sense. No one in USA knew the anime it was based off, and morbid characters are edgy and sell themselves. The only thing that doesn't make sense is why his torso has eyes

[Anonymous No.6152797]

>>6147059
As someone who grew up in the Bible belt, I don't understand this. No one would've gotten offended at a little baby angel, or crosses on tombstones, and all the other dumb things Nintendo of America and Sega of America (but mostly the former) changed back then. No even said anything about the cross on Link's shield, unless they were so militantly anti-religious that it bothered them.

And as for depictions of the devil, America's got The Devil Went Down to Georgie, little angels and devils appearing on people's shoulders in cartoons to represent the characters' conscience, and so many other cultural depictions of Christian iconography that it just smacks of absurdity that they ever thought it was worth paying an artist to redraw or erase these things in video games.

[Anonymous No.6152812]

>>6148137
What game is that?

[Anonymous No.6152814]

>>6151789
It was just a generic German officer. His name is even pronounced "Broken" because he's a robot.

[Anonymous No.6152827]

>>6152797

Don't forget that the guys in charge of public relations were enormous pussies, I remember reading this one interview with a.. Nintendo? Sega? employee who once got an angry phone call from this person complaining about how HE WAS 100% SURE YOU COULD SEE E-HONDA'S BALLS IN SF2!!!!
so the guy is like "well I didn't know, for all I knew the developers put that in and it got triggered by some random event, so i apologized profoundly and told the man that we'd look into it."
These days nothing seems to faze people anymore, but back in the day.. pfffff they dreaded every complainer call.

[Anonymous No.6152856]

>>6152487
You're the one who lost, though. That's why you haven't refuted anything, and several people have told you that you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.6152857]

>>6152430
>5 year sentence
>for playing a game
Holy shit, that's fucked.
Not gonna lie, a well made concentration/gulag/pow camp sim sounds like it could be fun, no offense, Jews or anyone else. I loved prison architect.
Add a prisoner mode where you try to survive and escape. As an SS camp director, try to destroy evidence against the timer when the allies come, and hope it's not the Soviets. If the Soviets do come, you're force into survive/escape as prisoner mode in the gulag DLC, which you can also warden as a commie. If you get captured by the US, you go to trial; if you win there, you get transferred to a prison more like architect.
I can't wait for the Japanese internment DLC.

[Anonymous No.6152860]

>>6152812
google says "tough guy"

[Anonymous No.6152859]

>>6152856
Ok, samefag.

[Anonymous No.6152861]

>>6152859
lmao pathetic.

[Anonymous No.6152862]

>>6152861

[Anonymous No.6152863]

>>6152857
You must get permission from the federal government for any use or distribution of Nazi imagery, writings, etc and of course they only tend to approve it for serious scholarly/educational use. So no your chances of getting permission for a video game are as good as nil.

[Anonymous No.6152865]

>>6152862
>>6152861

[Anonymous No.6152869]

>>6152860
Thank you, GIS gave me nothing. Interesting stuff. I wonder how many games feature Hitler. Total Carnage has him as the last boss, which was a surprise, then there's Bionic Commando..

[Anonymous No.6152872]

>>6152863
I live in burgerland. The laws really don't come down on us as hard when it comes to stuff like that because of the 1st. Not that I plan on making a pow camp game, but it sounds like it has potential.

[Anonymous No.6152878]

>>6148787
t. Burger choking to death on an illegal Kinder egg.

[Anonymous No.6152891]

>>6152878
>number of recorded child deaths due to kinder eggs in Europe
>10
>US
>0
I don't even agree with the law, I'm just saying. They just replaced it with a kinder egg that had a plastic shell in the middle too big to swallow with the toy inside, so you had to take a couple more seconds to open it.

[Anonymous No.6152901]

>>6152872
The US is rather unique from most countries in the world in the ironclad protection given for freedom of speech/religion/the press. Many countries have various restrictions on what they consider socially harmful subject matter or things that could "damage" the national culture or character.

[Anonymous No.6152908]

>>6152869
I just GIS'd "arcade Gerdon" fyi
https://www.giantbomb.com/adolf-hitler/3005-38/games/
Google is your friend

[Anonymous No.6152917]

>>6152908
>Google is your friend
Certainly not, but I appreciate the heads-up.

[Anonymous No.6152919]

>>6152878
>>6152891
Wikipedia only mentions that the toys inside the egg were the problem, not the egg itself. The egg hazard they can get around by putting a hole in the egg, the same way pen caps have holes now in case they are swallowed. But no one gives a shit enough to do it.

[Anonymous No.6152923]

>>6152917
Cheers

[Anonymous No.6152928]

>>6152919
Goddamn I'm riled up now. Like let's worry about the toy and ignore the fact that toy or not, the foil could be choked on. Lets just ban everything to be sure.

[Anonymous No.6152937]

>>6152923

[Anonymous No.6152943]

>>6152928
It basically comes down to ignorance, not stupidity, if I'm being kind. Many parents may not have realized the "surprise" is the toy, nor did the child realize as he/she ate it.
That said, the original kinder egg was banned in the US due to a law from the 30s, not in reaction to kinder eggs themselves. The kinder egg didn't come out until ~40 years after the law.

[Anonymous No.6152970]

>>6150040
I feel like Japan would find right more appealing.

[Anonymous No.6152987]

>>6152901
The internet becoming an increasingly policed space does not bode well for us Americans, I think, since it has basically replaced the public square and more private locations. You can't whisper over drinks here, like you could in the pubs where the revolutionaries planned to throw off the British yoke. Big Brother is always watching.
Bet I'm listed for that one. YOLO.

[Anonymous No.6153035]

>>6149889
Winky faces made me pre as a child.

[Anonymous No.6153052]

>>6150408
I find the fact that they painted the cat brown and called him a bear the most baffling.

[Anonymous No.6153067]

>>6150040
>Probotector's Retirement

[Anonymous No.6153071]

You can't blame Japan for censoring mochi in the Pokemon dub and claiming it's a donut, that was 4Kids.

[Anonymous No.6153073]

>>6147683
>Hollerö!

[Anonymous No.6153104]

>>6152092
You really need to stop posting here, i see your underage& ass shitting up threads left and right for weeks now.

[Anonymous No.6153285]

>>6153071
They were onigiris

[Anonymous No.6153793]

>>6147059
That's extremely unlikely.

[Anonymous No.6153798]

>>6147386
Evangelicals were losing their shit at Doom and Diablo, and those still sold gangbusters in Burgerland, and you're entirely ignoring the rampant success of heavy metal music, going back way earlier than any of these games and making insane amounts of sales.

You don't at all understand the religious landscape in North America.

[Anonymous No.6153810]

>>6152863
Wasn't Wolfenstein: Youngblood released there uncensored recently?

[Anonymous No.6153836]

>>6152857
Please die, juden.

[Anonymous No.6153838]

>>6152104
So 3th option.

>>6153104
I have bodyhairs nigger.

[Anonymous No.6153885]

>>6147563
They hurriedly swapped the names around because they were afraid of legal consequences about Mike Bison (now Balrog) being too similar to Mike Tyson.
You KNOW this, it wasn't about what made the most sense in the game, it was about what made the most sense for not getting sued and/or beaten up by the world's most powerful Giganigga.

>>6148574
That's completely false, there was no shortage of religious fundies who wanted to outlaw this or that.
Al and Tipper Gore would have locked up Dee Snyder in jail if they thought they could do it and get away with it.

>>6153836
Cry more about it you fragile bitch.

[Anonymous No.6153886]

>>6152863
This was overturned or greatly eased up on in 2018.

[Anonymous No.6153936]

>>6152857
That sounds controversial and novel, I'd love to play it. If you have tight management sim gameplay combined with the cold hard truth, it could be great.

There should be game modes for not just Nazi deathcamps and Commie gulags, but also modes about Unit 731, the Armenian genocide, the Holodomor, the Uyghur organ harvesting, etc.

When playing as the captors, you should have a ticker showing various thoughts from guards and personnel, not knowing from who, the purpose being to find out what to develop.
As they get more traumatized from the cruel and brutal killing they're carrying out, you can develop to try to dehumanize the inmates more and inspire more hatred, and you can develop 'cleaner' methods of execution.
For instance, the Nazis initially would dig large mass graves to put victims into, then shoot down at them as they were lying there, this was a very inefficient method that would cause slow death and lead to the targets often being maimed and buried alive, which had a profoundly traumatizing impact on basically all the workers. The gas chambers were developed with the idea of making the executions quicker, cleaner, and more humane, and have far less psychological impact on guards and operators, as they were much more physically removed from the violence and making it look much less gruesome and visceral.
There should also be special characters for special operations, generally emotionally blind sociopaths like Josef Mengele and Vasily Blohkin, assets essentially who can coldly carry out cruel and gutwrenching research without being fazed, or who can personally execute hundreds of people in a day and it's just like chopping lumber to them.

After the session ends, it should highlight consequences and following injustices, such as how fags were afterwards imprisoned for being fags after being freed from German concentration camps, or how the people who ran Unit 731 all got away scot free for all the horrible crimes they committed.

[Anonymous No.6153940]

>>6153936
It should also be very well researched and matter of fact about it too, dispel the nonsense myths about human skin lampshades, barcodes, and burning bodies down to ash, and rationalizations like gulags just being normal labor camps.
The actual stuff that happened is the real horror of it.
>inb4 various denialisms

[Anonymous No.6153941]

>>6153936
Oh yeah, the Boer concentration camps and the Great Leap Forward would be good modes, the last one probably having some minor grand strategy elements.

[Anonymous No.6153945]

>>6153936
>The gas chambers were developed
Please die, you disinformation spreading kike.

[Anonymous No.6153946]

>>6153940
How about they dispel the notion of death camps entirely? Y'know, since jews always accuse you of what they're actually doing (the gulags).

[Anonymous No.6153964]

>>6147059
Mystic Quest had angels that appeared when you used revive.

[Anonymous No.6154086]

>>6153946
There we go. Don't worry you crybaby, dry away your tears, there's place for Israel's own warcrimes too.

[Anonymous No.6154087]

>>6153945
lol, hurt wehraboo feelings

[Anonymous No.6154090]

>>6150939
underrated

[Anonymous No.6154098]

>>6148225
Because it's a distortion of the truth, to a point.

>>6148882
Not for all of Europe, this would depend on distribution, in fact most games with Nazi imagery in them weren't censored in most games, you could get Wolfenstein 3D, Doom 2, and the uncensored Indiana Jones SCUMM games just fine.

>>6149957
More than 20 years if we're gonna be real.

[Anonymous No.6154108]

>>6151891
>>6152040
Same. As mentioned in another post I actually in the Bible Belt (in a rural town that's like 50% Catholic 50% Protestant) and I never saw much of the so-called hysteria over Pokemon. That fedorfags still like to wheel out anecdotes of this happening as if it were some late 90s resurgence of the Satanic Panic is just baffling to me.

[Anonymous No.6154109]

>>6150040
Huh.

>>6151891
Probably because parents who genuinely thought pokémom cards were black magic, were loud minorities who most kids didn't experience firsthand.

It's like those gay conversion camps, they were never a common thing, you hear about it because it's so absurd.

[Anonymous No.6154115]

>>6147049
clearly because despite calling it "harpy" it's modeled after an angel which went against most game console manufacturers' approval guidelines in the west

[Anonymous No.6154123]

>>6152040
It's not entirely fabricated, there were some crazy people who thought Pikachu was the devil, it's just that most Christians aren't lunatics, so it was never a common occurrence.

For example, Doom was thought by some fundies as promoting Satanism (absurd, considering it's a game fully dedicated to violently opposing Satan), and in Utah, ergo Mormonville, nobody gave a shit about that (at least the Satan stuff), and that's a VERY Christian region.

[Anonymous No.6154137]

>>6152030
This, I just watched a playthrough this weekend, and it was completely tame. The fist game with all the little girl underwear and Max's shower scene was more risque. Still fine.

[Anonymous No.6154146]

>>6152092
>America is cancer meme
I hope the women in your family were good sleeves for those Christian madmen

[Anonymous No.6154150]

>>6154086
>>6154087
Burn in hell, kikes.

[Anonymous No.6154213]

>>6147059
Oh no, degenerate Hell-bound heathens will be offended!

Good, fuck em, they made their choice.

[Anonymous No.6154310]

>>6150408
Wasn't Headdy so piss-easy in Japan that Treasure themselves approved of upping the difficulty for the US release?

[Anonymous No.6154326]

>>6152863
none of this is true lol

[Anonymous No.6154327]

>>6154310
They did the same about Working Designs' changes to Silhouette Mirage.

[Anonymous No.6154354]

>>6154327
So basically, Treasure feels like their games aren't ball-busting enough on the initial release and take any excuse to crank them up more, which works well with the US market as they can say they're making them too hard for clearing on a rental.

[Anonymous No.6154359]

The tengu was removed from the American release of SOTN because "tHeY mIgHt NoT gEt ThE rEfErEnCe".

Meanwhile what average joe knows Count Orlock?

[Anonymous No.6154365]

>>6154359
>The tengu was removed from the American release of SOTN because "tHeY mIgHt NoT gEt ThE rEfErEnCe".
No big loss since it's just a head-swapped Demon familiar, and the Pixie is just a recolored Faerie.

The big change as a result was putting a (pre-Crissaegrim) game-breaking Holy Sword in one of the familiar card's place.

[Anonymous No.6154383]

>>6152857
>>6153936

[Anonymous No.6154389]

>>6152596
>The only thing that doesn't make sense is why his torso has eyes

He has his face in his torso, and his normal punch is extending his neck forward to headbutt enemies. The skull is just a prop he uses to throw around.

[Anonymous No.6154396]

Is it bad that I want a Headdy hack that keeps the US difficulty, but also the storyline and graphics of the Japan version (i.e. Maruyama and not "Trouble Bruin")?

[Anonymous No.6154478]

>>6150293
>>6152036
I was a huge Bill Laimbeer fan, so I'd rent the shit out of that game all the time and laugh my ass off. He coaches/coached some WNBA team and they were the dirtiest players out there and actually kinda fun to watch for a bit.

[Anonymous No.6154723]

>>6154150
This post says a lot about our society.

>>6154359
The chances of people knowing who Count Olrox was supposed to be was probably higher for a westerner than knowing some Japanese stand-up comedian who had never toured or been marketed outside of Japan.

>>6152206
I remember that just barely, I was growing up right at the tail end of that, so I remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles being called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.
It wasn't censored legally here, but I guess the localizers here felt pressured to go along with it.

[Anonymous No.6154992]

>>6154723
>It wasn't censored legally here
Which country?

[Anonymous No.6155126]

>>6154992
Sweden. At least I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I did remember hearing that Power Rangers was taken off the air because some kid kicked some other kid to death or something.
Power Rangers is pretty fucking tame from what I can recall seeing, so it strikes me as very quaint.

[Anonymous No.6155127]

>>6147059
>>6152797
Jews

[Anonymous No.6155192]

>>6152417
The only thing you can accuse pickup artists of is being really cringe. If you've ever seen someone who's been trying to learn the pickup artist stuff and is trying to talk to women, it's a really horrible sight, the shit doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.6155204]

>>6152878
Wasn't the one known instance of that a super fat British kid who tried to eat the egg whole?

[Anonymous No.6155216]

>>6155126
Sweden is cuck central, and you stupid faggots deserve every indignity that the jews gave you. You spineless faggots.

[Anonymous No.6155227]

>>6155216
Someone is angry!

[Anonymous No.6155232]

>>6155227
Maybe if someone in your faggot country got angry, you could avoid obliteration!

[Anonymous No.6155321]

>>6155126
You're a jew.

[Anonymous No.6155334]

>>6147049
Have no idea why they changed this one.

[Anonymous No.6155339]

>>6155321
I wish, jews have money.

[Anonymous No.6155346]

>>6155334
nazi symbols ban in germany?

[Anonymous No.6155353]

>>6155346
There's no such ban in the USA, though. The guy shown is the bad guy in the game and Hitler still shows up in the game as obviously Hitler, so it's legitimately a bit bizarre.

[Anonymous No.6155368]

>>6155353
I was gonna say that maybe Nintendo Of America thought outright showing and depicting Hitler and Nazism would be too heavy of a subject in a game marketed towards kids, but then I remember that you get to see Adolf Hitler's face explode, and very graphically too, like you were playing Wolfenstein 3D.

[Anonymous No.6155376]

>>6155368
Ha. I've never seen your gif related before. Nice graphics for gore at the time.

[Anonymous No.6155380]

>>6155376
EPic. UPVOTEd beoyond belife.

[Anonymous No.6155381]

>>6155380
...kay

[Anonymous No.6155395]

>>6155334
The localization team probably weren’t fans of Cesar Chavez.

[Anonymous No.6155396]

>>6155395
Whoa

[Anonymous No.6155405]

>>6150293
extremely fitting though

[Anonymous No.6155406]

>>6153885
The Moral Majority did not try to rewrite history books and try to shout down and boycott every movie they disagreed with. In the late 80s and 90s, and even through the first half of the 00s you could still make movies and games about men rescuing scantily clad women without snowflakes publishing hit pieces on you and trying to get you “cancelled”. I would unironically go back to Tipper Gore freaking out and video game violence and dirty rap music than the current SJW climate we have in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous No.6155412]

>>6155406
>Tipper Gore freaking out and video game violence and dirty rap music
*freaking out about

[Anonymous No.6155450]

>>6152040
None of what you said is based in reality. Go outside.

[Anonymous No.6155463]

>>6151889
because its a good game, if all they have to change is the main character to appeal to a more mass world audience, then ok.

[Anonymous No.6155468]

>>6151895
Doom mortal kombat and night trap were the big ones for 'going to far' at the time.

[Anonymous No.6155471]

>>6154108
I had friends who had parents who did this shit. they also beat their kids into submission that they would call home to ask permission to drink water.

Fucking hate their dad and honestly just waiting for him to die in the front lawn but no one calls for help for a bit too long... he isn't well liked.

[Anonymous No.6155481]

>>6148225
It actually happened, whether or not it made sense

[Anonymous No.6155487]

>>6148225
its a better be safe then sorry approach, parents at the time were buying games for kids, who were the majority gamers at the time, and if you are appealing to parents as this is THE toy to get, then you do what you have to

[Anonymous No.6155668]

>>6152298
Funny enough, that guy got in trouble for embezzling money from his church to fund a painkiller addiction. His name was Phil Arms.
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/in-arms-way-6564832

At any rate most of the batshit televangelists shifted their crazy-pandering to end-times prophecies over the past 20 years.

[Anonymous No.6155732]

>>6150973
Japanese version always superior
Fuck that cringey ass "Muh father" story

[Anonymous No.6155740]

>>6152370
It's actually the same(pic related). Not sure where >>6152051 got that image from it seems to have wierd font and a pink line...it also has a 1994 copyright which is weird.
Also check video below to confirm I'm not bullshitting you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4wryLamXSU

Japanese version looks much better.
It was idiotic that they removed the subtitle.

[Anonymous No.6156091]

>>6154723
>some Japanese stand-up comedian
A tengu is a bird demon in Japanese mythology.

>>6155126
I caught some Power Rangers on TV, it showed one of the villains walking through the park with his groceries, minding his own business, not causing a single problem, and the Power Rangers show up and beat the crap out of him. What assholes.

[Anonymous No.6156104]

>>6155334
>winAMP reich

[Anonymous No.6156439]

>>6156091
It's not a tengu. It's literally the demon familiar with the face of Boyacky from Yatterman, done solely because of the "Push the button" gag that he often does.

[Anonymous No.6156517]

>>6152363
I think it's hilarious how many people believe that if anyone even SEES a swastika, they are going to instantly start goose stepping and heiling as if its going to cast a spell on them

If any ideology is that attractive, maybe it's got a point

[Anonymous No.6156560]

>>6155732
Tell me more

[Anonymous No.6156604]

>>6147563
Balrog is a weird name either way. I think Vega fits spanish bullfighter better though.

[Anonymous No.6156605]

>>6149905
They removed the faggot, that's a win in my book.

[Anonymous No.6156692]

>>6152298
Back in the 80s when the Christian revival movement was strong, you can figure as with anything else, there were always going to be a few charlatans like Jim Bakker who'd find a way to exploit it for money.

[Anonymous No.6156823]

>>6147563
My 2 cents, I'm 35. I grew up very immersed in culture of that era. I never ONCE thought of M. Bison being a satire name for Mike Tyson. I thought things like "M must stand for Major because hes in the military" and "Bisons are big like him" and "Bison sounds like Boss". Vega was a cool mysterious name for a masked man who looks like Predator. Balrog sounds like an ooga booga name for a BBC wrestler. They did a good job changing the names around.

[Anonymous No.6156826]

>>6148003
He looks more like a nazi in the Europe version
The USA version he looks like M Bison/Vega

[Anonymous No.6157579]

>>6155376
Adrian Carmack was amazing at pixel gore. Pixel stuff in general, really, he has a great nack for converting stock photos and shit he has just lying around into usable sprites and textures.
Wolfenstein 3D's gore is cartoony and great, Doom goes for a much grittier style, and you can still see it in Quake, on top of some mid 90s polygonal gore (which ends up looking good still thanks to Adrian Carmack's texuring, but let's also not forget Kevin Cloud).

To get it back on topic, to be able to practically sell Doom 2 in Germany, iD Software packaged it with a modified .wad file with the two secret Wolfenstein 3D levels deleted, as they're full of Nazi iconography. Thing is they forgot to delete the secret exit to access them on Map 15, so if you did find that secret, you'd crash the game trying to use it.
Releasing the GBA port of Doom 2 later on, the Wolfenstein levels are actually there, however the Nazi iconography is censored, Swastikas replaced with a banner depicting the logo for Return To Castle Wolfenstein, as well as replacing the portraits of Adolf Hitler with pictures of Wilhelm 'Deathshead' Strauss, also from Return To Castle Wolfenstein.
The blood and gore in GBA ports of Doom is censored to, supposedly for lower ratings in Germany, all blood is colored green (except for the animated blood floor textures, I guess you could call it red slime), and some of the more visceral textures and sprites are toned down or replaced. Dead monsters also disappear after a moment, though that's probably for performance reasons more than anything else.

[ !Codeine.pA No.6158185]

>>6152901
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions

literally just not true but I know Americans need to pretend they have something to be proud of other than obesity

[ !Codeine.pA No.6158189]

>>6158185
I'm not even allowed to threaten the fucking president, barely a democracy desu

[Anonymous No.6158294]

>>6155740
>1994 trademark
Probably a pre-release or beta version of the title screen, then. I never said the subtitle loss was a good thing, just that the logo was better, but if it was a beta that makes sense.

[Anonymous No.6158315]

>>6156604
Balrog is also the name of the flying battleship from Strider.

[Anonymous No.6158339]

>Regional changes that make no sense
All of them.

The back and forth between multiple types of censorious crybabies in tandem with the crying of the publishers and developers is why it's better to archive every video game, regardless of nude lolis, Nazis, trannies, etc. and never give any cowards any money. The archive will hold everything you despise and will be preserved for eternity.

[Anonymous No.6158351]

>>6155450
>NOOOO YOU CANT JUST TELL THE TRUTH! MUH CHRISTIANS ARE EBIL!
Fuck off, ya projecting niglet.

[Anonymous No.6158356]

>>6152440
Reposting since apparently it triggered the tranny jannies:

No need to project, trigglet.
I'm only talking about in the states. Were there Christian against it? Yes, a small amount. Were there non Christian's against it? Yes, a small amount.
Acting like there was some widespread Christian cabal conspiring against Pokemon is as retarded as you are.
My scout troop and school banned Pokemon cards, not even allowed during down time, yet my church didn't care (no longer religious) as long as you didn't do it during service.
Calm down and tip your fedora elsewhere, reddit.

[Anonymous No.6158360]

>>6158339
Every video game ever made is kosher.

[Anonymous No.6158371]

>>6156560
Okay. Psychoanalysis was, unironically, Jewish tricks. I say this as someone who's grandfather was a psychoanalyst.

[Anonymous No.6158376]

>>6156823
They had wrestling on British public television? Or are you just a myth spreading cuck?

[Anonymous No.6158461]

>>6147049
I always found it quite funny that you have the robot obsessed Japanese, yet it was Europe that got Probotector.

[Anonymous No.6158484]

>>6156604
>>6156823
They honestly did fit a lot better. My problem is that the idiots didn't just change Balrog's name and leave it at that. Why should the other Shadaloo members have to atone for the sins of the boxer? What would you guys have renamed Boxer if you were there at Capcom USA?

[Anonymous No.6158487]

>>6153067
Chuckled

[Anonymous No.6158498]

>>6150040
I'm looking at a Western localisation... and I'm preferring it? Who am I, and what have I done to the real me?!

[Anonymous No.6158703]

>>6147065
No, soccer moms in the 90's would flip out over anything even semi-religious, or even non-religious and just from Japan at all.

I remember conversations with adults at my church where they'd dissect the Pokemon theme song line-by-line and mental gymnasitcs it into a pro-Satan anthem and back this up by taking me to schizophrenic web 1.0 web sites made by likeminded people.

If Christians have chilled out at all, it's because they're starting to become less religious and integrate more into the mainstream. But back then, things like accepting gays, watching R-rated movies, and basic/logic/reason/understanding/compassion were all very, very frowned upon by the Christian community.

And they pretend to be more moderate now, sure, since they're losing power and they need to pretend to be nice, but if we ever give them any structural power again, we're going right back to the Dark Ages.

[Anonymous No.6158712]

>>6158703
>>6154123
See:
>>6154109

This was very mainstream thought in all the Christian denominations in several states where I lived.
>it's just that most Christians aren't lunatics, so it was never a common occurrence
In the 90's, they were. In the Bible belt, they still are. It's a lunatic book, and anyone who takes it 100% literally - as many Christian denominations did and still do - will emanate the appropriate lunacy.

I had a friend in middle school who went to a very liberal church where they taught that Jesus was just a good guy and just do your best to be a good person. I guess those kinds of Christians do exist, but I didn't even know they existed until middle school, having had been raised in Christianity in several churches in several states.

[Anonymous No.6158835]

>>6156104
I was thinking more Metroid.

[Anonymous No.6159047]

>>6158376
Not that kind of BBC, you illiterate retard.

[Anonymous No.6159116]

>>6156104
it really whips the rabbis ass

[Anonymous No.6159289]

>>6158484
>What would you guys have renamed Boxer if you were there at Capcom USA?
B. Oxen

[Anonymous No.6159404]

>>6159047
Imagine actually insulting someone's intelligence for not being so porn-corrupted that they immediately recognize a codeword for nigger penises. You should be ashamed to be honest.

[Anonymous No.6159552]

>>6159404
Or don't be such a fucking newfag.

[Anonymous No.6160153]

>>6155334
Swastika on the Flash symbol would offend his fans.

[Anonymous No.6160382]

>>6147049
These guys were the masters

[Anonymous No.6160484]

>>6147457
Hehllow yoo! Oim gooroo lahrree!

[Anonymous No.6160492]

>>6147683
I beg of you, share some of these.

[Anonymous No.6160496]

>>6148574
They're the same wolf in different clothing.
Also nice you triggered a lefty /pol/tard

[Anonymous No.6160510]

>>6151891
My dad was a vicar, he let me read Sven Hessel when I was eight, bought me fantasy novels and GW crap and read me Moorcock novels when I was growing up. Religion has done nothing to impact my media or what I can say or do. SJWs absolutely have.

[Anonymous No.6160516]

>>6153941
Not really. The Boer camp would pretty much be 'oh fuck everyone has typhus, including the guards'. Half of the British guarding those camps died due to disease.

[Anonymous No.6160526]

>>6158712
>I belonged to a radical sect of dissenters so all Christians did this and it was a majority opinion who impacted media in general.

I've noticed this is the trend. You grew up in an unusual sect which lived largely seperately from other Christian denominations and were exposed to it due to how these sects worked. What you experienced was not the norm. I went to a very famous Christian school in my country and my father was a vey involved lay member of the Church. No one ever complained about pokemon, metal, fantasy games, etc.

[Anonymous No.6160528]

>>6160526
And yes, you might have moved to different states, but your parents would always be taking you to the extreme churches that agreed with their theology. Thus you have a skewed view on the matter. Meanwhile I grew up with bishop's sons and more and had no issues.

[Anonymous No.6160668]

>>6159047
>>6159404
Damn I wish this board had ID's. I'm the guy that said "my 2 cents", someone else called you retard. Also not a cuck, btw

[Anonymous No.6160905]

>>6155368
>but then I remember that you get to see Adolf Hitler's face explode
The story behind that one, supposedly, is that Nintendo only checked games out so far before they approved them, and if a game was particularly difficult or they just wanted to pass it through, they gave it the stamp and off it went. Thats how Hitler's exploding head made it in, it was so far into the game whoever was vetting it for Nintendo didn't get far enough to see it.

[Anonymous No.6160961]

>>6147049
All regional changes make no sense, I realized this even as a 10 year old reading gaming magazines about censorship in final fantasy. I decided from then on I would play only the original Japanese version. Luckily my grandpa went to Japan for business quite often

[Anonymous No.6160984]

>>6156605
Ash is cool as hell. I am always upset to lose out on an extra playable character.

[Anonymous No.6160992]

>>6159552
Or don't be the sort of trash human being who equates 'BBC' with nigger dicks instead of a very old, very well known British television network.

[Anonymous No.6161190]

>>6155334
Hitler did nothing wrong.

[Anonymous No.6161216]

>>6147563
>>6156823
Balrog weirdly fits, a black boxer taking the name of a mythical beast as his stage nickname/hood nickname is believable. Vega is a Spanish surname and fits the other character better anyway, imo. I also always though M. was a title, like "C. Falcon".

For a complete accident, I think the names actually turned out more interesting, certainly more than keeping a black boxer named "Mike Bison" in the universe.

[Anonymous No.6161392]

>>6158376
Sure we did, but on ITV rather than BBC.

World of Sports ran continuously from 1965-1985.

[Anonymous No.6161454]

>>6160992
BBC is a network of pedophiles, that's far more disgusting than interracial porn could ever be to anyone.

>>6161216
I agree. If Mike Tyson IRL had called himself Balrog, everyone would have just accepted that, it just works.

[Anonymous No.6161463]

>>6161216
I thought it was retarded the moment I found out about the change, even as a 10 year old I was against shit like this.

[Anonymous No.6161490]

>>6161216
Vega is even a Spanish surname

[Anonymous No.6161497]

>>6150939
What is this

[Anonymous No.6161610]

>>6155368

[Anonymous No.6161739]

>>6161610
Ah yes, the very Jewish names of (((Romero))), (((Carmack))), (((Hall))) and (((Miller))), of course.

[Anonymous No.6161783]

>>6158356
Just as dumb as the first time you posted it.
>le reddit fedora meme
This shows how retarded you are

[Anonymous No.6161964]

>>6160905
I really hope that is true, because that's just amazing.

>>6161610
Play Bionic Commando.

[Anonymous No.6162169]

>>6150973
>the chad milf mom and room for a sequel
>the virgin daddy’s boy

[Anonymous No.6163872]

>>6162169
Yeah you got it right
Too bad we never got that damn sequel

[Anonymous No.6164076]

>>6147570
Best guess is "so it doesnt look the game is just a reskin" even it isnt

[Anonymous No.6164453]

>>6148574
Based

[Anonymous No.6164617]

[Anonymous No.6164961]

>>6164617
So, the problem is that they don't like the word at all?

Because I can tell you right now, that's the correct way to translate にゅーはーふ.

[Anonymous No.6164969]

>>6164961
Essentially, yes.

Kurt Kalata from HG101 and tards in the ResetEra thread say that tranny isn't equivalent to "newhalf" and that "trans" or "transgender" would be the correct localization. Some anons here have said it isn't correct and suggested shit like 'Shemale' or said tranny was the closet thing in English

Here is the translators explanation of why he chose to use tranny

[Anonymous No.6165001]

>>6164969
Honestly, I can see where they're coming from, you wouldn't really see a tranny calling themselves a tranny. Kicking up a big fuss about it is the embarrassing part though, imagine having to virtue signal this hard for a bunch of freaks because you're terrified you'll be next on the cancel culture calling list.

Personally, I'd go with trap or shemale, they have the same overt sexual connotations without being some of the modern "no-no" words you can't say like nigger or faggot. But who knows, maybe by now trap is on that list too.

"Trans" or "transgender" are about as awful a translation as you could get, especially considering this game was made in the 90s. Totally tone deaf.

[Anonymous No.6165056]

>>6152040
This is the most fedora post on /vr/ right now, with the Reddit-tier "you are mad!" comment on top. Congratulations.

[Anonymous No.6165061]

>>6165056
>going after SJWs is fedora
wew fucking lad

[Anonymous No.6165151]

>>6164969
I've heard shemale being used in less negative contexts, so I'd lean on that, tranny sounds more vulgar, if that makes any sense.
But then, these are the kind of people who will have an aneurysm about the word 'trap', insisting it's a slur for transgender people, and you know, not a fetishistic nickname for transvestites (which they regularly ignore the existence of).

[Anonymous No.6165269]

>>6164969

Can I please get an explanation on why this was deleted? I appreciated the answer. What was wrong with it?

[Anonymous No.6165310]

>>6161739
oy vey!

[Anonymous No.6165427]

>>6165310
And they say Trump Derangement Syndrome doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.6165461]

>>6165061
You are supposed to cheer for censorship, past, present and future, and not talk poorly of censorship enforcers. Otherwise you're taking a political position and getting a nice new label then silenced forever.
Didn't you already get your memo?

Also, this topic is in need of getting nuked and replaced with "My favorite regional changes", a more resetera-approved title.

>>6153936
>I'd love to play it.
Uncharted Seas series by Koei never recovered from its third installment's depiction of playable slavery causing a recall, and a cancellation of console ports.

[Anonymous No.6165469]

>>6165310
That doesn't make him a jew.
Go back to /pol/ and call everyone jews, jew

[Anonymous No.6165476]

>>6165269
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/6147049/#6164969

[Anonymous No.6165480]

>>6165476

I know what it said, i want to know why it was deleted.

[Anonymous No.6165486]

>>6165061
Yes, because that is totally the only thing that was in the post. Simply going after SJW's. Not strawmen, cringy ranting, and rabid accusations of being a female SJW. Nope, didn't see any of that at all.

[Anonymous No.6165492]

>>6165480
Because jannies are trannies and are shutting down everything related to the Goemon controversy.

[Anonymous No.6165493]

>>6165480
He complained yesterday /vr/ won't be his safe space the next month, so some here are rolling him the red carpet.

[Anonymous No.6165539]

>>6161490
>>6161216
>>6161216
>Vega is a Spanish surname
Based Bobby Vega

[Anonymous No.6165549]

>>6165480
Serious answer: I think the Goemon guy is full of shit.
Nobody gave two solitary shits about the slur. A couple SJW-y retro gaming people went, "Aw, unfortunate word choice. That sucks. Oh well" but there was no harassment or cancellation campaign. Someone even reached out to try to help him find a better word choice, which makes the rant he posted on twitter a fucking lie, but even that was super pleasant and polite. The only blogs discussing it are the sort of ones that only report on gamergate shit.
I think there's no SJW harassment campaign, and that for whatever reason, this guy decided to make shit up for attention.

[Anonymous No.6165550]

https://www.movie-censorship.com/list.php?k=4 has tons of games covered due to localization and censorship. Sometimes the images don't show up though.

[Anonymous No.6165557]

>>6165549
tom is a known attention whore he takes criticism towards the game he translates as offenses towards him because "it makes his work feel like a waste of time" and had threatened to quit the scene countless times before

[Anonymous No.6165562]

>>6165557
Yeah, it sounds like /pol/ took advantage of another hapless retard to make another culture war flashpoint. It was kind of suspicious that suddenly EVERYONE was talking about it overnight on 4chan even before there was a resetera thread.

[Anonymous No.6165572]

>>6165310
That last one, holy shit ahahaa

[Anonymous No.6165580]

>>6165562
if you check the resetera thread very few people were looking for his head and they were only speculating if he did it on purpose to offend trons because they don't like dds since he's pro trump and has a resetera block chain. It's just Tom being Tom like when he said he would stop when people were saying that meikyuu game he translated was a shitty game.

[Anonymous No.6165592]

>>6165549
>>6165580
Yeah even a bunch of people there on Ree didn't want him to leave the scene even if they were pissed off, they wanted him to translate Goemon 4.

[Anonymous No.6165597]

>>6165549
>>6165557
>>6165562
>>6165580
>>6165592
Delete this.

[Anonymous No.6165604]

>>6150040
Reminds me of this

[Anonymous No.6165615]

>>6152797
The reason isn't because it would have caused a marketing problem, that's just a cover.

You gotta remember that Japan's economic penetration of the West wasn't accidental, it was a really patient and deliberate Confucian cultural infiltration.
That sounds kinda silly but that's the point. I mean this totally unironically. When I was a kid, there were still people around who thought of Japan as a cultural enemy. It wasn't that weird a perspective to encounter!
Meanwhile, today, what's the number one language nerds wanna learn? Why do they wanna learn it? What's the one country absolutely nobody wants to drop a nuke on?

My point is that Nintendo (who btw is run by the same yakuza group who run another huge gaming company which owns a headquarters literally adjacent to the old imperial palace in Kyoto and PUBLICLY hold their annual formal yakuza leadership meetings in that building) were just playing good cop super aggressively to keep ahead of potential propaganda counter-moves.
Satanic scares were actually a thing in the 80s. It was totally an artificial media panic. Having symbols in your games that someone could latch onto in order to direct one of those media panics at you was an easily avoidable thing.

That's why you can still make the final boss god or satan or whatever.
It's more of an investment in time and requires more explanation than a sprite you can see in the first thirty seconds of gameplay and take out of context.

[Anonymous No.6165620]

>>6153067
I was about to make the same joke.

You know, I'd also play a game about what retired contra musclemen get up to in florida. They don't NEED to be robots, but one of them could be in an iron lung for his gulf war syndrome or whatever, I guess.

[Anonymous No.6165621]

>>6165604
It really makes me sad that the first two wouldn't have had a chance of selling in the US.

[Anonymous No.6165704]

>>6165549
Um.. no?
There are no less than 3 posters who admit to heckling him in his DMs "urging" him to show "sensibility" and drag his ass back and retranslate, even after he said he wants to get away. This is besides at least 4/5 public twatters now-deleted posts, and still online DDS posts.
He was contacted IN REAL LIFE by acquaintances that were told by resetera / hg101 followers he is an uber alt right bigot. The reason is, in hg101's words, that "resetera is cancer is an alt-right meme". Nobody should defame resetera's holy name.

That HG101 guy admitted he knew the translator wasn't alt-right, that the work problematic nature isn't his fault, and a few minutes later he still says he (Tom) is a right winger. cj_iwakura tried to correct him, he said he gives no flying fucks, and cj_iwakura and other HG101 collaborators were horrified by this attitude.

Also, we know that HG101 guy frequents /vr/, and accuses anyone who disagrees with him (on subjects like "is resetera cancer?" for example) of being right-wing, something pointed out by actual trans and left wing feminists he accused of being that because they weren't on board with his shitfit here.
He also jumped on the comments feed of a podcaster to ask him to refuse to cover Goemon 3's release or ensuing situation because "nothing happened" ... why? Weren't you desperate hours ago to tell the world how evil the "translation group" of Goemon 3 was?
Lots of big names from his site are deserting him (Jason, Pennywise, etc) and at this rate not even jannies would associate with him anymore.

At least we may finally have an answer who posted that "Examples of racism in retro video games: Ganbare Goemon 4" in /vr/ a year ago.
One hell of a way to avert offensive material release.

[Anonymous No.6165705]

>>6165492
It's offtopic bullshit that derails threads.

[Anonymous No.6165713]

>>6165621
Who cares about sellability, everything needs to be localized. Remember The Ignition Factor, by the same Jaleco localizers as Totally Rad?
They replaced the ending with a jab at the Japanese developers and accused the game of plagiarizing an American movie, because both had firefighters.
Good riddance, Jaleco USA.

[Anonymous No.6165720]

>>6165705
Go live in Communist China if you want censorship, trannigger.

This is AMERICA.

[Anonymous No.6165721]

>>6165720
It's not about censorship, take it to /v/ if you want to discuss this shit.

[Anonymous No.6165731]

>NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T BRING UP CURRENT EVENTS SURROUNDING A NEW TRANSLATION OF A RETRO VIDEOGAME

[Anonymous No.6165792]

Not exactly retro, but I remembered that Twisted Metal Black had all of its cutscenes and story cut out of the game for the European release, which sucks, because that shit was fun and interesting. I had to go online and discover that later and be very disturbed at the No-Face cutscenes, because I was still young and couldn't quite handle that kind of edge. I can kinda see the rationale given my last sentence, but I'd rather the game could keep its artistic integrity and be given a higher rating.

>>6165620
What'd the other guy be doing? Shooting clay pigeons? Only he'd be doing it with a machinegun, jumping and spinning in the air, recklessly endangering onlookers.

[Anonymous No.6165793]

>>6165704
He sounds like a lunatic.

[Anonymous No.6165794]

>>6156605
Now you can't beat the shit out of him though

[Anonymous No.6165805]

>>6152302
Orange Islands was the last one worth watching. Also the best one, Tracy was a fucking cool guy.

[Anonymous No.6165845]

>>6153067
got me

[Anonymous No.6166260]

>>6161497
Persona 1, which easily had the worst localization ever seen in a video game

[Anonymous No.6166481]

>>6147563
I honestly think they're both pretty good names.

[Anonymous No.6166487]

>>6165604
Would it really have resulted in less sales if they kept the Europe one?

[Anonymous No.6166501]

>>6165604

>Japan
>Cute girl and her two friends
>Nice blue sky

>Euro
>Cute girl
>Better put an evil looking man and his slut wife there too
>Getting cloudier

>America
>MEXICAN SWAMP GOLF
>FEATURING MINORITIES AND AN EVIL WHITE MAN!

[Anonymous No.6166581]

[Anonymous No.6166602]

>>6148879
We did it lads, we live in the cyber punk future!

[Anonymous No.6166612]

why can’t the west just leave stuff alone?

[Anonymous No.6166614]

>>6166612
why the need to just ruin things?

(it baffles me some people actually defend this one)

[Anonymous No.6166664]

>>6166614
Americans usually make a fucked up/misleading cover, bit Alisia Dragoon is one case where the western version is closer to the game. There is absolutely NO whimsical-pastel-colored-enchantment in that game!

[Anonymous No.6166669]

>>6166602
You got that right! Got my season tickets for the Robot Baseball League! I love living in the future.

[Anonymous No.6166678]

>>6161783
>NOOOO YOU CANT JUST MAKE FUN OF REDDIT
Ok reddit.

[Anonymous No.6166684]

>>6165486
We get it, you're an asspained sjw. Move on.

[Anonymous No.6166717]

>>6166678
based

[Anonymous No.6166803]

>>6166612
This one kicks ass though

[Anonymous No.6166846]

>>6166612

>Do we have any unused leftover art with females on it?
>Here's one called "The Great Giana Sisters 3"
>Well now they're Trouble Shooter!

[Anonymous No.6166945]

>>6166612
The right one has a more interesting scene, in that there's a landscape, but the left one has WAY nicer art and character design, hands down.

>>6166614
That one is actually good though, and suits the game in question. Not that the original cover isn't good, mind.

[Anonymous No.6169142]

>>6166678
>>6166684
>waaaaah!

>>6166717
>calling your own posts based
Fcuking cringe