[Skullmeat]

For me, western culture has taken an alarming, and unfortunate turn. Anything deemed  arbitrarily"offensive", different", or "racist" is subject to censorship, removal, or condemnation by a small, but loud group of people who want to dictate what you can and cannot see or enjoy because they dislike, or are "offended" by it. (SJW: Social Justice Warrior) That includes video games. Take, for example, Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g03t71e2h60
Sure, the game is basically pointless, soft-core porn, but it hardly compares to what we constantly see on tv and the web on a daily basis. So why didn't it get a US release?



Uh oh. Pretty clear there. Yes, you can't have this game because the publisher has caved to outcry before there even was any. But that's not the only game in recent history to censored in some way:



Street Fighter of all things... and the original animations aren't even that bad to begin with. Still, Capcom has caved to the nonexistent outrage because a few people might be offended, as explained in their official statement:

“We decided to remove [R. Mika’s butt slap] because we want the biggest possible number of people to play, and we don’t want to have something in the game that might make someone uncomfortable.” – Yoshinori Ono, SFV producer, Capcom

But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Even games which generally dodge the censorship bullet get altered in some way:



Oh no! Too much cleavage! Think of the children! Please, again, 5 minutes of US TV is far worse for our children then a little anime cleavage, from a series that practically makes its money on it. Hell, there's even a spin off title by the same people who made Senran Kagura, a game with a "costume breaker" mechanic, where the players clothes can be shredded by taking too much damage. (Neptunia U, the spin off in question, features this mechanic as well.)

It's sad, as video games are a legitimate an art form as anything else, and one of the few that lets the player interact with the stories being told. If you begin to alter or change things in a story, the context and meaning is lost, no matter how trivial those changes may seem.

So what can be done? First off, speak with your wallet. Buy titles from publishers who don't cave to the pressure of SJW's and censorship and import uncensored games. Emails, facebook, twitter, etc: In this increasingly online world, the same mediums that allow SJWs to complain is also your ultimate tool against censorship. The more people who talk about it, the better chance a publisher will change their mind. Say nothing, and I assure you it will only get worse from here.

[mothered]

This Is absolutely ridiculous to say the least.

Street Fighter censored? The reason Is laughable. How about all the music clips of girl bands (Fifth Harmony, Little Mix) and the amount of exposure there? Enough said.

[Skullmeat]

This Is absolutely ridiculous to say the least.

Street Fighter censored? The reason Is laughable. How about all the music clips of girl bands (Fifth Harmony, Little Mix) and the amount of exposure there? Enough said.

Oh yeah. What spineless wimps. No one said anything, no one complained, and the animations weren't even that bad. Capcom Altered them for literally no reason at all.

[Dismas]

Pokemon's had some censorship over the years: http://www.dorkly.com/post/77081/pokemon-censorship

[mothered]

Oh yeah. What spineless wimps. No one said anything, no one complained, and the animations weren't even that bad. Capcom Altered them for literally no reason at all.

It's unfathomable how "animations" (particularly their nature as mentioned) are seen and deemed offensive, yet everything else going around In music clips with young girls wearing next to nothing Is fine.

They need to take a long hard look at themselves and face reality, and stop creating fanciful trash. You summed It nicely with "spineless wimps".

[Despised]

There's nothing to do about it. Just deal with it.

Pokemon's had some censorship over the years: http://www.dorkly.com/post/77081/pokemon-censorship

Pokemon has a banned episode as well. It's questionable to say the least.

[Skullmeat]

There's nothing to do about it. Just deal with it.

Pokemon's had some censorship over the years: http://www.dorkly.com/post/77081/pokemon-censorship

Pokemon has a banned episode as well. It's questionable to say the least.

It's called creeping normality. And it's a dangerous thing. If we keep letting the little things go, eventually nothing will be left.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

The same thing can be applied to censorship.

[Losi]

Why not release both versions of the game? One for people who want tits and blood and guts and one for the spineless wimps?

[Satan]

Why not release both versions of the game? One for people who want tits and blood and guts and one for the spineless wimps?

The spineless wimps view having it available at all as an awful evil misogynistic thing that must be stopped, and don't feel accomplishment until they control other people's lives and decisions.

As they feel little power over anything that actually matters in life, they want to manipulate the lives of others so they can have control.

[typhoid]

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