Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship
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Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin
“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they'll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.”
I recently published my novel, and at the last minute I had this panic about what was appropriate. There's one bigoted character who calls gay people "f***ot" multiple times, as well as many characters that drop F-bombs on numerous occasions. There's a (semi-magical) event similar to a mass shooting, many references to torture, and someone's hand is chopped off. To be really safe, I put a content warning on the first page just to make some of that clear. Surely, that puts it a level beyond the Young Adult region, right? But...possibly not, given what I tend to hear offhand of some series.
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I recently published my novel, and at the last minute I had this panic about what was appropriate. There's one bigoted character who calls gay people "f***ot" multiple times, as well as many characters that drop F-bombs on numerous occasions. There's a (semi-magical) event similar to a mass shooting, many references to torture, and someone's hand is chopped off. To be really safe, I put a content warning on the first page just to make some of that clear. Surely, that puts it a level beyond the Young Adult region, right? But...possibly not, given what I tend to hear offhand of some series.
Stephen King's best (solo) book, IT, has probably over 200 N-bombs in it. It's still his best book. Very much a product of its time (and an author who was so coked up he doesn't remember writing a lot of it), but still his best book.
Your novel is Young Adult, or no? It's not clear. I don't know what the rules are for YA in America/Europe, but I'm reading the Sword Art Online series (rather, having anime lead Bryce Papenbrook read it to me, via the audiobooks) and SAO (which is LN which means Light Novel, which is Japan's version of YA) has dismemberment. Arms being chopped off, people being chopped in half... the anime is known for its scenes of SA, but the first two weren't SA in the books (the anime exaggerated what happened). The one in season 3 absolutely is an SA though. I haven't gotten to the one in season 4 yet but I've heard it's not. There's also torture, but it's not too serious. They're playing video games, VR based. At one point the pain is amplified and a character is viciously attacked, so he feels it 10x more. In another case, people are trapped in a world that moves 1,000x slower than real life (so like a year in the game is like an hour in real life or something like that). The kind of stuff Black Mirror did (White Christmas, Black Museum, USS Callister). But not a lot of profanity. (Of course, I'm also reading it translated to English. I have no idea what Reki Kawahara actually wrote, because I would not be able to read the original Japanese text.)
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That whole controversy was blown out of proportion. Not only because it could only be accessed by hacking the game apart, but also because it didn't actually have any explicit content. It was still fully clothed models just animated to hump each other.
As a horny teen, that shit was the most disappointed in a rumored game secret I had been since being told if you beat Metroid fast enough you can see Samus nude.
In a bikini. Not nude. Though I suppose you could make the argument it's bra and panties? There aren't enough pixels to say if it's a 2-piece bathing suit or underwear.
My take on that was that Samus didn't wear clothes under her suit. So if you're a woman and you get into power armour, you're probably gonna wear at least a T-shirt and some loose fitting shorts, right? One would think. But I guess for reasons (like the fact that the suit can handle extreme temperatures both ways), it probably needs direct contact with a lot of skin to adapt, or something. So she strips down to bra and panties to get into the suit. Totally makes sense. It's not meant to be sexy, it's a utility, the suit is a tool for her as an intergalactic bounty hunter.
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In a bikini. Not nude. Though I suppose you could make the argument it's bra and panties? There aren't enough pixels to say if it's a 2-piece bathing suit or underwear.
My take on that was that Samus didn't wear clothes under her suit. So if you're a woman and you get into power armour, you're probably gonna wear at least a T-shirt and some loose fitting shorts, right? One would think. But I guess for reasons (like the fact that the suit can handle extreme temperatures both ways), it probably needs direct contact with a lot of skin to adapt, or something. So she strips down to bra and panties to get into the suit. Totally makes sense. It's not meant to be sexy, it's a utility, the suit is a tool for her as an intergalactic bounty hunter.
You must not have grown up back then. The game does show her in bra and panties if you're fast enough. The rumor was that she was full on naked tho if you were even faster than the bikini easter egg. But that was some bullshit, and you couldn't just look at a wiki to know this, you had to find out for yourself.
There were other similar rumors back in the day for all sorts of games. "Nudalities" in Mortal Kombat. The ability to actuslly obtain the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. Getting to play as Luigi if you collected 121 stars in Mario 64 (later was actually made real in the DS release, but you unlocked Yoshi not Luigi). Etc.
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To be fair, there would be a loooot of nipples on Twitch otherwise. It’d be nipple sea.
Still stupid, though.
Back when bash.org was around:
Person 1: Person 2 has so little game he could fall into a barrel of nipples and come out sucking his thumb.
Person 2: The concept of a barrel of nipples confuses and frightens me. -
It's still surprising that Sony is apparently being more lenient than Nintendo for once.
To be fair, the only real memory I have of the OG God of War games is that the first or second game opens up with Kratos motorboating two girls' titties. And that was in a time when nudity in mainstream games was still nearly unheard of.
Yeah, Sony was very laissez faire back then. It's why the PS1 was so successful; Nintendo were notoriously strict, so Sony's policy of "Do whatever as long as it's legal" attracted both devs and players. It's not the only reason the first two PlayStations were massive hits, but it's a factor.
Nintendo initially stuck to their guns but, after seeing Sony eat their lunch, afternoon snack, supper, breakfast, second breakfast, and elevenses, decided to cool it with the censorship at the ends of the 32 and 64-bit era. Beginning with Conker's Bad Fur Day they pretty much stopped enforcing rules on other devs and even published a few 18-rated games like Eternal Darkness.
Then for some reason Sony started censoring hentai games in the PS4 era while Nintendo let them go uncensored, and gamers everywhere were bemused at how edgy Sony and wholesome Nintendo had apparently swapped positions.
Perhaps the pendulum has swung back.
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Oh so there is sexual content in this? Well now I gotta get it. Uh... Just not on the Switch.
I watched Charlie play through the first episode, and within the first 5 or so minutes of the game there's full-frontal with dick and balls. He had to censor his game of course, but you know it's there.
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Yeah, Sony was very laissez faire back then. It's why the PS1 was so successful; Nintendo were notoriously strict, so Sony's policy of "Do whatever as long as it's legal" attracted both devs and players. It's not the only reason the first two PlayStations were massive hits, but it's a factor.
Nintendo initially stuck to their guns but, after seeing Sony eat their lunch, afternoon snack, supper, breakfast, second breakfast, and elevenses, decided to cool it with the censorship at the ends of the 32 and 64-bit era. Beginning with Conker's Bad Fur Day they pretty much stopped enforcing rules on other devs and even published a few 18-rated games like Eternal Darkness.
Then for some reason Sony started censoring hentai games in the PS4 era while Nintendo let them go uncensored, and gamers everywhere were bemused at how edgy Sony and wholesome Nintendo had apparently swapped positions.
Perhaps the pendulum has swung back.
Damn, that makes all that early risque marketing make sense now.
Damn.
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Oh so there is sexual content in this? Well now I gotta get it. Uh... Just not on the Switch.
just nudity, a female character masturbating in a dream, and references to sex/fetishes/etc.
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Stephen King's best (solo) book, IT, has probably over 200 N-bombs in it. It's still his best book. Very much a product of its time (and an author who was so coked up he doesn't remember writing a lot of it), but still his best book.
Your novel is Young Adult, or no? It's not clear. I don't know what the rules are for YA in America/Europe, but I'm reading the Sword Art Online series (rather, having anime lead Bryce Papenbrook read it to me, via the audiobooks) and SAO (which is LN which means Light Novel, which is Japan's version of YA) has dismemberment. Arms being chopped off, people being chopped in half... the anime is known for its scenes of SA, but the first two weren't SA in the books (the anime exaggerated what happened). The one in season 3 absolutely is an SA though. I haven't gotten to the one in season 4 yet but I've heard it's not. There's also torture, but it's not too serious. They're playing video games, VR based. At one point the pain is amplified and a character is viciously attacked, so he feels it 10x more. In another case, people are trapped in a world that moves 1,000x slower than real life (so like a year in the game is like an hour in real life or something like that). The kind of stuff Black Mirror did (White Christmas, Black Museum, USS Callister). But not a lot of profanity. (Of course, I'm also reading it translated to English. I have no idea what Reki Kawahara actually wrote, because I would not be able to read the original Japanese text.)
I love the IT audiobook but you absolute cannot listen to it where somebody might hear it.
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
Entirely unwise to buy anything non-Nintendo on the Nintendo Store as if the Switch’s entire purpose wasn’t to just get people to buy a $500 appliance to play a Nintendo game.
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
This is good. People are learning through experience to not buy any non-exclusive game through Nintendo.
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Nudity is fine
Weve got boobs and dicks even in children cartoons here
Not really. Have violence without blood and they'll rate it teen. Anything close to nudity instant mature rating. Same with searing. Can gun down hundreds if no blood but if they use naughty language while doing it mature /:
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Entirely unwise to buy anything non-Nintendo on the Nintendo Store as if the Switch’s entire purpose wasn’t to just get people to buy a $500 appliance to play a Nintendo game.
And brick your shit (without refunds) for the slightest hint you're against Nintendo. Fuck Nintendo.
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Back when bash.org was around:
Person 1: Person 2 has so little game he could fall into a barrel of nipples and come out sucking his thumb.
Person 2: The concept of a barrel of nipples confuses and frightens me.I've heard "if it were raining titties, I'd open my mouth and catch a dick."
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I've heard "if it were raining titties, I'd open my mouth and catch a dick."
That would be a sight worth seeing.
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Havent you heard? Violence appropriate, sex and nudity not. Its totally okay to see people being dismembered, but you better never show a nipple.
Yeah, also if we argue that violent videogames don't cause violence - what's the problem with sexual content? If they're censoring sexual stuff because they believe videogames if corrupt and change behaviour, the violent ones should definitely be banned.
Also - I'm using Google's Android keyboard and just realised the dictionary didn't know the word 'sexual'. Just in case someone might try to write something spicy. FFS. It knew 'violent' though.
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You must not have grown up back then. The game does show her in bra and panties if you're fast enough. The rumor was that she was full on naked tho if you were even faster than the bikini easter egg. But that was some bullshit, and you couldn't just look at a wiki to know this, you had to find out for yourself.
There were other similar rumors back in the day for all sorts of games. "Nudalities" in Mortal Kombat. The ability to actuslly obtain the Triforce in Ocarina of Time. Getting to play as Luigi if you collected 121 stars in Mario 64 (later was actually made real in the DS release, but you unlocked Yoshi not Luigi). Etc.
You've contradicted yourself, though. Do you see it? I'll give you a moment, and I'll put it in a spoiler. If you are as old as me or maybe older, and you've been a gamer about as long as I have (maybe longer, maybe nearly as long), you might appreciate a good puzzle. Try to find the logical fallacy.
::: spoiler spoiler
How would I know what rumours about games you heard in your hometown if we didn't have a wiki or something like that? But you're right, because I've been gaming since the early 1980s. We had our friends, and we had magazines like Nintendo Power. One rumour I did hear was that there was a hidden chocolate factory in Super Mario Bros. (the first one). Note that this rumour was going around before Super Mario World introduced Choco Island or whatever it was called, so either it's coincidence, or the rumour made it back to Nintendo. As a kid I thought it was like a whole other game on the cartridge, different graphics and enemies and such. Later in life I figured it was just a palette swap.
:::Furthermore,
::: spoiler spoiler
I remember one game where I didn't have help from people at school because no one really had computers back then. I was playing a game called Zak McKracken on the Amiga, and my father and his best friend were also playing it. We had a rule, no one would watch the others playing, but we would share tips. It was a point and click adventure, kind of like our generation's Life is Strange or The Walking Dead (Telltale). So you had to figure stuff out. And I even solved a couple of the puzzles and had to help the adults get through that part (or they let me believe I cracked the code for them).
:::Two more things, outside the logical fallacy thing. There WAS nudity in an Atari game (Custer's Revenge was the name, IIRC) so it wasn't exactly unprecedented. And two... you don't get the Triforce in Ocarina of Time? I never completed it. I did not like the Nintendo 64. I bought it, didn't like it, gave it to my brother, and bought a PlayStation. I started Ocarina a few times. On the N64. On the 3DS (my wife's). On the Switch via Virtual Console. I even have it on my MacBook (Ship of Harkian). That save is still in the first dungeon (the deku tree). I suck at Ocarina (and 3D Zelda in general). Love the 2D ones, though.
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I love the IT audiobook but you absolute cannot listen to it where somebody might hear it.
I listened 100% on my AirPods.
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Dispatch's release on Nintendo platforms today was poised to be another testament to AdHoc's tremendous success with the point-and-click superhero workplace comedy, but news of a platform-specific difference has overshadowed much of the excitement for fans hoping to play the episodic series on-the-go. Instead of celebrating the release, fans are launching campaigns against Dispatch's censorship, returning their purchases, or refraining from playing it altogether.
Normally, Dispatch contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes involving its gang of ex-villains. AdHoc allows players to toggle sexual content like this off on most platforms. Curiously, however, the newly-released Switch version automatically depicts censored versions of these scenes. There's no option to turn the setting off.
AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, but noted that the overall experience would still be the same for Switch players.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
Mind you, Nintendo is cool with putting Doom and Duke Nukem on the Switch.
And literally owns Bayonetta
