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The X Button - Costume Changes

I'll always prefer to have uncensored versions as it's how the original work was created and intended to be seen.
It's be nice if there was a toggle option somewhere at least...

In Bravely Default I'm not too bothered due to the character models anyway, for that monster card game though? Surely they're just annoying the only people that would want the game in the first place?

I'll never understand the whole nudity is bad but violence is fine thing anyways.

xeroth wrote:

I'll always prefer to have uncensored versions as it's how the original work was created and intended to be seen. It's be nice if there was a toggle option somewhere at least... In Bravely Default I'm not too bothered due to the character models anyway, for that monster card game though? Surely they're just annoying the only people that would want the game in the first place? I'll never understand the whole nudity is bad but violence is fine thing anyways.

Western morality at it's best but there is also another factor that comes into play. That is the rating system by the esrb which has to rate games base on all of it's subjective content. The monster card would in no way get less than A/O due to sexual content, how the removed characters look and so on.

Sony of america will not allow any game to their hardware if it has A/0 rating period. So either we comprise by removing sexual content or we don't get the game at all. I'm sure some would prefer that we didn't get the game at all due to the censorship.

.....I don't think this issue is anybody's fault: Square Enix recognized that the U.S. has different social mores concerning sexualized designs than Japan, and reacted accordingly, and people don't seem to get that. This isn't political correctness, this is simply adjusting for a different market--one that isn't steeped in Japanese pop-culture. We all forget how desensitized we are from our hours spent watching Saber Marionette J.

.....I don't think this issue is anybody's fault: Square Enix recognized that the U.S. has different social mores concerning sexualized designs than Japan, and reacted accordingly, and people don't seem to get that. This isn't political correctness, this is simply adjusting for a different market--one that isn't steeped in Japanese pop-culture. We all forget how desensitized we are from our hours spent watching Saber Marionette J.

I am troubled by journalists who would suggest that certain types of censorship are no biggie, especially when there seems to be a financial motivation (I am inherently distrustful of any video games "journalism" though).

Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I take more issue with the fact that Ringabel's costume has been removed than anything else.

but slight editing of costumes is rather minuscule compared to the complete excision of a costume.

What parts of the Lightning Returns demo does it cover?

Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but I take more issue with the fact that Ringabel's costume has been removed than anything else. Sure, I tend to fall more on the "all censorship is wrong" side of the camp and thus would prefer that it all be left alone, but slight editing of costumes is rather minuscule compared to the complete excision of a costume. They could just as easily have lengthened his speedo and turned it into a pair of swim shorts, yet they chose to get rid of it altogether. It's sexist at the very least, homophobic at worst.

varmintx wrote:

How many years has it been since Xenosaga Ep. III came out? I ask because bringing up the removal of the blood from that one scene still elicits blinding, searing rage. I should probably get over it at some point.

Yeah that was really bad. Made a lot of those cutscenes very awkward. Namco did it to get a teen rating as if that really would make a difference in sales of the game.

I'd be really annoyed if this was a PS3 game since I really enjoyed Oceans. We did get a cut scene DVD of the first Xenosaga.
Words cannot describe how enjoyable a very long, very low quality CG movie with all the action scenes cut out was.