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What websites these days aren't sensationalizing things? More and more places are taking notes from the likes of Fox News, MSNBC and their ilk, and hyping up even the most mundane bits to make them sound bigger and more threatening than they actually are. Even the damn Weather Channel's doing it with their click baiting video and article titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
Sad but true.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Coop
Another example of feminism censorship. This time EA....
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that's not censorship, it's an entirely different (and superior) cover
So eliminating the female makes it a superior cover? Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogogadget
Okay, well, i'm no graphics design student butQuote:
Originally Posted by Lan Di
- Logo is far superior
- Protagonist looks a lot less washed out, weird lighting on the JP cover.
- The shading is far better
- The background is a lot more busy and eye-catching
- Red leather trousers versus those blue ones makes the protagonist again, look a bit more eye-popping.
This is something that's gonna be displayed on a shelf, and my eyes are just far more drawn to the US cover than the JP one, seriously don't get why every game needs a 'sexy lady' on the cover to sell the game, this ain't no dirty movie?
Censorship in games is hardly anything new either. Nintendo censored the hell out of a ton of stuff in the 80's and 90's, long before this "trend" started.
I will absolutely agree that things are getting entirely too "PC", but there's not any one group to blame. The conservatives are just as guilty of this as liberals. The extremes of both sides think they know better than anyone else on what's good for everyone.
It's not like there isn't a valid point with some of it of course. But it's just as bad to be an overbearing parent that doesn't let their kid do anything as it is to completely leave them to their own devices. As with most things, the best path doesn't involve going to an extreme.
What are you protecting people from by removing an underclothed girl from a game cover? Are people that insecure?
Also: Lena Dunham is gross
I'll give you the better logo and background, I agree. But this is an M rated game. Removing the female is the same as a woman covering a man's eyes during an "R" rated movie nude scene. Pitiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogogadget
This!^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by zetastrike
First you have to confirm that they removed the sexy girl because of censorship, entirely possible that they did it as a pure design choice.
Honestly, do you seriously think American media will remove a scantily clad girl from anything because of censorship? Sex is everywhere in America. Hell the No. 1 song in the country right now is about a girl still shaking her booty despite the fact she is 'fat', that shit plays on daytime radio.
Although not quite, because the box art still appears on store shelves. Horror movies have peoples limbs being ripped off and eaten, but material that graphic isn't on the poster because the poster itself isn't R-rated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lan Di
I kinda feel this whole "omg they removed the girl" is like making a mountain out of a molehill, the internet is widely available to peek at ladies if you want.
Lan Di, I gotta ask why you have such a chip on your shoulder about feminists. I'm all for poking fun at tumblr beasts, but you seem particularly passionate about this crap when it comes up.
To be honest the JP cover makes me think either shooting up a strip club, or a porn film. If the actual game is a combination of those two things I would have never known it, and I own the game (haven't played it) so I would then say the NA cover is inferior. If it's not, the JP cover is kind of unduly deceptive and provocative. They're using sex to sell it.Quote:
Originally Posted by zetastrike
^^That's pretty funny.
Maybe game covers just need more crotch bulges.
The next on-line controversy/shitstorm will now be #OPENGATEGATE.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp