Shhhhhhhh!!!. Fuck man you tryna make Darkstalkers a target?.
What you are talking about? Our favorite thing here is to hate on Street Fighter and all its incarnations, spin offs, Cameo appearances (cough new Tekken cough), properties, comics, anime, movies and breakfast cereals.
Wait, that’s why we’re all here? I thought this was a forum dedicated to measuring our dicks against one another…
yea i think it wasn’t needed. I dont think the butt slap or crotch shots were that bad.
Capcom doesn’t think they are bad, ESRB didn’t think they were bad enough either probably, but Capcom no longer thought they were necessary, or worth any possible trouble in the future. There was no real uproar or SJW mob that demanded their removal. It’s all exaggerated and over-dramatized. I don’t think anyone even noticed Cammy’s crotch shot or Mika’s splits critical art until Capcom removed them.
It wasn’t that Capcom thought it was necessary to shift the focus, so much as they camera shots themselves were not necessary. It’s like when a film director edits out scenes from his or her film because they are not necessary to move the story forward or that they give away too much or they are too on the nose. But people can’t accept that the director (Capcom in this case) made this as a conscious decision of their own volition. They were thinking ahead and didn’t want to be seen in a certain way. This is fair, it’s an edit, and it is not censorship in the true meaning of the word.
But people like to be victims these days, they need a villain to scapegoat, and they are waaaaaaaaay too self-entitled.
Actually it all started in Ghouls and Ghosts…
http://thebravenew.tumblr.com/post/5827539824/slowly-spiral-back-into-insanity-playing-super
- When you beat it the second time, your reward is that it reveals the princess’ name and dimensions in centimeters. So, here’s the spoiler. She’s 88-58-90, and her name is Prin, which apparently is intended to be an onomatopoetic word indicating the sound (prin prin) made by a fine buttocks whilst walking. Don’t ask me, I guess it’s a Japanese thing. Incidentally, I looked up these dimensions, and apparently she’d look like this:
For the Guilty Gear example, that has basis in the fact that Japan isn’t really a fan of blood and violence in general, so they most likely toned it down for them(and didn’t bother bringing it back for American audiences because again, Guilty Gear really isn’t a game reveling in it’s violence even with it’s IKs unlike MK).
And again, I feel that people don’t really understand that again, if Capcom believes that they didn’t want or care for it anymore…then why add it in to begin with or just change it altogether? And the ESRB published games with far worse and it was still T ratings…
It honestly makes no sense for these types of changes NOW when they still had it for a good couple of months…only to do camera adjustments at worst(and cripple R.Mika’s CA in the process and I mean the Muscle Buster).
Does Japan really have weak stomach for animated blood and violence? I mean… some of their favorite anime/manga series are violent as hell. Elfen Lied and Kara No Kyoukai comes to mind. Isn’t the current biggest hit anime about cannibals?
Why does it have to be a weak stomach? Why can’t it just be that certain levels of blood and violence are simply not necessary?
Well there might be some truth to it. I mean, all the horror-film-like descriptions of blood/gore and stuff in the Visual Novel 999 really disturbed the Japanese audience, so it was why the sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward had a lot less of it. For all I know, maybe that’s just how they are when it comes to certain mediums.
That avatar of yours somehow makes this sound funnier than it actually is…
DevilMan that is all.
Or not all. Though Japan has sometimes been weird with blood in games. Or maybe it was Nintendo. Censored MK2 comes to mind.
Anime obviously does not have this problem. Devil Man, to a less extent, or maybe not, Fist of the North Star and countless others. There is no such think as “unnecessary” levels of blood and gore. It’s totally up to the creator.
Now that’s what I call an onion booty
MK2 was uncensored.
Some anime isn’t as violent as it once was. Look at the more recent version of Guyver compared to its older 90’s counterpart.
Ugh Devilman… I am still butthurt about Miki every time they remake the anime.
Akame Ga Kill also had a head on a stick and some disgusting stuff, but overall that anime just isn’t as violent.
If they are thinking ahead why these small irrelevant things? They have made characters who are more offensive than a butt slap or crouch shot.
As for the entitlement stuff, I hear a lot of younger gamers throw that word around. And man it annoys me. In the case of Capcom, we have SFxT, MvC3, and the massive amounts of DLC from other games. They have shown that they are sometimes cheap and wanting to milk they fans, but their fans are loyal so when you edit something that the fans like this kind of reaction is to be expected. Just as fans feel entitled Capcom does too. I do feel bad for Japanese players because if America wasnt involed in this they wouldnt have to worry about these kinds of things happening.
It’s not so much North America being involved as it is North America being so ridiculously over the top sensitive that they would even think to do something like this in anticipation of negative backlash (however utterly unwarranted it would be) if they didn’t.