Child killing is still looked down upon. Dark Savior, for the Saturn, was the only game to get away with that.
You want to be a dumbass about this?
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Bro. Itâs underage looking girls, being cracked down upon. Conan Exiles show dongs (from what Iâ m told) and thatâs a featured game on PSN this month.
DMC V was Capcomâs call , not Sonyâs. Just throwing those out there before they are brought up.
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Conan Exiles only shows dongs in the PC version. That shit is censored on console. I doubt what happened with DMC V is Capcom call as those scenes ainât censored in the Xbone, PC and Japanese PS4 version.
These policies are targeting anything sexually exploit. Games that donât have underage girls are being hit by this.
Copy Pastaâd from Kotaku since WSJ makes you pay for their articles. Itâs a long read so I collapsed it.
Summary
The recent toning down of sexual games on the PlayStation 4 is not an accident or a coincidence. Sony has a new set of guidelines for regulating the sexually explicit content in the games sold on its platform, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal .
âA Sony spokeswoman confirmed the company has established its own guidelines âso that creators can offer well-balanced content on the platformâ and gaming âdoes not inhibit the sound growth and developmentâ of young people,â the Wall Street Journal writes. This is allegedly a result of executives at the company being afraid the sale of sexually explicit games might hurt its global reputation.
According to the Wall Street Journal , âOne of their biggest concerns is software sold in the companyâs home market of Japan, which traditionally has had more tolerance for near-nudity and images of young women who might appear underage.â
Sony did not immediately respond to a request by Kotaku for comment.
The Wall Street Journal points to two main reasons for the new policy based on its conversations with unnamed Sony officials. The first is the rise of the #MeToo movement, a campaign to combat sexual misconduct, harassment, and assault and change how those issues are discussed. It gained momentum in 2017 after multiple women accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of being a sexual predator. The second is the growing ubiquity of streaming platforms like Twitch and YouTube where sexually explicit games coming out of Japan can find a global audience.
Sony is concerned the company could become a target of legal and social action,â a Sony official in the U.S. told the Wall Street Journal .
The new guidelines are in contrast to Nintendo, which told the Wall Street Journal that sexually explicit games can be sold on the Switch as long they receive a rating from a national agency like the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Platform holders actually havenât ever released any games that the Board has given an Adults Only rating, but M-rated games can have some sexual content and are common on all platforms.
The adult visual novel Nekopara Vol. 1 , which includes partial nudity and the option to âpetâ female characters using a virtual cursor, released on Switch last summer with a rating of âMature 17+â while the PS4 version was delayed until November. When it finally came out, fans reported several changes that made it less sexually explicit, including extra steam in bath scenes and the removal of a slider players could use in the other versions to make charactersâ breasts jiggle more.
Though Sony never announced the new guidelines, fans of various adult games began to speculate that some new policy had been introduced after an uptick in delays and censorship last fall. Last October, publisher Xseed Games announced that the adult game Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal would be delayed on PS4 in order to remove the âintimacy modeâ and comply with âthe wishes of the platform holder.â At the time, the gameâs localizer, Tom Lipschultz, tweeted that this was part of some new requirement.
That same month, a representative of the Japanese game studio Light said during a live stream that a PS4 port of its 2017 visual novel Silverio Trinity was still waiting on approval from Sony to release the game. âRight now Sony seems to be moving toward disallowing ports of ages 18 and up titles worldwide,â the representative said, according to a translation by Gematsu. âAnd this game is ages 18 and up, so itâs being subjected to a very strict inspection, and weâre getting all these questions.â
Earlier this year, players found that the Western PS4 version of Devil May Cry 5 included light beams in one of its cutscenes to hide a female characterâs exposed butt. The scene was unchanged in the Xbox One and PC versions of the game. It was also unchanged in the Japense PS4 version, leaving it unclear whether it was affected by Sonyâs new guidelines or the result of some internal decision on Capcomâs end.
I find it fucking fascinating that once a super reserved and conservative company like Nintendo has become a beacon of hope for Adult oriented content.
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Capcom patched the button back in the U.S.PS4 version with the BP update. Other games getting mixed up is unfortunate for now, but I canât speak ok n those. Just the ones with underage-not-underage wink wink depiction.
Gotta jet back to work.
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If anyone with a switch has been putting off preordering Bayo3 you can preorder it for $50 at Walmart. You wonât get it release day like Best Buy or amazon, but itâs $10 cheaper and free 2-day shipping or in-store pick up.
You know what? Tiddies are awesome and all, but I canât say any game in my top 10 have tiddies in them.
I seriously donât think toning down the sexually explicit content in games is going to have much of an effect on my enjoyment of video games. Itâs not like Iâm jerking it with a controller in my hand. I usually separate those two activities.
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Bayonetta 2 is absolutely my favorite 3D Action game of all time.
Bayonetta 2 without tiddies is SNES MK1.
Except, yâknow, a good game.
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You know, I have Bayo 2 but hardly played it. Not that I think itâs not good, I was just really getting into Destiny at that point.
And Mario Kart for SNES is excellent. I donât know what youâre on about there.
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But if you take away the tiddies, you take away the satire and the empowerment and de-theme the whole thing.
Mario Kart without BluedShelled?
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When I saw his fatality, this song came to mind.
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Actually, being able to look up 2Bâs skirt probably added quite a bit of appeal to Nier Automata, now that I think about it.
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Rule whatever the fuck it is Hentai, Google.
Ya lost me, homie.
I mean upskirts ainât the half of it.
Or so I hearâŚ
Ah, yeah. There are some adult themes. And when she self destructs and goes around with dat ass- thatâs pretty tight.
'Dat ass ainât tight no more in what I was referencing. 