>In the wake of the September 11 attacks, in the PS2 version of "Panic!", the effect of monuments around the world being "destroyed" by pressing the wrong switch was changed to "covered in feces." As a result, the release date, originally scheduled for spring 2002, was postponed to summer.
The German version of Half-Life replacing the human enemies with robots is something everyone probably already knows, but what's even funnier is what happens if you kill a scientist or security guard.
>>12083984They get Holocausted
>>12083984they get so disappointed of freeman that they just...disappear.
>>12083984In Soldier of Fortune 2, enemies are also replaced with robots.
why did you delete that
Every corpse and gib in the German version of SiN was replaced with boxes with "CENSORED" written on them.It gets absolutely ridiculous when you have to pick up an UNCENSORED severed hand next to a pile of red boxes in the shape of a human in one mission.
>>12083984>>12084134Pretty much every single non-bing bing wahoo game that came out prior to the late 2010s was censored to oblivion in Germany.
Non-censorship change: the Ratchet and Clank games aren't changed that much for Japan, but for some reason they decided Ratchet needed bigger eyebrows to appeal to Japanese audiences (and it worked I guess)He's like this in every game but it looks the most ridiculous in the PS3 games where it's like they stapled caterpillars to his head.
>>12084337Not retro but Bulletstorm was one of the most insane cases.The over the top violence was pretty much the selling point of that game and they censored it to such a degree that even fucking skulls on poles were removed.
>>12083984>>12084134>>12084312Explain yourselves krauts
>>12084630Somehow swastikas are to krauts the same thing as crosses are to vampires.They hate democracy, free speech and art and for closer to 200 years they have been on imperialistic totalitarisn road.
>>12084630They must pay with their own destruction for the 6 gorillion.
as an american't, i think Probotector is an improvement over Contra. These are so cute! :3
>>12084134Which kind of defeats the purpose of the game. It's biggest selling point was the dismemberment tech.
>>12083773NA and EU versions of BioMetal have music by 2 Unlimited.Imagine coming home from your roller rink + laser tag birthday party, putting in the new SNES game you were gifted, and hearing the most memorable roller rink jock jam
>>12084681Probotector is probably the only time censorship actually made something cooler.
Spiderman 2's twin tower level cut comes to mind
>>12084807Hard to choose between cyborg werewolf with a gun arm and a robot werewolf.
>>12084807I actually liked the robots in Turok 1 more.
>>12083773>covered in fecesthat was absolutely in character for that game at least
>>12084630>They hate democracy, free speechReminds me of that video where someone in an audience was waving a german flag and Merkel walked up and confiscated it, telling him no. Just wtf, not even allowed to show love for your own country over there?
>>12083773The PS2 version only came out in Japan, I doubt 9/11 attacks were the reason. They likely felt it was more in-character with the game.The SegaCD version, which was released in both Japan and the US however did have two levels removed, one which involves a Japanese typewriter (and had some violent scenes) and one that had a cigarette vending machine.
>>12084134Replacing human or human-like characters, especially if they can die, with robots was very common in European countries back then.Probably one of the most ridiculous was Contra Hard Corps, which had you play as either a man, a woman, a cyborg werewolf, or a robot, which resulted in them being changed into a robot, a robot, a wolf-robot, and... a robot. Even more ridiculous is that in the character select screen their heads would morph into the other character as you changed your selection, but since the man and woman were changed into identical robots you see them morph for a second into a human-like face before morphing back into the exact same robot with just a slightly different color pallet.Oh, and the US version also did not go unscathed, since the game was designed with a lifebar in mind but this was removed in the US and UK versions, turning it into one-hit deaths in a game not intended for you to die in one hit, making the non-Japanese versions brutally difficult.
>>12083984>me when i goto work
>>12084907>very common in European countries back thenOnly in Germany.
>>12084630Hegel's "WE WUZ THESUSING AND ANTI-THESUSING AND SYNTHISIN AND SHIEET" buck-broke Germany and Germans along with the world through them on a metaphysical level.Add to that highly repressive Protestant mores and you have this shit.t. /his/-/lit/ shitposter who is familiar with this shit
>>12084312>box that says CENSOREDBased spiteful devs. The Duke Nukem devs did something similar when porting to the N64. Nintendo wanted them to tone down the sexual themes so they did and made it somewhat more violent out of protest.
>>12084807Um Jammer Lammy fucking dying from a fucking banana peel was so fucking out-of-place that I think the American version is superior.
>>12084907Should've made them more like this, the new models sucked
They cut off Abe's fourth finger because the samurai fears the yakuza
>>12085732It's because of that ethnic group, and the fact the mudokons were slaves in a meat processing factory didn't help.
>>12085728They look like characters from Cats now. You should be ashamed.
>>12083773They cut a bunch of content from Grand Theft Auto 3, including an NPC who gave out terrorist missions.
>>12086172It was a social class, and you'd think by now they'd just send back some somatotropin and say "Take these and grow the fuck up"
>>12086382Darkel wasn't removed because of 9/11, it was because he just overlapped with rampages and didn't add anything to the game. Shit gets removed in-dev all the time, sometimes small NPCs, sometimes entire areas and modes and game mechanics.
>>12086382>>12086504There's so much bullshit about what was allegedly removed floating around. Hell, the fucking GTA wiki claims entire buildings were removed last time I checked. If it was anything more than a handful of dialogue and radio commercials, there's no way leftovers wouldn't have been found in the code by now.
The time it was the American version which turned humans into robots.
>>12086581>localize all the characters into westerners>except for the main dude who is literally just a robot>all taking place on what's presumably a normal modern-day golf course>and it's by fucking TohoWhat the fuck were these devs smoking? Is there some plot in the manual about how you're some Boston Dynamics robot golfer being tested against humans, or is this just one of those '90s things where they made it KEWL and XTREME for no reason?
>>12086581Wait there is only ONE robot?With a name like that I'd expect a bunch of robots golf it out, which would be kinda cool.You could have different kinds, maybe a barrel on wheels with a swinging arm and other cool shit.
>>12084893>violent scenessauce doko pleasers with chips and cheesers
>>12086581That ain't censorship, that's just trying to appeal to a foreign domestic market.Golf Ou was a GBC game that was Japan exclusive, but unreleased EU and US market localisations were produced and were discovered in the 2020 gigaleak.The EU localisation featured the same kindly old man giving you golfing tips, whilst the US localisation had a hostile robot threatening you.https://tcrf.net/Proto:Golf_Ou:_The_King_of_GolfGolf King:>Hit the ball on its right side for a hook.>Try it!>Hit the ball on its left side for a slice.>Try it!Golf Robot:>Hit the ball on its right side for a hook, human.>Try it, OR FACE PUNISHMENT AT THE HANDS OF YOUR ROBOTIC MASTER!>Hit the ball on its left side for a slice, human.>Try it, OR BE BANISHED FROM THIS GOLFING UTOPIA.
>>12088329IIRC every Japanese character you typed on the typewriter had it's own animation, and I think one of them got beheaded and another committed seppuku, both had blood too if I recall.Found videos of the two removed scenes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4eURRMuuchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z09ocQK7UDwSucks that these were removed since the first one is a shitload of content to have cut out. The the beheading I mentioned is in the first one at 5:17, I guess I mis-remembered the seppuku one since I didn't see it.
>>12084893>>12088347I also just realized I forgot to clarify, the scenes were only removed in the US version, not cut from every version, they are there in both the Japanese SegaCD and PS2 versions.
>>12086517Well if it isn't there, that doesn't mean it wasn't planned...
