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Woolie's "Occam's razor" thing being followed by "People can point to the past" was the FASTEST missing the point I've ever seen. Pat's saying he wants to know why six months ago Zombie Hunter Schoolgirl or whatever, the game where zombies rip clothes off underaged Japanese schoolgirls was TOTALLY FINE by Sony's standards, but now DOA is too much. That's not "the times." Six months is "Greg, the guy who always wore an Akatsuki coat to work, got fired. Now Dave is approving games, and Dave things anime is a sin against God." Pat wants to know WHO in Sony wasn't around a few months ago that is around NOW. And Woolie almost completely walked into saying the EXACT SAME THING, but still maintained me meant something different.
@@Inflammo66 Yes they did. 11:55 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IQB4kmzjHvk.html Sony America is in the Censorship capital of USA now. And Sony Japan isn't caring what the American division does. It's the Exact Same problem Nintendo of America had during Wii U and Wii where Nintendo of Japan didn't care!
They're basically killing the Vita's entire library. As if the system itself wasn't enough. Meanwhile, Nintendo's like "Get your nekos here! Each Neko you buy will make Todd Howard stop telling lies!"
Nintendo comes out throwing nekogirls in skimpy swimsuits. "YOU GET A NEKO, YOU GET A NEKO, YOU GET A NEKO! LOOK UNDER YOUR SEAT! ITS A NEKO! EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE IS GETTING A NEKO!"
Nintendo is firing fucking anime waifus out of a cannon like t-shirts, and Sony is busy attending their hour long prayer and self-flagellation session.
Woolie, please stop trying to use occam's razor, you're doing it wrong. "the times" implies a zeitgeist which isn't the case given Nintendo are cool with it. Pat's answer of the hierarchy at Sony changing is a simpler answer.
It's clear Woolie just read about Occam's Razor for the first time and is still trying to figure out how to use it right. Don't overload him with complicated words like "zeitgeist."
Even better, Nintendo pulled a complete 180. Remember the TMS#FE censorship in the North American version? Woolie doesn't (despite doing a playthrough)
Woolie saying "The times" being the reason doesn't make a lick of sense given Japan's social political stances and other companies going the opposite ways.
The only thing "the times" could be right about is the 2020 Olympics. Apparently they're going absolutely nuts in Tokyo with regulations and nuking things from orbit cause they're terrified of the flood of rich white tourists shitting on them.
@@DoctaDaKing I feel like this was a situation where Woolie had an answer to the censorship subject locked and loaded, and the momentum of his answer ("ahh, we live in sensitive times, puritanical society, etc., etc.) just powered through Pat's question.
he's also using occam's razor incorrectly. how is it "the times" if it's just Sony. "the times" implies it's being done by everyone due to a cultural change.
Woolies reasoning on this is weird, japan cares less then ever and "the times" were there for decades as DoA has been under fire even from players for years for its creppy bullshit, and sony never once cared and even provided more fuel with its dlc and VR games, nothing was ever towned down or restrained. So WHY NOW is a damn legit question as the DoA controversy hasnt gotten significantly bigger or louder. And Sony of all, not nintendo. Just sony in this isolated case.
@CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG yeah, what i meant to say Sony is the isolated case, not doa but sony specifically is doing this with their platform. So its not a "the times" reason as woolie says it is.
@@BlackScream77 I mean, In a roundabout way it kinda is. Times in Japan is mobile is king, but Consoles are still popular in the West because we are distrusting of companies and mobile games. So move Headquarters over there. New Headquarters staff disapprove of the fanservice. It's really roundabout and semantic, but it's TECHNICALLY because of the times. In the end though, we can all agree it's Mobile Gaming's fault.
@@ShadowWolfRising Thats slightly reaching, its defeinetly because of the HQ moving for whatever series of reasons that decision occurred. But mobile was always king over consoles in Japan, even before mobile games there were portables and the west console market was a thing to pander to. Japan was angering fans by making their games "more western" for a decade now since the "call of duty numbers". (during crapcom era) "The times" means too many things so we can all speculate what woolie was trying to say. I interpreted it as a "the collective market has a distaste for such content", rather then "market shift is happening". So idk what woolie is actually trying to say its too broad but i think its wrong nontheless, evidence point to it being "just sony". But im okay with mobile games being blamed for this lol
You guys do know that 2K games, Activision, Rockstar and a whole bunch of game studios willing to include sexual stuff exist in California? Calfornia is as much a leftist hell hole as whatever right ring hellholes you guys live in.
Woolie is incorrect when he brings up Occam's razor. Nintendo has moved away from censoring as much as they used to, but even at their worst they never censored third party games, let alone games being published in Japan. Steam also has opened up immensely. There's still a rogue employee trying to ban games one at a time, but for the most part, the store is quite open. The easiest explanation is that Sony's headquarters are in California, and pretty much every company that has their headquarters there has been infected with the same mindsets that cause companies to love censorship. It's not to say that the change would happen over night, I see people asking why it took 2 years, but how long it takes isn't relevant, but rather that it eventually does. As people get replaced, a company will eventually shift it's focus. If you look at when Nintendo was so censorship happy, you will find Treehouse at the center of most of it. And where is Treehouse's headquarters? California. Take a look at when Steam started the whole waifupocalypse, shortly after they acquired Campo Santo. And where did Campo Santo come from? California, specifically San Fransisco. Hell, take a look at XSEED. A niche gamer's darling due to how anti-censorship they seemed to be. But if you pay attention, over the years their anti-censorship stance has somewhat softened. Recently, two big members resigned, though it looked suspiciously like they were let go. One such member, Tom, was practically the face of it's anti-censorship stance. He was very vocal about it. But he revealed when he left that he cannot ensure that the company will remain dedicated to it's anti-censorship beliefs and that he was pretty much the only one that actually took it that far. Over the years he's fought against censorship. And where is XSEED's headquarters? California. In comparison, Valve's headquarters is located in Washington. Same as Nintendo of America, though Nintendo's main headquarters is in Japan. More specifically, In both Nintendo and Sony's cases their policies seemed largely to change as their leadership did. After Iwata passed, and with a new president, the company seems to be moving towards a more gamer focused console, and away from the need to always be seen as just a family friendly company. Somewhere along the way they learned that you can appeal to families and older gamers at the same time, hence why their store is more open to that kind of content. Sony on the other hand replaced their former president and CEO, Andrew House with John Kodera just last October. The general trend is that as companies immerse themselves in a censorship happy environment, that over time they will be influenced to censor as well. While the specific event that lead to the changes is more that certain people gain more power, which is what censorship happy people tend to try to do. What's worse is that while Treehouse only affected games localized in the America, and had no real say in games developed for Japanese gamers. SIE is not just Sony's American branch, they're Sony's entire gaming division now. They are no longer a japanese company with an American branch, they are an American company now. And that's the reason why they are expecting developers from all around the world to do everything in English, even for games made for other languages.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE PLEASE SEND THEM A CORRECTIONS EMAIL OR SAY IN THE PODCAST NEXT WEEK ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS THING. THEY ARE LITERALLY FORCING THE JAPANESE DEVS TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH DURING BUSINESS MATTERS AND FORCING THEM TO CONDUCT SAID BUSINESS ON THE CALIFORNIA TIMEZONE.
Woolie is way off base, this is in no way "the times" because if it was you'd see this in a degree everywhere by everyone. Everything about this feels like someone with some very strong particular beliefs got promoted into a position and they're using that position spread their beliefs.
Pat's being hyperbolic with that "NOOO MY ANIME DOLLS" line. There are people like that, but consider: - Sony policies now require that appeals are sent in English (which makes the process inherently harder for Japanese devs). - Sony banning these things effectively creates an inferior product that is priced the same (why not release the blocked content as a free DLC patch? To comply with laws, have the system read your birthday and note that Sony does NOT take responsibility for your purchase if you lie about your age). - Sony banning things creates a slippery slope towards them altering other games in greater ways. - People who complain about Sony's practices or the types of games they allow on their console can vote with their wallet by NOT buying those games in the first place. It's up to the consumer to decide, not Sony - and while they can now decide to buy things on non-Sony consoles, that assumes they own a decent PC or a Switch. OUTSIDE OF THIS Sony is no longer allowing Visual Novels on their consoles; the ones in development have been grandfathered in. I don't know if this refers solely to H-games (in which case, I don't care) but if it's a blanket statement about ALL VNs then, as a VN developer myself, that's pretty fucking closed-minded.
- Sony banning things creates a slippery slope towards them altering other games in greater ways. I don't know if that's a reasonable concept. Saying that they don't want Creepy Anime Bullshit on their system does not suggest they're gonna do it to other games in "greater ways". What does that even mean?
@@PolarPhantom What makes you think non Creepy Anime Bullshit would be immune to this? Imagine if a company started going after porn and you just sat there and did nothing. Because "Creepy Real Life Bullshit" am I right? Oh wait, now your favorite show that was rated R is now rated PG. Congratulations.
You know Sony can already just decide however they want to alter games that they have on their console anyway, right? Like they don't need a precedent. They can just go "do it this way or deal."
Nintendo Treehouse is still on a lot of fans blacklists for the shit they pulled. Those fans refuse to let that go. But with these games, it a different demographic that's gonna judge one who defends them. Makes it harder to rally and write angry posts.
Actually, if you watched his Pokemon Let's Go video, he said he thinks Sony is justified in deciding what gets to be shown on their system, BUT that this should have been better handled to not immediately screw over development teams who were currently working on ecchi-style games for the system. Like maybe give fair advance warning to teams that this would be happening in the future as opposed to immediately dropping the bombshell without warning.
@@JojoDigitalArtist The whole English thing was my biggest gripe with the whole thing. Like that's really off. Plus I been researching more on it and they would have to do the appealing process in our time here. So like 4am Japan, the devs would have to be up and ready to appeal. Correct me if I'm wrong though
@@JojoDigitalArtist honestly i think this whole censorship thing just kinda came outta left field at least for me cuz i randomly passed an article detailing a visual novel devs journey with Sony and the new censorship policy. I play some of those games, not all but some. And i admit I'd be pissed over specific games. Catherine Full Body being one of them
I'm getting super pissed about the woolie/matt'' wrong''thing They are sharing opinions is not a fucking debate. To my knowledge baby pat, is the only one that thinks he's right about everything too bad he is not smart enough to clarify his questions to anyone.
At the request of someone in the replies asking I post this here: "I just wanna point out that most people who feel strongly about Senran Kagura and such being censored don’t care about the games themselves necessarily, just the precedent. I forget who but a localizer mentioned how these precedents create opportunity for more companies and people to feel more comfortable censoring similar stuff. Why would anyone be ok with some guy in California judging what my eyes are and aren’t allowed to see from an artist? Especially when it’s something as hypocritical and prudent as some anime tiddy. If Catherine isn’t censored it’s only because it was deemed “art enough” to be allowed to have tiddy, and that’s just bullshit. I don’t want to be back in Treehouse Nintendo days with Sony. I want ANY creation to have the right to let me see whatever they want to me see if I’m interested in enough. This ruins the whole point of the ESRB. Not to mention it’s a slap in the face from Sony straight to it’s already in contract Japanese developers who were under the assumption they were allowed to do things that they did before on the same system. Don’t get me started on them making even Japanese developers for Japanese only releases write reports in English. That’s pathetic. Sony was a Japanese company. I say was because they’ve been moving towards being a western one this entire generation, and it’s been losing me. Though I digress. Point being, yeah it’s funny Pat when it’s “XD my boobs!!!” But it won’t be so funny when Persona 5 Crimson runs into issues or Yakuza, or Street Fighter, etc. the same logic can easily be applied to those games, but if it isn’t then we just got lucky. That’s asinine."
LightningZerker it’s not a full Kiwami remake but it is a HD port of 3 losing a side quest about a cross dresser chasing you. At the time it seemed like a developer decision. It still might have been but who knows anymore.
Thats what I'm really annoyed about. Senran Kagura is one of my favorite video game series but I understand it is a very niche time of game. Also, I'm glad it got off kinda lightly on with only the "intimacy mode" being removed but with everything else being kept intact. (Plus the Steam version will have the mode intact so the option to access it is still there.) But I really worried about this effecting other games, like Catherine for example. Like Pat said, sexual themes is a big part of the game and its story so if they apply the same policy to that game it could butcher it.
But don't you know? If a Japanese game is ever so slightly lewd, it's the spawn of Satan. If a Western game has essentially porn, it gets engineered media outrage to boost sales.
Disagree strongly with Woolie here. This isn't the times. It's at most a bunch of outrage-merchants on twitter, and gaming blogs like Kotaku and Eurogamer. Pat is entirely legitimate in wanting to know what specifically changed at Sony. It's like how we can point to Treehouse when we see botched Nintendo translations. We know who and what is behind it. But we don't know what's behind it at Sony that is massively distinct from Nintendo (a family friendly company) and Microsoft (a western company). Why is Sony suddenly succumbing to the times? i.e. the demands of western Helen Lovejoy's, while the family friendly and western companies aren't? It's a legit question that Woolie keeps dodging and tacitly trying to shame Pat for asking.
@@AceKuper Heh, and just recently some people got all uppity when I've said that I hate Liam's sanctimonious bullshit. One of them actually said: '"sanctimonious bullshit" from a guy who openly professes to enjoying sengoku rance? sure buddy, whatever you say' and then they upvoted each other.
Absolutely. Whenever there's a massive policy change in the office it always comes from some prick who can't stop whining and is pandered to either because they're sucking the boss off or because they just want to shut them up.
I mean, I don’t play any of these weird Japanese sexy time games, but it’s still lame that people who enjoy them have one less platform to experience them on. Kind of a weird move on Sony’s part, but whatever.
Yeah its a little annoying to see people reduce their complaints to "weeb salt". Sony is changing what people liked about their games, why shouldn't they be angry.
@@Fjarhultian Who knows. Even the japanese devs are wondering that. www.siliconera.com/2018/10/28/visual-novel-makers-light-talk-about-frustrations-with-sonys-new-policy/
@@lindthechaoticheretic8708 Big Boss. He specifically says in the ending of Peacewalker that their enemy isn't any government or ideology, it's the times.
It's just creepy anime bullshit right? It's just religious imagery right? It's just some violence right? It's just featuring any opinion that doesn't align with ours right?
It's one commercial company trying to sell more products, jackass. This is not the government, not the evil PC cabal that ALex Jones warned you about - it's Sony trying to make a little more money.
I'm going to scream if Catherine: Full body gets censored. The game will be ruined with any censorship because it's entire framework is a mature storyline involving sexual content
Catherine is pretty much the game I'm waiting to see if they censor if they censor it then I'll be upset but right now I'm on Pat's side of I don't play any of the games they are censoring so I don't care.
@@JojoDigitalArtist Yeah I also only care about Catherine and am curious like Pat about what happened. Not even creepy porn games but God of War the old ones was all about full on toplessness all the damn time. So it just seems odd to care about what 3rd party put out when 1st party released those.
As much as I don't play fanservice games (mostly because the internet exists), I am kind of annoyed by the American-run Neo-Sony being so pro-censorship and anti-devoloper/consumer for the sake of moral grandeur. If anything, that is costing them more money and customers in the long run with this display. Steam had to learn this lesson. Hopefully, they will do the same after awhile.
It's really telling how Pat laughs at the games this affects and says he doesn't give a shit, but in the same conversation goes "What about Catherine though?".
@@BIGMILKO "now he has a gf" ? He never had a body pillow for a GF either like all you connoisseurs of such fine "art" that any person able of critical thinking would be able to see as creepy too.
@@flmalegre Remember when Paige responded to someone asking if she was OK with them drawing hentai of her with ,"Go nuts. That's awesome."? I don't think she's an issue here.
Doesn't seem that way. This also may be a very ignorant thing to say, but I hope Sony move their headquarters to a different location with less constriction.
"Censorship is okay when it's [thing I don't like], just don't censor [thing I like]" How about we just stop being moral authoritarians, stop censoring fiction, have some consistent principles and just let people make/buy what they want. I think that sounds like a good, actually liberal idea.
As a pervert what annoys me is any censorship at all on anything. Why are you allowed to tell me what will offend me? Let’s hope Sony do another hard 180 and start green lighting hentai character action games.
@@dragamation3266 He has his own channel and stream and collabs with ematt and woolie so he's doing well. I like that variety on all the side channels too.
Woolie has always had terrible stances and views. The difference is when Pat's wrong it's just "Oh Pat. You whimsical leprechaun, that's not right!" with Woolie it's "Dude, shut the fuck up with your bullshit already."
The fact that even the word "California" never comes up even once makes me think that either they don't know about the Sony HQ move, or they won't bring it up because of having connections to people there.
They most likely don't know . Plus it doesn't matter if it is in California heck if they moved it to a conservative republican state they would also censor it.
I hate agreeing with Pat, but Woolie is crazy wrong on this one. If it were "the times" other companies would be shifting towards this, and Sony probably would have asked for these things to be removed earlier if they were the progressive, forward thinkers that would have been at the head of this movement, but creepy anime bullshit games is the Vita's bread and butter. It is so clearly a recent switching job position, or incident that we just don't know about. Like the HQ moving, for instance.
I remember one time Jim Sterling mocking gamers saying "Are they gonna take away your titty anime game from you guys?" Well Mr Sterling, they are in fact taking away our titty games. All because Sony HQ is located in a state with a progressive social climate and dictating every Sony game including games made by Japan exclusively for Japan.
SAFE HOUSE you missed the point.I don’t care about creepy anime stuff, but sterling defended censorship like it wouldn’t have any future affect. What do you know, it had an effect of limiting what things people have to option to buy and if people don’t realize that this censorship is bad, it’s only going to get worse. Can’t wait to see what Sony tries to get rid of next
I don't get the deal with all this weird tip toeing, this is censorship. And no matter what the content is, censorship is bad. Even if you don't care for what's being censored now, it sets a bad precedent for the future.
> "HUR, 'MY ANIME DOLLS!!!' " > Couple minutes later > "But what about these games I do like!?" Just wow. They're brushing this off and being condescending to the point of being straight up assholes about it because this has been affecting a genre of games they really don't like. Yet they're worried this precedent might affect games they do like. My problem is not their general opinion on those kinds of games. My problem is their double standard on these games getting censored cause it's "creepy anime bullshit", but they're fine with it as long as it doesn't affect games they do like.
You know, i was afraid that the comments were going to be a bunch of "ITS JUST ANIME SHIT WHO CARES LMAO', but It seems like theres a lot of reasonable people here. Mad respect
Pat making fun of people upset at this news for being weird creepy perverts while also worried about Catherine being censored, which is also a creepy anime pervert game only it masquerades as a mature story for adults and he can't tell the difference because he's so deep in Atlus' bullshit he can't tell he's being a massive hypocrite is pretty funny.
People take the wrong approach with the new Sony policies, they aren't just going after anime tiddies, those games are just the most obvious example of what this censorship affects, in reality this is going to hurt any and all developers and especially Japanese developers. Their games get delayed whilst seeking approval from the Sony mollycoddlers and get released butchered and compromised, or they can release on steam the next day, fully uncensored. I'm no Xbox fanboy or Nintendo but Sony are a genuinely awful company, if their console didn't have so many exclusives on it I would jump ship any day.
Watching Pat smash his face against the brick wall of Woolie's capacity to miss his point gave me empathy pains. He just wants to know who or what set this hilarious misstep from a business standpoint off, "the times" is just the context that made it possible in the first place, there still had to be an event, it wasn't some sort of autonomous paradigm shift, the company's employees and management aren't a hive mind, Sony wasn't replaced by ultra puritan Nega-Sony from another universe like the Berenstain Bears, some dumbass with authority pulled the trigger and had an equally dumbass reason for doing so.
Sadly, Catherine Full Body is a PS4 exclusive. If it's censored people can't buy it anywhere else which is very sad. They'll just have to play the original
"I'm okay with it so long as they aren't infringing on _my_ preferred content" Surely you can do better than that friend. If you truly are worried about that, you should be worried about what they'll move to take out *before* your entertainment is next on the list, not after.
Neostrius I should have worded it better. I don't want fanservice to be censored either. I just think it'll be the gateway since nowadays "it's ok to censor fanservice"
why even try to make *Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball* less perverted? the whole point is to be perverted, so removing options will just make it sell less on their system compared to other platforms that have the full "experience".
Anytime I've ever heard these guys talk about DoA they act all embarrased and shit on it, but for example off the top of my head Bayonetta is the shit. Canucks I swear.
Everything has always been political, anyone who doesn't already know this is voluntarily ignorant. Probably because "gamers" are a one issue group, the issue being "I want what I want and to hell with everyone else, regardless of consequences."
Hopefully, Sony backpedals from this and sees the error of their ways. Censoring niche games for the sake of appealing to a non-existent and barely vocal audience isn't going to do well for them. We saw how it worked for Marvel's comics division during ANAD and Legacy or Capcom a few years ago; it ended with poor sales and a lot of backlash. Sony censoring Japanese games will only mean the worst for anyone else. What if they go after GTA after this? What if they find games like Mortal Kombat are too violent? What if they find The Witcher is too sexy? Like, where will they stop after this? Sony doing this will only have people going to buy a Switch, an Xbox or invest in a gaming PC. Like, there's a market for all sorts of thing. Now, I don't think they should just sell porn, but that games like Senran Kagura and DOA Extreme, games I'm not a fan off tbh, have every right to be sold just like any other game and be sold as they were intended to be sold.
The “why” for me is why would Sony do this from a business perspective? Like at the end of the day the babies that cry over these types of games existing aren’t going to be satisfied by a few features being removed, and even if they were it’s not like they’re going to buy the game now, so Sony makes zero monetary gain from this decision while almost undoubtedly losing customers since anyone whose interested in this game that owns both a switch and a ps4 is more than likely just gonna buy it on the switch since it’s easily the “better” version.
You guys completely misunderstanding this post so badly that you got the opposite message from it says a lot about you. Good job trying to get offended. You did it.
@@Ketsuekisan What else did you expect? These kind of anti social people go off at the slightest hint of negative connotation and engage full sarcastic condescending mode.
I’m wondering how Sony’s decision is going to affect games like God Eater 3 and Code Vein. Edit: I also wonder how these changes will affect the relationships between Sony and Japanese developers from now and into the future?
I have 2 theories. 1. It will only affect Japanese games with young looking characters, thus western games who never do that come out unscathed. 2. It affects both, but Western games will still be given SOME amount of slack because of the previous reason stated. As for the devs affected, they either have to cut down on fansevice and actually focus on gameplay and story, or they just flock to Nintendo, Steam (And GOG), and possibly even Microsoft.
ShadowWolfRising Interesting points there; what’s your opinion on the idea of this situation causing a sort of snowball effect of companies wanting developers to censor more than just fanservice (story, gameplay, etc.)?
Well really, that's like asking how dante appeals to men (m-mother...) Its because he's fucking badass kills stuff among other things. It appeals to the male fantasy.
No Wooile. It is based on the specific reason of Sony not wanting to be associated with the other companies. Limit Cross Platform Play. No Fortnight account sharing. Sony not wanting to go to E3, and to show themselves as separate from their competition, even if arbitrarily. Safe Platform for gamers etc etc.
It's not some vague handwavey situation like 'the times' or 'it's politics' of The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3. Imagine IF it was, then every spokesperson would just come out and say "Oh, you know, it's The Times, Bob Dylan sang about it - Didn't you Hear!? It's The Times." Saying "It's The Times" would make the job of the spokesperson much easier.
@@heliopyre lmao, okay. You go ahead and enjoy "Third Person Shooter with Crafting Mechanics", then. I'm sure it will get rave reviews from all the games journalists for its brave take on the automated takedown system.
@@ngmajora6986 I mean... who cares about P6 when you have LoU2. But seriously LoU is super overrated and when P6 comes into creation I would hope they would stop making a franchise as good as that one the be PS5 only. I mean at least but it on PC
This censorship sets a dangerous precedent because any game with lewd content can become a target. I'm worried for DOA6, Catherine, Senran Kagura, Kill la Kill and any other fanservice game that could come to the ps4 in the future.
As the bloody battlefield clears of smoke, a contender rises, a hero no one realized was even there. Nintendo: OMAI WA SHINDERU! Sony: NANI REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
i can understand the doa changes but the screenshots ive seen of visual novel censorship are really ridiculous and arbitrary imo. images that involve no nudity and are mildly suggestive are censored to hell on ps4 for no apparent reason. even anime perverts are entitled to their moneys worth when the game is available in full on other platforms
Woolie: What was that fucking game again with the boxart with the sausage on it? Me: *looks at shelf* Record of Agarest War The Really Naughty Limited Edition. Edit: Matt is assuming that Sony is only censoring localizations. They're actually forcing Japanese devs to submit reports in English so the game can be censored altogether.
First, they came for the gold fan and I did not speak out Because I didn't care about creepy up-skirts Then they came for the softening gel And I did not speak out Because I didn't care about creepy anime bullshit Then they came for my Catherine and yakuzie dominatrix side missions and there was no one left To speak out for me
Playstation is now an American company; HQ in Cali. it's not "the times", it's silicon valley progressive moral authorities dictating what we're allowed to enjoy. So glad devs are starting to abandon Playstation in favor of PC and Nintendo
I'm honestly supprised they missed the whole part about Sony HQ moving to Cali and forcing Japanese companies to work on their hours in English so that their games can get censored in japan.
Then why the hell would they move their headquarters outside Japan AKA the only place where Pachinko is relevant at all (Their new headquarters is in California.)? The United States is the LAST place you'd move your headquarters to for Pachinko, we have legal gambling here, and gambling machines and games that don't bullshit the law via roundabout semantics to be a grey area in the law and thus invalidate Pachinko's existence here.
@@conradojavier7547 With what target, Pachinko's existence is soley due to companies wanting gambling machines in a nation where it's illegal and doing lots of roundabout shit to make it barely legal. You can gamble in the United States, we have an entire city dedicated to it. And I'm assuming Japan's outright ban on gambling is the exception rather than the rule. Pachinko has way too much competition in most countries to be viable.
The worst thing about this is that, no matter what happens, Sony loses. The people who would be happy about this are also the people who wish that Dead or Alive didn't exist to begin with.
Sony moved to California and boom. Also Woolie for some reason can't understand a simple question and responds with an even wronger answer. The times? The times is not the answer when everyone else is fine with it. Oh it's the times as Nintendo is giving a thumbs up and Steam is selling rpg maker porn. Woolie "Let's agree to disagree." Madden you aren't anywhere near correct. It's the location not the times.
no Woolie, Ocam's Razor is not going "Lalalala generic answer lalalala", you still have to actually acknowledge the situation, & the fact that Nintendo a company that exist in the same context as Sony is dong the exact fucking opposite clearly means is NOT "the times & the puritan society", Pat's "Sony CEO Johnny Miyamoto's wife saw the porn" is in fact a closer Ocam's razor answer
The steam creepy bullshit is the funniest because I fully expected them to stop caring after multiple creepy sex games in a row came out with a link to the uncensored patch ON THE STEAM PAGE. They realized nobody gives a fuck and just rolled with it.
Isn't it weird for them to be shitting on creepy anime shit when they themselves and most of their fans watch or play creepy anime shit. I mean what about Gurren Laggan or Kil la KIll?
i seriously hope you guys upload all the parts of pat's updates on watchign Hunter X Hunter to the channel. or atleast the latest part where he finished the series
Honestly Monster Monpiece and Conception are for people who are either too lazy or too cowardly to download fan translations of Sengoku Rance or Artificial Academy like a true degenerate.
That Monpiece was a neat little cardgame. No Triple Triad, but it was fine. Conception was really atrocious. The main character gets a pair of space-spatulas or something because his boss noticed that he was good with a japanese katana-sword. Doesn't make any sense.
Woolie was really stubborn here. Saying " the times, occam's razor". Sony did not care. Now they care. Nintendo cared and now they don't. MS never cared. The reason can't be the "times".
www.oneangrygamer.net/2018/12/sony-japan-president-says-ps4-censorship-policy-is-to-match-global-standards-and-protect-kids/72781/ Here's the "Reason" for Sony's 180. Also note they are NOT just targeting games like Senran Kagura, Omega Labyrtnth and so on. They've outright banned any VN from the system (eroge or not) and now Cathrine which is more tasteful you can really be while still being anime.
