Fallout 3 cancelled in India

Hehe. I actually always wondered if the old games were allowed in India because of the whole Brahmin thing. How clever of me. :D

Also: I betcha Todd hadn't seen that one coming. Less sales! Woohoo! :aiee:
 
TheRatKing said:
...That might be like having an Indian game with little rabbi dogs that you can dip over and even kill...
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Fallout 2 had the "Pariah Dog" and a pariah is another caste in india but they are basicaly dirt so it's okay to mock them :crazy:

It's quite understandable that they dont want to offend the indians because they are a very tollerent people who treat other cultures with respect so we should do the same for them... no wait thats right they are currently on rampages killing off all the Christians, maybe the Christians had pre-ordered Fallout 3? (in actual fact large numbers of Pariahs have converted to Christianity and Islam to escape the oppressive caste system).
 
Isn't piracy HUGE over there? (Might be thinking of china).

It could be they figured that the game was already going to be pirated to hell and back (Or not, because it looks like a waste of hdd space to me), so they chose to avoid the headaches, death threats and controversy from which they would most likely endure from the cow content.

Who knows.
 
So doest that mean Diablo 2 never made it to India before given the famous cow level?

Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Isn't piracy HUGE over there? (Might be thinking of china).

It could be they figured that the game was already going to be pirated to hell and back (Or not, because it looks like a waste of hdd space to me), so they chose to avoid the headaches, death threats and controversy from which they would most likely endure from the cow content.

Who knows.
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Piracy is huge anywhere in the third world.
 
Well. The Brahmin theory is not a completely MOOt point. Could very well be the case.
Maybe they would distribute the game if the Brahmin Armour DLC was offered at a reduced price...
 
But they should be proud of the fallout brahmin, being the primary economic and alimentary source in the fallout world and all that.

Don't they see the high value the brahmin got in the fallout games? One of the few mammal animals to survive the nuclear war!

Their loss, I guess.


Well, probably not.
 
Ausir said:
My sources are telling me that the brahmin theory is correct.
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Seems to me like it'd be an easy thing to remedy. I'm not sure exactly what bovine can and cannot do in Indian culture but they could always replace them with a horse since they have the model from Oblivion. Yeah, it's not as cool as having brahmin and maybe couldn't replace all of them but I can't see it being too hard to change a two headed brahmin into a one headed one and making the few that remain invincible.
 
I'm pretty sure it's the use of the word "brahmin", the fact that they're mutated and that you can kill them. so if they'd have to change it all. that probably includes voice acting. I'm willing to bet that the word "brahmin" is used in dialogue at least once in the game.
 
Would it be released in China? I don't think CCP would be too happy with the treatment/presentation of Shis.

Has anyone ever BEEN to India? They have monks that get people to sweep in front of them because they don't want to step on insects, let alone cows, which supposedly have a lot of gods resting on its body.

Brahman (nominative brahma ब्रह्म) is the concept of the supreme spirit found in Hinduism. Brahman is the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this universe. The nature of Brahman is described as transpersonal, personal and impersonal by different philosophical schools. In the Rig Veda, Brahman gives rise to the primordial being Hiranyagarbha that is equated with the creator God Brahmā. The trimurti can thus be considered a personification of hiranyagarbha as the active principle behind the phenomena of the universe. The seers who inspired the composition of the Upanisads asserted that the liberated soul (jivanmukta) has realized his identity with Brahman as his true self (see Atman (Hinduism)).

The word "Brahman" is derived from the verb brh (Sanskrit:to grow), and connotes greatness. The Mundaka Upanishad says:

Om- That supreme Brahman is infinite, and this conditioned Brahman is infinite. The infinite proceeds from infinite. Then through knowledge, realizing the infinitude of the infinite, it remains as infinite alone.
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I can see why there is a problem.

Anyway,

*speaks fluent Mandarin*

*attempts in vain to imagine dialogues in FO2 in Chinese*

*fails, and laughs his arse off*
 
While I'm sure the brahmin thing comes into play, I would guess that a game portraying a violent and bleak future as a result of nuclear weapons would be a bit unsettling in a country which is developing nuclear tech, with possibly the intentions of using them on a neighboring country. Possibly in retaliation for them using it.

I would imagine the government would rather have the people imagine nuclear power as a clean source of happy energy that will remove their troublesome neighbor cleanly and repercussion free, and not as something that will mutate and destroy everything holy. And otherwise.
 
even today India is been attacked by muslim fundamentalist who rapes India 10% psychologically and 90% physically and christian missionary who rapes 10% physically and 90% psychologically.
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Indians really need some laws about molestation then.

btw, I too say that the reason behind the Fallout 3 ban in India is Brahmin.

cows are a holy icon in India, and I don't think they really like to see a two headed cow named "Brahmin". some people might take it offensive there.
 
Ausir said:
Yeah, they'd have to re-record some of the dialogues.
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I guess but this seems like an easy thing to have foresight about and do the alternate tracks when you do the initial recording.
 
In India

publishing cartoons on Muhammad-prohibited

publishing articles criticizing Christ and christianity-prohibited

India has moral rights to prohibit Fallout.
 
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