Fallout 3's Megaton safe from Japanese gamers

[winterraptor]

Using sarcasm on the internet has always been a problem

A very great problem.

If using sarcasm on the internet is wrong, I wanna be right. No, I don't know if I typed that correctly. Or maybe I do. Or maybe I don't know if I do know if I typed that correctly.

But it's not cool to make light of Hiroshima. It and Nagasaki are among the greatest tragedies this world has ever seen. Nothing funny about it.

You're right - and you know what, my fellow indignant brother and/or sister? The Antichr- ...I mean President Obama, in cooperation with The United Nations and all civilized countries, should institute a new international agency dubbed 'The International Taskforce on Internet Sensitivity' (or TITIS), who could comb through such message boards as this (along with chat rooms) with full authority to delete insensitive material and commentary deemed 'over the line'. They could also permanently ban offenders via ISPs from the forum, or even the internet. Why, they could even track down the person and bring up international 'crimes against humanity' charges (in extreme cases only).

Think of the good it would do: no more child predators luring their bait over chats - everyone is monitored! No more easy communication over *our* information byways by terrorists speaking dissent - we'll track em down! No more disgusting, foul, depraved, heinous, inhuman, lascivious, lewd, low, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, shameless, sinful, twisted, vicious, vile, villainous, or just plain evil things will be said or typed without justice and retribution.

Certainly, they'll be no more degenerate 'jokes' and 'laughter' about such tragedies as 9/11 and Hiroshima and Nagasakamicalic or whatever.

On a related note,

 

[Ausdoerrt]

Indeed, nuclear explosions aren't banned in Japan or anything, nor is excessive violence and gore. Even though Fallout 3 treats nuclear explosions like candy, there's no good reason to censor the Japanese release.

Yeah, they shouldn't censor the game, they should BAN it for stupidity. All around the world =))

 

[Jenx]

Using sarcasm on the internet has always been a problem

A very great problem.

If using sarcasm on the internet is wrong, I wanna be right. No, I don't know if I typed that correctly. Or maybe I do. Or maybe I don't know if I do know if I typed that correctly.

I never said it's wrong. I said it's a problem, because conveying sarcasm with text doesn't always work the way you want to.

And since Per obviously pointed out that this was a joke - Couldn't we have had this thread somewhere else, and not on the goddamn NEWS section of the front page?

 

[aenemic]

damn that is really dumb. but why does everyone jump to the conclusion that Bethesda just chose to do this because the game would be better off? most likely they were told to do it to meet a certain rating.

 

[34thcell]

Those changes can only make the game more realistic, I mean it hardly seems logical to detonate a bomb that big, it looks large enough to destroy most of the game world, and the decapitations/amputations look stupid anyway.

 

[Per]

And since Per obviously pointed out that this was a joke - Couldn't we have had this thread somewhere else, and not on the goddamn NEWS section of the front page?

We don't make up news, except on April 1st. The sarcasm was my statement that Japanese culture doesn't deal with apocalyptic themes (a.k.a. shit blowing up), since they do pretty much more than anyone.

 

[zioburosky13]

Japanese playing FPS game?
That's unthinkable!!!

 

[Jenx]

Japanese playing FPS game?
That's unthinkable!!!

Seriously. Are Bethesda thinking anyone would even buy the game in the first place?

 

[Ausdoerrt]

Japanese playing FPS game?
That's unthinkable!!!

Either I'm missing sarcasm again, or you're seriously wrong...

 

[Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude]

Japan: Guro pedo hentai? *masturbates furiously*. Blowing up a town full of poorly animated assholes? Fuck that!

 

[Syraxith]

上記①～②に関しては、オリジナルの表現がCEROの倫理規定で定められている「禁止表現」に該当すると判断された為、変更を加えました。 ① ~ ② above for the original Code of Ethics of CERO expression are regulated by "express prohibition" was deemed appropriate for the changes. ③の武器名の変更は弊社独自の判断で変更を加える事に致しました。 ③ change the name of the weapons of our own decision to make changes to the line.

Looks like they had to do it or they wouldn't get a rating from CERO.

 

[Makenshi]

I'd like to know if CERO requested any change in Red Alert 3...

If not, than it's pretty covenient that you can't make situations that Japan consider offensive in FO3, because they remember their troubles in WW2... but can put in RA3 the situation where Japan masses a bushido-oriented army, and conquer the world just like they wanted to do in the 40's (except that they didn't have mechas and stuff).

 

[Syraxith]

I'd like to know if CERO requested any change in Red Alert 3....

Was Red Alert 3 even released in Japan? I don't recall seeing a japanese release date.