Censorship, Yo

[Piccolo Padawan]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

That's funny. Did you know that Germany has the strictest censorship rules for violent videogames out of all the countries where videogames are regularly released? You can't kill a human in a German videogame, period. The usual workaround for this in the industry is to change the blood color to green and add some bit to the storyline somewhere about how they are actually aliens that only look like humans.

The More You Know

I did indeed know that, but Germany isn't perfect. I just prefer their ideas on censorship in general better than here. Here is just ridiculous with the parents complaining about what their children see and hear on the radio or TV, and what not.

[Chewbaccus]

I love these stories. It's a guaranteed nostalgia trip back to when I lobbied my mother for a solid two weeks to get her to buy me a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 for Genesis. I failed utterly, of course, despite what I still feel was a highly-advanced level of debate and negotiation on my part for a child of my years. If I had to guess, I'd say the negotiations fell apart after she took the radical approach of going to the local EB and seeing MK2 on a demo station they'd set up. I didn't anticipate it, I didn't know parents could or would actually preview questionable material before granting viewing approval to the child. I dropped the ball, and I can only blame myself.

I'm a firm believer in the "it takes a village" philosophy of child-raising. For example, it takes a parent to set and enforce limits upon what the child can and can not see/do/etc., and it takes an older brother to help the child devise ways to covertly circumvent those limits. Such ways include, but are not limited to, playing Chris Rock albums in his car in the child's presence, watching Jackie Brown with the child at his apartment, and taking the child to an ECW house show two towns over. (Killer seats, bro. Thanks again.)