Now this one might be a little heated, but an example of this happening is the game Stellar Blade, whilst it is still a good game, there was also a sex appeal to it which they cut out the jiggle physics and sultryness out of the game before release.

Personally, they could’ve left it in as an unlock or as a second option in case people were uncomfortable seeing a good looking woman fight monsters and jiggle about but that’s just me.

What are your thoughts on censoring games? Does it not remove the original version of the lead developers? Maybe because of cultural reasons in your country?

I’d like to know!

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    496·
    6 months ago

    Changing designs due to market pressures isn’t censorship. Remember the Sonic movie, where they redid the animation due to criticism? Nobody was outraged at that change but when it’s tits, all of a sudden people care.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      6 months ago

      Summarized it much better than I could.

      If you’ve ever seen isometric pixel sprites, authors often draw those first “naked” to get the shape right. If they show an in development model that’s naked, and later have added clothes, is that then “censorship”? No of course it fucking isn’t.

    • Melonpoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      614·
      6 months ago

      What “market pressure” are you talking about? The game topped charts because it seemingly wasn’t afraid to have an attractive female lead while backing that up with fun gameplay. The difference with the Sonic movie was that no one liked the original design, and the movie wasn’t patched after people bought tickets.

      • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        6 months ago

        You know there are a shit load of games with attractive female leads and amazing gameplay right?

        You say it as if developers are terrified to make attractive girl characters…