Bowdlerise/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* Whenever a game is denied sale in Australia due to lacking a rating (due to it being "too much for MA" and the people in charge of giving higher ratings to videogames being more than a little clueless), this will inevitably occur. The most famous is ''[[Fallout 3]]'', where morphine became "Med-X", because we really have to protect Australian kids from getting mixed up in a hospital grade narcotic that is nowhere near as readily available as its illegal counterparts.

** ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'''s Soldier lampshades this through some of his Domination lines for the (Australian) Sniper:

Soldier: ''Your country did not prepare you for the level of violence you will meet on my battlefield!'' }}

** And now we have a new winner: ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2. Infected'' couldn't be set on fire, thus making incendiary rounds useless, a ''lot'' of the gore was removed, the appearances of Riot uncommon infected were almost non-existent, and nearly all zombies disappeared before they even hit the ground. Yes, even stuff that was in the previous game was censored. [http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?src=/tv/goodgame/video/xml/20091214_2030.xml&item=5 Australian review show 'Good Game' took the mickey out of it] in one of their [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|finest moments]]

* The music for the ''[[Madden NFL]]'' games is real life songs with titles that can be related to the game of football. However, some of these songs have lyrics that wouldn't be acceptable in E rated games such as Madden, so they end up with references to "non-friendly" things cut out. The worst would be the Atreyu song on the 2007 version, which is so butchered that there are, at points, several second blots where the music completely cuts out.

* Pick out a ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game. Any ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game. Chances are the [[Ho Yay]], [[Les Yay]], or [[Brother-Sister Incest]] implications in various support conversations have been toned down during translation.

** That line is frm a fan translation, and thus a fandom in-joke. Besides, "dastard" is an old insult meaning "coward" and it fits with the ambientation of the games, just not with this specific line's context.

* Because of the unfortunate timing of its release (9/11 unfortunate), ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'' had several scenes from the game removed, such as Vamp explicitly stating that his and Dead Cell's intentions of using the hydrogen bomb are actually quite different than Solidus: specifically, they planned to nuke NYC itself rather than simply cause an EMP wave over Wall Street (the latter of which was Solidus's plan), Liquid Ocelot stating that he set Arsenal Gear's course to Manhattan, the actual crash sequence for Arsenal Gear, Raiden cutting the American Flag and having it drop on Solidus's corpse after he is defeated, and a news report mentioning the Statue of Liberty's new resting place at Ellis Island.