Heavy Rain: "Slight Adaptations" For Different Regions
Heavy RainYou may recall the controversy that arose when a leaked video portraying mostly full frontal nudity in Heavy Rain hit the Internet.
Well, we maintain that it's the very epitome of tasteful but that didn't stop the rumors that the game might be censored in certain regions. These rumors began almost instantly after the video became public, and they really hit a peak when we heard Quantic Dream might be including an interactive, motion-captured sex scene. Of course, the developers are aware of this danger so they may actually censor their own game for the regions where such content could prove to be a problem for ratings boards. During a recent interview, the project's executive producer Guillaume de Fondaumiere says that although Heavy Rain is designed for the mature audience, the game will be tailored to adapt to guidelines all across the world. Said Fondaumiere:
"We wanted to have pretty much the same game everywhere, be it Europe, in the United States, or in Japan, of course, with slight adaptions...but I don't think the changes we made will make a big difference; those are real modular things. We felt the need to adapt the content to the culture."
This avoids clashes with the aforementioned ratings boards - ideally - but it might also annoy gamers in certain areas of the world. For our part, absolutely none of the game should be censored; it should simply carry a rating that indicates it's only for mature audiences, like any rated "R" movie. Of course, some ratings in other regions don't even go that high - they still think all games are for kids, apparently - so that's another problem. But anyway, it seems we'll keep running into this until the rest of the planet realizes that games have grown up.
Related Game(s): Heavy Rain
10/21/2009 10:59:28 AM Ben Dutka
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Douchebaguette
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 1:20:52 PM
But people lack it, and as a consequence Quantic Dream has to comprimise.
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Deleted User
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:19:02 AM
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bebestorm
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:29:37 AM
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NiteKrawler
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:32:03 AM
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JofaMang
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:48:29 AM
Australia has it rough, no doubt, but unchecked, these types of laws could end up costing us as consumers the most. There more marketable regions that demand specific standards and limitations, the closer we get to companies defaulting to a lowest common denominator target in their design of games. We have already seen this effect from the economic influence of the Wii and its truckloads of shovelware. But I think that is voluntary, and having an involuntary pressure on the industry will just add another blanket negative influence to the industry.
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556pineapple
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:44:57 AM
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JofaMang
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:49:01 AM
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newchef
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 12:07:52 PM
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Cole
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 12:41:05 PM
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The NA version of Siren Blood Curse was censored as well. It had less blood and gore than the EU and JP versions of the game. And the scene where Bella(the little girl) becomes a shibito was left out.
So there's a very real possibility that the NA version of Heavy Rain might get censored as well.
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Squirreldriver
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 2:00:04 PM
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I will not buy a censored game, I'll import if I have to.
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BTNwarrior
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 2:07:06 PM
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godsman
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 2:23:54 PM
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BlackBriar
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 2:37:39 PM
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Zorigo
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 2:42:21 PM
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The CEO
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 4:18:59 PM
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frostface
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 4:28:09 PM
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This game is targeted at an 'Adult' market. As long as it carry's an adult certificate (rated R / 18s) then I don't see where the problem is in leaving it uncut! There's plenty of real people nudity making it into the movies so why not some fake nudity in games? (hell the movies also have fake tits).
Hopefully the powers that be will be adult enough themselves and do the right thing here.
And one last thing, not that I have a problem with violence depicted in games (if I did then I'd have little or no games to play and I do love to play alot), even the most innocent of our games have us blasting thousands of baddies away with an array of assorted weapons, but I'd consider that to be more of a threat to the minds of gamers then a lil bit of nudity. However I feel we're all well enough adjusted at least in here to be able to tell the difference between the virtual world and reality. Well most of us anyway!
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BlackBriar
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 4:58:13 PM
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Hezzron
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 5:01:37 PM
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BTNwarrior
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 8:08:36 PM
You know that for MGS4 all the BB squad motion cap was done with the models fully nude.
And for the jackass videogame there was some very odd motion ball placements (ie. meatspin)
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Metal Head
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 7:50:05 PM
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telly
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 7:57:36 PM
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kevinater321
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 8:01:02 PM
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Zeppo
Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 12:59:17 AM
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___________
Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 1:17:22 AM
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i had to completley absolutley piss myself laughing today at EB.
went to pick up borderlands and preorder ratchet and left for dead 2, while i was there i asked the manager if were getting the edited version or the original because valve appealed and i have not heard the decision.
than he had a massive smirk on his face and started laughing and told me your not going to believe this.
the whole reason the game got banned is because of the baseball bat, hitting zombies in the head causes their head to explode and the camera gets covered in blood.
thats why it got banned.
but wait for it.
theres a code your given if you preorder from EB to unlock the baseball bat and it does the same thing.
valve edited the game so it gets past, than if you preorder from EB the patch gets patched.
SHIFTY BASTARDS!
i love valve.
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Titch1794
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 @ 11:18:19 AM