Don't get me wrong guys I'm not arguing for or against anything else here. I too can't stand oppression, zealots, discrimination, etc. and those are all worthy things to fight against. I'm simply talking about this specific scenario only. The changes requested here are irrelevant to the product itself and since it doesn't alter it in any meaningful way it doesn't really affect free speech either. People temper free speech all the time because you either don't want to offend somebody, seem like a jerk, or just because sometimes it's the polite thing to do.

darthhomer said:

Morning from Melbourne all.

The Mother 3 translation patch is out. Here's hoping that the game is so good, it makes me want to hate Nintendo even more for not officially releasing it...

Hate leads to not buying the Wii, not buying the Wii leads to not playing Galaxy and Brawl, not playing these games leads to Homer suffering. Stop hating Homer, it will only consume you

archangel3371 said:

Actually there may be another reason for Sony to recall LBP. As others have pointed out the game is rated E so the lyrics in question may be inappropriate for a game of that rating and since they probably want to keep it rated E this would be the best course of action.

We are talking about America here. Violence is okay, sex however........

iga_bobovic said:

archangel3371 said:

Actually there may be another reason for Sony to recall LBP. As others have pointed out the game is rated E so the lyrics in question may be inappropriate for a game of that rating and since they probably want to keep it rated E this would be the best course of action.

We are talking about America here. Violence is okay, sex however........

Which is just so wrong. Nothing against violence but damn, give sex some props.

Speaking of which. How are they going to filter the user-created content? I can only imagine some of the stuff some people will come up with.

"For example, you had those booth babes that were just distributing some stuff - and I saw they were distributing condoms too. And then they were throwing pants! When I saw that I was like, wow! That's great. One day, I want to be able to throw pants to the public. That's one of my main goals."

Suda

iga_bobovic said:

darthhomer said:

Morning from Melbourne all.

The Mother 3 translation patch is out. Here's hoping that the game is so good, it makes me want to hate Nintendo even more for not officially releasing it...

Hate leads to not buying the Wii, not buying the Wii leads to not playing Galaxy and Brawl, not playing these games leads to Homer suffering. Stop hating Homer, it will only consume you

But Iga, you're an European! Nintendo hate you just as much as they hate Australia!

Anyone care for Dead Space impressions? Well to bad here they are:

Rented Dead Space, YES! Awesome first chapter, this is a cinematic atmospheric masterpiece at the moment. Within seconds I felt totally absorbed into the location and situation of this game. I love the hud system, brilliant. Sound, graphics, presentation all top notch. The only thing that did not jump out at me as pure awesome was the combat, for the moment (again one chapter) it does not feel as intense, as smooth as say RE4. Now comparing anything to RE4 is usually not fair but this game takes so many ideas from that game that the comparison has to be made. So far I have fought a maximum of three enemies at a time, all rather easy. The limb thing is not as cool as I thought it would be, so far it just seems like a weak point rather than a method to make the enemies more intersting as you take them apart piece by piece, many times I just shoot an arm and a leg off and they die, so far its always been two limbs equals death.

So the combat has not got my heart pumping at all but I am in love with the atmosphere, I don't even want to run, I want to slowly walk and soak in all in. On the controls, this is strictly a personal thing, I am now convinced to not use the two stick method for RE5, I didn't like it in my third person games before this but I dislike it even more when my guy is off center. I really like the upgrading system, far more deep than I figured it would be. I didn't even know those powers to slow down an object or move an object existed so I am pleased about that.

I love the game so far, combat might not be top tier but everything else is.

Why do game developers even bother putting Muslim chants in their games when unneeded? It seems that this has happened with a fair amount of titles (Zack and Wiki being a more recent one). Well okay okay atmosphere but still.

To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule

While reading your latest news story, "Sony delays LittleBigPlanet" in the first line of the third paragraph I noticed something strange in the wording of the sentences.  When I read carefully,  I was surprised to read a very familiar concept about people being angry about something to do with the Quran.  You can read the article here:

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20708

The words are:

1- Sony's long-awaited and much-buzzed LittleBigPlanet will be delayed worldwide.

2- According to a now-removed thread on the PlayStation Europe messageboards, the licensed LBP soundtrack song 'Tapha Niang' by Muslim artist Toumani Diabate's Symmetrical Orchestra uses voice excerpts from the Qur'an in its musical composition.

I asked many of my friends online and they read the exact same thing that I read easily when I opened that part of the article.  Certain non-crazy hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.

We gamers consider the delaying of games due whining about the Holy Quran deeply offending.  We hope you would ignore those complaints with the game immediately via an injection of sanity, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk arrive in stores on time.

We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this has happened in videogames.  Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with Islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.

We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy and we thank you for putting an end to these bully tactics.

Considering console's sudden love for patches, why the fuck not release it without delaying it and then patch it?

Then everybody wins, though Sony are still pussys for removing it.