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D1 europe - dethtoll - 07-02-2006 i recently acquired a copy of diablo 1 after years of searching (it's gotten to be quite difficult to find... i can't even find that big collection anymore.) however, what the seller declined to inform me was that this is apparently the european version. does anyone know if there is/was a censorship issue? i'd give him a piece of my mind, but if the game is identical to the US version then i'm not really bothered. D1 europe - LennyLen - 07-02-2006 Define "censorship issue", as I really have no clue what you mean. I have a non-US version (the Australian version), and it is identical to the US version. D1 europe - dethtoll - 07-02-2006 Quote:Define "censorship issue", as I really have no clue what you mean. well, really, anything. blood being cut out, for example, or the succubi being edited. D1 europe - Mystery - 07-02-2006 The european version of Diablo is the same as the US/UK/whatever version. In terms of censorship, they're all the same, because there is no censorship in any version of this game. D1 europe - dethtoll - 07-02-2006 not even the succubi? wow, thanks. you just saved someone some verbal abuse. D1 europe - Nystul - 07-02-2006 Quote:not even the succubi? Someone seems awefully eager to see those uncensored succubi! :shuriken: D1 europe - LennyLen - 07-02-2006 And correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have stricter censorship laws in the US than that of (the majority of) Europe's, when it comes to nudity? D1 europe - Nystul - 07-02-2006 Quote:And correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have stricter censorship laws in the US than that of (the majority of) Europe's, when it comes to nudity? In some cases, yes. But I don't think video games would be one of those cases. AFAIK the U.S. video game industry is almost entirely self-regulated (although that could have changed in recent years without me noticing). Diablo was far more controversial in parts of Europe than it was in the U.S., although I don't think topless succubi were the main cause for concern. Our German posters could probably elaborate more on that. D1 europe - dethtoll - 07-03-2006 Quote:And correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have stricter censorship laws in the US than that of (the majority of) Europe's, when it comes to nudity? we do, but mostly for console games. a good example would be the older castlevania games (SNES and earlier): a lot of statues, obviously hundreds of years old and sculpted in the classical style (complete with nudity, which was considered art back then), had the robes or whatever that they held pulled up over their breasts. another example is fahrenheit/indigo prophecy. the nudity and sex scenes are cut out entirely of the US release. if the game had been PC only, it probably would not have been cut. (maybe.) however, as it was also released on the console... violence, on the other hand, has always been a staple, especially with PC games since in the 80s and early 90s they were not as widespread as they are now. remember when mortal kombat made such a gigantic splash for being over-the-top with violence? that was in the days when arcades still mattered, consoles were mainstream, but PCs were still fringe. we'd had slaughterfests in PC games for years beforehand, and nobody kicked up much of a fuss. look at the original system shock: body parts EVERYWHERE. and i do mean everywhere- corpses, limbs, skeletons, gore, what have you. nobody noticed, because the game has, even to this day, never made it to a console or handheld. mortal kombat, for all the fact that it's crap, pushed the envelope for violence in arcade and console games here in the united states. though i notice it still took a long time for console games to have any amount of foul language beyond the occasional "damn", "hell" or "bastard". meanwhile PC games have been cussing up a storm pretty much this whole time. D1 europe - dethtoll - 07-03-2006 pff:Pno, i just don't believe in censorship of games. i'd probably have been angrier if the violence had been cut. D1 europe - Munkay - 07-03-2006 Quote:i'd probably have been angrier if the violence had been cut. What exactly would Diablo look like without any violence? Kings Flower of Haste Godly Hugging Suit of the Whale :P Cheers, Munk D1 europe - Mystery - 07-03-2006 Quote:Godly Hugging Suit of the WhaleDamn cheaters;) D1 europe - Toverkol - 07-05-2006 you might be right there, i was almost inclined to say the same as Lenny stating european censorship is much less strict than US, but you raise a good point there, US is strict on sex and nudity, europe (or at least some countries) are more strict towards violence, For instance i still remember Carmageddon, in which, for the German version, the pedestrians were cut out and replaced by zombies with green blood. |