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[Shmunter]

It doesn't really make the game any worse though. I don't really agree with removing it, but it doesn't make me not want to play the game again.

Sure. At the end of the day tho It's just a mechanism to drive a point home more than anything. Hit em where it hurts etc.

 

[Okamiden]

The people who just had to be SO OFFENDED are dumb, the devs who fell for that pressure and removed the feature are dumb, and the people who then review bombed them for removing it are dumb. Just dumb people all around.

I personally found it to be a cool moment, as I'm able to separate fiction from reality. The toggle was fine.

If devs shut you up (locking thread with fans feedback), what else can they do to make their voices heard? Devs brought this on themselves. And thank god gamers have at least this kind of influence so devs would think next time if they should do stupid shit like that.

 

[s-bojan]

I don't like that they've removed those 2 scenes, but I don't mind it that much.
I am glad that I've experienced those parts.

This generation is fucked. Snowflake mindless pricks who can't take a joke. Censorship is starting to be very concerning.

This is something I will never get.
You are crying over 30 seconds of gameplay being removed...seems pretty snowflaky to me.

 

[Coolwhhip]

We don't live in a sensitive time... but yeah grats on the virtue signal.

 

[cireza]

Wasn't the game released many years ago. Why remove something now ? Who cares ? What do they gain doing this ?

 

[Tommi84]

We don't live in a sensitive time...

Yes we do. People get offended by everything all the time. Not all people, but oh boy, we are reaching levels of sensitivity I didn't even thought exist.

 

[Coolwhhip]

Yes we do. People get offended by everything all the time. Not all people, but oh boy, we are reaching levels of sensitivity I didn't even thought exist.

A small minority on twitter pretends to be sensitive so they can spread hate and try to take people down. But the vast majority of actual, real life, people aren't sensitive snowflakes. This game developer most likely is one of those twitter cunts himself, so it's just virtue signal nonsense.

 

[Spukc]

 

[JonSnowball]

 

[Rikkori]

Are you an expert in Japanese culture?

Absolutely an expert in Japanese culture.

 

[Roufianos]

'Fragile Handle With Care' tape must be worth a fucking gold mine these days.

 

[FunkMiller]

It already had a toggle…

…what an unbelievably silly thing to do.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Cool. Will never buy another game from this studio. This shit isn't OK.

 

[ShadowNate]

This is something I will never get.
You are crying over 30 seconds of gameplay being removed...seems pretty snowflaky to me.

No it's easy.
Someone is loud in the library, so people tell them to shut up.
And he then proceeds to shush them.
This is you not getting what is snowflaky in this situation.

 

[22:22:22]

'Fragile Handle With Care' tape must be worth a fucking gold mine these days.

Kojima is a visionary

To all the people downplaying this; remind yourselves that this is a slippery slope. And don't you all believe we can make up our own minds in regards to what content we want to experience? I sure as hell do.

 

[s-bojan]

To all the people downplaying this; remind yourselves that this is a slippery slope. And don't you all believe we can make up our own minds in regards to what content we want to experience? I sure as hell do.

We all do, but unfortunately, that is unrealistic and it will only get worse.
A song was removed from gta5 recently, so you will never experience it in the game. Yes, I understand that it is different as it is license related, but the result is the same.

There are still ways around it:
- if you have a physical copy you can play unpatched
- if you are using quest, you will probably be able to play the older version (people are doing that with Beat Saber for example)
- well, there is also piracy, if you are willing to go that route

 

[nbkicker]

Thats whats happening to all media nowadays be it tv shows, movies or gaming , every company is afraid of any backlass so changes there orgional ideas to keep the 10% that might complain but never buy the product happy but then upsetting the prople who will buy it due to the changes

 

[GymWolf]

This is the game you turn on when people are skeptical about vr.

 

[LMJ]

Kindly fuck off with this pussy footed response!

Still a fan of Superhot, but all this says to me is to avoid the updates less "feewings be huwrt" in the future

I also find it hilarious brutally murdering other "simulations" in SH is okay, but self harm is a no no

I repeat kindly FUCK OFF!

 

[ShadowNate]

There are still ways around it:
- if you have a physical copy you can play unpatched
- if you are using quest, you will probably be able to play the older version (people are doing that with Beat Saber for example)
- well, there is also piracy, if you are willing to go that route

For Steam, wouldn't something like this Depot download tool be an option (maybe not so straightforward one though)?

GitHub - SteamRE/DepotDownloader: Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library.

Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library. - SteamRE/DepotDownloader

github.com

This was also possible within the Steam client before, using the Console mode, but apparently, they stopped supporting it for previous builds of executables early in 2020.

 

[22:22:22]

We all do, but unfortunately, that is unrealistic and it will only get worse.
A song was removed from gta5 recently, so you will never experience it in the game. Yes, I understand that it is different as it is license related, but the result is the same.

Hmm, I wasn't really talking about content getting removed indefinitely. That's a different discussion altogether. Although this technically is about removing content, the real issue is the reasoning/motives behind said removal.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

This is the funniest virtue signal since Cards Against Humanity removed all references to rape and the Holocaust.

 

[UnNamed]

This is what happen when videogame companies think they should handle people mental illnesses.

Next step is utensils manufacturers to remove spikes from forks because people can hurt themselves.

 

[Arcadialane]

'Considering sensitive time we’re living in,'

Yup, so true. NOW is a sensitive time we are living in, there has definitely been no point in the past that was a sensitive time, history was pretty neutral until about 3 years ago. Revolutions, massive cultural shifts, suicide, war, depression, sensibilities swiftly changing, never came up in the past.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Love Superhot but will never buy a game from this dev again. Also, as a shill for an all digital future, I'm officially on suicide watch right now.

 

[Shmunter]

Love Superhot but will never buy a game from this dev again. Also, as a shill for an all digital future, I'm officially on suicide watch right now.

Yeah can only imagine any next game to have any sharp edges filed away into a safe space. They really just need to focus on family friendly Nintendo style of gaming going forward.

 

[mcjmetroid]

ughhhhhhhhhh why.

Developers are smarter people than me, 100% I could not program a videogame.
Why though do they do such stupid shit than even a dummy like me can see will blow up in their face?

 

[Dr. Claus]

Yeah can only imagine any next game to have any sharp edges filed away into a safe space. They really just need to focus on family friendly Nintendo style of gaming going forward.

Lol. Funny enough Nintendo nowadays allows for violence, sexual, and strange content more than the other competitors. Fucking baffling that they, of all companies, are the ones promoting sanity in this day and age.

 

[Stuart360]

For all the people that dont see anything wrong with this, its not whats happening now, its what it leads to in coming years.

Its only a matter of time before -

 

[mcjmetroid]

I can't even decide now which thread subject is more pathetic....

 

[nbkicker]

Cant wait to see the next gta when the trailer gets revealed then a similar

"Considering sensitive time we’re living in, we can do better than that. You deserve better."​

Gets posted from rockstar

 

[dtremblay]

It's their game, they can do whatever the hell they want with it. Good for them!

No one is missing out by having this removed. Surely this is impacting people more by being in the game, than out. It's also just a video game -- everyone needs to relax.

 

[Cravis]

While they’re at it go ahead and remove the guns. Can’t be giving anyone ideas of going out and shooting places up. Hell remove the knives too don’t want anyone cutting anyone.

 

[Shmunter]

If this rolls to psvr, I hope the community there hammers Sony for refunds and cyberpunks these cucks.

The only thing that matters here is to make a stand against virtue signalling, nothing more.

Slippery slope infusing and conflating reality with escapism. While art imitates life imitates art….this is not it. It’s a restraining of art for no genuine reason, and art should have no limitations.

This was a pr stunt to appeal to sjw victimhood safe space mentality. And boy, did they miss the mark. Fuck em.

 

[Amiga]

Didn’t Persona do something very similar? P4 maybe? I kinda stopped playing them so I don’t remember. Where are all the triggered weebs rallying to that cause? Oh, right, no one gives a shit.

P3, it was the main theme of the game.

 

[Damien Crowley]

Are you an expert in Japanese culture?

Man, a lot of snowflakes getting triggered by that.

Am too on the side, that the option was absolutely enough, but hey, this removal will not play into my playing the next to last level so often, that I can muscle memory the most part of it without really looking...

 

[nkarafo]

It's not the censorship that irks me here. It's the patronizing "we can do better than that, you deserve better" line.

 

[Tripolygon]

Good on them. But they should have made it an optional toggle at the beginning of the game just like how you can toggle gore on and off in some games instead of removing it entirely.

 

[Boglin]

I don't like that they've removed those 2 scenes, but I don't mind it that much.
I am glad that I've experienced those parts.

This is something I will never get.
You are crying over 30 seconds of gameplay being removed...seems pretty snowflaky to me.

Considering people have already bought and paid for the game prior to the devs being born again, how much content needs to be removed before you consider it a legit complaint?

 

[renzolama]

Are the devs californians or what?

Even worse, europeans

Joking ofc but it's funny that so many people in this thread apparently think that nanny culture started in the US

 

[ArtemisClydeFrog]

Even worse, europeans

 

[renzolama]

This is just an example of the sacrifices being made by brave heroes everywhere in order to be on the right side of history

 

[Doczu]

Good on them. But they should have made it an optional toggle at the beginning of the game just like how you can toggle gore on and off in some games instead of removing it entirely.

It's... What they literally had added before. And now they removed the option by removing the content...

 

[Droxcy]

we really are living in the blackest retardest timeline aren't we?

you're not allowed to use that word anymore you're cancelled and gaf account will be banned

 

[mitch1971]

So, is anyone gonna step up and actually shoot themselves in the head over this change...for Irony points, maybe?

 

[Fbh]

Really weird decision to just remove it from everyone instead of simply making it optional.

I worry for the entertainment of the future. It's slowly going in a direction where you can't depict bad things even in the context of fiction

 

[Razvedka]

Erstwhile, our ancestors: https://www.historynet.com/facing-the-wrath-of-the-khan.htm

Urgench fell in April 1221. As usual, the artisans were sent to Mongolia and the young women and children enslaved. As punishment for resisting, the rest of the population was massacred. According to Juvaini, this task was assigned to 50,000 Mongol soldiers who were given the responsibility of executing 24 prisoners each. If this calculation is correct, the civilian death toll would have reached 1.2 million. Whether by coincidence or intent, the dike holding back the Amu-Darya River broke, and a large portion of the city was flooded, drowning many lucky enough to have survived the massacre.

...

Unfortunately for Merv, they were facing arguably the most bloodthirsty and vicious of Genghis Khan’s offspring. Tolui agreed to the terms to hasten the end of the siege, but went back on his word as soon as the city had been handed over. The entire population was herded into the plain outside the city walls. A small contingent of 400 artisans and some of the city’s younger children were marched away into slavery. The rest of the population was slaughtered.

Juvaini reported that every Mongol soldier “was allotted the execution of three or four hundred persons” and added, “So many had been killed by nightfall that the mountains became hillocks and the plain was soaked with the blood of the mighty.” A contemporary tally, conducted over a period of 13 days, arrived at a staggering figure of 1.3 million dead.

...

Bukhara, the “dome of Islam in the east,” was left a smoldering, desolate ruin. One account tells of Genghis Khan gathering the wealthier citizens together and delivering the following pronouncement from the pulpit of Bukhara’s main mosque: “I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”

It's bizarre how we can come from such a hardcore, horrible past, and in the span of just two generations devolve into complete weaklings. Our forefathers were tough men, regardless of where you live in the world. Since when did weakness become such a virtue?

 

[Okamiden]

Erstwhile, our ancestors: https://www.historynet.com/facing-the-wrath-of-the-khan.htm



It's bizarre how we can come from such a hardcore, horrible past, and in the span of just two generations devolve into complete weaklings. Our forefathers were tough men, regardless of where you live in the world. Since when did weakness become such a virtue?

Obligatory:

 

[s-bojan]

Considering people have already bought and paid for the game prior to the devs being born again, how much content needs to be removed before you consider it a legit complaint?

For me personally, way more than this. I've also bought the game, btw.
Besides, it's an old game, whoever bought it probably beat it already (it's only around 2 hours long). I've replayed it again and those scenes are not as interesting the second time you play them.
Like I've said, I don't like that they did this, but it's their game. It is a bold move, as they don't get anything and loose a lot. People are review bombing the game on Steam and I am sure that those people will be back and do the same thing when their next game is released.

But I would really like to hear your opinion.
Do you think that developers should never remove content from their games after release, or they are allowed to if you think that the reason is valid?
Did you get as angry when ND removed the phone sex numbers from TLOU, when Capcom removed the R. Mika's butt slap or when Epic removed boob jiggle from Fortnite?

 

[Twinguistics]

Erstwhile, our ancestors: https://www.historynet.com/facing-the-wrath-of-the-khan.htm



It's bizarre how we can come from such a hardcore, horrible past, and in the span of just two generations devolve into complete weaklings. Our forefathers were tough men, regardless of where you live in the world. Since when did weakness become such a virtue?

You can be a 'tough' person and not care one bit that a scene is removed from a videogame.

I always think in topics like this that the reaction against these sort of moves is more 'snowflake' than the actual move itself.

Who. Cares.

Yes it was a cool bit in super hot but the removal of it doesn't make me worried for the future 'toughness' of men.

That's just ridiculous.