Smooth Operator
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The Last of Us Remastered censored in all countries in Europe
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jacksepticeye
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It's only MP so no big deal to me
That's fine, you have every right to. Do you care more because you want the gore or are you just mad that something is in a way being taken away? Curious.
I will say there is something sadistically satisfying of sneaking up on a enemy in MP and taking his head clear off with a shotgun.
Import guys. Same PSN, nothing different but the censored stuff, and ND include all their region language packs on their games anyways. There no reason not to besides being a bit cheap.
Import guys. Same PSN, nothing different but the censored stuff, and ND include all their region language packs on their games anyways. There no reason not to besides being a bit cheap.
If this was the norm I would agree with you. But usually the rest of Europe get their games uncut if a game is censored for Germany. If even smaller publishers can do it, Sony can and should as well. And I don't think it's even certain that they had to censor the game in the first place.
I seem to remember limbs flying off and charred corpses when using a trip mine.
laughable.
judging by this post you've not even played it, the multiplayer was excellent.
Plus they haven't even tried to get it through the process again.
I oppose censorship as much as anyone, it's annoying as fuck but I have to say I just can't help laughing when I see posts like this
Damn. Import it bro, you'll get the game you clearly want to play, uncensored, possibly for a cheaper price even AND you send a message that you won't buy censored products!
Unless you were.. Gasp, concern trolling?! No, I'm sure you wouldn't do that
Still I think this is a bit odd. Naughty Dogs are some of the best things that have happened to Sony in a long time, you'd think they'd do everything to keep them happy and deliver the best, most complete possible TLoU to everyone
Damn. Import it bro, you'll get the game you clearly want to play, uncensored, possibly for a cheaper price even AND you send a message that you won't buy censored products!
Unless you were.. Gasp, concern trolling?! No, I'm sure you wouldn't do that
Still I think this is a bit odd. Naughty Dogs are some of the best things that have happened to Sony in a long time, you'd think they'd do everything to keep them happy and deliver the best, most complete possible TLoU to everyone
oh god.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
The true answer probably is that Sony doesn't want to pay enough money to get it through the USK. We got Gears of War 3 uncensored here in Germany.
And even then Sony could release a censored version just for Germany like others do.
Maybe it's australia causing the problem, because you know, they are pal region as well. I don't know, Sony does weird stuff.
And even then Sony could release a censored version just for Germany like others do.
Maybe it's australia causing the problem, because you know, they are pal region as well. I don't know, Sony does weird stuff.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Lol I balked at that too. Is this for MP only as the TC suggests? I wonder why the thread title doesn't specify that?
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
Can i buy a hardcopy US vers. and play it on my pal ps4? And if i do but play over EU servers, will "the game" know and censor my game ? :'(
I should have expanded on that a bit too. Its also for access. Much like films in where they shoot scenes slightly different to get a PG13 rating and wider access vs an R rating that effectively restricts purchases from minors. Think how Nolan's Batman's movies never show someone getting hit by a bullet, only the guns firing to get that PG13 rating.
Sony is probably aiming for a rating in Germany that will allow it to be sold unrestricted and thus to the largest customer base, on top of the logistic problems above. And honestly, the restriction is mostly only cosmetic.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Yes you can.
Tlou was rated "ab 18" on PS3 and PS4. So this didn't change much.
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
Crysis averted. THX.
if I import the US version will I still be playing on the EU servers? Sony's games usually have seperate online servers for each region, but is the server you're on based on the game disc, your ip or a third thing?
And anyone know a good site to import it from, where there wont be a risc of it getting caught in customs?
And anyone know a good site to import it from, where there wont be a risc of it getting caught in customs?
Doctor_Thomas
Member
I am cancelling my preorder.
I don't want toned down shit again.
I don't want toned down shit again.
lol... toned down.. we are talking about some exploding legs and heads in multiplayer.. its a simple animation...
The game is ecaxtly the same, besides some exploding limbs animations in mp..
Almost all MP games are world wide on the PSN. If there is grouping or matchmaking its soft and done via IP or latency. IE it won't block you from partying up with anyone and joining whatever you want.
Only a few games actually restrict you to regions or ask you to pick one. ND games are NOT one. Import away!
DC1
Member
The multiplayer is awesome.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
If it's so insignificant, why not include it then? It's censorship, all to appease a single country and their regulations and, rather than release an uncensored version outside of Germany, they nanny state the entire European market.
DC1
Member
Clearly, you're not this passionate? Clearly you will not deprive yourself of one of the great single player experiences in the history of console gaming because of the removal of visual gore from the MP component?
Take a deep breath and just say "Whatever!" and then give your knee jerking a pass.
If this is a troll, I'm suggesting a seat at the regulatory table to present new Trolling Guidelines.
Gaf is starting to turn into a game of "Do You Think This is a Troll?"
And the Troll Defensive back down tends to absolve some from damnation or if your lucky, horribly positional shame.
x2 Sometimes I just want to engage in real conversation with delusional, but respectful folk.
Where my dogz at?
...any support?
DMX?
It's not really comparable to PG13 movies. The Last of Us has a Pegi 18 rating in Europe and USK 18 in Germany. Selling a uncut version in Europe wouldn't change that and probably even in Germany it wouldn't.
And the problem with the argument is, that even if they had to censor the game for Germany to avoid getting the USK 18 rating refused it doesn't explain why the rest of Europe gets the cut version as well. Costs and logistic problems are certainly higher with separate versions but like I said, it's not the norm to censor EU wide for other publishers.
Plus to make imports inside of Europe less attractive, Sony already releases separate versions for different countries. For example the UK version usually lacks multilingual support that is included in the German version, so there are already different versions in Europe.
This is not because of Germany. The game would pass uncensored with a "ab 18 Jahren" rating with a 99% chance.
Sony is self censoring the game to avoid even the 1% of having to resubmit it.
You can't blame Germany if the USK rating board didn't even have a chance to review the uncensored version.
Daffy Duck
Member
Right, just through principal I'm thinking of getting this off the US PSN store now.
As a UK citizen how do I create a US account? I understand Oregon has no sales tax so I should use an address there.
I then just buy some US PSN cards from Amazon.com (creating another US account with a US address?) and topup my new US PSN account and boom, gore galore.
Is this all correct?
There was a website I remember seeing that allowed you to create these addresses, something link link border or so, but my memory isn't clear.
Thanks
As a UK citizen how do I create a US account? I understand Oregon has no sales tax so I should use an address there.
I then just buy some US PSN cards from Amazon.com (creating another US account with a US address?) and topup my new US PSN account and boom, gore galore.
Is this all correct?
There was a website I remember seeing that allowed you to create these addresses, something link link border or so, but my memory isn't clear.
Thanks
dragonbane
Member
This has nothing to do with Germany. Beyond was censored because of PEGI. It varies from game to game. Some games didn't need to be censored at all, but Sony does so anyway in advance. They are just lazy and definitely to blame.
Johnny.Rato
Neo Member
I'm buying on US PSN.
PS: Thanks germany.
PS: Thanks germany.
drotahorror
Member
Kind of off topic but I never really understood why Siren Blood Curse was censored in NA.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
USK (what I mean when I say "Germany") have, in the past, been very heavy handed with banning games due to "high impact violence". Sony are probably right to have the censored version because USK probably would ban it given their previous bans. Sony are wrong since no othee restrictions really exist outside of Germany if it gets a PEGI rating. The censored version only exists because of the German market though.
Well Killzone Shadowfalls servers are divided by regions, but now that you mention it I do recall that Uncharted 3 was worldwide and I think TLOU was too.
But as long as it's based by my IP I can without worry import it, so thanks for the answer
Thats not really true anymore, 5-6 years ago i would have agreed but USK got a lot easier on game censoring. The only thing they really censor is Nazi symbols because they are forbidden in our constitution.
Have you ever played the masterpiece that is TLoU MP?
Yeah in the past. This hasn't been the case in the last 4 or 5 years however. I can't even remember the last time a game was censored because of violence in Germany.
The most brutal game this year, the new Wolfenstein, is uncensored in regards to violence without problems in Germany.
It's not that many really, most sensible publishers have always released either a censored version in Germany or none at all. Meanwhile Sony has been doing this lazy bullshit on and off since the first God of War.
AND because video games are still not considered art here. Nazi symbols in movies are no issue at all.
I'll keep my UK version preorder. I want the Day1 edition content and I don't wanna have any problems with potential future DLC. SP is the most important aspect of the game for me anyways, MP is just a bonus.
toastyToast
Member
So where can i buy the US version physically from Germany ?
http://www.365games.co.uk/ps4-games/the-last-of-us-remastered-ps4-game--
It's not only Germany. I believe Austria, Australia and some middle-orient countries (they're all in Europe in Sony world) have strict rules too about "mature" games. They don't wan't to possibly have to deal with all this differences and prefer to opt for the lowest denominator. It's a publisher's choice.
MMaRsu
Banned
If you buy dlc from the us store you wont have problems.
Can we tweet somebody about this?
I guess if you have to go apeshit on a country instead of a company then it's Japan because Sony is a Japanese corporation?
Doesn't matter.
GavinUK86
Member
I've already got a US PSN account that I made years ago but it's got a different US address than my Amazon US account where I'm going to buy the store credit, that doesn't matter does it? Redeeming codes aren't address specific.
I thought it wouldn't. Best to ask first though.
Except the majority of people buying the game won't care and even if they did, it would be impossible for Sony to determine which numbers were what.