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As confirmed by Fred Dutton on the EU Playstation Blog comments, TLoU Remastered multiplayer mode is censored in all European countries, just like the original PS3 game was. That means all gore is gone. I'm not buying this shit.

At the moment, Sony is by far the worst publisher when it comes to completely pointless and unnecessary censorship. They completely fucked the Twisted Metal franchise and actually had lower sales because of it, but they didn't care: they censored PS3 Twisted Metal too. There is no lawful reason to do this, but Sony does it anyway. They seem to be living in a world where GTA5 is not the best selling game of last gen with all its violence unaltered in Europe.

Is anything going to make Sony stop censoring these damn games?

 

[funkypie]

Think we knew this alreadly. Going off the giant tlou thread nearly every EU gaffer seems to be getting the us version.

Why are you blaming Sony? It is Germany causing the problems.

 

[Kyoufu]

It sucks, but you can buy the US version on PSN.

 

[GhostTrick]

Is anything going to make Sony stop censoring these damn games?

German's rating board/law

 

[x-Lundz-x]

Why? Is this some European law thing or Sony's own doing?

 

[Nibel]

I never intended to buy the remaster at day one, but now it seems like I'll skip it completely. Hopefully they won't do this with TLOU2.

 

[Huggers]

I'm getting the US version imported. Bizarre they would censor it

 

[chaobreaker]

Is Sony legally obligated to censor the EU version? If not, why are they doing this (again)?

 

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Why? Is this some European law thing or Sony's own doing?

Sony's own thing. There is no reason to censor a PEGI 18 rated game outside Germany. All other game publishers release a separate version in Germany if needed, like Wolfenstein The New Order that got its own naziless version there.

 

[Betty]

Glad I went with the NTSC version.

 

[TimmiT]

I get that censorship sucks, but I doubt that Twisted Metal having low sales in Europe is because of the censorship.

 

[Blastoise]

Is the Oceania version censored as well?

 

[8bit]

So what exactly is missing? A kill animation?

 

[Ushojax]

Why? Is this some European law thing or Sony's own doing?

The German version of the game needs to be censored. As they and many other lazy companies have done before they can't be arsed to release two versions in Europe so everybody gets the shit one. Same thing happened with South Park recently.

 

[Hixx]

Getting the US version off PSN. Could get a physical copy in the UK for a tenner if I traded in Thief (which I got for £15, so it wouldn't be too bad) but not if they're going to censor it. I know it's only an aesthetical change in the multiplayer but it's still bullshit.

 

[Volotaire]

Does this apply to the UK version as well in the European territory?

 

[DNAbro]

TIL twisted metal had bad sales cause of censoring

 

[sometimes i game]

Kinda ok with this, didn't love the violent kill animations in multiplayer (similarly, didn't love all the ways Lara can die in 2013). Choice censorship etc, but personally not up in arms.

 

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Why are you blaming Sony? It is Germany causing the problems.

Bethesda had no problems releasing a separate naziless Wolfenstein The New Order in Germany, while giving all other European countries the normal version. So it's Sony's fault.

 

[JAYSIMPLE]

No gore in UK? At all?

 

[Vitanimus]

Would ordering the NTSC version mean I would have to buy any future DLC on a US account?

 

[Smooth Operator]

Oh Sony...

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

So what exactly is missing? A kill animation?

Gore is missing in multiplayer. You can dismember and behead people in multiplayer(singleplayer isn't censored though)

 

[BibiMaghoo]

It sucks, but you can buy the US version on PSN.

If everyone did this, I think it would be quite an effective way to communicate the nature and impact of the issue to Sony.

Massively lop-sided sales in the US's favour would be indisputable.

 

[zma1013]

Gore is fine in the single player but not the multiplayer?

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Why are you blaming Sony? It is Germany causing the problems.

Huh. So I guess Germany took over Europe after all?

Spoiler

But still, more American sales! Woo!

 

[Blur]

I'm sorry but that's just pure laziness on Sony's end.

 

[Lima]

The German version of the game needs to be censored. As they and many other lazy companies have done before they can't be arsed to release two versions in Europe so everybody gets the shit one. Same thing happened with South Park recently.

It doesn't need to be censored. They haven't even tried submitting the uncensored version. It's all on Sony.

Same story with South Park. The uncensored version wouldn't have even a problem in Germany at all (aside from the nazi symbols) but instead Ubisoft decided to cut a bunch of other stuff too.

 

[Dredd97]

Bethesda had no problems releasing a separate naziless Wolfenstein The New Order in Germany, while giving all other European countries the normal version. So it's Sony's fault.

Not the same and you know it...

Just a 'let's bash Sony' post....

 

[oti]

Entschuldigung

Spoiler

I personally don't really care and will get the German version if it's cheaper or same price

 

[Backfoggen]

Buy the US version people, it's likely cheaper than what you would've paid anyways.

Don't give Sony more money for a censored product.

 

[BloodMoney]

nvmd

 

[Oersted]

German's rating board/law

There is USK for Germany and Pegi for whole Europe except Germany. So there.

 

[King_Moc]

Already ordered it from the US for £27.

 

[NIN90]

Why are you blaming Sony? It is Germany causing the problems.

No it's not. Way bloodier games go through USK just fine.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Not the same and you know it...

Just a 'let's bash Sony' post....

I'm sorry, but usually only Germany gets censored versions of video games. So i think it's Sony's fault.

 

[GhostTrick]

There is USK for Germany and Pegi for whole Europe except Germany. So there.

Indeed, but some publishers won't bother releasing two versions. Now of course, it's up to the publisher to work around that issue. But my point was to explain why some games are censored in Europe while it seems laws won't prevent violent games.

 

[LAA]

Ah, oh well.
As I actually posted on that, don't really mind the censoring, as I still get the sense of brutality without the gore, but I would prefer to play it as developers intended.

Just a little annoying/weird cause..its not that bad gore wise. Gears of War wasnt censored anywhere was it, feels pretty similar to Gears in terms of gore online. Also doesnt

Spoiler

an infected guy get his head cut of in the campaign? Or something like that

 

[Smooth Operator]

Already ordered it from the US for £27.

Do you have a link ? Thanks

 

[x-Lundz-x]

Sony's own thing. There is no reason to censor a PEGI 18 rated game outside Germany. All other game publishers release a separate version in Germany if needed, like Wolfenstein The New Order that got its own naziless version there.

The German version of the game needs to be censored. As they and many other lazy companies have done before they can't be arsed to release two versions in Europe so everybody gets the shit one. Same thing happened with South Park recently.

Oh ok, makes sense now. Still seems pretty unreasonable and makes no sense by Sony.

 

[Carl]

Multiplayer, who gives a shit

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Whatever, it's just the multiplayer and no one plays that anyway. This would be really shitty if it was the single-player too though.

 

[Bluforce]

Bah. Not the right choice.

So, I already played TLOU on PS3 and will not buy on PS4.

 

[Alpende]

I don't really care, as long as the singleplayer is untouched I'm fine.

 

[Hanmik]

to refresh my memory .. what gore is missing,..?

 

[David Incorporated Esq.]

Whatever, it's just the multiplayer and no one plays that anyway. This would be really shitty if it was the single-player too though.

Which is a shame because the multiplayer is actually a lot of fun.

 

[ComputerMKII]

The EU Playstation Store is garbage anyway. Game prices are insanely high.

 

[Vitanimus]

Multiplayer, who gives a shit

Whatever, it's just the multiplayer and no one plays that anyway. This would be really shitty if it was the single-player too though.

 

[oti]

Whatever, it's just the multiplayer and no one plays that anyway. This would be really shitty if it was the single-player too though.

:O

The multiplayer is soooo good!

 

[Sylvrfonic]

It's the multiplayer. Wouldn't changing the kill animation for one country in a mp region create imbalance? Seems like a better idea to keep the multiplayer uniform.