Pin-ups removed?

[[Xmas]]

Originally Posted by SwiftieLuma

They are referencing how people can support this type of censorship for fictional characters in the name of ''women are not pieces of meat!'' and ''male gaze bad!''

And yet those same people support and endorse real women AND men selling their bodies online for a check.

We are so far gone that people dont have priorities anymore, thats the point.

Originally Posted by Xilurm

I never said they weren't. I'm just calling it hypocritical when someone criticizes one but endorses the other.

My bad, I misunderstood. Apologies.

[Dark_Aeon]

Someone said that they might have removed those posters due to not owning licenses to the images / the licensing could be ambiguous. IMO it's more plausible than pure malice, which is a crazy concept to me. Wasting dev resources, time and money and risking media outrage to remove something that's already done? And even celebrated on the official tomb raider website? Nah.
Also reminder that the remasters are apparently rated teen now, not mature.

[Manalishi]

And this is why I am glad to play games on PC where something can easily be modded back in. I just hope they don't go crazy changing things in future patches.

[Mr. Mr.]

Originally Posted by Dark_Aeon

Someone said that they might have removed those posters due to not owning licenses to the images / the licensing could be ambiguous. IMO it's more plausible than pure malice, which is a crazy concept to me. Wasting dev resources, time and money and risking media outrage to remove something that's already done? And even celebrated on the official tomb raider website? Nah.

I find that hard to believe that's the reason, since I'm almost 100% sure those are official Core-produced images.

[DragonSlayer]

Originally Posted by SwiftieLuma

They should have at least replaced them with less "suggestive" images instead of removing it entirely, seriously it looks empty and lifeless now.

But that's just more censorship wanting supposedly suggestive images replaced with other images like when Marge had Itchy and Scratchy censored, it's only according to Crystal Dynamics that the images they removed are suggestive and deserve to be censored meanwhile Crystal Dynamics Lara is running around in bikinis in her mansion.

https://youtu.be/ozWpY6Cn67Y?si=o_j3xEZNF2Ostg_L

Originally Posted by SwiftieLuma

Isn't that usual hypocrisy? Guns and violence are okay but a tiny lil bit of suggestiveness is all the way wrong.

Always has been, always will be.

Only in America is guns and violence acceptable in games but a nipple appearing for 3 seconds is enough to send Americans into a frenzy and having them sharpening their pitchforks, as evidenced by these Simpsons scenes
https://youtu.be/Ye1uOB4B_qE?si=EvWkBQzza_rRoFRm
https://youtu.be/YxcwkJbC558?si=Tjdeg-nnoEon19Xc
https://youtu.be/RybNI0KB1bg?si=moLcuUDun1-krKEb

You may not know this the game Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy was censored in the American version a woman was wearing a swimsuit in the shower, the same thing probably happened in both Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls.
https://censorship.fandom.com/wiki/F...s%20uncensored.

[dg1995]

Originally Posted by DragonSlayer

But that's just more censorship wanting supposedly suggestive images replaced with other images like when Marge had Itchy and Scratchy censored, it's only according to Crystal Dynamics that the images they removed are suggestive and deserve to be censored meanwhile Crystal Dynamics Lara is running around in bikinis in her mansion.

https://youtu.be/ozWpY6Cn67Y?si=o_j3xEZNF2Ostg_L



Only in America is guns and violence acceptable in games but a nipple appearing for 3 seconds is enough to send Americans into a frenzy and having them sharpening their pitchforks, as evidenced by these Simpsons scenes
https://youtu.be/Ye1uOB4B_qE?si=EvWkBQzza_rRoFRm
https://youtu.be/YxcwkJbC558?si=Tjdeg-nnoEon19Xc
https://youtu.be/RybNI0KB1bg?si=moLcuUDun1-krKEb

You may not know this the game Fahrenheit aka Indigo Prophecy was censored in the American version a woman was wearing a swimsuit in the shower, the same thing probably happened in both Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls.
https://censorship.fandom.com/wiki/F...s%20uncensored.

That's a complete myth that "Only west censors games".

Japanese versions of Witcher 3,baulder's gate 3 and Mafia 3 have censored nudity and violence compared to USA version.

[Xilurm]

The entire world censors something here or there. I wish they'd just stick to age ratings if they cared that much. That's why they exist.

[Manalishi]

Originally Posted by Xilurm

The entire world censors something here or there. I wish they'd just stick to age ratings if they cared that much. That's why they exist.

Age ratings used to be the common denominator.

I still remember when the US government wanted to give GTA San Andreas an Adult rating over a mod.

[charmedangelin]

Originally Posted by Manalishi

Age ratings used to be the common denominator.

I still remember when the US government wanted to give GTA San Andreas an Adult rating over a mod.

The US government is a joke.

[Doki]

I'm actually okay with the pinups being removed. I know they're a meta joke of sorts, but they seemed pretty incongruous to me, and broke the immersion.