Dante’s Inferno “scaled back” during development |
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| BY Rain Anderson Oct. 26th, 2009 | More on: |
With its mutated baby demons, whose slaughter the game awards you for, shooting out of nipples of giant bare breasted ladies, and other kind of delightfully twisted stuff, if any game has a chance of getting banned in certain countries it’s probably Dante’s Inferno. Developer Visceral Games isn’t sitting around waiting for the inevitable ban hammer to hit though but is “scaling back” parts of the game for certain regions during development.
“There’s a little bit of softening of the content that we’re going to be doing for certain territories,” executive producer Jonathan Knight said in a OXM interview posted on Xbox Live. “We totally respect different cultural sensitivities and we want the game to be available in as many countries as we can so we’re kind of looking at that for certain territories, what we might need to do to soften the material a little bit, scale back.
“When you want to bite off topics like lust and gluttony and greed, you really sort of need to go for it because I think that’s what the adult gaming audience is expecting. It’s definitely not for kids. But for the 18 and up crowd I think there’s an appetite for ‘hey, what would that really look like?’”
“18 and up” — so Australia’s cut off by default?
October 26th, 2009
at 5:09 pm
dam it, this might get banned in Australia. Bloody classification board
October 26th, 2009
at 11:29 pm
LOL NSFW Picture!
October 26th, 2009
at 11:51 pm
If your boss is fine with you surfing gaming sites while at work but not fine with a glimpse of a not-even-real nipple then your boss is nuts.
October 27th, 2009
at 12:13 am
Personally, I wouldn’t hold anything back for any culture! If people really want the game, they’ll find a way to get it. I don’t want a watered down version because a traditionally “penal colony” is afraid of a little naughtiness… Dill rockspiders!
October 27th, 2009
at 1:53 am
might?
if this gets passed unedited here in oz i will dye my hair pink and take up ballet lessons!
October 27th, 2009
at 2:03 am
if visceral games think im going to buy a edited version of dantes inferno there sadly mistaken.
i have never bought a edited version of a game, ever!
thank god for ebay and region free ps3s.
now if your up there you will strike the devil down that we all know as michael atkinson, how someone can be so selfish hypocritical is far beyond me.
he does not want a R18 in oz because it means kids could get their hands on the content, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHATS HAPPENING NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my cuz is 13 went into EB and has been buying games like resistance 2, dead space, killzone 2, uncharted, uncharted 2.
all those games are rated MA 15+ you MUST be over 15 or have a adult with you, he had neither.
god i can not wait till ive finished tafe so i can get out of this urine soaked hell hole.
free country me A$$ when were told what we can and can not play.
whats next?
telling us when can and when we cant go to the toilet?
im sorry i missed the spot where we turned into communist china, i thought the government were representatives of US of what WE the people want.
not what they want.
it is so stupid that the opinion of 1 person overrides the opinion of like what 8?
hes the only attorney general who opposes it, what happened to the majority rules?
by the time we see a R18+ rating for games, my great grand kids will have great grand kids!