Heavy Rain will be a mature videogame. In other words, some of its content is not meant for babies and old ladies to see. Or the world’s various Ratings Boards even. Wisely preparing from the onset, developer Quantic Dreams is turning down the volume of the adult stuff in sensitive regions in order to not offend cultural sensibilities and, you know, avoid the getting the game booted from retail shelves.
Game executive producer Guillaume de Fondaumiere talked about this in a recent interview (via PS3 Center), mentioning specifically that these changes should be minor. He expects Heavy Rain to be essentially the same throughout the world.
"We wanted to have pretty much the same game everywhere, be it Europe, in the United States, or in Japan, of course, with slight adaptions -- for instance, the Japanese version" he said, "but I don't think the changes we made will make a big difference, so that those are real modular things.
“We felt the need to adapt the content to the culture."
Fuzzy clouds, black bars, and promises of the game being “too hot for [insert region here]” have yet to be confirmed.
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9:40 AM on 10.21.2009
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AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
Look at it this way, they are well aware that if they don't change the game it probably won't see a release in certain areas so do they make the changes during the development cycle of the game or after the game is done? Kind of a no brainer really. I'm surprised more studios don't do this.
If you can't beat'em, work around'em :P
True. But I've played the PC AO version and I can't tell a difference other than the camera was pushed a little further down. I have a feeling if someone dissected the game and modded just the camera during the sex scene it would've been identical.
I don't think it'll be a big deal. By the time Heavy Rain comes out Bioware would've pushed so much sex into the ESRB panel that I think it'll be fine.
*ahem*
AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!
If you actually felt that need, I don't know what to say. Self censorship is the absolute evil.
@Im OK, you can still chose how to deal with those powers. But again, not when you're a business you can't.
So how the fuck adapting the game to different audiences means something stops being art?
People who get all butt hurt when game companies have to make business decisions screaming "ART!!" are living in a world called lala land. It is a business and games take money to make and need to make money to make more games.
Misleading headlines? Online? NEVER!
...and correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the PS3 Region Free?
- I'm not upset that Quantic Dream is censoring their game. They're a business and need to do what they have to. I'm upset that they're in a situation where they have to censor themselves. Ratings boards exist for a reason.
@Chronic Logic -- nice one.