What's it like being a gamer in Germany? How does it feel to play severely censored games?

What's it like being a gamer in Germany? How does it feel to play severely censored games?

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Well their freedom of speech must be suppressed lest someone becomes the next Hitler you know?

Censorship has been getting far less common in the past few years.

It's rare for anything that doesn't have nazi symbols or downright gore to get censored these days.

No game is actually censored anymore unless it's WW2 games with swastikas.

We either just pirate the uncensored versions of the censored games, or apply uncensorship patches.

Also, this.

Isn't violence against humans still censored?

I think the last time shit was censored was in Modern Warfare with that airport section where you shoot civilians.

Remember German version of C&C Generals and Zero Hour? The censorship didn't even make sense.

what are some actually censored games besides the nazi symbol in wolfenstein games?

I think its hilarious how people call Germany a first world country but they literally don't have freedom of speech.

>burgers are talking about censorship
>while getting their overweight asses plugged by "equality", "tolerance" and "diversity"

bout the same as almost any country in world. All countries censor. Germany isn't nearly as bad as say, China.

Team Fortress 2 has green blood and characters gib into toys instead of body parts. Fallout 3/New Vegas had their gore removed.

COD WAW had the zombies mode removed completely
Many games also had people replaced with robots

>implying I'm an americlap

Carmageddon

everyone i know just pirates censored games anyways. not to mention that stuff has been dialed back a lot.
i think only nazi iconography is being censored. gore, nudity and other things arent really a big deal.

>Tfw nothing gets censored anymore
>Tfw it never mattered because if they censor it you just buy in austria

Same vein as censoring swastikas, but in HOI4 they blacked out Hitlers portrait and gave him some random name.
>The best way to avoid repeating history is to pretend like it never happened

What you described was the "golden age" of German vidya censorship.

It has been getting more lenient as time passed.

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate Edition, for example, was already released completely uncensored in Germany.

You're a bit too late.

The last time I even noticed something being censored was TF2 when it came out and that was easily prevented with a patch. I think it's been getting less and less.

I don't know if muslims play video games.

Feels betty gud

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This. There are Austrian online shops that specialize in this and send out preorders so early that everyone even in the most remote German village gets the game on time.

Ordering from those as an Austrian usually meant that your copy arrived days early.

Not really, the thing is it's forbidden to portray nazism in anything else than an historical context.

There are tons of documentaries about nazism, they know their history right, they just don't want a funny game to be about their worst period.

Also, only stuff like Postal 2 is ever censored nowadays.

Nowadays we only get censored versions because they just localize the censored americlap versions.

I miss when we got separate European versions, they would even go as far as making a whole new English translation, even if there was already an American one.

Twisted Metal Black
those krauts ruined the game for the rest of europe
>the story is taking out all together.
>no drivers jumping out of the car screaming
>Special stage hazzards like the plane crashing taking out for it might offend the victims of 9/11, BUT ITS STILL THERE IN THE AMERICAN VERSION

>The best way to avoid repeating history is to pretend like it never happened
That's wrong. In German schools, national socialism is usually talked about for an entire year in history lessons and very present in some other subjects.

Ruining Europe is a proud German tradition, after all.

We used to be like that 10 years ago, but nowadays everything comes here uncensored.

I do remember the good ol' days of everyone in CC being turned into robots, people simply taking a knee instead of dying in counterstrike and people exploding into rubber ducks in TF2.

Those were the days man.

And in art, as long as it doesn't praise nazism.

Since we now have a state-funded award for video games, they are de-facto considered art, but the second a multiplayer game has a "Nazi"-faction it can be interpreted as "praise" because the players on that side would be helping Nazi-germany to win.

>How does it feel to play severely censored games?
What do you mean? They stopped the censoring years ago

That's a question you should be asking yourself burger

I loved that mission in Modern Warfare 2.

what an orginal and thoughtful post

>Special stage hazzards like the plane crashing taking out for it might offend the victims of 9/11, BUT ITS STILL THERE IN THE AMERICAN VERSION
wat

>implying I'm an american

Canada counts too.

This pretty much sums up gaming in Germany

>Implying I'm Canadian

FLUGHAFENFEUERWEHRSIMULATOR ZWEITAUSENDDREIZEHN

What's it like playing online multiplayer?

Is language an issue? Are russians that bad?

On US East (Florida region) its basically 100% English speakers and low ping connections.

Thanks for everything, Germany!

We don't have >american education here so we can actually all speak English well enough to communicate.

French and east european people are a different story.

Wasn't Advanced Warfare censored to have robots in it? Or did that game just have you fighting robots? I know that Black Ops 3 actually did have robots in it to fight.

Look up Soldier of Fortune 2 - Germany

...

Brag about your education while missing the point of my post. Well done.

What is it like playing with Europeans that are not German?

Wait, what the fuck

Germany literally had robots in TF2 at launch and THAT is where we got MvM from?

These days it's pretty bearable. Very few games are being censored. 10 years ago it was a pretty frustrating. A bit less so for PC gamers because there were usually unofficial patches available to uncensor them, for consoles you pretty much had to import the uncensored version though.

Russians are bad only in some games like Dota2, in others they are a mixed bag but they tend to be either trolling chucklefucks or honary koreans with little middle ground.

Unless the server is dedicated German the language is mostly english. usually you have funny situations where everyone awkwardly speaks english until someone drops a german word or phrase and then everyone suddenly goes "Oh we where german all the time" and then continue to speak english out of habit.

Pings usually are good because many companies put their data-centers in Germany because of it's central position in Europe.

>you get proper education in Europe
>because you get proper education everyone speaks English almost fluently
>you speak English with everyone just like you do in the US

>you do all of this without being obese or sharting in the mart

It's not rocket science.

No, some other games had robots, TF2 just had party-mode force activated.

Don't games still get put on a list meaning they can't be advertised in shops? And if a game can't be advertised then some shops just don't bother getting those games in.

I know Dead Rising is like that and I think Manhunt was as well back in the day.

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remember when hitler was austrian not german

I honestly don't know, it's been a pretty long time since I bought a game in a shop rather than online or digitally.

There are still a few games. I know the Dead Rising series isn't available on german Steam, neither was Dying Light, I also think the german version of Sleeping Dogs had some minor cuts.

Strangely though quite a few games that initially couldn't be sold now get an uncut release on GoG. Postal 2 for example, also, the Saboteur which surprised me because displaying Swastikas in video games is literally illegal in Germany. I guess there's some sort of loophole because GoG is technically a global distributor.

The Censorship situation seems to be getting better but some things still get cut. Last games i remember getting content censored were CoD: (WaW, MW2, BO1), L4D2, The Last of Us, South Park: the Stick of Truth

>and then everyone suddenly goes "Oh we where german all the time" and then continue to speak english out of habit.
kek

Thank you user, that was a nice insight into your life.

Yes, but they did not retexture the Player models to look robotic like they did with TFClassic.

I don't know about you but the Probotector was way cooler than those topless machos.

Censorship got a lot better. The USK logo is generally extremely ugly though and no one is paying attention to it anyway.

>implying any first world country has it
only countries that have some kind of freedom of speech are quasi third world eastern parts of europe that don't belong to russia.

at least that's what i'd like to believe, as a Pole i am. I have bunch of german steam friends, when we got into politics they thought that poland is some kind of right winged war zone now without democratic leadership, that's what they've seen in TV

You need to learn what censorship means.
As for having to play crippled games:
> want to play Saints Row 2
> game doesn't even run
> can't patch or mod or crack it because of fuckery
> play GTA SA
> poor as shit because crack dealers don't drop easy early game cash
> play Oblivion
> localisation is absolute shit, item names are so long they either exceed the menu boxes or are abbreviated so you can't guess at what they do
> can't change language
> install any game from Steam
> 50/50 chance of being forced to listen to shit German voice acting

The solution is usually to import from the UK or downloading a cracked English version.

has Germany made a game to surpass Unteralterbach?

yes. it's true, everything is censored here. I was just finishing up a session of localized Battlefield 1, Conquest mode which is about conquering as many solar plant outlets as possible so your team's robot units can survice the longest. Whichever team's power supply goes down to zero first, loses and their robot units get switched off.

Now after doing some work on Sup Forums for free (remember: WE MUST ALWAYS WORK) I'll play some of the NIOH demo on ps4 where I play as a German blonde robot, destroying evil Japanese robots in order to make up for the Third Reich era, hopefully I'll get enough Merkel points by doing so so I can buy some rare fruit like Bananas this week

I don't even know what you are talking about, that rarely even happens anymore.

>Saints Row 2 doesn't even run
That seems to be just you because mine runs fine. And what's more, the cops you kill are not even replaced by dummies or censored in any other way, mericans seem to believe games in Germany look that way.

But yeah the localization is always shit and there is pretty much no reason whatsoever to play in German unless you can't understand English, in games (unless J-Games) the English version always has the most effort put into it, so it's the one you want to hear/read.

I obviously don'T even know what you're talking about, but sequel when?

>That seems to be just you
Could be, I was mostly pissed off that I couldn't patch it because that should have allowed it to run on my PC back then.

>English version has the most effort put into it
Where is that not the case?

Your question comes 10 years too late. Almost nothing is censored anymore. We even got Killing Floor 2 without any changes, Back when it was still going on, it sucked. But once I became a teenager, I realized were are mail-order stores who sell all the "evil" games like Quake and have all the non-cucked versions of censored games.
I remember getting the uncensored version of RtCW from my cousin back when it was just released.

And when I discovered torrents, well...

Animu desu. And J-Shit in general like I said.
When something is originally English, all is fine. But I have yet to hear an English dub of something that is not absolute garbage.

Much keks but also despair

Dragon Ball comes to mind.
>Goku is supposed to sound pure
>English Goku sounds like a kid that has been passively chainsmoking at home for 10 years straight

ask again but in arabic, that way they'll understand

>have an american friend from bumfuck michigan
>he legit asks me if we have strawberries, bananas and other fruit in europe in super markets or if they are a rare commodity

damn, what do they teach you guys over there?

These threads aren't nearly as interesting as the Australian threads

michigan is not america, it's terrorist country

nope even gta v is fully uncensored. those times are over in germany

The thing is though, he don't have to shoot anymore & it doesn't tell you to either

Interesting how 99% of people happily opened fire though

in michigan they learn how to make cornflakes @ KELLOG's® College

LMFAO

Where are you from? Pretty much every country is invaded with foreigners. Maybe not asia and africa.

Americans think North Africa is Black & Spain is in Mexico, so don't be surprised that they know nothing about Germany, besides Nazi's of course

Too bad they didn't censor the rest of the game while they were at it.

German games might have less violence, but it has more awesome robots, so it balances itself out.

Do your games have jihadist robots?

>damn, what do they teach you guys over there?

Nothing.

>be me
>be German
>go to US of A for long summer vacation in 2016 because done with Uni
>be normally pretty damn shy and introverted
>suddenly people make small talk while waiting in line, at the cashier, when waiting for the bus etc.
>be totally flabbergasted
>shy + not speaking in my native tongue really make this difficult for me
>over the days become more open to it
>one day there's a girl that says my accent is cute
>come back to Germoney born anew

USA best country in world, even Trump cannot change that fact

The world just fails to see. This is Order 66 in preparation, one day they will all attack within every country at once and nobody will be able to stop them. I am the only one that truly sees.

Should have gone to japan, they can speak English too and girls love foreign boys that are just like their japanese animes.

>just like their japanese animes.
But they are good looking.

>they can speak English
I suppose, but is it understandable to humans?

not him but you re definietely exagerrating.There are many countries in the world that are homogeneous

>girls love foreign boys
lolno

The censored games aren't the problem, it's the shit taste in vidya that everyone here has.

>Talking to a friend in the states
>"Hey user, are there still Nazi's over there?"
>"No? Well, would people laugh if I was over there and said my name is Adolf?"
>"Dude, if I was in Germany I would be drunk all the time! The stuff is basically free over there right?"
>"Where is Germany located in Europe anyway? Is it like a state, or it's own country?"

I think people in America see Germany as a grassy, mountain wonderland full of beer, sausage, football and Nazis.

Also, I haven't seen a game get censored here (other than Nazi wiping) since Fallout 3.

I've been there, they're pretty shit at English outside of the guides, employees in big stores, transportation staff and other tourist catering occupations/locations. Best English speaker I ran into ended up being some Korean dude I mistook for Japanese when I got lost.

Its okay though because the major cities seem to be crawling with Australians in Winter so help is at hand. There's a lot of handsome Japanese fuccbois around too

Japanese English...
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>Marriage
Nobody talks about that

>Jap women don't want to marry gaijins
>but I'm sure they love gaijins!!!!