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South Park: The Stick of Truth

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    #62
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    If they can make a stellar game as well as brilliant TV shows, hugely successful comedy films and bloody amazing musicals as well... **** those guys.

    It's not fair that that much talent is concentrated in such a small space.


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    #63
    irishmover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,746 ✭✭✭irishmover


    Still trying to decide whether to get this on PC or PS3.

    Buying in Australia so would be $80 AUD for CE on PS3 or $61 for the CE on PC via Steam.

    I'd probably prefer it on PC but can't resist the bigger screen/comfort of the couch..


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    #64
    dreamers75
    Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    irishmover wrote: »

    I'd probably prefer it on PC but can't resist the bigger screen/comfort of the couch..

    No hdmi cables in Aus?


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    #65
    irishmover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,746 ✭✭✭irishmover


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    No hdmi cables in Aus?

    Yeh but I only have my laptop over here with me.. Would have to go out and buy a keyboard.. I don't like cheap keyboards either. Left my keysonic one back in Ireland :(


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    #66
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Now that I've seen that intro, I'm really interested again, but the combat is going to annoy me so much :S Decisions decisions...


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    #67
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    South Park: The Stick of Truth reportedly has seven censored scenes in Europe, The Middle East and Africa.

    UPDATE: our local Ubisoft rep has been in touch to say that the censorship is purely a marketing decision and that the scenes are also censored in the UK.

    ORIGINAL STORY: BT.com reports that the scenes in question have been replaced with on-screen text that describes what’s happening behind the censorship.

    The site adds that documentation sent with its review copy confirms that a mini-game involving a doctor performing an abortion on the player and again with the player performing the same procedure on Randy Marsh, as well as five anal probe scenes have been censored.

    The accompanying literature adds, “Seven scenes of about 20 seconds each are censored in the EMEA console versions of South Park: The Stick of Truth. The decision to cut this content from the game was made by Ubisoft EMEA.”

    AGB has scanned the document in full here.

    South Park: The Stick of Truth appeared to remain intact in the UK, where it bears a PEGI 18 rating. We’re waiting to hear from Ubisoft on the matter.

    Meanwhile; the Australian edition also has anal probe scenes edited out.

    http://www.vg247.com/2014/02/25/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-has-7-censored-scenes-in-europe-report/


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    #68
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,803 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Well that's a complete load of arse.

    I'll be getting mine from the US so.
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    #69
    2Mad2BeMad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭2Mad2BeMad


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Well that's a complete load of arse.

    I'll be getting mine from the US so.

    agreed
    nothing like seeing a big lovely mans arse on my 52inch screen
    yummm :pac:


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    #70
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    You know there's something seriously wrong when the American version is less censored than the European version...


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    #71
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    I thought we left this censorship rubbish behind us


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    #72
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,135 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Well that's a complete load of arse.

    Or a lack of arse even.


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    #73
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's going to be so much effort to get someone to pick it up for me 12 miles away for 20 quid less than I'd pay here.


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    #74
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,076 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    2Mad2BeMad wrote: »
    agreed
    nothing like seeing a big lovely mans arse on my 52inch screen
    yummm :pac:



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    #75
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,055 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    The review guide, which Kotaku has screenshot from, says it's only the console versions that got censored.


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    #76
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,141 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Spear wrote: »
    The review guide, which Kotaku has screenshot from, says it's only the console versions that got censored.

    I'm hoping some modder can find a way round this. They did it with GTA: San Andreas.
    I might be hoping for too much but I was wondering if anyone here knows how resource intensive this is as I'd be using my laptop if I bought it. It handled Mass Effect 3 so I've my fingers crossed.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #77
    Big Knox
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Big Knox


    Spear wrote: »
    The review guide, which Kotaku has screenshot from, says it's only the console versions that got censored.

    Yep the PC version will be uncensored which is good news.


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    #78
    snausages
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭snausages


    It's a terrible world we live in when grown adults can't even freely choose to watch a cartoon man's anus get aggressively violated by alien dildos. For shame.


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    #79
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,651 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Big Knox wrote: »
    Yep the PC version will be uncensored which is good news.
    Phew was worried there for a second, PC gaming master race!


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    #80
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,803 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Grimebox wrote: »
    I thought we left this censorship rubbish behind us

    Germany didn't. Blame them.
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    #81
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Would everyone not be ordering from a UK retailer anyway?


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    #82
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Would everyone not be ordering from a UK retailer anyway?

    Ubisoft confirmed that the UK console version would be censored as well.


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    #83
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Germany didn't. Blame them.
    Shouldn't we be blaming Canada?


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    #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Xenji wrote: »
    Ubisoft confirmed that the UK console version would be censored as well.

    Ah you're ****ting me. VGP it is then.


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    #85
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah you're ****ting me. VGP it is then.

    You will get it cheaper with them anyway, but with a 7 day wait.


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    #86
    Zapp Brannigan
    Registered Users Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    Just cancelled my pre-order. Shame.


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    #87
    Varik
    Registered Users Posts: 12,483 ✭✭✭✭Varik


    It's Germany's fault that some games are censored in Germany, it's Ubisoft fault that it's altered in Ireland.

    Not buying it any more, and not getting the PC version either. I hope it's sell so poorly that they really regret ****ing over potential customers to reduced their localization costs.


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    #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Think people are over reacting slightly. Sure the censoring is annoying but it's not like it'll be hard to get your hands on an unrated copy and incredibly easy to do so if you've a PC. The cost of distributing different versions of the game in different regions was obviously factored in by Ubisoft and the hassle wasn't worth it. The whole lets boycott it thing is stupid. We never see similar campaigns when a film is cut here because the UK demanded cuts and as such they were forced upon us.


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    #89
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Anal probing and abortions. Hardly gaming nirvana we're missing out on.


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    #90
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    I cancelled my Amazon order and put one through VGP.ca. Don't mind waiting the extra week.


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    #91
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,094 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Not playing a game you want to play at all because around two minutes of content has been censored seems a bit excessive? It's a shame it has been censored (although there are times when I've kind of wished the ever adolescent Parker and Stone would censor themselves - this content sounds like it could well fit in that category), but especially since there's no shortage of ways to play the full thing anyway (region free huzzah!) it all seems like an overreaction. Buying it from the US or on PC makes as much of a statement as not buying it at all, and you're not denying yourself something you want to play.

    And scenes of abortion are quite a contentious area, so I'm not surprised that's been cut for EMEA territories. In fact, Ireland would have outlawed anything that used the 'a' word more recently than we'd care to admit.


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