@@nehemiahpouncey3607Hotline Miami is an actual good game though like even just the gameplay and mechanics are good. If you're curious look up a game called Killer7 as it's storytelling heavily inspired HM. The story from Hotline is interesting but the gameplay is absolutely phenomenally clever and fun. All this coming from a guy who can't stand torture porn horror shit
The interesting thing about Mariam is that it's banned for implying it's doing something that basically every social media app does explicitly if you read their TOS.
the thing with mariam as an arab that lived at the time of the controversy. that its all fake, all of the things said about mariam on how dangerous the app is are really just whatsapp rumors and the game does not actually do anything dangerous. all of the controversy is just whatsapp old people sharing baseless rumors, it happens a lot within arabs. also the game didnt get banned, i dont know what sources the video is using but the game is still here
What I find the most hilarious about banning games is that it doesn't really stop anyone from playing. If people can't buy them, they'll just pirate the hell out of them.
Banning game sometimes also makes people want to play a game they didn't originally. At least for me that has happened. I didn't want to play Manhunt until it had to be taken off store shelves here in Australia. The game was originally released uncensored with an MA15+ rating. Yes Manhunt was legally available for teens 15 and older. 2 simply was never released here.
Another interesting example is Hogwarts Legacy. The game isn't necessarily banned but the trans community went so apeshit trying to kill it that It unironically boosted its sale numbers way beyond what it would have normally been
@@dodolord6298 Yeah, in all honesty that game is very mediocre, if it wasn't for the retarded over-reaction of the trans community, that game would probably not have sold as well as it did.
Truly a massive shame for Xi, Steam, and eventually CDPR. That game was on course to be a massive success and deserves so much more than to be just a cult classic. I love how much this channel brings it up.
No mention of Rule of Rose? The controversy surrounding it in Europe (over false statements made by pearl-clutchers in Italy) almost caused its North American release to not happen, and Britan outright banned it for a long time.
I remember seeing it on TV in the news as a child! They talked about how violent and depraved it was, which was incredibly untrue: i remember them talking about children being buried alive and killed and none of this even happens (but it terrified me so bad i had nightmares)
Having lived in Australia, I can tell you this censorship has done nothing to stop the youths from being feral. Perhaps they should consider censoring/cancelling their absolutely dreadful soap-operas "Home and Away" and "Neighbours" which surely do more damage to your brain chemisty/development than these games. 🙃
fun fact, Hatred isnt actually banned here. the developers knew this would get them into drama they didnt want, so they simply didnt get the game rated. thats why its unavailable to us in Australia. can still get the game quite easily if you know where to look online
The idea of banning a game because "it encourages drug use" when the drug in question is basically a super potent anti-depressant... when there are so many people in the world that are actually on anti-depressants, ADHD medication, and other medications to treat chemical imbalances in the brain is kinda worthy of a face palm.
Exactly. The whole game is basically a call out on anyone who thinks that withholding important information, isolating a community, and heavily medicating an entire population is the best way to deal with social and mental issues. It's actually very much **anti-drugs.**
But brazil.... that aside bully ain't really about the protagonist doing bullying, it's the player's choice to do that, so Hopkins originally is just being a bad attitude teenager with a good heart as normal Hopkins does in the original story lines, but eh most of those adults that banned the game just because the title itself
As an Australian, I was disappointed that Left 4 Dead 2 was censored, but it wasn't because we were killing Zombies, they were classified as Infected and the Aus censorship didn't like the idea that we were taking out Infected people and not Zombies..
With Germany it is the thing that too much violance against human (likes) creatures is the main problem, but it got less strict over the last years. And we have a easy workaround: We simply order such games from Austria
Australia's problem was that there was no 18+ rating for games. This made it difficult to classify games with extreme content given they're restricted to a MA15+ rating. This finally got fixed in 2012 and the classification board was updated to add a 18+ rating to games, ending the banning cycle.
Man, Devotion and Detention are amazing horror games. Sucks that Devotion was taken down from Steam, I highly recommend supporting the dev by getting/playing Detention, and acquire Devotion in any way you can. It was such a surreal and wonderful experience to play through.
I remember when the game itself came out, and it gave me the creeps. I really didn't think it was a good game idea either, since it's just beyond evil. The visuals are bad too lol.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607fr it tries SO hard to be the original postal, to the point it's borderline laughable with the cringe one liners the hatred guy spouts to remind you how edgy he is Atleast original postal had a better semblance of a tone and didn't need to cartoonishly villain monologue as hard, and was alot more shocking for it's time, not that hatred isn't shocking at all, but it just seems like it's trying to emulate it to garner the mainstream outrage and attention postal 1 had
I get the point of it not being suitable for some people, but if a mature adult is so gullible that they do something bad because they played a game, then the game is not the problem. By this logic there should be no news reports or history documentaries on war and crime because someone might be inspired. People can be inspired by anything. I do agree that younger children should not play them though, as with many games.
I can't really understand Chinese citizens being upset over the Easter egg in devotion. I understand it slightly mocks the president but I don't understand supporting a president who's so insecure he banned a character from a children's book because he looks like a animated bear.
Someone brought up a good point that chinese players were probably trying to appease the goverment because they could literally ban access to Steam if the goverment thinks the game is influencing players to be anti-chinese, so showing they aren't influenced could allow them to keep access. Considering how dictatorial the ccp is, i wouldn't be surprised if chinese players did it to avoid their goverment from banning them from one of the biggest gaming platforms.
@@Pooky1991 that definitely makes sense. It's a real shame though because detention was such a great game and I'll never have a chance to play the follow up title.
Not surprised, considering that you have to have a picture of Prez in a prominent place in your house... And it has to be rescued in the event of a house fire 🚒🔥
I'm honestly surprised Rule of Rose wasn't on this list. Not sure if it quite qualifies as a "horror game", though I find that it fits that label psychologically.
Hatred gets a lot of . . hate, but let me just say it has one of my favorite gaming memories. I started playing the game as a pacifist run, I just wanted to see how far I can get without killing anyone. In the first mission, you receive an objective of: "Disrupt the party". I heard that most of the enviorment is destructible, and the objective is vague, so I decided to put this to the test. I got into a car, drove into the wall of the party house like I was the Kool-aid man, injuring nobody, and slowly pushed the debris and tables with my car until I reached the second wall, which after a minute I broke through and left the house. The game said I completed the objective and I couldn't stop laughing.
I'm starting to think they should have post-poned the addition of the easter egg, like after a year or 2. Or make it randomised, as in only a select few get to actually get the easter egg
from what i remembers it was just a placeholder that one of the team members put but forgot to take out when it game to realsing the game@@RubykonCubes3668
Fear and Hunger has all these things and more. It's the ultimate edge lord experience with cannibalism, rape, torture, general violence, and disturbing as hell imagery. Good luck with that one
Imagine being so insecure about your citizens making fun of you, that you go out of your way to ban anything that makes a mockery out of you. Screams, childlike behaviour...
I hope these countries know that videos games have never been proven to be the core factor of violence or homicide. Usually in most cases it's the young adults trauma or at home abuse/neglect that usually leads to the child's violent actions. Even those children who suffer from mental, physical, sexual abuse. I've never read/seen a case that videos games was the core reason why a child killed/hurt another human being. Censoring video games doesn't really stop anything.
I will always mourn what could have been with We Happy Few (for me, at least, it's Silent Hills/PT-like in that regard). The initial game footage released was fascinating; the playable demo was gorgeous; then somewhere between the demo and the full game release, something...happened. The game we got at the other end of that was flawed, glitchy, and buggy in non-viable ways. (There were at least four places where, if an event didn't properly trigger, players simply *could not* finish the game past that point, and it was throwing-things levels of frustrating.) It could have been great. Instead, it's likely forever aligned as an artifact of its times, and no one but game historians will care.
Maybe it's just because I didn't follow the production, went in with zero expectations, I love stealth games, and I find glitchy games very charming, but WHF is one of my favourite games of all time. Not a perfect game, could have been improved in a lot of areas, but still a genuinely great game that tells its unique story very well.
Yeah, a RUclipsr went over the story of the game and frankly it's a disappointment how the gameplay decisions and buggy and glitchy mess ended up hurting the interesting story it had.
The one game that i found very disturbing to the terms that it could be banned is "Don't be afraid" since it has themes that have to do with cannibalism, pedophilia etc and the player is a child itself
Thanks for reminding me of it! It's honestly one of the few horror games that just doesn't make me scared, but touches some deep primal fear. I think it might be due to the heavy torture themes.
And what about rule of rose??? When it arrived, in Italy there was an article about the game completely insane! I remember the first page on PANORAMA, one of our popular newspaper, and with the image of the terrifying girls of the game, smiling on us, near their face there were those exactly words... "new horror game. The first one that buried alive a little girl win the game". EVERYONE WANTED THAT GAME😂😂😂 Panorama didn't understand anything about the game, but thanks to them I experienced my greatest goosebumps ever had. With one of my older cousin we played that game together, after he left me read that article. Then, the game started. I was shaking all the time. I was really terrified. The school, the darkest places, the kids and their laughes, the moving words on the screen, the creepy music and puzzles, the crying dog, the bag and the blood on earth, after two kids beat with a stick that bag... And everything finished with a blackout. Even if it was afternoon I was in shock, my face was pale like the skin of a ghost. I love that day. Thank you, panorama 😂
The ban on We Happy Few is especially groanworthy because it's very obvious that these are not recreational drugs to make people happy, they're mind control drugs, and that's a bad thing. I remember when the news of that broke and everyone was basically just going "is this satire?" I'm not really a fan of censorship but for the other games I can at least see where they're coming from with it. Hatred feels a little too close to certain real life mass shootings and even Silent Hill fans mostly thought the gore in Homecoming was over the top. But We Happy Few is really not at all like the other examples.
Actually kind of shocked that the protagonist getting ghost raped at the end of F.E.AR 2 wasn't a factor, but sure, the violence was the most out of pocket part of the game 💀💀💀💀💀💀
tbh the "ghost rape" is what completely slaughtered the franchise, as they really didn't come out with anything memorable after that, I think only FEAR 3 came out if I'm not mistaken. Nobody wants to get raped in a video game, that was completely disgusting of the devs to even commit to such a thing.
@@MrReaperofDead Well, some people do because hentai games exist and speaking of, I'm surprised Rapelay didn't even make the list. But then again, its super hard to find and you can only obtain it thru piracy and shady download sites.
Speaking as an Aussie, the thing that has always perplexed me is how inconsistent ratings are. FEAR 1? No issues, FEAR 2 even though it was basically the same thing, suddenly that's bad. The gore & gib effects were no worse than the original, just different & imo cartoonishly over the top, always made me think of Unreal & Quake. On which note... FEAR 2 was originally refused classification but Quake 4 was somehow totally fine? Also correction, FEAR 2 actually released unchanged after the decision to refuse classification was appealed.
It's not a single person. The board of people "banning" those games in germany consists of multiple people from different backgrounds. There are people from the church, teachers, psychologists, judges, prosecutors, caretakers from children and teen institutions and so on. They play those games, take notes, then discuss at a table which rating the media should receive. The issue is that they can also straight up refuse to give a rating if they see it as not just potentially harmful to children but also harmful for adults and overall society. And if the publisher goes ahead and still releases, but the federal review board agrees with rating group, then it might additionally get put on the index. It is important to say, that it being on the index is still not really a straight up ban as in making those games fully illegal like how you might imagine. In germany games on the index are still allowed to be sold to adults, but you are not allowed to advertise them in any shape or form. Not even list them as store inventory on a public website or have them visible in a physical store on the shelf. But it is fully legal as an adult to go to a store, ask for an indexed game and if they have it, they are allowed to sell it to you. Some stores even have a separate room, you can ask for access as an adult, where you can see all kinds of restricted stuff you arent allowed to show openly, and buy indexed media legally. It is also not illegal to buy uncensored or indexed versions from neighbouring countries, especially austria or switzerland are popular due to being the same language. This system still hurts the german media market though, because potentially having your game on an index basicly means very little to no sales, so publishers often censor media for germany prematurely or right after a refused rating but before they are put on the index.
I remember playing Mariam and getting freaked out but wanting to know more about the story Looking back…the art looked stolen, and it isn’t as creepy as when I first played it, it made me laugh Wouldn’t recommend getting Mariam
Luckily, we Germans can order our games from Austria if needed. Everything's uncut there, so no real problem at all. Plus, it's legal. Australia is on another level...
I'm not sure where you got your information, but you got F.E.A.R 2's story completely wrong. 1. FEAR 2 takes place RIGHT AFTER the first game, not 11 months later. In fact, the explosion from the end of 1 sets off the events in 2. 2. Becket isn't there to investigate ANYTHING. He's a special forces operative there to take the CEO of the antagonist corporation into protective custody. There is no investigation. There is no missing research team. 3. The replica soldiers aren't clones of Alma. If anything, they're clones of the first game's antagonist, Paxton Fettel. 4. The city doesn't "change." The aforementioned explosion causes nuke-level damage to it and you have to navigate the wreckage.
So your telling me that, if zombies WERE real, Germany and Australia would just say, “hey they’re still people, I mean they kill and eat others with no control whatsoever, but they’re like everybody else, who deserve to be respected! Zombie rights!”
the thing with mariam as an arab that lived at the time of the controversy. that its all fake, all of the things said about mariam on how dangerous the app is are really just whatsapp rumors and the game does not actually do anything dangerous. all of the controversy is just whatsapp old people sharing baseless rumors, it happens a lot within arabs. also the game didnt get banned, i dont know what sources the video is using but the game is still here
To be fair, Hatred is just that, hatred. There's no real lore. You kill people for no reason. The gameplay and visuals aren't even all that good. It's killing for the sake of killing, like a dumbed down version of Postal, which was actually a much more thought out game, despite the gameplay being pretty much the same.
I don’t get the obsession of Germany and Australia… there are games like Mortal Kombat that literally have brutalities, COD executions that are “cinematic” brutal executions given as a REWARD for sneaking up on someone. We have shows like Invincible and The Boys that don’t shy from showing the gruesome reality. Then there’s movies like John Wick, Extraction that show graphic violence… grow up, there’s no way all that is banned in Germany and Australia. At this point Germany should also ban history in schools because boy if it isn’t the kettle calling the pot black!
Mortal Kombat 9 was actually the one and only MK game that got refused classification here in Aus. It released when the highest rating for videogames was MA15+. We got the R18+ rating for videogames 2 years after MK9 released and it then got resubmitted for rating and passed with an R18+ rating. The real stupid thing is that Manhunt released before we got the R18+ rating but it passed classification with an MA15+ rating. Only after a teen murder was blamed on the game in the UK did it get banned here.
Left 4 Dead 2 was banned in Australia for having extreme levels of gore beyond what our maximum rating at the time, MA15+, allowed for. Not for "violence against zombies". Bloody hell mate, at least be somewhat accurate in your sarcasm.
It was during a certain time. It's way better nowadays. Speaking for Germany here. Especially the blood and gore censorship is pretty much gone. But yeah in the early 2000s it was really bad and every game with a little too much violence was banned or censored here. Hated that time and had to buy such games in Austria back then xD
Hello. As you asked for suggestions, I was wondering if you'd be interested in making a video about older horror games that don't get the recognition they deserve? I'm talking about stuff like Fatal Frame, The Suffering, Dread Out or Kuon, games that people "know about" but nobody really talks about. Have fun and keep up the awesome work.
In my opinion, there's no excuse for banning a media product as long as the "Adult Only" rating exists. Smells like a lot of bullshit and hypocrisy to me. Also, I remember absolutely loving the challenge that Hatred offered on the highest difficulty. And I couldn't possibly care less about its "plot".
One of my favorite's is Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria. It was banned in a number of countries, and still technically is banned in Australia, although they do not stop Steam from selling it as far as I know. The reasons vary by country, but most it was the extreme gore in fully acted not animated movie cutscenes (the game was groundbreaking for that at the time) and Australia's primary reason was an implied SA (in that there is no nudity, but it's obvious the implication) to show the supernaturally deteriorating mental state of the protagonist's husband.
If you ever make a follow-up list, look into the game "Thrill Kill". It was a PSX fighting game from 1998 that universally got an AO rating (first ever AO rating given by the ESRB), so development was stopped. A beta of the game leaked shortly after it got canned. It's actually pretty fun, I remember playing it as a kid. You have a kill meter instead of a life meter and it was pretty unique since 4 people could play at once.
I would like to add that in germany, at the time left 4 dead 2 was realeased, there was a big debate around video games and if they cause violence. At that exact point it was all over the media so its no surprise that games had to be censored to make it on the market.
I have all of then, except the first one 😁 Lucas know what i like! 😂 Congrats for the video as usual 👌 Note: the game Lucius got banned too? I have it too 😅
Imagine being unable to distinguish "protagonist" from "hero" and "villain". Or that certain games are rated 18+ for a reason. Wow, shocker. I wonder what dunces buy these for their kids, hmmm ... What's next? Lolita's protagonist Humbert is a poor ole guy guy getting forcefully seduced by a 12 year old girl? And the book is about a tragic romance? Oh ... oh wait
Illegal to hurt zombies in Germany and Australia? Welp, now we know which countries DEFINITELY wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse lol. That aside, that moment when you just now realize where the white dude from the Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life videos and the big black dude from General Butch's vids are both from Left 4 Dead 2, this FINALLY solving the question of where the hell did you remember seeing those two from.
Important for Context! : In Germany violence against Humans and everything that resembles Humans/Humanoid is not liked by Law in general, we are also not allowed to own Paper targets that resemble humanoid shapes. Also if Violence is against humans limb lost or mutilation is very rare to find in games that ran through the german qualifications. Also extreme violence is also forbidden like execution/finishing moves or beat downs. But it's much softer by now alot of games have it or a censored version of it and if it doesnt it is mostlikely an english game anyways so Steam does still have it.
I remember playing We Happy Few in 2019 and I was shocked of the use of drugs in this game! Edit: It would be interesting for you to tackle Horror games that introduce new interesting ideas/mechanics that is no where to be seen in other games!
The thing about germany is, that we are very sensitive about graphic violence. Your guess is as good as mine but I think it has something to do with protecting the children. It's pretty easy in germany to get your hands on a +18 game as a minor. I think that may be the main reason. But the topic 'violence' in germany is pretty much the same as nudity in public media in the US. I know that nudity is a sensitive thing in the US but in germany it's pretty normal. So it could also be a cultural reason
To be fair to Germany here ... most of these games were banned before the system was revised a few years ago. Nowadays there are not many games left which are actually banned. And even in germany - a ban only meant you could not get the game under 18 unless it was actually forbidden. There is a distinction. But yeah ... it sucked. And if you want to include all bannings in germany you can start at Wolfenstein and work your way up thtough mostly any game that included more than a hint of blood up until ~2010... ish. Nowadays if a game has a rating it stays that way. Only rare occasions are actually being banned and not even Wolfenstein falls under that category any more as games are finally considered more of an artform and context maters. Before that even the Indiana Jones 3 adventure game was censored in germany. Knowing that australia has similar regulation to germany this list feels rather uneventful to me. :P
Australian here, it wasn't mentioned in the vid but number 6 (left 4 dead 2) did get unbanned here. Not sure when or why they changed their mind though.
okay calling Hatred a "horror game" is just hilarious cause it isn't even remotely a horror game. Its just a more edgey version of the original Postal.
Fear 2 was such a massive step back from the first game. Worse graphics, almost zero scary moments, AI severely scaled back and gun play that felt so pared back it's like it was made by college students.
Hatred is a joke of a game and if people take it seriously they are the problemn here, being too blind by ignorance thinking that banning this and that could help, you want to ban something? Ban guns. I played the game and I'm not killing innocents, sick people in the head do that, no matter what game or media whatsoever they consume, nothing will change that, only society will, when people start to take care of others mind, taking it serious, things could start to change but in this selfish way of living on the world, good luck. Cool video.
Also, you never see security zombies in the german version (zombies that are covered in riot gear, but you can still defeat them, because of lack of armor in the back) because "violence towards law enforcement or authority figures" (i heard it from somewhere) Hatred is somewhat of a stress ball of a game, like the first level, ok, easy enough, not too many or/and strong enemies, but when you finish it, going forward gets really boring, as you mow down swat units, homeless in the sewers, people with guns of their own, then you get on the train, ope there is a stop, obliterate everyone there, in the train station you encounter National Guard, get to downtown, same thing, then you frankly get bored by the time you get to the army base (you can actually cheese it by getting a respawn point after you got the bomb by just dying, granted, no armor, but you begin the level in a humvee anyway) Also, keep in mind, that game was made in unreal engine in 2017.
"i don't know if they did this on purpose, but..." Proceeds to describe a thing that would need a comedy of errors to be an accident. Also Hatred is not a horror game.
What about Manhunt 2? It is even gorier than the first one. And more violent. I think it also has some phychological horror elements, like asylum and some dose of craziness.
«Hatred» intro looks hilariously edgy. And game idea sounds just boring?? Yeah, some people with mental problems might take it too seriously. But that doesn’t mean the game is “influential”. That’s just mean countries need better support system to help people before they go over the edge and do something unthinkable. People can do dangerous crime “inspired” by most innocent pieces of media. Even though they usually choose some violent edgy shit. But we all know even without those media people do bad things. Imho. Stay safe everyone. ❤
Out of all the games, We Happy Few being banned caught me off guard, but when you mentioned Australia, it wasn’t a surprise. Lmao. Although the game gets much hate, I think it’s great overall.
Naah..Hatred is fine as long as you're mentally stable and can tell the difference between reality and fiction. I played it but I don't go around in real life slaughtering people. (Didn't play it for long tho.. not really fond of the top down view, also got bored of the game real quickly lol)
When it came to L4D2 in australia, that was the result of some stupid polition who knew nothing about games or gamers, who was over stepping his bondaries. He promptly got told to sit down and shut up. But it's true, our classification board has a raging hard on, for banning games. If it was possible to ban a game for throwing a punch, they'd do it.
The number one, Mariam sounds scary and I understand the valid reasons for banning it in many countries and I’m surprised that it’s still available on App Store, considering the purpose of the game.
mariam also kinda looks like its made with stolen art?? if the guy at least had credits in the information thats not *that* bad but its still kinda shitty
it's a shitty game but people spread rumors that it steals your data, it's just a game that blew up in a culture where everything new is fought, old people literally made up stories about how dangerous the game is to kids
I played Manhunt. I wasn't into horror games, but it was my first time experiencing the stealth mechanic, and I loved it. When I played the original Assassin's Creed, I was like, "It's just like Manhunt!" I thought the ban was specifically for the Hoods level. EDIT: Skins! The gang I'm thinking about was called the Skins. The Hoods were a different gang.
Does anyone else think that as far as encouraging violence in real life goes, games games which portray gun violence in a casual, less grotesque light may be more harmful than than games that go out of its way to be as graphic as possible?
I always found Mariam funny. The translation was so garbage it was just a comedy. I trust this game more with my Data than I trust Apple. I don't think it could do anything with it if it can't even bring itself to write a coherent sentence xD
hey germany here, just wanna clarify a few things here. for most of these titles, i didnt even know that they are "banned" or "not allowed" here in germany, because most of us use international releases anyways. not because of any ban restrictions or so, but simply because of sooner releases and a better usage of sites like kinguin and such. so unless you are a something like a "hard copy console gamer", you wouldnt mostly even realize that those games are "banned". or as an example for you americans............ you know that mr satan from dragonball is called mr hercules in the usa. but you dont mind because as an anime watcher, you are only watching the japanese dub with english subs anyways, in which he is called mr satan. its kinda like that. so yeah, its different, but as long as you stay with the source, its all fine and dandy no matter where you life.
Hatred is a manifestation of what your parents think video games are
ahah
And hotline miami gone wrong.
Didn't postal 1 do this already?
@@nehemiahpouncey3607Hotline Miami is an actual good game though like even just the gameplay and mechanics are good.
If you're curious look up a game called Killer7 as it's storytelling heavily inspired HM. The story from Hotline is interesting but the gameplay is absolutely phenomenally clever and fun. All this coming from a guy who can't stand torture porn horror shit
No,a manifestation would be one that actually has the power to force people to do that kind of thing
The interesting thing about Mariam is that it's banned for implying it's doing something that basically every social media app does explicitly if you read their TOS.
the thing with mariam as an arab that lived at the time of the controversy. that its all fake, all of the things said about mariam on how dangerous the app is are really just whatsapp rumors and the game does not actually do anything dangerous. all of the controversy is just whatsapp old people sharing baseless rumors, it happens a lot within arabs.
also the game didnt get banned, i dont know what sources the video is using but the game is still here
What I find the most hilarious about banning games is that it doesn't really stop anyone from playing. If people can't buy them, they'll just pirate the hell out of them.
They ban it just for people to want to see or buy it more.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free! YOU ARE A PIRATE! _TADADADADADA!_
Banning game sometimes also makes people want to play a game they didn't originally.
At least for me that has happened.
I didn't want to play Manhunt until it had to be taken off store shelves here in Australia.
The game was originally released uncensored with an MA15+ rating.
Yes Manhunt was legally available for teens 15 and older.
2 simply was never released here.
Another interesting example is Hogwarts Legacy. The game isn't necessarily banned but the trans community went so apeshit trying to kill it that It unironically boosted its sale numbers way beyond what it would have normally been
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Yeah, in all honesty that game is very mediocre, if it wasn't for the retarded over-reaction of the trans community, that game would probably not have sold as well as it did.
This is literally the first time I discovered why Devotion disappeared from Steam.
Truly a massive shame for Xi, Steam, and eventually CDPR.
That game was on course to be a massive success and deserves so much more than to be just a cult classic.
I love how much this channel brings it up.
I like the edgy stuff
Literally? No way, I literally just learned this too, like LITERALLY.
Same I thought it was something like brutal scenes or something but guess not.
me too
No mention of Rule of Rose? The controversy surrounding it in Europe (over false statements made by pearl-clutchers in Italy) almost caused its North American release to not happen, and Britan outright banned it for a long time.
the only way to play rule of rose is though emulation or you can try risk it.
It’s definitely a honorable mention
I remember seeing it on TV in the news as a child! They talked about how violent and depraved it was, which was incredibly untrue: i remember them talking about children being buried alive and killed and none of this even happens (but it terrified me so bad i had nightmares)
I believe it was banned mostly because another company sued them for plagiarism.
@@DamaXionYou should at least listen to the soundtrack. It’s so beautiful. Piano and orchestra. 😍
Having lived in Australia, I can tell you this censorship has done nothing to stop the youths from being feral. Perhaps they should consider censoring/cancelling their absolutely dreadful soap-operas "Home and Away" and "Neighbours" which surely do more damage to your brain chemisty/development than these games. 🙃
fun fact, Hatred isnt actually banned here. the developers knew this would get them into drama they didnt want, so they simply didnt get the game rated. thats why its unavailable to us in Australia. can still get the game quite easily if you know where to look online
WTf home and away still a thing, how many seaon of that show lollll
The first season of Bump has rotted my brain more that your average horror game has
amen to that! xD
@user-xl4eu1gn3d for pc online or is it on ps4?
The idea of banning a game because "it encourages drug use" when the drug in question is basically a super potent anti-depressant... when there are so many people in the world that are actually on anti-depressants, ADHD medication, and other medications to treat chemical imbalances in the brain is kinda worthy of a face palm.
also, the game itself paints joy in a bad light to begin with so i cant imagine why it would be pro drug lol
Exactly. The whole game is basically a call out on anyone who thinks that withholding important information, isolating a community, and heavily medicating an entire population is the best way to deal with social and mental issues.
It's actually very much **anti-drugs.**
English government: how dare you say England is an authoritarian country!? *bans game
01:21 7: Devotion
05:46 6: Left 4 Dead 2
08:33 5: Hatred
11:12 4: Silent Hill Homecoming
13:54 3: Manhunt
17:46 2: F.EAR. 2: PROJECT ORIGIN
21:02 1: Mariam
24:38 Honorable Mention: We Happy Few
I live in Alabama, and a lot of stores refused to sell manhunt 2 until the kills were censored
I was expecting Rule of Rose on this list.
@@madscientist916same
Every banned games are available in India.
Funfact: The name of Hatred's main character is literally "Not Important".
Notim Portant
😂😂
In Brazil we banned Bully because it's a mean game 😅
Wise decision.
But brazil....
that aside bully ain't really about the protagonist doing bullying, it's the player's choice to do that, so Hopkins originally is just being a bad attitude teenager with a good heart as normal Hopkins does in the original story lines, but eh most of those adults that banned the game just because the title itself
Who would have guessed?
@@KazzaGamesTV no it isn't. it's their loss over a genuinely good game.
"They literally banned it for the violence against zombies" - Nathan LOL
Germany and Australia must be the home of lots of zombies looking to settle down to a peaceful (non) living 😂
As an Australian, I was disappointed that Left 4 Dead 2 was censored, but it wasn't because we were killing Zombies, they were classified as Infected and the Aus censorship didn't like the idea that we were taking out Infected people and not Zombies..
With Germany it is the thing that too much violance against human (likes) creatures is the main problem, but it got less strict over the last years. And we have a easy workaround:
We simply order such games from Austria
Australia's problem was that there was no 18+ rating for games. This made it difficult to classify games with extreme content given they're restricted to a MA15+ rating. This finally got fixed in 2012 and the classification board was updated to add a 18+ rating to games, ending the banning cycle.
Man, Devotion and Detention are amazing horror games. Sucks that Devotion was taken down from Steam, I highly recommend supporting the dev by getting/playing Detention, and acquire Devotion in any way you can. It was such a surreal and wonderful experience to play through.
Hatred is probably the only game I can understand why a country would ban it. I played it before and it’s pretty brutal.
I remember when the game itself came out, and it gave me the creeps. I really didn't think it was a good game idea either, since it's just beyond evil. The visuals are bad too lol.
it's pretty run of the mill western gore, i've seen much worse from the japanese
It was just postal 1 and hotline miami.
But more postal 1 if the postal guy
Decided to turn it up a notch.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607fr it tries SO hard to be the original postal, to the point it's borderline laughable with the cringe one liners the hatred guy spouts to remind you how edgy he is
Atleast original postal had a better semblance of a tone and didn't need to cartoonishly villain monologue as hard, and was alot more shocking for it's time, not that hatred isn't shocking at all, but it just seems like it's trying to emulate it to garner the mainstream outrage and attention postal 1 had
@@almond3066 right.🤣
I get the point of it not being suitable for some people, but if a mature adult is so gullible that they do something bad because they played a game, then the game is not the problem. By this logic there should be no news reports or history documentaries on war and crime because someone might be inspired. People can be inspired by anything. I do agree that younger children should not play them though, as with many games.
I can't really understand Chinese citizens being upset over the Easter egg in devotion. I understand it slightly mocks the president but I don't understand supporting a president who's so insecure he banned a character from a children's book because he looks like a animated bear.
Someone brought up a good point that chinese players were probably trying to appease the goverment because they could literally ban access to Steam if the goverment thinks the game is influencing players to be anti-chinese, so showing they aren't influenced could allow them to keep access. Considering how dictatorial the ccp is, i wouldn't be surprised if chinese players did it to avoid their goverment from banning them from one of the biggest gaming platforms.
@@Pooky1991 that definitely makes sense. It's a real shame though because detention was such a great game and I'll never have a chance to play the follow up title.
Not surprised, considering that you have to have a picture of Prez in a prominent place in your house... And it has to be rescued in the event of a house fire 🚒🔥
@@kelleygieger5175that’s North Korea, not China. At least as far as I know…
I'm honestly surprised Rule of Rose wasn't on this list. Not sure if it quite qualifies as a "horror game", though I find that it fits that label psychologically.
It's still a horror game, just a far more subtle one than most.
Hatred gets a lot of . . hate, but let me just say it has one of my favorite gaming memories.
I started playing the game as a pacifist run, I just wanted to see how far I can get without killing anyone. In the first mission, you receive an objective of: "Disrupt the party". I heard that most of the enviorment is destructible, and the objective is vague, so I decided to put this to the test. I got into a car, drove into the wall of the party house like I was the Kool-aid man, injuring nobody, and slowly pushed the debris and tables with my car until I reached the second wall, which after a minute I broke through and left the house.
The game said I completed the objective and I couldn't stop laughing.
the devotion's easter egg is great and i love it
Devotion literally did a pro gamer move
I literally agree, I mean it’s literally crazy.
I'm starting to think they should have post-poned the addition of the easter egg, like after a year or 2. Or make it randomised, as in only a select few get to actually get the easter egg
from what i remembers it was just a placeholder that one of the team members put but forgot to take out when it game to realsing the game@@RubykonCubes3668
Fear and Hunger has all these things and more. It's the ultimate edge lord experience with cannibalism, rape, torture, general violence, and disturbing as hell imagery. Good luck with that one
Imagine being so insecure about your citizens making fun of you, that you go out of your way to ban anything that makes a mockery out of you. Screams, childlike behaviour...
I hope these countries know that videos games have never been proven to be the core factor of violence or homicide. Usually in most cases it's the young adults trauma or at home abuse/neglect that usually leads to the child's violent actions. Even those children who suffer from mental, physical, sexual abuse. I've never read/seen a case that videos games was the core reason why a child killed/hurt another human being. Censoring video games doesn't really stop anything.
I will always mourn what could have been with We Happy Few (for me, at least, it's Silent Hills/PT-like in that regard). The initial game footage released was fascinating; the playable demo was gorgeous; then somewhere between the demo and the full game release, something...happened. The game we got at the other end of that was flawed, glitchy, and buggy in non-viable ways. (There were at least four places where, if an event didn't properly trigger, players simply *could not* finish the game past that point, and it was throwing-things levels of frustrating.)
It could have been great. Instead, it's likely forever aligned as an artifact of its times, and no one but game historians will care.
Maybe it's just because I didn't follow the production, went in with zero expectations, I love stealth games, and I find glitchy games very charming, but WHF is one of my favourite games of all time. Not a perfect game, could have been improved in a lot of areas, but still a genuinely great game that tells its unique story very well.
Yeah, a RUclipsr went over the story of the game and frankly it's a disappointment how the gameplay decisions and buggy and glitchy mess ended up hurting the interesting story it had.
It is great. I played last year, they seem to have fixed it up.
I bought it early in development and it changed so much since then.
I was hurt by that game so much potential
The one game that i found very disturbing to the terms that it could be banned is "Don't be afraid" since it has themes that have to do with cannibalism, pedophilia etc and the player is a child itself
Thanks for reminding me of it! It's honestly one of the few horror games that just doesn't make me scared, but touches some deep primal fear. I think it might be due to the heavy torture themes.
Sounds interesting
And what about rule of rose??? When it arrived, in Italy there was an article about the game completely insane! I remember the first page on PANORAMA, one of our popular newspaper, and with the image of the terrifying girls of the game, smiling on us, near their face there were those exactly words...
"new horror game. The first one that buried alive a little girl win the game".
EVERYONE WANTED THAT GAME😂😂😂
Panorama didn't understand anything about the game, but thanks to them I experienced my greatest goosebumps ever had. With one of my older cousin we played that game together, after he left me read that article. Then, the game started. I was shaking all the time. I was really terrified. The school, the darkest places, the kids and their laughes, the moving words on the screen, the creepy music and puzzles, the crying dog, the bag and the blood on earth, after two kids beat with a stick that bag...
And everything finished with a blackout. Even if it was afternoon I was in shock, my face was pale like the skin of a ghost. I love that day. Thank you, panorama 😂
The ban on We Happy Few is especially groanworthy because it's very obvious that these are not recreational drugs to make people happy, they're mind control drugs, and that's a bad thing. I remember when the news of that broke and everyone was basically just going "is this satire?" I'm not really a fan of censorship but for the other games I can at least see where they're coming from with it. Hatred feels a little too close to certain real life mass shootings and even Silent Hill fans mostly thought the gore in Homecoming was over the top. But We Happy Few is really not at all like the other examples.
Actually kind of shocked that the protagonist getting ghost raped at the end of F.E.AR 2 wasn't a factor, but sure, the violence was the most out of pocket part of the game 💀💀💀💀💀💀
its not like censorship has ever made sense
tbh the "ghost rape" is what completely slaughtered the franchise, as they really didn't come out with anything memorable after that, I think only FEAR 3 came out if I'm not mistaken. Nobody wants to get raped in a video game, that was completely disgusting of the devs to even commit to such a thing.
@@MrReaperofDead Well, some people do because hentai games exist and speaking of, I'm surprised Rapelay didn't even make the list. But then again, its super hard to find and you can only obtain it thru piracy and shady download sites.
Speaking as an Aussie, the thing that has always perplexed me is how inconsistent ratings are. FEAR 1? No issues, FEAR 2 even though it was basically the same thing, suddenly that's bad. The gore & gib effects were no worse than the original, just different & imo cartoonishly over the top, always made me think of Unreal & Quake. On which note... FEAR 2 was originally refused classification but Quake 4 was somehow totally fine? Also correction, FEAR 2 actually released unchanged after the decision to refuse classification was appealed.
Fear 2 had a different rating because the player character gets raped in a cutscene. The ghost, Alma, wanted to bear your character's child.
@@SyndicateOperative The syndicate FPS reboot was banned in Australia also because you could make a person shoot themselves through brain hacking.
It's not a single person. The board of people "banning" those games in germany consists of multiple people from different backgrounds. There are people from the church, teachers, psychologists, judges, prosecutors, caretakers from children and teen institutions and so on. They play those games, take notes, then discuss at a table which rating the media should receive.
The issue is that they can also straight up refuse to give a rating if they see it as not just potentially harmful to children but also harmful for adults and overall society. And if the publisher goes ahead and still releases, but the federal review board agrees with rating group, then it might additionally get put on the index.
It is important to say, that it being on the index is still not really a straight up ban as in making those games fully illegal like how you might imagine.
In germany games on the index are still allowed to be sold to adults, but you are not allowed to advertise them in any shape or form. Not even list them as store inventory on a public website or have them visible in a physical store on the shelf.
But it is fully legal as an adult to go to a store, ask for an indexed game and if they have it, they are allowed to sell it to you. Some stores even have a separate room, you can ask for access as an adult, where you can see all kinds of restricted stuff you arent allowed to show openly, and buy indexed media legally. It is also not illegal to buy uncensored or indexed versions from neighbouring countries, especially austria or switzerland are popular due to being the same language.
This system still hurts the german media market though, because potentially having your game on an index basicly means very little to no sales, so publishers often censor media for germany prematurely or right after a refused rating but before they are put on the index.
Australia: We don't tolerate fun here.
I remember playing Mariam and getting freaked out but wanting to know more about the story
Looking back…the art looked stolen, and it isn’t as creepy as when I first played it, it made me laugh
Wouldn’t recommend getting Mariam
it's a very silly game, everything about it are whatsapp rumors spread by unknowing old ppl
I know and it kinda sucks, if it did track your location and doxxed you it would have been banned a while ago @@hotwater0
Luckily, we Germans can order our games from Austria if needed. Everything's uncut there, so no real problem at all. Plus, it's legal. Australia is on another level...
I'm not sure where you got your information, but you got F.E.A.R 2's story completely wrong.
1. FEAR 2 takes place RIGHT AFTER the first game, not 11 months later. In fact, the explosion from the end of 1 sets off the events in 2.
2. Becket isn't there to investigate ANYTHING. He's a special forces operative there to take the CEO of the antagonist corporation into protective custody. There is no investigation. There is no missing research team.
3. The replica soldiers aren't clones of Alma. If anything, they're clones of the first game's antagonist, Paxton Fettel.
4. The city doesn't "change." The aforementioned explosion causes nuke-level damage to it and you have to navigate the wreckage.
Manhunt was brutal, but also kinda good. Hatred was just brutal and not even good
Number 5 was even talked about on local news here in the US when it was released.
The developer who made it was crazy.
Devotion was the very first game I streamed on my channel.
Good times, different times.
So your telling me that, if zombies WERE real, Germany and Australia would just say, “hey they’re still people, I mean they kill and eat others with no control whatsoever, but they’re like everybody else, who deserve to be respected! Zombie rights!”
the thing with mariam as an arab that lived at the time of the controversy. that its all fake, all of the things said about mariam on how dangerous the app is are really just whatsapp rumors and the game does not actually do anything dangerous. all of the controversy is just whatsapp old people sharing baseless rumors, it happens a lot within arabs.
also the game didnt get banned, i dont know what sources the video is using but the game is still here
To be fair, Hatred is just that, hatred. There's no real lore. You kill people for no reason. The gameplay and visuals aren't even all that good. It's killing for the sake of killing, like a dumbed down version of Postal, which was actually a much more thought out game, despite the gameplay being pretty much the same.
This is why Piracy is important, it preserves contents while giving a middle finger to government officials and Winnie the pooh's fragile little ego
I don’t get the obsession of Germany and Australia… there are games like Mortal Kombat that literally have brutalities, COD executions that are “cinematic” brutal executions given as a REWARD for sneaking up on someone. We have shows like Invincible and The Boys that don’t shy from showing the gruesome reality. Then there’s movies like John Wick, Extraction that show graphic violence… grow up, there’s no way all that is banned in Germany and Australia. At this point Germany should also ban history in schools because boy if it isn’t the kettle calling the pot black!
Mortal Kombat 9 was actually the one and only MK game that got refused classification here in Aus.
It released when the highest rating for videogames was MA15+. We got the R18+ rating for videogames 2 years after MK9 released and it then got resubmitted for rating and passed with an R18+ rating.
The real stupid thing is that Manhunt released before we got the R18+ rating but it passed classification with an MA15+ rating.
Only after a teen murder was blamed on the game in the UK did it get banned here.
@@Gamesta100 these rating boards feel like old farts who only act as cancer to creativity
How about doing a most disappointing horror games list?
Or best haunted house games list?
Or maybe a psychological dread games list.
Left 4 Dead 2 was banned in Australia for having extreme levels of gore beyond what our maximum rating at the time, MA15+, allowed for. Not for "violence against zombies". Bloody hell mate, at least be somewhat accurate in your sarcasm.
Oh no who cares? I'm Australian and I wasn't offended by his joke
Seems like being a gamer in Australia and Germany is difficult with all the censorship
It was during a certain time. It's way better nowadays. Speaking for Germany here. Especially the blood and gore censorship is pretty much gone. But yeah in the early 2000s it was really bad and every game with a little too much violence was banned or censored here. Hated that time and had to buy such games in Austria back then xD
Hello. As you asked for suggestions, I was wondering if you'd be interested in making a video about older horror games that don't get the recognition they deserve? I'm talking about stuff like Fatal Frame, The Suffering, Dread Out or Kuon, games that people "know about" but nobody really talks about.
Have fun and keep up the awesome work.
The next video will be about older horror games and classics. Stay tuned.
@@KazzaGamesTV Sounds awesome, looking forward to it.
Definitely would love stuff on The Suffering. Those two games were my favorite ps2 games growing up.
Yes, while participating in a society most things in life are inherently political. Welcome to the world.
What I learned from this video: If you are an adult gamer, do not move to Germany or Australia LOL
In my opinion, there's no excuse for banning a media product as long as the "Adult Only" rating exists. Smells like a lot of bullshit and hypocrisy to me.
Also, I remember absolutely loving the challenge that Hatred offered on the highest difficulty. And I couldn't possibly care less about its "plot".
U.S. gamers chatting with German and Australian friends- this Fear 2 is so scary but good.
Devotion is a decent horror game. Enjoyed playing
One of my favorite's is Roberta Williams' Phantasmagoria. It was banned in a number of countries, and still technically is banned in Australia, although they do not stop Steam from selling it as far as I know. The reasons vary by country, but most it was the extreme gore in fully acted not animated movie cutscenes (the game was groundbreaking for that at the time) and Australia's primary reason was an implied SA (in that there is no nudity, but it's obvious the implication) to show the supernaturally deteriorating mental state of the protagonist's husband.
Cool video. Speaking of controversial video games, i been playing some thrill kill,
If you ever make a follow-up list, look into the game "Thrill Kill". It was a PSX fighting game from 1998 that universally got an AO rating (first ever AO rating given by the ESRB), so development was stopped. A beta of the game leaked shortly after it got canned. It's actually pretty fun, I remember playing it as a kid. You have a kill meter instead of a life meter and it was pretty unique since 4 people could play at once.
ngl as a german person I have never ever understand why so many medias (movies/series/games) get cut so often. Its a mystery for me....
I would like to add that in germany, at the time left 4 dead 2 was realeased, there was a big debate around video games and if they cause violence. At that exact point it was all over the media so its no surprise that games had to be censored to make it on the market.
very good video subbed- keep it up love this kind of content :D
As yes, FEAR has such realistic gore. Like how a shotgun disintegrates you or turns you into a skeleton. Truly realistic.
I have all of then, except the first one 😁
Lucas know what i like! 😂
Congrats for the video as usual 👌
Note: the game Lucius got banned too? I have it too 😅
Oh man, I forgot about that one. Lucius is a perfect addition to this list, and as far as I remember, Germany didn't allow it in the country.
@@KazzaGamesTV make a part 2 of this video 👍
Imagine being unable to distinguish "protagonist" from "hero" and "villain". Or that certain games are rated 18+ for a reason. Wow, shocker. I wonder what dunces buy these for their kids, hmmm ... What's next? Lolita's protagonist Humbert is a poor ole guy guy getting forcefully seduced by a 12 year old girl? And the book is about a tragic romance? Oh ... oh wait
And now Australia has an official gore patch for l4d2
Illegal to hurt zombies in Germany and Australia? Welp, now we know which countries DEFINITELY wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse lol. That aside, that moment when you just now realize where the white dude from the Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life videos and the big black dude from General Butch's vids are both from Left 4 Dead 2, this FINALLY solving the question of where the hell did you remember seeing those two from.
He was joking. Zombie games have always got released here in Aus, only a select few have been banned or censored.
Important for Context! :
In Germany violence against Humans and everything that resembles Humans/Humanoid is not liked by Law in general,
we are also not allowed to own Paper targets that resemble humanoid shapes.
Also if Violence is against humans limb lost or mutilation is very rare to find in games that ran through the german qualifications.
Also extreme violence is also forbidden like execution/finishing moves or beat downs.
But it's much softer by now alot of games have it or a censored version of it and if it doesnt it is mostlikely an english game anyways
so Steam does still have it.
I remember playing We Happy Few in 2019 and I was shocked of the use of drugs in this game!
Edit: It would be interesting for you to tackle Horror games that introduce new interesting ideas/mechanics that is no where to be seen in other games!
GASP😱 weed?!
The thing about germany is, that we are very sensitive about graphic violence. Your guess is as good as mine but I think it has something to do with protecting the children. It's pretty easy in germany to get your hands on a +18 game as a minor. I think that may be the main reason. But the topic 'violence' in germany is pretty much the same as nudity in public media in the US. I know that nudity is a sensitive thing in the US but in germany it's pretty normal. So it could also be a cultural reason
Interested in these videos so I subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
If you are having a bad day remember that while you are playing the Elder Ring DLC, Australia is still playing Super Mario I and Tetris.
To be fair to Germany here ... most of these games were banned before the system was revised a few years ago. Nowadays there are not many games left which are actually banned. And even in germany - a ban only meant you could not get the game under 18 unless it was actually forbidden. There is a distinction.
But yeah ... it sucked. And if you want to include all bannings in germany you can start at Wolfenstein and work your way up thtough mostly any game that included more than a hint of blood up until ~2010... ish. Nowadays if a game has a rating it stays that way. Only rare occasions are actually being banned and not even Wolfenstein falls under that category any more as games are finally considered more of an artform and context maters. Before that even the Indiana Jones 3 adventure game was censored in germany. Knowing that australia has similar regulation to germany this list feels rather uneventful to me. :P
"So guys please don't play this game, and make sure to spread, peace instead."
My 134 hours and all achievements on Hatred: Sure.
I'm surprised Rule of Rose wasn't on the list
Listening to the script of this video sounds like it’s been AI generated
Is it wrong that I am having so much fun watching these videos? This is strangely awesome.keep the good work up okay ❤👻
Australian here, it wasn't mentioned in the vid but number 6 (left 4 dead 2) did get unbanned here. Not sure when or why they changed their mind though.
okay calling Hatred a "horror game" is just hilarious cause it isn't even remotely a horror game. Its just a more edgey version of the original Postal.
To left for dead 2:
Being german myself i can 100% confirm this is exactly how i reacted to the news that they censored that game here.
Fear 2 was such a massive step back from the first game. Worse graphics, almost zero scary moments, AI severely scaled back and gun play that felt so pared back it's like it was made by college students.
These games were literally banned? As opposed to being figuratively banned?
Hatred is a joke of a game and if people take it seriously they are the problemn here, being too blind by ignorance thinking that banning this and that could help, you want to ban something? Ban guns. I played the game and I'm not killing innocents, sick people in the head do that, no matter what game or media whatsoever they consume, nothing will change that, only society will, when people start to take care of others mind, taking it serious, things could start to change but in this selfish way of living on the world, good luck. Cool video.
Also, you never see security zombies in the german version (zombies that are covered in riot gear, but you can still defeat them, because of lack of armor in the back) because "violence towards law enforcement or authority figures" (i heard it from somewhere)
Hatred is somewhat of a stress ball of a game, like the first level, ok, easy enough, not too many or/and strong enemies, but when you finish it, going forward gets really boring, as you mow down swat units, homeless in the sewers, people with guns of their own, then you get on the train, ope there is a stop, obliterate everyone there, in the train station you encounter National Guard, get to downtown, same thing, then you frankly get bored by the time you get to the army base (you can actually cheese it by getting a respawn point after you got the bomb by just dying, granted, no armor, but you begin the level in a humvee anyway) Also, keep in mind, that game was made in unreal engine in 2017.
What makes people lose their minds, freak out and revolt in violent outbreaks are not games, but governments.
Note to self: Don't be in Germany or Australia during the zombie apocalypse 😅
"i don't know if they did this on purpose, but..." Proceeds to describe a thing that would need a comedy of errors to be an accident.
Also Hatred is not a horror game.
What about Manhunt 2? It is even gorier than the first one. And more violent. I think it also has some phychological horror elements, like asylum and some dose of craziness.
Yeah, that one could be on the list too, but the original one is more memorable.
I don't know about other countries, but the first Manhunt wasn't actually banned here in the UK. The sequel was, but the original definitely wasn't.
«Hatred» intro looks hilariously edgy. And game idea sounds just boring??
Yeah, some people with mental problems might take it too seriously. But that doesn’t mean the game is “influential”. That’s just mean countries need better support system to help people before they go over the edge and do something unthinkable. People can do dangerous crime “inspired” by most innocent pieces of media. Even though they usually choose some violent edgy shit. But we all know even without those media people do bad things.
Imho.
Stay safe everyone. ❤
Guess Australian and German gamers could have bought a U.S. edition of the game or have a friend in another country give them the unedited game.
Out of all the games, We Happy Few being banned caught me off guard, but when you mentioned Australia, it wasn’t a surprise. Lmao. Although the game gets much hate, I think it’s great overall.
Naah..Hatred is fine as long as you're mentally stable and can tell the difference between reality and fiction. I played it but I don't go around in real life slaughtering people. (Didn't play it for long tho.. not really fond of the top down view, also got bored of the game real quickly lol)
When it came to L4D2 in australia, that was the result of some stupid polition who knew nothing about games or gamers, who was over stepping his bondaries. He promptly got told to sit down and shut up. But it's true, our classification board has a raging hard on, for banning games. If it was possible to ban a game for throwing a punch, they'd do it.
all i learnt from this video is that Aus, NZ & Germany appear to be real Nanny states that assume their citizens cannot think for themselves.
Anyone else find the irony in Germany having a problem with trying to kill every zombie you see? One could say a zombie genocide...
The number one, Mariam sounds scary and I understand the valid reasons for banning it in many countries and I’m surprised that it’s still available on App Store, considering the purpose of the game.
mariam also kinda looks like its made with stolen art?? if the guy at least had credits in the information thats not *that* bad but its still kinda shitty
it's a shitty game but people spread rumors that it steals your data, it's just a game that blew up in a culture where everything new is fought, old people literally made up stories about how dangerous the game is to kids
Yeah, even as a kid I never believed those rumours, they sound stupid. @@hotwater0
Mmhmph ( clears throat)
"Outlast Trials has entered the chat"
If Superman has Homelander, then the Postal Dude has Not Important.
That ban was never taken seriously in Maryland on the release date. I pre-ordered and picked it up the day it was released
I played Manhunt. I wasn't into horror games, but it was my first time experiencing the stealth mechanic, and I loved it. When I played the original Assassin's Creed, I was like, "It's just like Manhunt!"
I thought the ban was specifically for the Hoods level.
EDIT: Skins! The gang I'm thinking about was called the Skins. The Hoods were a different gang.
Does anyone else think that as far as encouraging violence in real life goes, games games which portray gun violence in a casual, less grotesque light may be more harmful than than games that go out of its way to be as graphic as possible?
I always found Mariam funny. The translation was so garbage it was just a comedy.
I trust this game more with my Data than I trust Apple. I don't think it could do anything with it if it can't even bring itself to write a coherent sentence xD
hey germany here, just wanna clarify a few things here.
for most of these titles, i didnt even know that they are "banned" or "not allowed" here in germany, because most of us use international releases anyways.
not because of any ban restrictions or so, but simply because of sooner releases and a better usage of sites like kinguin and such.
so unless you are a something like a "hard copy console gamer", you wouldnt mostly even realize that those games are "banned".
or as an example for you americans............
you know that mr satan from dragonball is called mr hercules in the usa.
but you dont mind because as an anime watcher, you are only watching the japanese dub with english subs anyways, in which he is called mr satan.
its kinda like that.
so yeah, its different, but as long as you stay with the source, its all fine and dandy no matter where you life.