Seeing that more and more video games are getting censored or otherwise badly altered during localization, and many video games don't get even localized at all, why aren't you studying Japanese?
I started several years ago and now I don't have any problems with video games. And I even live in Japan now.
I recommend it.
>MUH CENSORSHIP
>>319519618
literally neo /v/: the image
>>319519618
Seek some help.
>>319519507
I think for most people it's just too much time to invest when they could be studying for a career or something. There's also a massive stigma around learning Japanese because they're afraid of being labelled a weeblord or something.
I'd like to start but at 22 I'm sure there's other things I could be doing like getting a job to buy a house/more vidya.
>>319519876
Japanese can help you with your career. And what stigma? Never ever in real life I have encountered anything like that. And if someone on 4chan says crap like that, who cares?
What's the point? They're starting to hit the games there too, as seen by Fire Emblem: Idolmaster and Street Fighter V.
>>319519507
>more and more
It's about the same as it's always been.
Honestly I'm not intelligent enough to learn a new language.
>>319519507
Been studying for a few years. It's nice, though CERO is getting worse and worse. At least I've got more old games made back before everything went wrong to occupy me for the rest of my life.
Can't wait for Trump to be president, typing shit like that would be considered un-American and your fat weeb ass would be sent to the concentration camps to be gassed with the others.
>>319519507
>tfw you find the censored version hotter
leotards makes my dick diamonds
>>319519507
How about you suck my uncensored dick.
>>319519507
The fact you started your thread with a Nintendo exclusive just weakens your argument. Nintendo has censored since the days of the fucking NES.
>>319522526
I just used the most recent example.
And yes, games were of course censored in the past, but as a kid you probably didn't know about it and wouldn't care.
>>319521947
>CERO is getting worse and worse.
This. Even with Resident Evil 4 they censored a lot of the decapitations in Japan. That's why newer games got more and more tame deaths. Or No More Heroes had it's blood removed in Japan/PAL, only USA got the blood.
The same can be said of anime in Japan right now. Shows are being censored HEAVILY compared to what used to be allowed on TV. The good thing is they are uncensored on DVD/BD if they bother animating the gore, which they usually will to use the uncensored discs as a marketing bullet point. Even mundane shit like holes in chests in Dragonball Kai were edited out in Japan. I don't even think the disc releases had the violence in DBZ added back in.
The country has become a bunch of pussies and only manga seems to be untouched by this faggotry. Everything else is a mixed bag of censorship.
>>319522526
Yep.
>>319522756
>>319522689
>but as a kid you probably didn't know about it and wouldn't care.
It's almost like that's the target audience of most video games...weird.
>>319522693
>I don't even think the disc releases had the violence in DBZ added back in.
It didn't. Then there's also stuff like Saeko's hand laying on whatshisname's crotch while he was sleeping being censored in Highschool of the Dead when he had his shorts on. 20-30 years ago they used to show full nudity in kids shows and it was fine.
>The country has become a bunch of pussies and only manga seems to be untouched by this faggotry.
I haven't read any newer manga so I'll have to take your word on that, though I know for sure that porn manga's censorship is a far cry from 2008. What the hell happened to Japan? I suspect western influences.
>>319522868
And that's why other people can't care about censorship?
You're retarded.
>>319522689
>but as a kid you probably didn't know about it and wouldn't care.
You didn't complain about video game and anime censorship in middle school?
>>319522689
It doesn't matter if you cared or not at the time, I'm saying it's not some new thing with Nintendo yet your whole thread is about "OH NO MORE AND MORE GAMES ARE BEING CENSORED HOLY SHIT!!!!" when your first fucking example is from a company that's done it from the beginning, making your point of censoring "getting worse" completely invalidated. It has gotten worse, but you just fucked your own point over right away.
>>319520118
Lmao you know English asshat, that proves you're intelligent enough to learn a language, you just don't want to put the effort into learning another. If you didn't have the intelligence for it you wouldn't know one.
>>319519876
>stigma
>at lunch with my coworkers
>mention I speak a bit of Japanese
>they get really interested and ask to hear a sentence
>I say some easy shit like "Japanese is hard"
>they do a small cheer
>conversation naturally moves on
>neither of us mention it again
>no stigma, just slightly impressed
4chan is not like real life. Adults aren't judgmental in the same way someone here would be.
>>319523098
Honestly that "more and more" phrase was just a way to grab anons' attention and base the thread in the current popular topics of /v/.
My main point was to recommend reading Japanese.
>>319523032
I remember I did. I didn't like being treated like I couldn't handle that kind of stuff. I guess times never change, history repeats and all that jazz. At first it was because of excessive violence, now it's sex.
But ONLY in video games. Kids can tune in to see Miley Cyrus walk on stage with a dildo strapped to her groin. It's ridiculous this kind of double think that's going on right now.
>>319523127
This honestly. You learn your native language from scratch. Before then you didn't know shit at all. As an adult with a whole language already under his (or her) belt and fuckloads of resources at your disposal, "I can't learn another language" isn't an excuse. Granted it's not as easy if you aren't surrounded by the language 24/7 (which is why I'd really like to stay in Japan for a good long while), but you can buy/pirate any of the media you want to practice and Skype with Nihonjin.
>>319523238
>>My main point was to recommend reading Japanese.
At this rate, this won't matter either. Japan has gotten to the point that it hates being seen as "weird" by the rest of the world and is starting to fall in line with western "sensibilities"
We are starting to regress into this oppressive monster that constantly shames sex, yet pumps it out in spades in all our media.
>>319519507
Because it's too much effort to learn a language just to play some games that I largely don't care about, and I don't care about the trivial censorship that happens when games get localized so I'm not assmad enough to play the JP release instead.
>>319523227
they could still think you're weird as shit, people generally feign a positive attitude in order to seem like a positive and optimistic person.
>>319523660
As long as they don't know about creepy weeb culture or my interest in it, they won't find it weird at all. They know I've been to Japan. I even showed one of them a few pictures of me at some Kyoto temples.
To them I just seem well travelled. There's nothing weird about knowing a third language.
>>319523660
>projecting
>>319523465
>We are starting to regress into this oppressive monster that constantly shames sex, yet pumps it out in spades in all our media.
I've noticed that western society is moving backward, and even Japan is showing signs of it. I'm starting to think that society has peaked and we've got nowhere else to go but down.
Some of it's because of the 20/20 Olympics by the way. Japanese guy told me that Japan always does this when they're preparing for international attention.
>>319523846
>20/20
I need to go to bed.
>>319523465
Hmm, yes, people do say that often, especially in relation to 2020 Olympics, but I'm not sure that'll happen.
The one industry I follow is eroge. In Akihabara you can see shops selling eroge coexisting with no problems next to normal stores. Several stores simply start normal at lower floors and as you go up, you get eroge and porn. Eroge ads are all over said shops and normal tourists that came top buy cheap electronics just walk by them, perhaps never realizing what they are for.
It's also a big industy, stacked stores. almost always someone in there.
I don't believe it would all just stop existing in the next few years. Perhaps it'll get less overtly obvious, perhaps upper floors will get Japanese-only, who knows, but it won't go away easily.
Although I do have to admit there seems to be some censorship-y trends in the industy itself. For example recently sister heroines are more often not blood-related (what's the point of a sister heroine then, it's not even incest).
>>319523763
I do that shit as well, as do most.
>>319522868
>Nintendo censored games are being aimed for kids.
That's why we call people that play Nintendo shit, manchildren.
>>319522969
>I haven't read any newer manga so I'll have to take your word on that, though I know for sure that porn manga's censorship is a far cry from 2008. What the hell happened to Japan? I suspect western influences.
Porn has always been heavily censored from commercial sources such as games or hentai. When it comes to Comiket doujinshi the authorities tend to look the other way and let them get away with way more stuff, even now with censorship at an all time high. Comiket is important to Japan's economy.
With that said even some early doujins had full mosaics and whited out genitals. As time went on artists got more bold and pushed the limits with thin black bars. At the height of this you had maybe 5-10% coverage at best. Magazine companies started to follow suit and got away with this for a while until one finally got raided by the police. This sent all magazines into panic mode (see: back to full mosaics/whited out) and also made some doujinshi artists start censoring more heavily.
Some of that panic has eased up but we are still seeing coverage of roughly 30-40% or more. The artists still using black bars are now using 3-6+ bars instead of 1. I think maybe a handful art still doing things as they always did. Some are also using half-whited out penis heads but mostly visible vaginas which is...weird. Good news is Fakku is releasing some of these magazines uncensored and translated. You have to pay for them but at least it's an option right?
>>319524303
Yeah it's pretty horrible. It's one reason I'm actually happy with Fakku publishing Wani stuff, even if it does mean I don't get to translate as much stuff from some of my favorite artists as I'd like.
I did see one magazines months ago that looked like it was straight from 2008. Tiny, tiny black transparent bars/dots that were easy to miss. Some page didn't have any at all. Wish I could remember the name. Was it Magnum?
>>319524303
>You have to pay for them but at least it's an option right?
Not really. There are torrents and at least one site that rips their magazine chapters. Don't know how well known it is yet though.
>>319524673
Eh...it's kind of a dick move to torrent from them in my opinion. The scans are higher quality direct source material in addition to being uncensored. So the colors are better (on colored pages) and no see through issues you get with fan scans. It's worth the money if you can spare it.
Otherwise what happened with hentai will happen with this and we'll go back to having censored only poor quality scans. Give these magazine companies a reason to want to release uncensored shit outside Japan and support them. It bums me out every time a new Lilith hentai is released because I know it'll never be available without mosaics.
>>319524616
Was probably Magnum. Some of them are easing up a bit again but yeah, the police will probably do another raid if things get too uncensored across the industry.
>>319525239
Yeah, I buy their tanks that I like. I don't care about enough stories to feel the monthly subscription price is worth it though. If it were cheaper or when they start doing Shitsuraikuten maybe.
>>319524282
Yeah, Gen'ei Ibunroku is totally aimed at kids, yeah.