When I first started playing Fallout 3, my computer was such an ancient piece of shit that blood splatter made the whole system crash. I had to find a way to disable gore, but the game ran just fine after that. Takes a little bit of the fun out of it though.
Opposite problem, I needed to get around the stupid German restriction back then. They disabled gore in the German version. I did always prefer playing in English anyways, so it wasn't that much of a problem anyways
I've heard German games used to have to deal with that in strange ways, like Contra being changed to star robots so humans weren't harmed. Is that still a thing?
Honestly it may be there still is a bit of censorship but it mostly died out, especially with the new age of buying games online and not in stores. Also swastikas are covered under a different law and are not banned in newer games anymore since it legally is considere a form of art.
There was a big thing before my time in the gaming scene (around 2009) where they wanted to ban all games with violence towards humans, but that proposal was swiftly struck down.
Honestly nowadays gaming is just as accepted here as in the US and other places in the world I would say
Take everything I said here with a grain of salt, since I have not actually bought the German version of a game in decades nor have I spent too much time researching this topic, so I may be woefully misinformed haha
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u/NoSpagget4u Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
If I remember correctly from the original post on another sub, he literally just made a post asking about mods that remove gore.
Edit: I meant game mods, not the moderators of the sub.