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It’s a bit old, but the topic pertains to video game butts so I thought it’d be nice to talk about here. Give people - myself included - a chance to air their grievances with what I’d consider to be a plague on video games and modern day art.
So, I’d like to make a post that goes into the censorship that happened during the development of Injustice 2. I am vehemently against censorship in video games, so I was really bummed to hear that Injustice 2 got censored, and in fact I didn’t hear about it first, but saw it! I bought and played Injustice 2 and saw that many of the girls had these weird textures on their asses that looked like their panties had been stretched all the way over their butt cheeks. It wasn’t until later that I found out that many of the developers behind the game were actually against their lead character designer Gihon_Sihon who initially made the characters not only have sleeker apparel but also more attractive. Now this is a topic that has been covered a few times - particularly here in a CensoredGaming video but I don’t think that it got a lot of traction seeing as NetherRealm went on to follow the trend of making characters less attractive and more covered up in their following releases MK11 and what seems to be the case for the new MK1.
NetherRealm has gone on record as saying that the changes they made are to add more “realism” which makes no sense because at least in Mortal Kombat’s case you are fighting to the death, one person is gonna die regardless. Not only that, but characters spines get snapped mid game, skulls get crushed regardless of what the character might be wearing. Where’s the realism in that? If you’re gonna fight to the death, may as well look good doing it I say.
It’s a power fantasy where people want to look up to the characters NR, don’t be afraid to make them attractive, let people enjoy their escapism without fear of censorship, and without needing to be talked down to about their interests.
Anyways, below will be the posts from Gihon_Sihon’s instagram for posterity. What do you guys think? What is your take on censorship in games? Do you consider games art? I’d love to hear what you have to say. Injustice… What a fitting name…
Justice for Gihon_Sihon.
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Matter of perspective I suppose. If people enjoy it and nobody is hurt or harmed by it, why not let them?
Yes it’s not the most well adjusted interest, but what is normal anyway
People eat each other’s buttholes to near societal acceptance. What’s a picture of an ass to a tongue in an ass?
Dammit, I knew this question was going to be on the test!
Thanks for your understanding. Simply put, I like butts and I like video games. I saw that there wasn’t a unified place to discuss the two so I made VGB. And you’re entirely right in saying that we get to enjoy something and no body gets hurt in the process except for some special people like the one above I suppose.
Though, I’m not entirely sure what you mean by it isn’t a well adjusted interest. People have all sorts of interests, mine particularly is of the human body, I think it’s a beautiful thing that comes in all shapes and sizes, and video games can be an art form expression of those qualities. And that I’d like to discuss more with other like-minded individuals, but I understand that that’s more of a nuanced approach and some may not see it that way, to the people off put by the mere existence of this community they can simply block it and move on. It makes no sense to me that someone would come and complain about it other than they are some sort of troll, or things don’t connect right in their brain. But hey, who am I to judge?
How does that add up like at all?