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They aren't censored in real life though, nor in education sources.
Ubisoft censors nude statues in Assassin's Creed: Origins' Discovery Tour mode
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I read it the first time. Now you read the actual reactions in the thread.
Not much Ubisoft could do it they want the tour mode to be useable by educators in the US due to shitty ESRB ratings. For some reason god forbid there is any nudity in video games even if it's something like a statue, automatically changes the rating to mature, which means it couldn't be used in classrooms.
It's a historical statue. Censoring it to educate people is even worse.
Seems logical. People are jumping the gun forgetting you can't kill in this mode
Art is not censored in real life. Little timmy can open an art book and see statue boobs or even better, see the statue boobs for himself if he see the statue live. there's no reasonable argument to censor it (and so badly) on a videogame, even an educative purposed one. hell, encarta virtual enciclopedias never censored any art on them
Do schoolbooks censor out the naughty bits in these works now? I don't recall them doing that back then.
There's no glorified violence on the tour mode, literally every enemy in the game has been removed.Sourced from: RPS
In the real world where nude statues can be seen by any persons, sex or age, Ubisoft have taken the liberty to remove those oh-so nasty bits, but will keep all the glorified violence.
Anybody else think this is incredibly dumb? I mean, education sources don't censor them but a mature video games does. Am I missing something here?
You can't kill a single person in this mode, at all. The naked statues are still in the regular game.
I would have understood that they censored the porn paintings and graffitis you can see here and there in the game, due to the fact that this is to be used as a teaching tool. But censoring the nude statues that any school kid can see when they go out to the museum or in many streets in Europe ? What ???
Exactly. Using the "it's because it's for educational material" is not a good defense, if anything it makes it even worse. :\
What violence are you talking about? There is no combat in the discovery tour.
This thread is kind of misleading.
If you want a game to be used in classes you'll have to get the proper age rating.
You won't get that with nudity. I think that's kind of sad because we're talking historical art but that does not matter to the ESRB/PEGI, etc.
These statues are not censored in the main game.
Oh, it's a school thing, was gonna say they aren't censored in game. Don't think it's necessary, as school books usually keep them, but probably a way to stop kids from getting distracted, because boobs are fucking hilarious to kids in a classroom.
The ESRB doesn't rate real life or education sources. This censorship is perfectly reasonable in light of ESRB rating requirements and Ubisoft attempting to sell to the widest audience possible. Also, the Discovery Tour is really great. If censoring a few statues puts it in front of more kids than it would otherwise, I'm all for it.
Thread title doesn't say AC:O has the same statues outside of the new mode. Not everyone plays everything, you know.
But the glorified violence isn't in the tour mode so ... what's your point?Sourced from: RPS
In the real world where nude statues can be seen by any persons, sex or age, Ubisoft have taken the liberty to remove those oh-so nasty bits, but will keep all the glorified violence.
Anybody else think this is incredibly dumb? I mean, education sources don't censor them but a mature video games does. Am I missing something here?
They probably should've included a K-12 option, but I'm not gonna throw a fit, we all get why they did this, but some people choose get really upset about censorship.
I finished high school back in 2015 and they were still there. They don't, at least not where I have went to school in Texas and Florida. I don't think the images are in history books for elementary schools though. Just Middle School and beyond.
Same mentality behind this that has parents buying their kids GTA "as long as they don't go into the strip clubs!!!"
Violence is glorified. Sexuality is repressed. This is both obvious and unfortunate, but given the point of the mode, it seems they wanted to be as "safe" as possible.
Violence is glorified. Sexuality is repressed. This is both obvious and unfortunate, but given the point of the mode, it seems they wanted to be as "safe" as possible.
Eh, most elementary schools in the US aren't going to have those resources available to kids. In junior high and high school, sure
Altering history in "tour mode" which is being claimed as a virtual tour of actual ancient Egyptian history, extraneous to the game, is pretty fucking antithetical to its purpose.
This and they are casting a wide net. Older kids down to little kids. Maybe theyll have educator options or something to toggle this kinda thing on and off.
It's being marketed as a videogame for education purposes.
If i had to guess, this is likely to keep the PEGI/ESRB rating as low as possible, because no teachers will be buying +16/+18 rated material, especially videogames to teach in class. This mode is available as a standalone product.
It sounds silly in the abstract, but it makes sense. Presumably they want this mode as wide-reaching as possible, and they're already trying to minimize the challenge of re-rating an on-the-shelf product through the ESRB/PEGI. Posturing this as some sophomoric violence vs nudity stance is off the mark. Ratings boards don't ignore one type of content because another exists.
I think this censorship is dumb but lol at people already oturaging without knowing this censor doesn't affect the main game.
They probably wanted to cover their asses because they want this mode to be used for education. Again, dumb, but no need to overreact, the game is not censored.
The game has plenty of uncensored boobs.
They probably wanted to cover their asses because they want this mode to be used for education. Again, dumb, but no need to overreact, the game is not censored.
The game has plenty of uncensored boobs.
Yeah, that was my thought. There's a difference between doing this in a product meant for entertainment and doing this in a product meant for education.
I guess it's the only way to sell this to a younger audience, but it still rankles.
So we should cover up Michelangelo's David when teaching children about art? This sort of Puritanical thought process is ridiculous. The art wasn't intended to be sexually gratuitous in nature. I can see removing roving bands of nude women from the game (I never saw such a thing during my playthroigh), but to compromise the historical integrity of the art in the game is stupid. It doesn't compromise the product, but is more of a reflection of our society at-large.
I'm loving the outrage on the tour mode today, wonder how many topics we will get with mindless dogpiles then someone comes in explaining what it is about. Y'all are something lmao
Lol calm down.
This is a game where you're an assassin and you murder people and shit and yet this is what they want to censor, lmao
Between this and the ridiculous "we know women weren't taught in classes but lets pretend they do anyway and ignore sexism in history!" shit this mode isn't accurate and not worth educating someone with. It's literally teaching them false history.
