mrstickball said:
I apologize if your offended by my comment. I am of German decent myself (and rather happy of it). I'm not trying to liken germany, it's people, or government to nazi ideologies (as I don't believe history would show us that Nazis was a germany-only problem. I liken it to marxism of the past century). It's merely a restrictive ideolgy. Plus we have plenty of Nazi's in the US that I am sure are not Germans. What strikes me as odd about the government decision to ban all games of every form that harbor any of the more "extreme" forms of violence, nazi images, ect, is that it's kind of random and dumb. In the United States, we learn about our terrible past and it's pushed in our faces every single day (racism). Rather than ban images of it, and blacklist the word, we embrace what makes us wrong, in order to better ourselves. I guess it's a cultural difference between Germany and the United states. Louie, I apologize, but my comments aren't aimed toward you, or anyone of the great German population. It's just merely that I cannot find a better party that restricted things in life outside of that (or unless you know of Pol Pot's regime?) I'll go ahead and edit my post. On topic: The reason I used such strong words about Germany are this: They are, by and far, the most restrictive country in the Western world (and most of the eastern world) when it comes to video game violence and content. Because of this, an otherwise PC friendly market (which can translate into 360 succuess), has been severly diminished. I cannot IMAGINE what kind of sales the 360 would of had stateside if we didn't have our million sellers in Gears of War, Dead Rising, and Call of Duty 2 and 3. I doubt the 360 would of done probably 80% or less of the total sales, as all the games germany has banned are million sellers. |
1) No, it isn´t believe me: We face it everyday and every night, when I was to school we had WWII from Class 8 to class 10 in History, social skills, german, english and religion, even so much our teachers nearly completely ignored the first worldwar and everything after 1945 which was scary... last year when world Championship of soccer was in Germany people were unsure if to raise german flags when our team was better than everyone expected.
2) Yeah I´m sorry too for such a harsh reaction.
3) That´s not completely true but for sure to a certain extend, our censorships are sometimes just funny (in a bad way). But they don´t refer to WWII but to some school massacres we had in big cities like Erfurt and politicians blamed videogames for these massacers. This is even worse because no one asked about the shooters and how they felt and why they did such things, they just said "videogames!" and went on...
still many games reach german regions (and we can improt them from our neighbour countries of course 
) but it surely was sad for X360 because Gears of War wasn´t even released here (censorship just means you can´t buy that game when you are under 18 and you are not allowed to advertise it).
