Memory Voilation In Tally

Voci dei gamers: No More Heroes "tagliato" in Europa

Disappointment and outrage by European Cyberspace (or not).
This is my act of protest.
(Louise Brown)

Voices from Europe. Voices of players disappointed. Voices of adult players.
Voices of those who waited in anxious expectation, Wii-mote in hand, you can enter without a veto of any kind in the world of stylish gore No More Heroes.
But this time it is not censorship. Was it simply a choice of Rising Star Games, distributor of No More Heroes in Europe. The game dell'istrionico Goichi Suda, Killer7 dell'insano already puppeteer, will be released in a few days here in Italy, but the dress will look clean with no blood and gore elements / splatter removed. In place of abundant red liquid will be puffs dusts sepia and coins jangling to Sonic. Among the cuts in the total disappearance of limbs broken by the sword of Travis protagonist, no beheadings e chi più ne ha...
Insomma, un vero peccato. Il senso di disdetta é grande, poiché la line-up Wii si sarebbe arricchita di una esclusiva ibrida e prestigiosa, irriverente ma autoriale quanto un prodotto myamotiano, no Playstation, no Xbox, only for Nintendo Wii.
Fra smentite e cambi di fronte, le dichiarazioni del Suda51 sono risultate (opportunisticamente) contrastanti. Dal principio doveva essere la versione Europe e Japan quella "originale", secondo la sua visione iniziale, mentre quell'americana fungeva da "mero" contentino per gli americani a caccia di violenza digitale.
Puttanate, ovviamente. Lo stesso Suda, durante le fasi di sviluppo di No More Heroes aveva espressamente dichiarato di stare producendo un gioco più violento di Manhunt, più splatter di Kill Bill e più disturbante del fu Killer7.
Durante l'uscita americana di No More Heroes il Suda51 si é invece presentato alla prima di lancio affermando che la sua versione Integral era ovviamente quella America, non Japan or Europe.
Qui di seguito alcune voci cyberspaziali, fra le oltre cinquemila firme, che provengono dalle liste per la petizione contro l'assenza di sangue in No More Heroes. Alcune sono calde, appassionate, illuminanti fra l'ideologico e lo sconforto ludico, altre sono frammentate, timide, di chi spinto dalla delusione nel sentire violato il proprio ardore videoludico ha deciso di parlare.
L'importante é che si tratta di voci dalle masses of those games, with the blood or not, loves them and living them.
Never think dovergli break the wings.
The petition is now closed, with the Rising Star Games has (of course) ignore the total divergence.
Yes, No More Heroes in Europe will be completely bled.

The translation is my most free.
Vox Populi instead it's all ours.


"A game that goes back to the gore films of series B do not show blood, gore ... not a game ... go to hell No More Heros, which can lose a lot of buyers ..."

"What a stupid decision. He would have sold a lot more with the presence of blood.'s European customers will not forget tale decisione"

"Gli effetti sono cosi irreali che non aveva senso censurarli. Dagli ultimi screenshots il gioco aveva assunto una forte personalità manga, ora invece col fumo nero e le monete potrebbe essere assimilato a qualsiasi altro gioco. Sonic, ad esempio..."

"Anche un gioco é arte, e nessuno può giudicare come l'arte dev'essere fatta"

"Trovo un insulto il fatto che stiate rilasciando un gioco in queste condizioni quando gli americani avranno la versione completa. Credete che la popolazione europea non é abbastanza matura per questo tipo di gioco?!"

"Siamo adulti, non trattateci come se non sapessimo pensare da soli! - Esistono già un mucchio di giochi Wii per people who do not want to see violence! Please let the games are distributed as well as the creator designed them, instead of criticizing something that you have not contributed to the beginning! "

" What? You think that simply removing the blood from No More Heroes will transform it into a game for children? The only deprive the public for which the game is intended for a mature audience that tolerates this type of effect perfectly gore (quite funny as the tone of the game), so would know how to appreciate all other parts of the game is not censored "

" We want the original game, save the ideals! "

" Why not put an option YES / NO to the blood? It was the easiest thing! "

" Do not reduce the author's vision, out of fear or political correctness

"But why is Europe always have to pay for such things?"

"Cowards! I do not want to contribute to the market for a company that implements self censorship for no reason! No money for you! Suda, sorry "

" Parental Locks were present in the game long ago. What happened? If a game should be censored (and I can not think of a single case in which a game has been censored for all its violence), just add an option to disable game mode without blood! Everyone would be happy and the company would not step back to those days when there was a lack of freedom of expression. I'm not saying that violence produces better games, but that the developers include it for a reason. And that reason should be a choice that only the developers should take. "

" If the game will not have blood as the first video shown, do not you will buy. When the third party notice the poor sales of this game, Rising Star will disappear because no other company will believe in them to distribute games. E 'pathetic, I'll have to buy the American version. Really, if it were little things ... but the game is censored, enemies explode in pixels, pathetic. Do not get me wrong, I'm not a lover of blood, but I hate it when in Europe do not reach the original versions of games such as Budokai Tenkaichi 2 running at 50Hz and Mario Party for Wii, for example. Rising Star Games If you want a future, needs to rethink this complaint in Europe ... "

" We should have the right to choose how to play a game that we paid as much as other countries. Instead I pay the same price for content that we are not present. A shameful thing. "

" I am delighted for the censorship of No More Heroes! Otherwise I might go out of his head and cut people in 2 with my katana laser recently won online! Thank you! "

" At the time Capcom had no problem to issue Kiler7 as it is. But you are so proud Suda to have a game that you mentioned in any press conference. But you did not scruple to publish the game as it is. Rising Star Games, you are a disgrace. NMH released in full or we gamers will make sure that there will be no stars for you ... "

" You're not censoring violence, you censor art. One of the worst things you can do. "

" will increase the belief that Europe is the second choice in the market ... "

" I'm not a boy! Not insultatemi "

" Why publish a game if you do not have the courage to release the full? "

" Even if violence is not one of the things I like in videogames, I would prefer that you do not alteraste the spirit of "No More Heroes", as it was originally conceived by the developers. Please, let there be blood. It 's a form of respect towards the players who expect to much and the team who worked on "

" It' s obvious why he crossed the Rising Star game. 1 - Do not want to pay the fee for a game with the certification of age. 2 - They hope to sell more copies to the kids. Idiots, all of them "

" It 's a stupid measure! The films are much more violent grip on young people than video games! It tells an assistant psychology! Make sure to read Leyens, Camino, Park and Berkowitz (1975). But I doubt that this petition will change anything. "

" 4000 signatures in one day? It shows what we want, right? "

" Please do not discriminated against Europe

"No More Interest"

"We have blood in Resident Evil 4 for Wii! It 's a game for adults! NMH We want blood! For adult players, "

" I think we got to the fruit with this complaint. I think that finally we European gamers should play video games just as they were created! Please do not let me down Rising Star! "

" After watching the censored version of the game and I must say that the original is much better. More visceral. And see people cut in two is surprisingly funny and ironic! I am over 18 years and are old enough to be free to choose what they most want to play. I want to play the uncensored version on my PAL Wii. Rising Star Games, please take into account the full before the verdict of the BBFC! If you do not pass the exam you will have the alternative version ready, it will undoubtedly be taken more into account, but please, give the original a chance! "

" @ publishers: do you realize that you induce the players 'legal' in the arms of the pirates and modchipping? Who would buy a watered down version? Think, have your money che si parla, che andranno nelle tasche dei produttori di chip moddati. E' una vostra scelta"

"Proteggere i bambini contro i contenuti adulti dvrebbe essere una responsabilità di GENITORI e RIVENDITORI, non di chi opera la censura. Anche noi adulti giochiamo ai videogiochi."

"E' un atto totalitarista! Quale parte integrale dell'opera, nessuno ha mai pensato di togliere la violenza dal Guernica di Picasso!"

"I videogiochi sono molto più costosi in Europa che in America e noi dovremmo giocare una versione edulcorata? Andate a..."

"La scelta agli acquirenti, non alle corporazioni!"

"Il gore stylish dei manga é parte del design artistico di questo gioco. If censored organize a massive boycott for this product. We do not want to buy products of art is incomplete. Do not say that we have not been warned. Without gore lose millions of sales. Thanks. "

" We have parental controls for censorship, it does not require that you do it for us, "

" Show us that Rising Star Games believes in the rights of adults and in games as an art form, do not show your fear starting to censor video games! "

" Most people want this game as devised by Suda-san. The rating system and third-party support is a joke, not a problem Nintendo is NOT a slip of Suda51, I blame A WHO Underestimate the creative ways AUTHORS (...). I would hope that your choices are to have any effect, but I dreamed of a Beam Katana pounce on your ignorance and your righteousness ... "

" Dear Rising Star, I really hope decidiade not to release an undertone and artistically poor to which others have worked. It would be so ignorant and disrespectful to treat gamers ... "

" Censorship, as a human adult, is something for me to discriminate. They are mature, free, and insists that it's up to me to decide whether to play violent games or not. I should not be punished because of parents and retailers that do not follow the age recommendation on the VG. Censorship is a violation of art of an artist. Show blood is not a crime, and freedom of speech and thought are fundamental to democracy and freedom itself. The games are make-believe, but the complaint is real, and creates more discontent of a violent game. "

" Even adults play on Nintendo systems! "

" There is a reason why we are the indices of age for video games. NMH is not clearly for 17 or 18 +. There is also parental control in all next generation consoles. And we also have the option to set the level of violence in video games. These measures exist to prevent the kids buy certain games. If any of their experiences of un certo tipo di gioco, é responsabilità dei genitori/rivenditori/acquirenti, non dei game designer. Censurando il gioco, la BBFC (dovrebbe cambiare nome da quando tratta anche i videogiochi) distorce completamente la visione dei creatori e dei team di lavoro. Si tratta di qualcosa anti-democratico e anti-sociale. Specialmente per il fatto che sangue e violenza sono presenti ovunque, nella vita reale, nei film, nei documentari, nelle cronache... E' davvero triste nell'era in cui viviamo assistere all'arte che viene censurata..."

"Grazie tante, Rising Star senza palle! Avevo intenzione di comprare un Wii per questo gioco. Lo prenderò d'importazione, e darò i miei soldi a Ubisoft. Se NMH sarà tagliato, non vedrete a penny from me ... "

" era today I find it incredibly hypocritical that while videogames in popular culture beyond the mainstream and are analyzed as a medium of art, they are both feeling censored taking shape far from the original creators. There are mature players to play NMH desidrosi as originally conceived ... "

" I'm not bloodthirsty, but in games Suda51 blood is a design presence. Blood materializes in his play style as you see the textures do it for any other game. Without it, it will be incomplete. And also, the blood is shown exaggeratedly caricatured, and loses any correspondence with reality "

" What kind This is a world where cultural creations are censored? History has repeatedly shown that the complaint is not the solution! Teach people to think properly so that blood will not hurt anybody virtual "

" You want this industry to grow? Take your risks then! Of course it is shameful that someone like Suda51 has opted for a publisher so conservative! "

" Please do not start making a complaint of the absence of regular blood, there is no reason (apart from parents frightened by things that children watch TV every day) "

" As a seller, even if not explicit, I'll be the first a far sapere agli acquirenti che si tratta di un prodotto censurato..."

"SONO ADULTO! VOGLIO UN PO' DI MARIO E UN PO' DI GRAND THEFT AUTO! BASTA CON LA CENSURA!"

"Perché é ok visionare film sul grande schermo come SAW e HOSTEL, venduti nei supermarket e che giungono in Europa senza censura, mentre titoli di nicchia come questo devono essere pesantmente censurati? Conosco le raccomandazioni BBFC e PEGI per prevenire la visione di certi contenuti ai ragazzi al di sotto di una certa età, ma sapete, alcuni di noi non sono più ragazzi, e credo che siamo tutti abbastanza dotati di senso comune per sapere che l'uccisione casuale o la guida spericolata sono fra le cose più stupide da fare nella vita reale. Vi prego, cercate di capire che le atrocità come quella ad Erfurt e alla Columbia High School accadono poiché vi sono retroscena sbagliati, a livello sociale e mentale, nella vita di qualcuno. E non perché si fruiscono certi tipi di media".

"Se censurano questo videogioco, vuol dire che il mercato nuota davvero in cattive acque..."

"Voi fate abuso di potere! Se avete la classificazione +18 non potete forzare gli sviluppatori a censurare il gioco! Non siamo più al 16° secolo!"

"Scusate, ma non era Nintendo che affermava di voler sdoganare l'antica concezione di videogioco per bambini ampliando l'utenza? Cos'é accaduto a coloro che sono cresciuti? Dubito che molti ragazzi sotto i 18 anni siano attualmente interessati a questo gioco... e i ragazzi non sono certo il target demografico di NMH..."

"Sono un videogiocatore americano, ma credo che differenti versioni del gioco per stati differenti sia semplicemente ridicolo. Se la rimozione del sangue dal gioco era per soddisfare un principio di marketing (i giocatori europei acquisteranno maggiormente il videogioco se c'é più sangue) allora sarebbe tollerabile. Ma censurare un gioco per evitare controversie e casini col rating é senza senso..."

"La censura é una questione soggettiva. In questo caso una corporazione ha deciso per tutti noi, ma mai l'interesse pubblico dovrebbe risultare schiacciato quello privato..."

"Parecchia people who buy games today is an adult and grew up with video games as a child. I think they have every right to decide whether or not to buy a digital game that contains blood. If you are a parent, and do not want your child to play with certain contents, assumitene responsibility. Obviously, sellers should always check whether the age of the buyer is legitimate for a particular content. It 's the same thing for alcohol and cigarettes, I presume. I hope that adults can continue to play as intended by the creators of video games, without authoritarian interference implementing arbitrary controls to decide what is tolerable and what is not. "

" It 's a fear you feel? Come on, Rising Star, six was created to enjoy the popular Japanese games, as you have notified in 2005. And now? Let us enjoy the views of Souda! "

" Trauma Center for Wii shows the blood but has not been censored! "

" In a game completely abstract and without any contact with reality as No More Heroes discuss the presence of blood out of every logical "

" Even without blood NMH is a violent game and mature. Removing the blood does not change anything ... Why then? "

" For decades we were considered old enough for the blood and violence in video games, like other entertainment media. Now in a world of "legal violence" (I mean the war) siamo trattati come bambini. E' sempre triste quando la gente del settore, che non dovrebbe cedere all'isteria, decide di rinunciare".

To be continued?

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Il Mercerianesimo di Philip K. Dick e i Videogiochi

Le piattaforme di gioco sono scatole empatiche
(di Luigi Marrone)

“ L’umanità ha bisogno di maggiore empatia ”.
Titus Corning, Segretario Generale delle Nazioni Unite.
da Blade Runner di Philip K. Dick – P.82 – Fanucci Editore - 1996

Il Mercerianesimo è la traduzione adottata da Riccardo Duranti, traduttore di Do Androids Dreams of Electric sheep? Di Philip K. Dick (Fanucci Editore – 1996) per il termine Mercerism. Duranti spiega che la similitudine morfologica con il termine Cristianesimo ne sottolinea maggiormente il carattere religioso più che politico/ideologico.
Ma cos’è il Mercerianesimo?
Si tratta di una sorta di pratica mistica, attuata mediante l’interfacciamento ad un dispositivo chiamato scatola empatica. Nella San Francisco descritta da Dick, non possedere una scatola empatica nel proprio appartamento, cosi come non possedere un animale di cui prendersi cura, è sinonimo di immoralità e anti-empatia. Tale considerazione è in primis una reazione alla dis-umanizzazione dilagante in una companies forced to breathe air radioactive, to emigrate to Mars by sharing the life-androids with friends or stay on Earth to die because of genetic defects.
The box is made emphatic by a device with two handles and a prehensile display screen (CRT TV simple as Dick specify): Baroque technology then, but not very functional.
chief actor is Wilbur Mercer, the character shown by the empathy-box.
pinching handles, and looking at the images on the screen, this gray and ragged old man, a sort of Jesus Christ by definition, begins his performance with a climb from the realm of the Tomb which is composed of bones and dust, to the steep slopes of a mountain that, according to the aspirations of "connected", would transform the experience of effort to get into the mystical ecstasy, sublimation of the ascetic and finally their potential for individual and collective.
ANALOGY - The similarities with the dynamics of fruitive playful digital worlds is obvious: you continue to see Mercer on the screen (a character from a VG is not controlled by us) to the empathy that swallows the boundaries of our reality. The details of our apartments fade, the image you suck audio-video and television so it absorbs our minds and our spirit to have a bearing on the physical plane (Videodrome - David Cronenberg).
But Wilbur Mercer is in fact not at all easy climbing. Opponents called the Assassins, an untouchable and frightening presence identified as bad, get him with stones thrown from above, which in addition to slow the rise earned him bruises and lacerations on the body. Empathy with Mercer is so high that the same interface to the box empathic accuse real wounds of injured in the same points Mercer.

What is interesting is the mystical dimension of Mercerianesimo. The empathic connection with the box is essentially a time of spiritual sharing and Multi where you can "feel" "users" connected at that moment, their thoughts, their joys and sorrows newspapers: the empathy-box then becomes a sort of telepathic medium for the realization of a collective consciousness through a mystical and emotional communion with the Other. For the novel is a fusion of ritual practice, not to feel alone and be a force in social life next to the wreckage: the similarities with the feeling of faith and practice of prayer as a community of Christian believers are legion.
It can be said then that the empathy box, through an avatar named Wilbur Mercer catalyst, is a container that has a moral function: it collects feelings, emotions and moods transcending the individual single and sending them to the links shared, thus contributing to a state of mystical cosmic-com-group participation. In the novel, even the UN seems to agree, saying that the merger of empathic mercerianesimo reduces the rate of crime by making citizens more aware of the conditions of their neighbor.
ANALOGY - Analogy with computer-games is obvious: for example, to a room where you are in multiplayer chat, not necessarily during a game session, which gives a share links to the sharing of his states' mind, sublimation and while promoting the dynamics of mutual empathy (or less). X-Box Live, the future home of the PS3, the MMORPG or persistent worlds like Second Life, etc. ... are similar to social networks where you can talk about, put into circulation its own personality and often comforting to life's questions.

The analogy is that it is more than marked.

Another parallelism is given by the longevity of Wilbur Mercer and the Avatars of the Games. The fall in the pit of Mercer and his face again the challenge of climbing enhances the concept of resurrection after the failure, after the symbolic death and the Game Over before another game.
In the novel by Dick Wilbur Mercer and empathy play a box of psycho-social implemented through the work on the existential despair of the interface. While these instruments operating in different psychological contexts, video games, lived in single player or in co-operation, as well as the entertainment unfold moments of cultural exchange and sublimation of certain mood states, and in case of software ludo-educational tools for the acquisition of useful knowledge on the pragmatic level-real.

Buster Friendly hates video games. An important figure for the economy of the novel by Dick is the show-man Buster Friendly, always ready to ridicule video and radio phonically Wilbur Mercer and empathy box. Towards the end of the novel make Buster Friendly public the scoop, revealing the astonished spectators that Wilbur Mercer is not just an old drunk actor, movie some years ago in an ad hoc study spectacularly created by filming most of which were used by a broadcaster to create the mysterious contents of the box empathic, thus giving birth to mercerianesimo.
Wilbur Mercer is thus a sort of television program screened box empathic, a mono-thematic programming consists of many short films from the simple power of suggestion which in themselves have nothing mystical.
After the revelation of the followers mercerianesimo are upset because, as stated on pg. 77: Wilbur Mercer is not a human being, this is clearly an archetypal entity from the stars, superimposed on our culture through a kind of cosmic matrix ...
Buster Friendly therefore enjoys the fun of the religion of human dependence on external technological manipulation. He delegitimize Mercer and mercerianesimo (as well as the religious aspect that it has taken) simply because of the stage fiction (and fiction are digital VG). The box empathic simply creates a consensual hallucination with pictures and sounds, hiding the nature of the artificial construct of the projected contents.
But what then is deducted from the novel is that it actually fears Buster Friendly Mercer because it was not the sensitivity and empathy required to melt, he represents the threat that would make him and others like him a small but important thing: not to be human. The Buster Friendly-man show is in fact an android - a synthetic organism, an entity characterized by a lack of human quality for Dick fundamental empathy for others.
ANALOGY - Buster Friendly plays the role of critics of the experiences from the use of interactive entertainment content today. He takes the figure of Ministers, the art critics of the fundamentalists and non-videogame inveterate (Assassins, bad for the culture medium), ie all those individuals androids to the VG and gamer as chronically unable to empathize, always ready to dismiss them angrily with the ineptitude of those who is uprooted to make the slightest step to understanding. This is unfortunately a structural deficit, a deficiency that would require a cultural engagement difficult.
This leads us to reflect on the ambiguity of an integral that tends constantly to minimize the significance of the VG on human emotions are however always willing to scagliarvisi against fearing the impact on the social level (due to alleged operational models and influential on the psyche).

The sentiment is understandable, moreover, Wilbur Mercer physical cause to others what he accuses physically, so ...

In fact Mercer is the elevation of cyberspace on the life of our inner cyberspace, namely the human spirit. Just as the protagonist says about Mercer in the final pages of the novel: "So this is what Mercer sees (...). Life that we can no longer see; life carefully buried almost up to the front in the carcass of a dead world. In every tiny grain of the universe Mercer probably can not see the invisible life. Now I know. And once I learned to look through the eyes of Mercer, maybe I will not stop more .
As if to say that once you learn to play, maybe is not to stop anymore.
It 'called invisible life that life can not be seen, but which is operating separately in each human being. Hear it, blending their own than others, creating a powerful collective spirituality, a common cyberspace within, from inside to outside and vice versa, is what we practice unconsciously interfacing to the network, whenever we're connected whenever we enter a room, sharing our time on Xbox Live, Home, Second Life, etc. ...

Everything we need, perhaps, is really of mutual empathy.
Philip Kindred Dick may be right.