Interessting facts

[Eronistes]

There's a full book you can read in Deus Ex. It's called The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton and shares some plot similarities with the game. The chapters were spread throughout the game in datacubes.


If you cheated while playing the Sega 32x version of Doom, after the game ends you're taken to a fake DOS prompt. You can't quit out of it, and the only way to escape the screen is to reset the console. If you didn't cheat, you get an extra cutscene.

The voice of Shodan, the insane AI in the System Shock series, was performed by the wife of the audio director at Looking Glass.

In World Of Warcraft there's a dungeon called Uldaman where you can find and recruit three 'lost dwarves', who look very similar to characters from The Lost Vikings on SNES.


Violent, pedestrian-squishing racer Carmageddon was only allowed to be released in the UK with zombies instead of people roaming the streets. In the Indian version, the cows were removed, and it was banned altogether in Germany.


In Germany, copies of Medal Of Honor: Frontline had to be reprinted because there was a swastika on the back cover. The developers also had to go back into the game and take out all the Nazi flags and other paraphernalia.



In the first Fallout, if you create your own character with less than 4 intelligence you can't converse with anyone; your only dialogue options are various grunts or other guttural noises. This makes the game insanely difficult to finish.

Thanks largely - we hope - to being bundled with a Wii-mote, Wii Play has sold around twice as much as Halo 3, shifting some 16 million copies.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH]

I like hearing about censorship facts

Is that nazi one right though ? Seems a bit ridiculous for a MoO game to have pink ties and happy faces

[Eronistes]

its true another 2 censor facts: in left 4 dead 2 the hand on the cover looks normal not rotted.


In Command And Conquer: Red Alert. Hitler (who is key to the plot) was removed from the intro cutscene, and all the soldiers were replaced with cyborgs.

[Sohakmet]

(07-28-2012 08:39 AM)Eronistes Wrote:  its true another 2 censor facts: in left 4 dead 2 the hand on the cover looks normal not rotted.

NO SHIT!

[Hypercat-Z]

A legend says that Miyamoto originally called his game Monkey Kong but, somehow, the M became a D during the developing of the game due to a typo.
The truth is that Miyamoto, like the most of Japanese people of the eighties, had a lame knowldege of the english language, but he wanted to call his game "Stubborn Gorilla" in an english manner. So he searched the english word for "stubborn" in the japanese-english dictionary and choosed the synonim "donkey" because he liked it, unaware of the fact that the first meaning of "donkey" is this:

And then he wrote "kong" because he was sure, like the most of japanese people, that the word "kong" was meaning "gorilla", like King Kong.

[Sohakmet]

Cool... I really don't think that I would want to play soem Stubborn Gorilla Country on my SNES