Having kickstarted a survival horror revolution, EA's Dead Space franchise had been dormant for a decade. Now the 2008 original has been remade for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles with a new focus on self-inflicted scares. GQ speaks to the makers of this cult classic revival.
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Remedy has made a couple of changes to its core management team with the goal to grow Alan Wake and Control into larger franchises.
Changes like not being anti consumer? putting out Alan Wake Remastered on disc but not the sequel?
An executive of Electronic Arts Japan has criticised the Japanese video game ratings board for allowing upcoming action game Stellar Blade to be released uncensored while EA's own Dead Space was banned in the country.
He’s got a point. If a game is M-Rated, which is the equivalent of an R rating, I don’t get why you need to censor anything. The rating is the indicator of the content and the age appropriate. If it’s appropriate for adults… why treat them like children? 🤷♂️
This is about gore... not about anything sexual. And specifically I think it is about the realistic depiction of gore. Unfortunately I don't know the nuance of the CERO board or how it is relevant their specific culture (as a prohibition on gore may transcend age) so I hesitate to make a statement. Can anyone else provide insight to what kind of gore is considered unacceptable?
Yea, I know this is about gore, but thanks for pointing that out.
My point still stands, if a game is essentially rated for a mature audience then why censor for them as if they’re too young to view it? Makes no sense.
To answer your question: Decapitation, dismemberment, like… anything gore. They have been censoring that since CERO was established. Look up RE4 chainsaw decapitation or any MK games that made it there.
Yet, the Oneechanbara series (y'know, the game with half-naked samurai females slicing up zombies to bloody pieces) get released in Japan uncensored.
The CERO ratings board is an equilibrium.
This confuses me since I've seen so many gory Japanese movies and anime. For example, Battle Royale.
I don't know if the EA executive is going off the one close up of an arm being cut off in the demo. Maybe it's uncensored because it's the arm of a cyborg or it doesn't happen that often (didn’t see EVE dismemberment when killed in the demo) .
In the states there's a certain amount of swear words allowed to a PG13 movie before it is deemed R. So maybe it's the same in Japan for gore?
Yes I think you may be on to something. The violence is gory but I wouldn't call it gruesome.
Does EA Japan actually make games at all? Or are they just a regional publisher?
I disagree. All ea had to do is Green light the idea. Other then that everything was laid. Not a knock on the game cause it looks dope af just ea don't need credit it doesn't deserve.
EA never had that crown, chill out bro
What revolution did Dead Space create? It was a great game but it had nowhere near the same impact that series like Castlevania, Sweet Home, Alone in the Dark, Doom, Clock Tower, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Amnesia, Fatal Frame, Dark Souls & System Shock had on the genre.
EA nearly killed the franchise with DS3 which likely was the reason Schofield left to start his own company. then let's it stagnate for ten years. Them coming out with a visually polished remake of DS1 that pales in comparison to Capcoms resi remakes does not help them regain a crown they never had. If anything it's a reminder of what a parasitic lousy company EA is and frankly dead space deserves better.
it never had the crown, it made two pretty awesome dead space games, and thats it