GOG should add Fatal Frame games, and more Silent Hill
I was on GOG the other day and noticed that some remastered games have abysmal reviews because apparently the games have been censored. I think the game I was looking at was Commandos 2 + 3. The HD versions have the censoring, but luckily they also have the originals. Just a shame that you can’t grab the technically more advanced version because they did it dirty like that.
Commando 2 HD was made by a German Developer who was worried of running afoul of a German law preventing you from showing Nazi Flags in video games. The law was amended to allow for the Nazi Flag to be shown when the Nazis are antagonists, since in Commando 2 you can play as germans, it was thought it wouldn’t count.
This change was not advertised or announced, leading to people buying the game who wouldn’t have had they known it was censored, creating a controversy in the process.
Commando 2 HD is not a “Good Old Game”, meaning GOG had nothing to do with it outside of hosting it, which Steam also did.
Games GOG has a hand in restoring are usually exclusive to GOG, or at the very least GOG has a version that’s patched to work with modern systems while the Steam version… isn’t… as is the case with Mystery Of The Druids
Hey thanks a lot for your level of detail on this!! That makes sense.
I’m liking that GOG seems to also have partnered with Amazon to bring some of their games to Amazon’s streaming service, Luna. I’ve been able to make use of that briefly anyway, so far.
The censorship they’re talking about in the interview is payment providers kicking up a fuss about stores selling games with content they don’t like.
The Commandos 2 HD censorship is different because it was done willingly by the developers of that version of that specific game. Still censorship of the original vision, but not the same situation.
Ahh. Thank you for clarifying. My fault for not reading…
Censorship is antithetical to preservation
I got Prison Architect there for literarily 5€.
