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Peculiar censorship in the Kingdom Under Fire Games

Farout FoolioFarout Foolio Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Long story short, they always use the words "patriarch" and "matriarch" when we would say king or queen, (which isn't weird in of itself) buuut, whenever a voice actor says it it's bleeped out!

Now I'm no world culture expert, but where the heck are king and queen bad words?

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I think the patriarch used to be the pope. I don't know if they were worried about Catholics getting offended at an evil game using their pope, or about the Tom Chick Protestants of the world getting offended at the evil pope being in the game, but there you go.

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  • Ed321Ed321 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yeah I recall that happening in KoF, and iirc they say Patriarch but also partially bleep it in The Crusaders, probably due to some weird mix-up (e.g. they bleep pope but still add "patriarch" on top of it), but say "patriarch" out loud in Heroes? Or maybe "Pope" is totally bleeped in Crusaders but not in Heroes. I might be remembering it all wrong.

    I could've sworn they use "king" for actual kings and such in the game, it's just the "Holy Empire" of Ecclessia that's affected.

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, any reference to the 'pope' is gone. Same with Papal, replaced with Patriarchal. They were scared of getting the Church riled up, I guess, since
    the pope is kind of a jerk.

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