Games Effected by Real-Life Events
List of games that faced changes, delays or other issues do to real life events impacting development or social-economic shit idk.
Take a shot for every time it's 9/11's fault.
I would greatly appreciate suggestions for this list as I have found like only two events lol.
Take a shot for every time it's 9/11's fault.
I would greatly appreciate suggestions for this list as I have found like only two events lol.
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Final sequences of the game were changed dramatically in the wake of 9/11. American flags were removed, along with a scene where arsenal gear destroys a bunch of manhattan.
Delayed in the wake of the 2011 earthquake in japan, and had its advertising massively cut. Cancelled outright in japan.
Delayed a month, and changes were made to the city to resemble LA more than NY. Yes, it's 9/11.
Plane damage removed. This went on to effect every other game in the series hereon out. 9/11 again. Twin towers also obviously removed.
Console ports had twin towers removed. Unique entry on this list as you can still see them in the PC port. 9/11.
The first level of this game originally involved shooting down a plane which would crash into a building and reveal a special area. Lmao.
Outright cancelled due to 9/11.
Not this game in particular, but the team that made this game were previously Milestone, who were broken up in the aftermath of their chief getting arrested due to getting involved in a vietnamese biofuel scam in 2013.
Arabic text and a templar-resembling character removed in the aftermath of 9/11
Remained Japan only for 15 years in the light of the iraq war and political climate.
Plane crash removed as a disaster. Yep, it's 9/11 again.
Original Arcade version was made because of a large surplus of CRT monitors within japan at the time, leading nintendo to make a number of 2 screen games - of which punch out was the main one
Delayed in the wake of the 2011 japanese earthquake.
Ending was altered following the 2011 japanese earthquake.
Initially planned for release by IREM, cancelled due to the 2011 tokyo earthquake. Later restarted by Granzella (who are former IREM staff)
Made as a tribute to the 2011 earthquake in japan, raising money for the recovery effort. Also the best kill the past game.
Delayed and rushed partially due to flooding of the developer's office.
Delayed and theming adjusted thanks to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.
One of like 9 million games delayed for the covid-19 pandemic
(Some) Console ports had gore removed because of congressional hearings on Videogames. - Letshugbro
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Would Mass Effect 2 qualify since Jack who was intended as a romance for either gender was changed to male-only after Fox News backlash from the first game?
Also, all moves and attacks associated with Chris Benoit were removed from Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 after it was the first WWE game released after he committed a double murder-suicide in 2007.
Sega removed the voice and likeness of the actor Pierre Taki from the game Judgement after he got caught using cocaine.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/16/18409777/yakuza-judgment-new-actor-pierre-taki
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/16/18409777/yakuza-judgment-new-actor-pierre-taki
Also Punch Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream replaced Mike Tyson as the final boss, either because he lost a fight, or because they found out about his abusive behavior.
didn't their licensing contract just expire and nintendo didn't want to renew it?
I always heard that it was one of those reasons, maybe they didn't renew because of that? Idk though it's probably hard to tell because I doubt Nintendo would outright say it.
Touhou Ten Desires' demo release was delayed due to the cancellation of Reitaisai 8 caused by the 2011 japan earthquake.
Skulls of the Shogun is another game where the developer's house flooded, although I don't know how much it delayed the game.
Oh, another one - Fallout: Van Buren was cancelled because Interplay went bankrupt, shut down the studio and cancelled it. Does that count as a real life event, or are we looking for stuff outside of that? (Plus IDK if Van Buren is on here)
Colossal Kaiju Combat's cancellation began when the game's enviromental artist died at a critical time, and the creator of one of the kaiju (Shadowheart) also was unable to finish his contribution due to a house fire. So that's another one for the list.
not a concurrently-occurring event, but the arcade game Atomic Runner Chelnov got completely overhauled when ported to Genesis to remove all references to Chernobyl
letshugbro
2 years ago