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capcom starts a disturbing trend with the american port of biohazard: gun survivor

1.29.2000» Updated!

1.27.2000» I knew it had to happen someday. A game company bowing down to the Religious Reich and watering down a game.

I really doubt that anyone in Washington D.C. has any idea what Resident Evil: Survivor is, except maybe to think "Oh! Thats the game where you're a zombie and have to eat and kill people!"*

In case you (tsk!) don't know, either, Survivor is a light-gun Resident Evil game -- at least it is in Japan.

Thats right.

CapCom has made the ~~blockheaded asinine knee-jerk reaction~~ decision to remove light-gun support from the US version of the game, and the reason for this ~~idiotic mistake~~ alteration can be summed up in one word:

Columbine.

Yes, bowing to pressure and wanting to avoid attention, CapCom has slinked into the shadows and make Survivor into another Doom-clone. Doom-clones aren't necessarily bad, but c'mon! Leave the fricking game as-is.

Actually, I find this whole situation humorous. I mean, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were Doom-heads (and in the age of Quake and Half-Life, shouldn't that have been a warning sign to friends and family?!) They weren't wasting their money at the arcade playing Time Crisis or House of the Dead, so why fucking remove the light gun support.

I knew something like this would eventually happen, but I was hoping not to one of my favorite game developers and to one of my favorite game sieries.

This is a little addendum I was sent by my friend Daniel:

Back in the early days of Nickelodeon (1991-1993ish) they decided to air a special on one little girl's quest to eliminate violent video games and toys, including the then-popular Nerf guns. This girl, whose name I forgot (luckily for her) described one such video game, in which you were a Nazi whose objective was to kill as many Jewish prisoners as possible before they escape the prison. The game she was talking about? Wolfenstein 3D. Goes to show you how the media and the general idiot populace is making things better all the time. Next thing you know, they'll ban the Constitution for promoting slavery, discrimination, and oppression.

*Way back in 1994, senators portrayed the Sega CD game Night Trap as a game where you had to kill young women, when in fact it was a game where you were supposed to save those women.