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[VGEsoterica]

Finally I get to use my very expensive, needlessly long fine art education and college professor of fine art filmmaking and cinema history knowledge as I've never once seen a game be more wrongly reported on or banned as Horses.

Is it a "fun" experience? No. Does it have challenging content? Yes. Does anything rise to the level of something that should be kept away from audiences? No! It's actually a very meditative game on just how easy it is to convince something about how "right" actions or behaviors are when they know they are inherently wrong. It's just sad that now that is being hidden away on most major platforms.

So if anyone else enjoys cinema history...have fun with it! I cant be the only person to spend seven years obtaining useless fine art degrees!



(I searched and no topic about the content of the game came up but Gaf search always lets me down so if it was started I am sure someone could merge this)

 

[Arsic]

We talked about it in another thread. Has the game title in it.

They know why it was banned. Naked kid on shoulders of naked woman of naked horse man or some shit.

 

[Jaybe]

Pedo game. Purple forum seemingly loves going to bat for it.

 

[HRK69]

I kind of wish you'd dive into deeper spoiler territory since I'll probably never get around to playing it

But either way, I had fun watching it! Good video.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

It'll be forgotten in a few weeks like Hatred back in the day.

 

[Magic Carpet]

 

[Furozen]

They know why it was banned. Naked kid on shoulders of naked woman of naked horse man or some shit.

It was an early, abandoned concept. There are no kids in Horses.

The game is very tame. The worst things (such as rape and castration) are not shown on screen, and genitals are censored through pixelation. Comparisons to Passolini's Salo are absurd.

 

[Hohenheim]

Comparing this game to a fantastic movie like Passolini's Salo seems far fetched. That movie is a (dark and somewhat disturbing) classic.

 

[Arsic]

It'll be forgotten in a few weeks like Hatred back in the day.

Bingo.

It's only claim to fame is this "controversy."

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

At a first glance this is very "problematic", censorship bad, let's cry about like the "censorship" in Stellar Blade... . But a movie like this ain't playing/distributed in your mainstream movie theaters by
massive studios either.
So, what is stopping these devs from selling this game directly to consumers through their own website for example? (plus the storefronts that have no problem with the game's content)

 

[\m/etalStorm]

Comparing this game to a fantastic movie like Passolini's Salo seems far fetched. That movie is a (dark and somewhat disturbing) classic.

Yea, the battle of the great arts.
Humiliating people dressed as horses .vs. eating sh*t with a spoon.

 

[VGEsoterica]

Comparing this game to a fantastic movie like Passolini's Salo seems far fetched. That movie is a (dark and somewhat disturbing) classic.

But that's its most direct correlation in thematic content

 

[VGEsoterica]

Pedo game. Purple forum seemingly loves going to bat for it.

There are no non-adult characters in the entirety of the game. At all. I've even uploaded a long play. Every character is an adult. No clearer way to state that

 

[Cyberpunkd]

At a first glance this is very "problematic", censorship bad, let's cry about like the "censorship" in Stellar Blade... . But a movie like this ain't playing/distributed in your mainstream movie theaters by
massive studios either.
So, what is stopping these devs from selling this game directly to consumers through their own website for example? (plus the storefronts that have no problem with the game's content)

This. You make artsy shit, even if I consider that art rubbish - fine, but you wouldn't expect such a movie to get massive promo campaign and open on all the screens nationwide. Steam is like your big chain theatre brand.

 

[analog_future]

There's like 100 movies every year that are more "extreme" than this quite tame (and quite lame) title.


It's very amateur, has a hamfisted message, and feels like it's trying to ape David Lynch and maybe Ingmar Bergman but infinitely shittier.


It's stupid that it got banned (there's not any extreme gore, there's not any unblurred nudity, there's no children, there's really nothing particularly grotesque that happens. It's just weird) but it also has done nothing to earn the spotlight it's been receiving.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

This game is absurdly tame compared what vile shit you see in easily accessible movies. I resent the double standard of pearl-clutchers around here and at steam that seem to think a child riding the shoulders of an absurd caricature is somehow going too far. If you want to hold to a standard then make sure its applied to all consumer entertainment, including books and movies.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Correct me if I'm wrong but the game got banned from Steam for its early concept which featured children & naked adults together. Valve isn't obligated to spend time and re-check it again to learn if it's 'safe' now or is the more/less obvious unacceptable content still there. And the studio shouldn't have continued working on this project if they expected Steam to be their main platform for selling the game.

The entire drama right now is created (with the help of some journos) to have temporary buzz and sell some copies on epic and gog. The game will be forgotten a month from now.

 

[Signalis]

The barrier of entry into making and releasing a game has become way too low

 

[Vlodril]

Monopolies are good when it's Valve. Oh wait it's not a monopoly they just control the vast majority of the market i forgot.