India not getting Fallout 3, WHY?
Fallout 3 is one awesome game that everyone wants to play. Microsoft India has planned something special for their customers. There are canceling the Fallout 3 release in India due to “cultural sensitivities in India“, according to GamingIndians.
Microsoft India didn’t explained alot about the statement. There could a number of reasons of cancelation like the presence of gore, violence and drug-use but if these are the reasons then why they have Bioshock, Grand Theft Auto and Postal in the market. Blend Games did some digging and came up with this. Read the find in full post.
In the Fallout games, survivors of the apocalypse use “brahmin” - two-headed cows mutated by radiation - as pack animals. In Hindu religion, cows are revered and it wouldn’t surprise me if the ability of players to shoot up herds of “brahmin” in Fallout 3 factored into the cancellation. The name of the radiated cows probably didn’t help matters, either, as the term originates in India. “Brahman” is the name of a breed of cattle from India and the name of a prominent concept in Hindu religion (”the primal source and ultimate goal of all beings”). “Brahmin” is also the term for “the class of educators, scholars and preachers in Brahminical Hinduism” according to Wikipedia, which is making me sound a lot smarter than I am here. Could any or all of this hit some sort of nerve?
This make sense about “Cultural Sensitivities”. I think most of gamers who really wants to play, will be getting Fallout 3 by what means, you know them.
Via: Blend Games
October 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Holy shit ..! They are gonna cancel the game just for cultural sensitivity? Yeah rite i guess all the Asians are way to sensitive wen it comes to their life style and culture.
BTW, man ur post and posting style Rocks!