Good podcast. Great comment of the week. D3vin, you are the super fan. How can mere mortals like me compete for comment of the week?

Well actually I was going for the “internet loot” section of the podcast but C.o.t.W will have to do.

The Qur’an quotes in question aren’t some lovely dovey stuff. These two phrases which made the song cut is as follows.

Every soul shall have the taste of death…
All that is on earth will perish…

While it sucks that it was delayed, seriously… six days. Cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it. If those quotes stayed in an E rated game, you can bet your butt everyone from Fox to Dr. Phil will be jumping on the game censor bandwagon. Just as Nintendo had to pull a couple songs from Ocarina of Time to avoid controversy (and remove the word “Hell” from Captain Falcon’s jacket), Sony has to do the same here. And sadly, it was a Muslim group that alerted them even though it was a Muslim song.

Games don’t have the privelage of being under the radar anymore. The moral majority who expect Cartoon Network and Playstation to raise their children unfortunately still run this country.

I wish the lyrics were talking about loving God or the Qur’an, Tim. It’s talking about Judgement Day and all humans dying (which is natural and all). And, yeah — I was getting the game for my little brother and frankly, I don’t want him to hear such words in a game, let alone mix music with the Qur’an. Updating/patches are out of the question, ’cause he’s impatient like that. Everyone seems to think that it doesn’t matter because they won’t understand it anyway, but there are some millions who are going to play the game who do understand the language, mostly young kids.

When a couple of guys contacted Sony about it, Sony answered them within hours and said they’re looking into it right away — that impressed me, really, as I didn’t think they’ll get much out of Sony, that Sony is going to label them as extremist and go on with their original plans. And fine, they have a large market in the Middle East and were probably worried about that, but they still responded.

What’s currently annoying me is the singer, he’s claiming that it’s normal to use words from the Qur’an in a song — er, yeah, wherever he came with that from. The guys responsible for the audio/music are to blame, too — don’t pick a song just because it sounds cool, that’s stupid. This is a video game, not a radio talk show that only 50 know about.

But things are looking good for you Ray, at least from my point of view.

Ooo! I have another completion question: Who’s finished all the Paper Mario’s at least twice? Anyone? This is actually open to anyone that wants to answer.

And Ray, perhaps you could post a version of the podcast that is unedited…just this once. I understand editing out a lot of parts on the podcasts, but when it comes to choosing a president, we need to know all the facts! XD

And Tim! You need to get on the ball about those games! I know you beat Portal and Bioshock rather quickly, so why not these games? Mostly everyone on this site is a fan of Nintendo, so show some Nintendo support!