LIttle big planet delay, order from NCSX if you want one now.

Since I read about the recall and delay of LBP to possibly Nov. 14th due
to the "offensive" song, I went ahead and ordered it from NCSX.

I never really order new games online and especially pay express mail
shipping ($22 for me) for them, but the promise to have it by 3pm tomorrow
was just to great.

Plus I look at it as a first run unmodified version.

 

Got into the Beta and was satisfied with the quality of gameplay.
Slightly dissapointed they have pulled back the release date, but it was never something I had been looking forward to...

 

What was the offensive song?

 

Here is a copy of the letter to Sony. It's got all the info.

To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule
While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third
world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari"), I have noticed something
strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened
carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the
Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:
http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/preview/soundclip22503c0.wav
The words are:
1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt",
literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').
2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man
alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').
I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact
same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain
Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided
to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.
We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran
deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game
immediately via an online update, and make sure that all future shipments
of the game disk do not contain it.
We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like
this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time"
contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later
shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim
organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of
Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was
spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies
thankfully removed the content.
We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary
controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.
Regards,
NSider
(On behalf of the gamers at True-Gaming.net)

 

'All that is on earth will perish'
:lol::lol::lol:INFIDELS!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Buy the infidel versions, they will probably be valuable when there all gone!
Wow, imagine if no one said anything about it :110:

 

Wow, I never knew that about Zelda : OoT.

 

Oh heaven forbid we piss off Muslims......

 

this is a gaming forum last time I checked

 

It's the same bullshit that denyed many people the underrated fighter Kakuto Chojin

 

LittleBigPlanet recall

see http://www.edge-online.com/news/littlebigplanet-delayed-quran-concerns -- the troubles of religion aside, that version had been shipped to many retailers and those are all asked to return the goods - did it actually go on sale for a day? anyone got a copy of that version ?

tubo

 

you've got to be fucking shitting me.

 

Merged.

 

*pokepoke*

9/11...

in a game...where I can create big buildings and shit...

do I REALLY want them pissed off?

No.

but I do agree - this a bullshit reason. then again, Christians have objected video games before and to me religion is religion and it's all bullshit.

but whatever.

Fix it so I can play.

 

There are stacks of 9/11 LBP recreations on Youtube, of course, with the corollary of outraged blog posts elsewhere. The usual principle applies, as far as I'm concerned: if it offends you, don't watch it.

 

i was actually making a joke about virtual terrorism being conducted by angry muslims in LBP

 

Yeah, my post wasn't really directed at you, I was just ruminating on the idea.

 

My Jihad version should be here in a couple hours.
Can't wait =)

 

my excitement for LBP has definitely dwindled over the past couple of months. i'm not sure why... but i'm all about Fable 2 and Fallout 3 now. in other words, i'm not going to buy a PS3 for this game. sorry Barc0de.

 

My first creation on LBP will now be a giant walking version of Muhammad that you have to take down Colossos style.

You know, just because...:110:

 

Mine shipped from Best Buy yesterday. :dance: