Little Big Planet Delayed

Rahkesh Asmodaeus · Oct 18, 2008

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332733,00.asp

I fucking lol'd.

PC Magazine said:

LittleBigPlanet has been delayed worldwide due to the inclusion of quotes from the Qur'an, reports VideoGaming247.In a forum thread, a Muslim user commented that he listened carefully to some of the licensed music and caught the Qur'an references, and respectfully requested that they be removed. As a Muslim, the mixture of a holy book with pop music was offensive, leading Sony to pull the game despite it already being on retail shelves in some areas.
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Rofl! Fukken terrorists, now they're after the video games. D:

I mean, there were two phrases. In Somalian (not sure if that's legit or not, but I'll believe it for now) of all languages. That's just anal to the extreme.

I'm not too bothered, seeing as how I wasn't going to get the game in the first place. I never got what the hype over the game was in the first place, looked like something that should be out for the Wii, not the PS3.

Knox · Oct 18, 2008

I was ok with Muslims before this but now, RAGE! Burn the ... Church things, Pillage their villages and take the hot woman!

Rahkesh Asmodaeus · Oct 18, 2008

Random Muslim on the official Playstation Boards said:

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:

mt14.quickshareit.com/share/p...lip22503c0.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 patch, 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,

yasser

I hear all kinds of stuff on tv, in movies, in other games that say stuff about other religious material. These people need to grow up (no matter what religion your are), and if it says this kind of stuff in their Quran then they are already messed up. "We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending." Then its only words out of your language and not out of your Quran and MM mixed it, I hear Tupac Lyrics getting mixed all the time, and guess what he didn't say that stuff, he said the words, but not together like that. If it's actualy quotes out of your Quran then there are some problems there...

'Every soul shall have the taste of death' >>So we will all die one day!
'All that is on earth will perish' >>Not in my life time.
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I laughed. Hard. Especially at the "Certain hardcore Arabic gamer forums" bit. XD

Knox · Oct 18, 2008

Wait, Do they mean like actual Arab people, Like ones that live in the Middle east or like 7/11 workers that play Halo on the weekends? Either way it is lulz.

Havoc · Oct 25, 2008

Anyone going to pick up this game?

Rahkesh Asmodaeus · Oct 25, 2008

I'm definitely not. It looks stupid, imo.

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