Really wish they would add the custom radio back in, anyone know why they removed it?
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The service they were using is no longer an active streaming service
Groove, I think it was called. Another business Microsoft paid big bucks for, then shut down. Nokia & Mixer are two others that I know of.
So annoyed Iâll never get those Mixer Star Card things in FH4. Yeah, not really. But for the completists out there, a real nightmare.
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YepâŚIâm more of a completionist type so the mixer crap was infuriating
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This was the censorship I first picked up on. And it was extremely weird.
Also Karma the Knifeâs âTo err is to be Human, but to [gamble] is to be a fool.â I mean⌠within context, the line is making a statement against gambling. And even without context, gambling itself might be financially irresponsible but is ultimately not the worst thing on Earth.
Even weirder is what they choose not to censor (according to their logic). âI let my demons take overâ sounds pretty messed up to me. With how trivial the other words theyâve censored are, youâd think a dark line like that would also get cut.
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They actually went in and censored even more of Karma the Knife and a few others recently. This is getting old.
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Any other censors you can think of? Specifically ones that mute words that wouldnât be questionable for children.
They butchered Intergalactic too. For example, hereâs some lines from it in the gameâŚ
âWell, if you [censored] me I feel reviledâ
(the censored word is âbattleâ)
âIf you want to [censored] youâre in denialâ
(the censored word is âbattleâ again)
âCominâ from [censored] to check my styleâ
(the censored word is âuranusâ, as in the planet)
All of those are ridiculous, did they forget Pokemon is rated E for everyone and litterally revolves around âbattlingâ? Or that battling doesnât strictly have to involve violence?
And donât even get me started on that last one â it is just absolutely juvenile! Itâs a PLANET and the song is treating it like a planet!
Listening to the song in-game made me question of it had F bombs I didnât know about. I thought to myself âWait, thatâs not like the Beastie Boys, they were a mostly clean rap group.â
Welcome to Demolition Man, man.
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Itâs not just some parts of the songs that were censored, itâs entire verses too. Most of them alluding to violence, drug usage, or even suggestive themes (think innuendo).
Notable offenders of this kind of censorship isnât just relegated to Horizon XS or Block Party, itâs also manifested into Bass Arena and Pulse of all things.
To date, the worst offenders are the XS and Block Party songs, as these censors are beyond horrific.
Teardrops by Bring Me The Horizon is the first to come to my mind and what they did to this song was terrible. I was hoping it would be removed but theyâre not likely to at all since BMTH is a British band.
Other ones notorious for this were:
âSmileâ by Wolf Alice
âStardustâ by Shwayze
âRoses (Imanbek Remix)â by SAINt JHN
âDreamcatcher Night Mixâ by Robotaki
âGet To Know Youâ by Dexter King
Is there anything else?
Also, since the next series is dedicated to a Horizon anniversary, I fear the new station will also get the same butchering, unless if they added past Hospital Records songs, that is.
Long gone are the days when FH used to be a T rated game, and FH2 was E10+. Music censorship back then was relatively lax and the only censors were extreme profanity.
Though I suppose Iâd use Hospital Records and Radio Eterna as these are unaffected.
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Not defending the censorship in the least but please, really ? Thatâs your defense for arguing the ridiculousness of bleeping Uranus ? Surely youâre not that naive ? Of the 7 extraterrestrial planets of the solar system why did they pick Uranus ? Because âitâs a PLANETâ ? No. lol. No. You want to talk juvenile⌠the meaning and reason for choosing it over say Neptune is obvious, clear, AND so juvenile. And again not defending censorship, but that is precisely why it got bleeped. And totally expected. Stupid ? Yes. Absolutely. Surprising ? Hardly.
to be fair, the song had an f-bomb in it
i think itâs completely fair to mute harsher swear words and sexual references
FH5âs issue is it censors anything and everything that can be seen as remotely adult oriented. Wouldnât be suprised if they began censoring the word âpaperâ since paper is used to make cigarettes
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Makes no sense if they picked the music themselves. So to be fair⌠its stupid.
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True, unless, and itâs happened, they picked the music based on the alternate label-sanitized for xyz-market and got delivered the artist original uncensored version instead, for whatever reason.
edit : I think itâs much more likely though that they âpickedâ the songs purely on some simple basic âwhatâs popular with the kids today ?â metric and never listened to it and only realized/reacted after complaints. Thatâs just the way it usually happens.
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remember folks, youre not even suppose to be alluding to profanity here so watch what you say 
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What about alluding to alluding to allusions of⌠wait a minute, is the term âprofanityâ ok ?
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what.
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Heâs right about it most likely being a bot. Audio search on my phone rarely hears me right.
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Make the next game 15+ so we can quit this nonsense. Or stop thinking children will be traumatised without censorship, because they wonât. We grew up just fine and so will they
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