Australian classification verdict: It's all junk!

Oh, so it's the drugs and not the dismemberment this time. It's not like Deus Ex, Boiling Point or Haze had you taking drugs either. Oh, and sticking things into your arms? Were Plasmids a suppository or something? Why don't they target real drug dealers instead of a video game. Dandenong sure could use the cleanup and I'm even more sure that all the people in the last year who were murdered in their sleep by junkies would appreciate it, I'm also quite doubtful that said junkies got their first fix from a vial of Zyme.


This is like going up to Bethesda and saying "I want a scotch and coke" but they reply "we only serve bacardi breezers", so you make do. Then the Australian Government comes along and says "that's no good, he's only allowed club sodas". FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

Australia seems like a terrible place to be a gamer. The friends I have there are always telling me how it seems like every other game released is either banned or heavily edited.

 

That is true. All the games I/we get are kind of... lacking, I even went through the trouble of getting games from out of the county to play them as they were meant to be played. It is seriously stupid to refuse classification because the game used a tried and true formula - using items, even if they are drugs, to enhance the Character. It seems to me, however that part of it is because the depiction of the drugs (Their image) is too detailed for the reviewers liking. Using non-real drugs - Images and Names - would probably work.

 

That's exactly what my friends say they do. It's not only the banning and such that sucks, it got to be hard paying more than one hundred dollars for a new game.

 

I guess that is the new tactics to making gaming unattractive; neuter it and force gamers to spend more money on a game which already questionable.

 

It is indeed troublesome. Plus, for console players there's the issue of TV formats. The US uses NTSC while we use PAL, which means most games brought in end up being unplayable.

Which brings the thought: If the game was in isometric view, that means whatever representation of drugs will be only a few pixels large, which is not so realistic, thus escaping the watchful eyes of the board.

Way to go for 'immersion'.

 

Well if it was truly immersive it should be possible to have our characters have a bad 'trip'.

Wow, check this;

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Typical Australian government screwing us again.

just like when the Prime Minister said drinking 4 beers in one sitting is classed as binge drinking....

 

I thought Dutch people were hip? There certainly is a good opportunity for them to model withdrawals here, though - I hope they made the most of it.

Incidentally, how did Fallout handle chem addiction, gameplay wise? I only ever got addicted to Rad-Away (in Fallout 2), and I think that was a bug, since I only used it once in that playthrough, and the only ill effect I noticed was an ADDICTED tag on my character sheet.

Yeah, Babelfish is silly sometimes.

 

Even more ironic is how Australia is stereotyped as a generally beer-swilling nation. Which we are.

 

And proud of it.

 

Kind of funny that prohibition obviously doesn't work on drugs themselves, and now their trying it on videogames with drugs in them.

Do you Aussies have black market uncensored game dealers? "psst, over here, i got the good shit, the blood isn't green and you can press the morphine button! only 95 bucks!"

make somethin illegal and you only make more criminals

 

Actually in most states within Australia a refused classification game only means that it cannot be sold, displayed in public exhibition or displayed to a minor. Buying or possessing the game (as long as you are 18+) is completely legal.

 

This is ad absurdum malum prohibitum. A vile infringement on the freedom to have bad taste. Boo you Australian Bureaucratic bozos without the common sense to create a new rating.

limb pain.... So could all the motion-blur and such be part of the the new 'limb pain' mechanic. And I thought it was just for concussions.

 

What if I wanted to play the game as character that didn't take drugs? Oh wait, they already removed all my options.

 

i guess ignoring a problem and keeping it out of the publics view make it go away eh ?

 

Caribbean Market has plenty of those types, except the games tend to come on DVD-R's.

 

You really didn't play much of the classic games, that's pretty clear.



The double standards here are absurd, particularly for anyone that watches Australian cinema or goes to check their online book stores. Pretty irrational stuff.