WTF?! Aussie rating board, no drugs in Fallout 3!?

[Hypocrisy86]

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Fallout 3 Censorship Goes Global
by Blake Ellison Sep 09, 2008 5:18pm CST tags: Fallout 3, Censorship, Controversy
Bethesda has revealed that following trouble with the ratings board in Australia, all versions of Fallout 3 will be identically censored when the game is released in October.
"We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform," Bethesda VP Pete Hines told Edge.

Fallout 3, a sequel expanding on Black Isle's classic PC RPG series, was initially refused classification in Australia, effectively banning the game from sale. The game was modified so that "the reward and incentive" for in-game drug use was reduced significantly and then given an MA-15+ rating.

Names for real-world drugs have also been removed from the game.

Hines asserted, "An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names."

okay so this means the drug use,rewards etc are banned not just for Aussie but for UK USA, total bullshit, whats with Aussie doing this to so many games?...

 

[DriDDeRz]

Aussie wants to bann everything they can,
recently someone in aussie wanted to bann food colourings that is added into like red lollies etc

thats another reason why i think part of australia is fuked up

 

[Hypocrisy86]

Aussie wants to bann everything they can,
recently someone in aussie wanted to bann food colourings that is added into like red lollies etc

thats another reason why i think part of australia is fuked up

I have nothing against Aussie.
i did notice the Rating board is controlled by the gov't though.
so in some way that makes the game having to be changed world-wide.
the rating system/board here in the states is private etc, not by the gov't.
and i also noticed the Aussie board, they don't have an R/MA rating for games.

MA games here in USA/UK = Ban in aussie, or have to change something in the game.

 

[El Freako]

God-dammit! I thought I was going to able to get around this by buying my copy in the UK. Fucking Aussie wowsers!

 

[DriDDeRz]

they wanted to ban - ManHunt

 

[Skeptic]

 

[Hypocrisy86]

^ can't read dat, yo. too small of pic, G.

 

[Hypocrisy86]

They didn't ban GTA4 right? thats even more shocking lol.
hitting people, stealing cars, beating hookers is less violent,harsh on a kids mind? lol.

 

[Skeptic]

^ can't read dat, yo. too small of pic, G.

click on it douche

 

[Hypocrisy86]

click on it douche

Why you so mad at me for.

 

[Skeptic]

im not mad at you... its a clickable picture... which takes you to the full picture (i dont have a pic host account)

 

[Hypocrisy86]

im not mad at you... its a clickable picture... which takes you to the full picture (i dont have a pic host account)

Sorry for negging you, i got that BURNED feeling like Duality, Tonka used to feel, guess old scars. gonna rep you.