Boy, I'd hate to live in Australia...

Noogle · Status: Offline Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 40 $poons: 0.00

It's a bit of irony, really. Being a south African I've seen a lot of countrymen immigrate to Australia because the climates are teh same, plus it's a Commonwealth thing. and for all intensive purposes it seems like the land of milk and honey, providing that you're planning to do the white picket fences thing. And this is becoming a bit too evident with the almost zealous refusal of age certificates for games (let's call it what it is: banning).

Let's see: GTA 3, Vice City, Manhunt, LSL to quote a few recent examples... Carmageddon was censored with green blood and unless I'm mistaken a few of the Mortal Kombat games also didn't make the cut thanks to, apparently, the Aussie authorities not permitting games that carry an R (18+) rating.

Now it might be Half-Life 2? It's a bit old, so I don't know if it's still relevant, but that must suck. How does it feel to be a gamer in a country where mature titles could easily be axed? I don't really know because we seem to let anything in these days - a nice lashback from the Apartheid era's ridiculous amount of censorship.

LordPaludis · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:42 pm�� Post subject:

i dont think half-life 2 is being banned (or i f-cking hope not) but yes it is rather annoying to have games like LSL banned but u just download them anyway (if they're pc.. if its for console its a tad harder) but meh it doesnt make me want to live somewhere else just so i can buy games with teh b00bies.

Mike\ · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:49 pm�� Post subject:

it doesnt bother me, everyone knows i just download everything ;|

and games will get an r rating pretty soon i hope (aint there supposed to be a vote next year?)

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Noogle · Status: Offline Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 40 $poons: 0.00

Hmm, okay, quasi-censored. If I recall correctly, that was left in as a convenience to bypass the censorship situation. The proper version of the game required neither a password nor the later-released blood patch. So SCI found a loop-hole, but the point still stands.

Benno · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:50 pm�� Post subject:

Oh, and there is more to life than games, so there isnt a real worry.

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ObsoletE · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:05 pm�� Post subject:

i don't remember Carmageddon ever being censored... at least not by the OFLC... though i only ever played the PC versions so maybe a console version was altered...

only the first Mortal Kombat was modified, and that was at Nintendo's request (Sega opted for the blood cheat), not the OFLC... i also thought this was world-wide, not just Australia...

i don't think there'd be a problem with HL2 though, i mean, Soldier of Fortune 2 got through being able to carve up people with a knife, and HL is more aliens... but, i know PEGI gave it an R rating though, so who knows?

this could then open up a whole can of worms as far as getting it via Steam is concerned too...
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Cerebral · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:21 pm�� Post subject:

I think it'll be fine. If Doom 3 gets entrance here then Half Life 2 should have no problem. Perhaps the European Games Dudes just classify games based on a different regime.
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ObsoletE · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:19 pm�� Post subject:

from what i hear, the PEGI guys are a bit more uptight about violence than the OFLC... it's just they have an R18+ rating to go to, whereas the OFLC don't...

what is Doom 3 rated by PEGI out of interest?
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Brendan · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:55 pm�� Post subject:

Guys, it's total bullshit.

The only game I can recall banned/edited due to VIOLENCE was MK1 and Postal 2. Manhunt could count here, but that was a more a victim of media sensationalism than anything else.

Only games with sex get banned (South Park's take on this on Monday was gold). Simple as that.

Until it's November 16th and EB says "we don't have the game on our release list", I won't believe it's banned.

ObsoletE · Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:41 pm�� Post subject:

i'd believe it when (if) the OFLC website says its banned too...

i don't see Valve releasing a censored version either...

but then, i don't think it'll have any problems...

EDIT: btw i found the PEGI website (www.pegi.info) and Doom 3 also got an 18+ rating... so shouldn't be a problem...
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Matt · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 5:04 pm�� Post subject:

Preorder box in the stores has an MA rating. Nothing on the OFLC's website, but there's no chance that it will get RC'd. Just a bunch of stupid folks not checking the facts before posting the story.
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GroovySamurai · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:15 pm�� Post subject:

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http://www.oflc.gov.au/content.html?n=46&p=35&sMature=1&record=198493

There you go!! that says it all![/flipv]

bubba SIN · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:08 pm�� Post subject:

As an australian i would like to say WE DONT HAVE @#$%ING WHITE PICKET FENCES!! now with that said Half life 2 will DEFINANTLY be coming out in Australia. (Iv already pre ordered

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Kogi Kaishakunin · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 1:01 pm�� Post subject:

Let's put it this way; none of the GTA games in my collection are Australian PAL releases.

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