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Posted 01 October 2008 - 05:58 PM

WTF.......

Fallout 3 Bannend because of the Stupidiest i reason i have efa heard....
plz watch: http://nl.youtube.co...feature=related

if you want to know why it is banned :S ...........
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 10:56 PM

I brought this up in the News Forum a while ago...
My thoughts are vaguley represented there. I Was too outraged to be as in depth as I could have been. but:
http://www.chefelf.c...?showtopic=7532


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Posted 02 October 2008 - 10:57 PM


Fucking Office of Film and Literature Classification.

They let the movie 'Glitter' though FFS.
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Posted 04 October 2008 - 08:14 AM

I really think it's time the OFLC took a long hard look at themselves. When you're censoring (or banning) a game that the rest of the civilised world has no problem releasing (albeit with an appropriate age rating), surely you must begin to think that maybe you're being a little draconian?

It's my understanding that the Australian game rating system doesn't have an equivalent to the 'R' Rating in America, or the UK's '18'. Now surely, in a world where video games are becoming grittier, and dealing with more complex and adult issues, that demonstrates a complete and utter lack of keeping with modern times?
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Posted 04 October 2008 - 07:01 PM

Well, to be honest, when it was just stopping rubbish like BMXXX I wasn't too fussed. But now this is the first time it's come up with something I actually care about, and for such an stupid reason, naturally I'm now pissed off about it.

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Posted 04 October 2008 - 10:05 PM

Wow...the OFLC is like the polar opposite of the ESRB in North America. We have an AO (adults only) rating, but hardly anything gets released with that. Most developers tone it down to get the M (mature) rating. I think BMXXX was the first commercially-available game to get an AO, but I can't recall if it was toned down afterwards. I think it was.
Regardless, these ratings boards fail to realize one simple thing: That parents don't fucking read the damned things anyway, and stores don't give a fuck if a 12 year old waltzes up to the counter with a copy of Rape Rape Bloodlust Sextravaganza 6 anyway. They still fucking sell it to them. I've verbally assaulted a manager at work in the past for buying their 8 year old daughter Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and fully support the ratings system, but I think that I am of a dying breed.
Granted I don't think that violent games do anything to "warp" a child's mind, but if you're going to buy your 8 year old a game chock full of violence, profanity, and racial slurs, you might be wise to supervise the gameplay and ensure that they understand that these things are not socially acceptable behaviour in most circles.
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Posted 07 October 2008 - 09:33 AM

QUOTE (Heccubus @ Oct 4 2008, 10:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow...the OFLC is like the polar opposite of the ESRB in North America. We have an AO (adults only) rating, but hardly anything gets released with that. Most developers tone it down to get the M (mature) rating. I think BMXXX was the first commercially-available game to get an AO, but I can't recall if it was toned down afterwards. I think it was.
Regardless, these ratings boards fail to realize one simple thing: That parents don't fucking read the damned things anyway, and stores don't give a fuck if a 12 year old waltzes up to the counter with a copy of Rape Rape Bloodlust Sextravaganza 6 anyway. They still fucking sell it to them. I've verbally assaulted a manager at work in the past for buying their 8 year old daughter Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and fully support the ratings system, but I think that I am of a dying breed.
Granted I don't think that violent games do anything to "warp" a child's mind, but if you're going to buy your 8 year old a game chock full of violence, profanity, and racial slurs, you might be wise to supervise the gameplay and ensure that they understand that these things are not socially acceptable behaviour in most circles.


Yeah it's kind of the same with the movie ratings in NA. Most studios won't develop AO games or movie studios won't produce NC-17 rated movies because of teh market.

a) Demographically, PG-13 rated movies and T rated games sell better than R rated movies and M rated games due to a wider available audience.

cool.gif When making an AO/NC-17 product, there is usually an instant reaction within the community solely based on the rating itself. This route is taken either by those who have an immovable artistic vision for their project OR more commonly by those who want to generate hype and plan on toning it down anyway.

I think the basic rule of reading applies here as Hecc states. If you as a parent/guardian don't feel it's worth your time to filter out what your children see, then why is it the government's responsibility? It all comes to censorship. I personally think it all comes down to this.

http://www.disasterc...ime/uscrime.htm

Crime has been slowly going down since 1993 in the United States, even with an inverse increase of population. 1992 saw the release of Mortal Kombat. Doom was released in 1993. Duke Nukem was released in 1991. The ushering in of the age of 'ultra-violence' and depravity in video games lines up with the decline of violent crime in the united states, before the formation of the ESRB in 1994.

The numbers don't line up even for a loose correlation.

So... sorry Aussies. sad.gif Fuck censorship.
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