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The Dude

#21 July 12, 2008, 06:08:22 am

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Lyndon

#22 July 12, 2008, 01:15:56 pm

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It's not even drug abuse though :/. He's takin morphine to cure the pain. It's not like he's smoking crack to get bonus points. It's just like getting a health pack, but using pain killers i.e morphine.

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#23 July 12, 2008, 08:31:48 pm

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Quote from: Lyndon on July 12, 2008, 01:15:56 pm

It's not even drug abuse though :/. He's takin morphine to cure the pain. It's not like he's smoking crack to get bonus points. It's just like getting a health pack, but using pain killers i.e morphine.

If it's like the previous games, you'll get addicted to it if you use it too often, and suffer withdrawal if you don't use it while addicted.

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#24 July 12, 2008, 09:18:04 pm

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This is the same country that banned Santa Claus from saying "Ho Ho Ho"

I'm not surprised.

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#25 July 13, 2008, 02:56:55 am

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Goddamn it, I hate living in Australia.

This is stupid, anyway. What about Max Payne? That had you taking painkillers to restore health! Bring in the R Rating for games, fine. Pissing me off with your gay fucking censorship laws.

And as it's been mentioned, it's not even going to stop people getting the game, because you can just import it. So all the kiddies who want their drugs can buy it on eBay with their parents' credit card.

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#26 July 13, 2008, 03:18:33 am

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Quote from: Lyndon on July 12, 2008, 01:15:56 pm

It's not even drug abuse though :/. He's takin morphine to cure the pain. It's not like he's smoking crack to get bonus points. It's just like getting a health pack, but using pain killers i.e morphine.

The fuck are you talking about?
It is drug abuse, Morphine is a drug. And you will have the ability to overdose and become addicted to it in game.
Which is why they are up in arms, Because its a perscription drug that exsists today.
Its not that i dont see reason in their banning, Personally i believe alot more games should be rated R18+
It just fucking sucks

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#27 July 13, 2008, 03:40:28 am

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I don't understand how the 360s region encoding works. Right now (RIGHT NOW) I'm playing Just Cause which I bought in the middle east and it's a Region 5 game and my copy of BioShock came from Singapore which is region 3. I bought my 360 in the states so it's region 1 but apparently it's region free or something!!

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#28 July 13, 2008, 03:56:24 am

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The region locking is on the discs, afaik, Marcus! It's a pretty ridiculous (but beneficial in many circumstances) system.

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#29 July 13, 2008, 04:14:33 am

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Yeah, but while drugs might help you in the short-term, they lead to withdrawal and addiction later on (at least in FO 1 and 2). Maybe a good lesson for the kids, eh?

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#30 July 13, 2008, 04:27:41 am

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I think this country's forgetting about the fact that you could have dope or something in GTA Vice City and could run around with blurry vision. As said before, they could just change the name. Call ULTRA ADDICTIVE CHEMICAL SEVENTY THREE instead of morphine. I've never played Fallout 1 or Fallout 2, but this I was really looking foward to. I just hope they dont's find some gay reason to ban Fable 2, or Guitar Hero 4, or even Lemmings. Yes, I DO believe they'll find something wrong with Lemmings. There are porn DVD's in PLAI VIEW at my local DVD store, why not ban movies? A very popular movie,Wolf Creek, was made here, and got no cut whatsoever, even though it was mainly concerned with murder and rape. I hate my government. OH WELL! I'll import FO3 when it's released.

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#31 July 13, 2008, 04:33:38 am

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Or they could just give it a generic name like painkillers. Max Payne used pain killers as health but they never said exactly what drug it was. Probably aspirin since it was available everywhere.

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#32 July 14, 2008, 06:17:14 am

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Quote from: real_jamicus on July 11, 2008, 05:12:36 pm

first the stolen generations and now they're banning fallout 3?!?!

get a grip australia

rudd's a dud.

rudd apologied to the stolen generation & aboriginal people though, which was something no prime minister had done before! that was kinda good. he's not great otherwise but it's only been a few months.

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#33 July 14, 2008, 12:08:46 pm

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How can they possibly throw a fit over the drug use in fallout when you can get addicted and suffer withdrawal symptoms and the like. Its not like its portraying drugs as good.
Oh and when you use morphine in the game does anyone know you'll halucinate? Cos morphine isn't a painkiller, its a hallucigenic.

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#34 July 14, 2008, 01:01:12 pm

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Guys, seeing the virtual effects of virtual drugs on kids isn't going to dissuade them from anything. The two or three of you that said THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO PORTRAY THEM TO KIDS is way off. They're not associating it with real life (when they are we consider that a PROBLEM, not a good thing).

Also part of the point is that kids shouldn't be playing this anyway so...!

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#35 July 14, 2008, 01:32:08 pm

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Quote from: Velfarre on July 14, 2008, 01:01:12 pm

Also part of the point is that kids shouldn't be playing this anyway so...!

Yeah, I was thinking about this today. What kind of young kid would play the Fallout series? It's text-heavy as hell, doesn't have flashy graphics (although that's a bit different with the new one) and generally is just NOT FOR KIDS.

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#36 July 14, 2008, 01:59:47 pm

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Quote from: PTizzle on July 14, 2008, 01:32:08 pm

Yeah, I was thinking about this today. What kind of young kid would play the Fallout series? It's text-heavy as hell, doesn't have flashy graphics (although that's a bit different with the new one) and generally is just NOT FOR KIDS.

haha are you kidding me, i started playing fallout early highschool.

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#37 July 15, 2008, 08:29:22 am

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Quote from: XxSylverxX on July 14, 2008, 01:59:47 pm

haha are you kidding me, i started playing fallout early highschool.

Do you really think the average youngin would play Fallout at a young age though? I started early but that's because I was always into those kind of games. Assumedly you were as well.

I might be stereotyping a bit but I've seen a lot of young people who shy away from anything too complex and would rather play console games instead of PC games that don't have a lot of visceral payoff.

If someone asked me WHAT GAME IS FOR KIDS? Fallout would definitely not be anywhere in my mind.

Also any news on NZ's stance? Can us Aussies play UK games on our 360's? I'm definitely not missing out on this.

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#38 July 15, 2008, 09:01:31 am

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I played fallout in 1997.
i was 12

due to recent fire, Michael Atkinson has decided he needs to explain his stance.

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I am aware that statistics show many game players are adults. Indeed, a whole generation has now grown up with computer games. It is not surprising that those who enjoyed gaming as children... play electronic games with their own children... 62% of Australians in these gaming households say the classification of a game has no influence on their buying decision...

Given this data, I cannot fathom what State-enforced safeguards could exist to prevent R18+ games being bought by households with children and how children can be stopped from using these games, once the games are in the home. If adult gamers are so keen to have R18+ games, I expect children would be just as keen. I have publically argued that because electronic games are interactive, the violence and other adult content in games have a strong impact. I am particularly concerned about the impact these games have on children, who can spend a lot of their unsupervised leisure time gaming.

Pretty much what he's saying is "We are parenting your children and decided what we want them to play/see/eat/hear/do" Im over 18, I have no kids and i want to play a game in a household that has no children. This guy seems unable to grasp the concept that adults play videogames without kids
god i hate that cunt.

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The Dude

#39 July 15, 2008, 06:44:25 pm

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I just downloaded a new trailer from the Playstation Store, and wow... you Aussies will really be missing out!

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PTizzle

#40 July 16, 2008, 12:36:15 am

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Michael Atkinson is a twat. Leave parenting to the parents.

I really, really don't see why people over 18 should have to suffer because some parents won't be able to resist picking up 18+ games for their kiddies. It's retarded as shit.

Plus seriously, how many games have actually got banned here in the past? GTA temporarily, some shitty games. This is much more of a big thing and I'm really hoping that they figure out a way around it because it's just over-sensitive idiots crying foul at media violence/drug use once again.

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