Australia's Game Rating Overhaul Delayed Again

HentMas

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Bob the frantic said:
Triforceformer said:
Ziadaine said:
I just know we're going to get either a dumbed down version of Duke Nukem Forever or it wont be allowed because its def' going to be rated R 18+.

Stupid NSW...
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=117556

I know, I was surprised as well.
Duke Nukem Forever is MA15+, but Left 4 Dead 2 is heavily censored? Well this is just proof that something is definitely wrong in my country. I think it's time to leave.
i think the first post in that thread was sooo true:

 

HentMas

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Taddy said:
Triforceformer said:
Ziadaine said:
I just know we're going to get either a dumbed down version of Duke Nukem Forever or it wont be allowed because its def' going to be rated R 18+.

Stupid NSW...
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=117556

I know, I was surprised as well.
Yeah this made no sense to me at all, apparently Bulletstorm got through with no edits or cuts as well. Not sure though.
holly crap its true!
http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/find.nsf/d853f429dd038ae1ca25759b0003557c/43c2bc0ff66df8b1ca2577ee0057eb92?OpenDocument

thats gotta be the most WEIRD thing i have EVER seen....
 
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Now all we have to do is vote on what a Just and Secure Society actually stands for. I foolishly thought it meant freedom of choice for the individual.
 

Mr Thin

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I'm a little confused.

Did New South Wales just say that because they're having an election, the whole of Australia has to grind to a halt, and avoid making any 'significant decisions'? Seems kind of arrogant to me.

Whatever, I'm numb to the pain by now.
 

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I hope everyone knows that the who reason why this issue exists in Australia is because stupid parents buy games blindly for their idiot kids without looking into the content before buying, they see the game when their child is playing and then start bitching about it, look at Black Opps, how many people have complained about it saw it only when their kids was playing it.

But anyway, with the politics, even after the NSW election, the overhaul still has to be approved by every state, including Queensland, a state that now probably has every video game, console and computer destroyed from water damage (or has a roof though it).

and even after that, doesn't it have to go though government, and knowing one of the independents, we'll be waiting a few months for him to finish bloody talking on the issue (not going to name who).

Ziadaine said:
I just know we're going to get either a dumbed down version of Duke Nukem Forever or it wont be allowed because its def' going to be rated R 18+.
i've seen the trailers, it's about the same and Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes yet more graphical, infact, any tits in it can't be any reason for dumbbing down or banning the game because there was just as much in Playboy The Mansion and they let that in, not to mention they let in girls bouncing up and down with only panties on your lap in that game, and as for violence, there's nothing you can point out that isn't in or not as bad as what was done in Gears of War 2 or Condemned

Undead Dragon King said:
It's all Michael Atkinson's fault, obviously. The man is a freaking sorceror, I tell ya. Even out of office, he can still delay the rise of his arch-nemesis: The R-18 rating!
best way to fix that, stick him on an island with a working game system (PS3, 360, PC, what every) and tell him he can only eat if he plays games and he can only leave when he becomes a gamer, that or we can kill him and teabag his corpse but that probably wouldn't help us but help prove that games promote violence and teabagging of corpses
 

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The thing about elections in Australia is they don't exactly have a fixed date. There's a date that they need to be held by, but a government either state or Federal can call it early, which means for most people we've only got an idea of what year it'll be held in rather then the month in that year.

It's a real pain in the arse that the NSW election is being held during the same that the State Attorney-Generals are supposed to be meeting, but the Attorney-General for NSW really can't attend as he is a member of current NSW goverment. That is to say if the current party acting as government loses said election the current Attorney-General will no longer be the state's Attorney-General as the new government will install their own from their own party.
 

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Taddy said:
Triforceformer said:
Ziadaine said:
I just know we're going to get either a dumbed down version of Duke Nukem Forever or it wont be allowed because its def' going to be rated R 18+.

Stupid NSW...
http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=117556

I know, I was surprised as well.
Yeah this made no sense to me at all, apparently Bulletstorm got through with no edits or cuts as well. Not sure though.
And Dead Space 2 made it as well. But heaven forfend you wanted to play Mark Ecko's Getting Up (an old example, I know).
 

RelexCryo

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The guys keeping Australians from playing certain games are called SCAG? Seriously? That's amusing.
 

Elexia

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If they don't let us have an R18+ rating, or threaten to tone down the Aussie release of Duke Nukem Forever, heads will roll.

If that's the case, I call dibs on releasing the blade.
 

008Zulu_v1legacy

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Thats ok, we will just pirate all the refused classification games until the game companies buy our politicans too.
 

Evilsanta

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I feel for you Austrailia.

Don't lose hope! You might not get a 18+ rating this lifetime but eventually it must happen.

Erhm...Yeah. Politicains would never do something as underhandend as this.
 

LazyAza

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Ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuu cheese sandwiches. God I hate our government. We should have had the rating over 2 decades ago but nooo just have to screw around uming and ahing over the matter till the end of time.
 

Don't taze me bro

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As much as I dislike the delay in the working towards an R18+ rating, the NSW election needs to go ahead. The sooner the Keneally government gets voted out, the better.
 

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Stiffkittin said:
Maybe it would just be quicker to start an initiative to setup a metric shit-ton of outboard motors along the western seaboard and sail Australia to a more sensible part of the world. Kangaroos in California anyone? I can see it.
We tried that back in '02 [http://www.satirewire.com/content/?p=173].
 

Linkage1992

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This is such a simple decision, and yet they're wasting so much time delaying it. It would have been passed long ago if it wasn't for the stupid Australian Christian Lobby. Those retards really need to gtfo and stop trying to bring their idiotic beliefs into politics.