Outlast 2 Has Basically Been Banned in Australia
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Nanny state can't deal with it. Seriously? These idiots want to regulate what adults can and can't see? What what is this crap to 'refuse to classify'? These morons are paid with tax money so are they refusing to do their job?
Ignore them and just import it. Probably cheaper by the way.
Ignore them and just import it. Probably cheaper by the way.
Yeah ... a lot of this garbage just means we kind of send money elsewhere rather than domestic retailers. It hurts businesses, does little to restrict consumption ...Czann said:
There are some curious points here.
Many, many countries ban certain things on the internet, and quite a lot of things that are banned its hard to argue against, things like child pornography.
Ditto on other mediums (similarly book, film whatever all can be censored for certain things. It is often the relatively young mediums that tend to be the most heavily monitored though.
A random aside the BBFC (who give age ratings to films and some games in England and Wales at least (Scotland has a distinct legal system)) doesn't have any power to prevent things being shown in a cinema, that power rests with the local government (so the local council) generally they go with the BBFC rating as they lack the resources, but they do overrule (in both directions) the BBFCs judgement (at least on council in Wales I think it was banned Life of Brian).
That all said this does seem odd.
Many, many countries ban certain things on the internet, and quite a lot of things that are banned its hard to argue against, things like child pornography.
Ditto on other mediums (similarly book, film whatever all can be censored for certain things. It is often the relatively young mediums that tend to be the most heavily monitored though.
A random aside the BBFC (who give age ratings to films and some games in England and Wales at least (Scotland has a distinct legal system)) doesn't have any power to prevent things being shown in a cinema, that power rests with the local government (so the local council) generally they go with the BBFC rating as they lack the resources, but they do overrule (in both directions) the BBFCs judgement (at least on council in Wales I think it was banned Life of Brian).
That all said this does seem odd.
Not surprised in the slightest, we've banned games for less and ban like... a few hundred at a pretty regular pace. Ah well. Wasn't going to buy it personally, but I imagine I'll be able to watch it in a Lets Play, and anyone who does want it will just order it in.
...are the usual suspects just the friends we made along the way?
Wait I thought the usual suspects were the other guys? Or the other, other guys? Do the usual suspects even exist?LostGryphon said:
...are the usual suspects just the friends we made along the way?
Since the introduction of the R18 rating in 2013 9 games have been refused classification in Australia and of those 9 4 of them got through later with changes mostly relating to drug use (which is an illegal thing here) and sexual violence (also illegal).
1 game got through unedited after changing publishers.
I don't know what my point is here, I also don't feel that video games should be judged any more harshly than movies. But I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people on the classification board still believe that violent video games cause children to become raging psychopathic murder hobos but passively consumed media like tv and movies don't.
1 game got through unedited after changing publishers.
I don't know what my point is here, I also don't feel that video games should be judged any more harshly than movies. But I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people on the classification board still believe that violent video games cause children to become raging psychopathic murder hobos but passively consumed media like tv and movies don't.
And yet I can still buy F.E.A.R.2, which ends with the player characterZendariel said:
being quite openly raped by an undead pyschic girl, quite possibly through the medium of his possessed male comrade
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Well bugger! At least I can be somewhat consoled by the fact I probably wouldn't have been able to run it on my machine anyway....
