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Australian censors ruin Fallout 3 for everyone! Or what Tigranes said.

Most games have always done that.

If you're playing a pirated game for more than an hour you're no longer just "trying it out".

Why not? Refused Classification (banned) is just another rating, it's the rating a product gets when the content is at such a high level it falls outside of all other ratings. The reason some games get the RC rating in Australia isn't because we have a ratings systems that is harsher than other western countries, as we don't, it's because unlike film and literature there is no adults only (R18+) rating, so games that would meet the R18+ standard have to be refused classification until the content is modified. Games may or may not be art, but they are mass produced products, and like any product if something about it is believed to be harmful then restrictions will apply.

A. It's out earlier in Europe and the UK B. It's out much earlier in Australia C. They're dirty pirates

I find Amazon to be pretty expensive compared to most other online stores, with the most expensive shipping costs.

This is nonsense. If the publisher doesn't spend money on copy protection, would that money instead go into the development of the game, and how would that extra money make for a better game? Do people wait to see that a game isn't worth buying before they pirate it? If going to a store (even an online store) and spending money takes effort, isn't the real issue that people are lazy and cheap?

"Won't somebody think of the children!?" - Australian censorship As opposed to the censorship in any other country? If a film includes a level of coarse language that earns it an M rating, or a violence level that earns an R rating, does that mean it's been classified due to its level of immorality?

Australia doesn't ban games for being "immoral".

Yeah, because if German reviewers give lower scores than US/UK reviewers, the obvious explanation is that it's harder to bribe Europeans. What?

As for journalistic integrity, it's a well known fact that all reviews are bought and paid for, except the ones you agree with.

You should have told her exactly this, that's obviously where you went wrong. Make sure you tell all future girlfriends. They'll appreciate your honesty.

Screw games, you should design real weapons.

Ugh, I was in a similar situation as alanschu when I was at university, except I began a relationship with the girl sometime after she broke up with her boyfriend. Except she never broke up with him at all.

So mentioning multiplayer equals a multiplayer focused game? Surely referring to them as "modes" suggest the game is primarily single player and the multiplayer stuff is extra?

Damn straight. JA3 looks, unsurprisingly, like Silent Storm, and how anyone could look at S^2 and think "3rd person multiplayer shooter" is beyond me.

All I want is to be able to "build" my character, both in stats and skills, and in personality based on the choices I make throughout the game. Anything else I might want in a game applies to other genres as well.

I remember shooting a circle around myself and dropping to the floor below me in Silent Storm. Good times.

That, or they were afraid of the Euro trannies.

So any game close to release that isn't shown at GDC Leipzig must be a dog?

PC games in OZ are around $70 to $100, and console games tend to be $90 to $110. Lately I've been getting stuff from the US because I can get it at half price.

It should be once you exit the Whitefish pool hall.

If they're making a worthy Shock sequel, I'm gonna lick their di... Well yes, where am I stuck? Whitefish something? Where I have to find a Dutch whatever guy? It's just I'm supposed to go to some alley, but I searched the whole area and there's nothing. Dutch Oven Harry. If you're where I think you are, there should be a homeless guy that tells you the password, and to the right a dumpster or some trash to jump over.

According to the old surfergirl blog redlime is either System Shock or Ultima. Starbreeze have also hinted they are doing a sequel to The Darkness. Oh, and where are you stuck?

No, it's not. 360 & PC.