Fallout 3 Kicks Its Drug Habit

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Fallout 3 Kicks Its Drug Habit, Thanks To Australian Intervention

 

When Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification board refused to rate Fallout 3, it did so due to one too many drug references. Apparently, the virtual use of opiates in-game

[Tigranes]

It hardly matters, does it? I mean, it's just a name change. It's pedantic to enforce and trivial to obey.

[Hell Kitty]

Australian censors ruin Fallout 3 for everyone!

 

Or what Tigranes said.

[newc0253]

i can't remember, were there ever any references to real world drugs in Fallouts 1 & 2?

 

besides maybe coffee?

[Gorth]

What, you mean mentats, buffout and jet weren't real drugs?!?

[Lare Kikkeli]

Beth are a bunch of pussies allowing themselves to get pushed around. The real solution would have been not to sell this in australia. Most people interested would just have imported a copy.

[Tigranes]

And why would they risk bags of money in revenue to spite a totally inconsequential censor decision, when (a) games sold in AUS have a massive markup and (b) it wouldn't change the australian board's attitude one iota, as the roots lie in a different kind of political climate?

[Kaftan Barlast]

Hypocrites, its all fine and dandy when its TV or a movie but when people do it in a game it gets banned. Its friggin' retarded.

[Moatilliatta]

Or litterature which doesn't even have ratings even if they have this stuff.

 

Luckily it doesn't change the game.

Edited September 10, 2008 by Moatilliatta

[Gfted1]

An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names.

 

Wow, thats stupid that they had to do that. So you call cocaine a "stimpack" and its all good? People in AU cant connect those dots?

[Pop]

i can't remember, were there ever any references to real world drugs in Fallouts 1 & 2?

 

besides maybe coffee?

Myron talked up real drugs a bit. Other than that, nothing I can remember.

[Dragon Lord Jones]

they may ship it out that way (without the drug references), but how much will be hidden in the code and cracked by the community upon release (pun intended)

 

i've seen many games released with missing content that the gaming community somehow seems to find and mods it in. so it's no big deal how they release it.

[Hell Kitty]

An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names.

 

Wow, thats stupid that they had to do that. So you call cocaine a "stimpack" and its all good? People in AU cant connect those dots?

 

I can't speak for my fellow countrymen, but if I ever encountered real world drugs in games my immediate reaction would be to inject my eyeballs with whatever the hell I could get my hands on.

 

i've seen many games released with missing content that the gaming community somehow seems to find and mods it in. so it's no big deal how they release it.

 

I don't think there will be missing content, just name changes from the sound of it. I'm sure someone will offer some kind of mod that changes the names to real world drugs, much like you see in other games where firearms are given real names, or the names of vehicles in the GTA series changed to the real world inspiration.

[Gfted1]

An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names.

 

Wow, thats stupid that they had to do that. So you call cocaine a "stimpack" and its all good? People in AU cant connect those dots?

 

I can't speak for my fellow countrymen, but if I ever encountered real world drugs in games my immediate reaction would be to inject my eyeballs with whatever the hell I could get my hands on.

 

 

[Hell Kitty]

I plan to campaign against Australia ruining this game by voting it 1/5 on some retail site or another.

 

Heh.

[newc0253]

i've seen many games released with missing content that the gaming community somehow seems to find and mods it in. so it's no big deal how they release it.

the only thing they've done is apparently change morphine to med-ex.

 

i doubt many folk will be hakking the game for that fix.

[Deadly_Nightshade]

i've seen many games released with missing content that the gaming community somehow seems to find and mods it in. so it's no big deal how they release it.

the only thing they've done is apparently change morphine to med-ex.

 

THAT WAS WHY IT WAS GOING TO BE BANNED!?!

Edited September 10, 2008 by Deadly_Nightshade

[Pidesco]

"Benned"? Was Affleck going to be in it? That would make it Fallout in name only.

[Walsingham]

I think Ben Affleck would be great as a ghoul.

 

I don't see what the freaking point is. Morphine is a drug which has benefits. Otherwise why does the Australian government put it in medical kits for their fething soldiers? I avoid drugs because I don't agree with them, not because I close my eyes to their benefits. I don't see how pretending otherwise does aanything other than discredit counter-drug campaigns.

[Tale]

I can't speak for my fellow countrymen, but if I ever encountered real world drugs in games my immediate reaction would be to inject my eyeballs with whatever the hell I could get my hands on.

That's your reaction to everything.

[Walsingham]

I can't speak for my fellow countrymen, but if I ever encountered real world drugs in games my immediate reaction would be to inject my eyeballs with whatever the hell I could get my hands on.

That's your reaction to everything.

 

Oh god, don't remind me of that time we went for pizza.

[alanschu]

I will file this neatly in my "Who Cares" cabinet.

[Walsingham]

I will file this neatly in my "Who Cares" cabinet.

 

Hey! It's already too crowded in here.

[alanschu]

It's a big cabinet.

 

 

With an incinerator...

[Dark_Raven]

Thats what mods are for. There will be drugs in it whether those Aussies that have a stick up their ass like it or not.