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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

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

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

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

 

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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.

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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!?! :lol:

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

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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. :lol:

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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.

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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.

 

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

 

Hey! It's already too crowded in here.

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