I fucking hate this country!

Source: Q&A (ABC1) R Rated video Games

Just watch and see how stupid the country I live in, Australia, can get.

I would also like to point out that you don't have to kill anyone in Fallout 3. You can go through the entire game without having to kill a single person, you are given a choice. Whenever I see things like this, they never give the entire truth about the game, only the "omg, you kill things" side of it. Please, PLEASE, if you're a journalist and you're going to do something like this, get your facts straight about what you're talking about. I have seen supposed facts being spouted frequently on these types of discussions about videogames in various media formats and they only highlight the fact that there is violence in videogames and ignore pretty much every other aspect about them.

Also, and here's the biggest issue. None of the politicians on that panel knew what the hell they were talking about. We DO have a rating system for games, we just don't have an R18+ rating for it!

In extreme circumstances I'd move out of Australia because of their total asshattery but then where would I go? The US? Ha, (no offense to anyone) I'd rather be dead then live in the US... so I guess I'm stuck here in a country so afraid of everything that it bans a game like Fallout 3 because they're afraid everyone will suddenly get hopped up on drugs and start killing people.

I think this entire thing stems from people being afraid of what they don't understand, which is very encouraging in a multicultural country where the idea is to understand people of other cultures. Well, this is my culture, and I'd rather people took the time to understand at least a small part of my culture and that we're not out to destroy your culture.

I will buy you a copy when it comes out.
...and ship it. no matter the cost.

period.

Thanks Scar... though is Fallout 3 coming out on the PS3? I ask because I'm about to get a PS3 and most games on the Xbox360 aren't region unlocked while all are on the PS3.

Also, just a note: I know I sounded overly harsh about saying I'd rather be dead than to live in the US. To be honest, I can't imagine living in any other country but Australia... but I still hate how backward this country can get on some issues.

EDIT: Oh look, according to wiki, Fallout 3 is coming out on the PS3... import copy for me then, just like GTA4.

This kind of thing makes me mad because it really just makes no sense. The one guy in the video who seemed to be somewhat informed and said how they need a rating system has never even seen the game, they just don't know all the facts but they refuse to learn them.

Is there any organization in Australia at the moment that is committed to the defense of gaming and the education of others about it? If not, could one be put together? In Sweden, a political party was formed to educate people about copyright and the concept of fair usage, and in the US there is the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, dedicated to similar matters. I'm sure that there are a bunch of people just like you in Australia who feel the same way- now, can you guys organize?

Yeah, we do have an organisation like that and it's called the Game Developers' Association of Australia (GDAA). Though by the sounds of it, most people think anyone who supports videogames as an art form is as wacky as a Scientologist.

*Declares war* we shall bomb copies of the game for you lynk, but seirously that sucks =(

fuck that. PC all the way...

I mean, YEAH Fallout tactics was on ps2 and xbox.
but still 'tactics' title...
got to go for the gold.

besides PC ports have the most amount of support anyway...

Except that I don't have much support for PC to begin with. I've never been much of a modern PC gamer, the most I'll have on this PC are old DOS games. Other than that, I do all my gaming on consoles.

well if your pc can play elder scrolls 4, then you can play fallout 4

I'm not a PC gamer.

party pooper. :P

I'll see what i can do...

I remember watching something or reading something, and these guys were interviewing some game producer. And they got to the topic of gaming violence. And, I'm just paraphrasing, he said that games aren't the only things that are have violence. Things like movies have violence as well. But since the generation that criticize games grew up with movies, they won't really say that its the fault of movies. So basically, they say its the fault of videogames because its kind of a foreign concept to them.

In the future we will be saying "Violence in simulated reality games should be stopped!"
Only joking but violence in something like that might be closer to violence in real life XD That might just make it a better release for violent actions though XP

I agree, its just a generation thing, I don't think we will have this kind of problem when "our" generation is the one in charge.

I can't express how backward some people with values dating so far back are so incompetent right now in what people do for entertainment nowadays.

Hopefully, at least. There will always be uninformed people of our generation too though.

Look like I won't have to import after all: Bethesda: Fallout 3 to be 'identical' for Aussie, UK, US versions - Joystiq

That's true, but I think there will be enough of "us" in power to help the situation.

Well thats good to hear at least.

can you *really* trust that?