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Fallout 3: Censorship for All!
Wed, Sep 10, 08 @ 11:28
Posted by schnide
Registered: 23 Apr 2004
Posts: 574
Hey did you say morphine? Morphine you say?

That's just converted me. I'm a proper addict now!

GIVE ME A HIT! JUST.. ONE.. MORE.. HIT!!!
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Fallout 3: Censorship for All!
Wed, Sep 10, 08 @ 11:50
Posted by Joji
Registered: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 3888
Replying to schnide [go]
Absolutely pathetic. While understand Bethesda not wanting to cut the projected sales, I really hate this kind of 'bending over' for such dumb reasons.

Fallout 3 is an adult game. Bethesda should have had more balls and stuck to their guns in a Rockstar like way. Sure, its just a small adjustment, but as games progress from strength to strength, in realism and content, cock blocking like this won't cut it anymore.

Why does this industry continue to bow to censorship, imposed by those with double standards and no knowledge of games?
"Plane!?....I Ain't Gettin On No Plane"


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Re: Fallout 3: Censorship for All!
Wed, Sep 10, 08 @ 12:38
Posted by SensiBalls
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Replying to Joji [go]
Joji wrote:
Sure, its just a small adjustment, but as games progress from strength to strength, in realism and content, cock blocking like this won't cut it anymore.


What is it with 'realism' in games? If I wanted realism I'd go outside. I want entertainment at an affordable price. This isn't f**king art, it's a f**king laugh!

Why does this industry continue to bow to censorship, imposed by those with double standards and no knowledge of games?


What double standards? Are you saying that the censorship people are all high on Morphine or are you just randomly expressing random ideas with random monkey-presses of the shiney keys on the boardy thing?


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Re: Fallout 3: Censorship for All!
Wed, Sep 10, 08 @ 13:53
Posted by Joji
Registered: 12 Mar 2004
Posts: 3888
Replying to SensiBalls [go]
Use your sense, Sensiballs.

The double standards I speak of or those that let films and music get a reprieve on drugs violence and such, while games get bumrushed. The same biase that makes the Australian government still not make an R18 rating for games (which their films etc can also benefit from).

Fallout 3 (no matter how small) and GTAIV have suffered from this. More games will continue to, if not just getting an outright unjustfied ban (watch Mad World closely).

Game like films can cover a wide range of settings and universes. If Fallout's needed morphine for its 1950's real world setting, why is this a problem, when a book or film would do so happily free of criticism.

Watch Blow and/or Drugstore Cowboy and tell me I'm wrong, Sensiballs. No one ever complains about those, because they are films, more socially acceptable and not interactive (cough,,,bs that last bit, cough).

"Plane!?....I Ain't Gettin On No Plane"


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Re: Fallout 3: Censorship for All!
Wed, Sep 10, 08 @ 14:10
Posted by schnide
Registered: 23 Apr 2004
Posts: 574
Replying to Joji [go]
Joji wrote:
No one ever complains about those, because they are films, more socially acceptable and not interactive (cough,,,bs that last bit, cough).


What are you questioning? Films aren't interactive. At best, watching films is reactive rather than proactive as games are, which is a world of difference.
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