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Any Australian gamers here?

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Hey, I know we already have a video game thread, but I don't know how many australians are currently reading it. I just read on Gamespot that NFL Blitz: The League was refused classification in Australia because it depicts drug use...

Is it just me, or is this classification system... ridiculously stringent?

Anybody have any thoughts or explanations? This just seems so pointless.

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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Hey, I know we already have a video game thread, but I don't know how many australians are currently reading it. I just read on Gamespot that NFL Blitz: The League was refused classification in Australia because it depicts drug use...

Is it just me, or is this classification system... ridiculously stringent?

Anybody have any thoughts or explanations? This just seems so pointless.


I am not Australian, but any of the Australians I have met didn't care much for American Football. Perhaps it is absurd that it doesn't get a classification for containing drug use, but I doubt many Australian gamers would protest it if they don't have any interest in it to start with.

Not that it answers your question, just something that struck me. I am really surpirsed there is even a market for American sports games outside of America. FIFA selling in America makes sense, NFL selling in certian parts of the world surprises me.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Why the hell would an NFL game depict drug use anyway?

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
Why the hell would an NFL game depict drug use anyway?


Actually that is a really good point? Don't tell me it includes coke sniffing mini-games?

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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They need to make a real football game where the players get absurdly amounts of cash and you have to manage the player off the field with his coke dealers, tax auditors, media coverage, hoe management, pimped out SUV, and avoiding the police. A special round ought to be trying to get your stash through airport security.
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Sounds like a job for Rockstar Games!

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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Actually, it's not narcotics, it is performance enhancing drugs like steroids. Some of the drugs depicted in the game aren't actually even illiegal.

And as for whether they care about American football (and they should!) really isn't the issue. Another game was banned for depicting graffiti! It just doesn't make any sense to me that things get banned there for simply depicting crimes. Would a film about graffiti be banned?

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After all the fuss the american media has created over videogames, blaming them for every single slightly violent event on the world, I hardly belive Australia should be blamed.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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But in America, unlike Australia and even moreso in Germany, laws restricting the sale of video games have been almost universally shot down as against our constitution. It's a few nuts like Jack Thompson and opportunistic politicians like Hilary Clinton--not to mention the brainless media--that drives what anti-game sentiment exists in the US. Most rational people tend to ignore it.

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"Most rational people tend to ignore it."

In fact, I have hardly heard anything about it since Mortal Kombat was getting ragged on. You hear some complaints from time to time about games like GTA, but nobody really even cares about it in the US. Some parents complain about games they buy for their children that turn out to be a big surprise, then they say the video game companies shouldn't make these kind of games. Well, it is the same thing as a parent taking their kid to see an R rated movie, going into shock and complaining at the movie industry for putting swearing, violence and nudity in the film. Parents know not to take their children to R rated movies and they wont have that trouble. Same thing goes for video games, if there is a big M on the box, maybe you ought to consider getting something else. I think for the most part the video game problem in America is getting to the point of becoming a non issue. The media may still blame video games, but like Chaltab said, most people tend to ignore it.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape