https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia
Why does it ban so many games?
>>336440580
Because it's a retarded nanny state
It literally says there. Refused classification.
We didn't have an R18+ rating for video games for some reason so they were just denied access.
This was maintained by old christian men. It has since changed.
>>336440959
You recently banned Saints row 4 and hotline miami 2 though so not really.
>>336440580
It doesn't, it refuses classification.
It's perfectly legal to own RC'd content, retail outlets simply aren't allowed to stock them.
>>336440580
Because Australia is run by puritans.
>>336441138
Saints Row 4 was BEFORE the R18+ classification for video games became allowed. Hotline Miami 2 on the other hand, I'm unsure.
>>336441138
Yeah it's a problem but nothing too out of the ordinary.
Saints row 4 had a single mission cut and was available.
Hotline Miami 2 deserved to be banned from everywhere for being such an insult.
>>336441340
>>336441395
>some video games have to be edited and censored to become available for purchase
Holy shit why do you guys deal with this
>>336441340
You wot m8 r18 was pssed in 2012
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-19/r18-video-game-rating-passes-senate/4078460
Stop defending this shit
>>336440580
You are behind the times anons. Australia got a vidya r18+ 2 years ago now. There are no 'banned' games. The OFLCB simply only has like 10 people authorised to pass judgement on vidyas. So they can barely keep up with new releases let alone stalepasta ancient news. Plus even 'strayan gamestop (EB Games) will have like part of one shelf only in the entire store for r18.
>>336440580
If the Aussies see to much violence they revert back to their criminal roots and the country breaks out in riots.
>>336441756
We don't.
>>336441863
It was a mistake, but I'm not defending it. It really pisses me off that Australia is still banning/censoring content without reason.
>>336441863
It was a 2013 release. They could have sought a local rating prior to that passing in 2012. It would have to be done a lot earlier than release to properly account for advertisement and so on.
This also explains that they were given time to edit out the one mission that retards had a problem with.
>>336441756
Why does anyone anywhere deal with anything? Because outside of a minority too small to do anything nobody cares.
Enough people cared here and there was a reasonable change.
Germany is probably a worse case. But I don't know the extent of their censorship.
>>336441957
No. They just refuse classifacation even with R18 for games like Hotline Miami 2 or SR4 for example.
>>336442302
Also south park stick of truth which had to be censored.
>Banned due to a scene of sexual violence involving minors.
A version was released replacing said scene with a title card.
Australia still bans games that have sex if the board deems it unsuitable.
Violence is fine though
>>336442610
Violence is off the menu too. This isn't America.as hard as some cunts want it to be
Straya is pretty based but this is some outright communist shit.
Who you cunts voting for?
>>336443478
Not that milquetoast fuckwit that's for sure.
I'm gonna have to give enough of a shit to start dividing up for the minor parties because fuck the libs on principle even if Turnbull is the first non-dickhead they've had for a decade.
>>336440580
Germany bans far more.
>>336443478
Local,Xenophon-affiliated representative usually.
Might throw all my might behind Labour though, if the Liberal election campaign causes me to dislike Turnbull even more.
Our R18+ rating IS NOT R18+ in reality.
They moved up the MA15+ rating so stuff that they feel shouldn't really be MA15+ but was forced in there, has a bit more freedom.
Anything that will get RC'ed will still get RC'ed under classification, because you're not allowed to have stuff like drugs shown positively by law.
>>336444297
Based Big X
Patrician taste, anon
>>336443478
Labor, based local rep
>>336443478
Anyone who votes Labor is a fucking idiot. Thise leftist cunts will burn out country and it's people into the ground. Want fucking rapeugees? Vote Labour. Want a housing market crash? Vote Labour. Want to fuck over big businesses that keep out country afloat? Vot Labour. They're the most unAustralian bunch of fuckwits in parliament, save the Greens who are just proxies for left-wing fucksticks like Antifa and Socialist Marxist Alliance.
>>336445575
Tony Abbot pls go
>>>/pol/
>>336441340
HM2 was banned for that rape scene
>>336445575
Mandatory detention for Refugees was put in place by Labor.
>>336443478
Labor, although no government party is looking real hot at the moment.
Our government is full of people who don't know what the fuck is going on and/or are just playing the politics game.
>>336445749
And who's keeping them the fuck out now?
Based Howard was the last good PM Australia had.
>>336445672
Say what you want about Abbott, but he calls a spade a spade. He doesn't give any kinds of fuck about political correctness and had Australia's interests first.
>>336445842
>And who's keeping them the fuck out now?
Not the liberal party, no matter how many times they say they are.
>>336445575
You sound like an uneducated moron. Stop posting.
>>336445910
As a police officer I can confidently say that if the Labour party get in, I'll be immigrating out of Australia. Fuck those cunts and fuck the Greens.
>>336446006
Good, gtfo pig.
>>336445997
>stop posting
Typical left-wing response. Get on your microphone at the next rapeugee rally and drown out any opposing opinion you fascist cunt.
>>336440580
>amnesia was banned for 2 years for violence
I bet it was because you get to see Alexandre's penis but they couldn't put it in the report since the concept of genitalia is probably banned too.
>>336445575
>leftist
It's funny that people think this about them.
Or about anyone for that matter. The political spectrum is complete fucking cancer.
>>336441395
On the other hand there's a separate trophy and achievement list for us if you want to whore it out and stat pad your gamerscore or trophy percentage.
>>336441957
U fucken wot m8? Ever since the R18+ rating got in MORE games have had to have been edited or flat out banned or refused classification, and some developers and publishers just flat out not bothering out of fear of rejection.
Some games have got in that woudn't have before, but for the most part it's essentially been MA 2.0, with games that would have passed for MA before getting the R rating now and R rated games just flat out banned.
We fought for so long for this shit and for them to keep pulling shit like this further solidifies the subjugation of the average consumer.
>>336445575
Labor is incredibly right wing now anyway. If anything the economy is doing WORSE now under the Libs than it was what with our dollar tanking and them blowing out the budget of shit they criticised Labor for. Also fuck them for dismantling the NBN because they're a bunch of insular Baby Boomers afraid of anything new or to keep the Murdoch monopoly in charge and for us to not have anything that could threaten his rule.
Also would you rather businesses get taxed a bit for the prosperity of the nation or would you rather it trickle down to the working class who can't afford it? For them to foot the bill? No, that's just retarded.
>>336445842
>last good PM
>banned guns
okay champ
>>336445575
Labour are union commies for sure.
But they seemed to act fairly appropriately regarding immigrants. Just the Greens pushing their free blowjobs for immigrants campaign in the rare instance that they had some say.
>>336446248
That's nice I guess. I wouldn't know about your specific achievement points as a mustard.
explain this australia
I definitely selected priority shipping, it cost $58 just for the shipping
>>336445842
Fuck Howard man. He killed the Australian dream. Houses are so fucking expensive to buy even with 2 people working at once. Also, tightest fucking prick with his shitty gun control measures banning BB's and restricting paintball and nerf guns. Fuck that old cunt
Just try and buy VR. My friend spent over $1000 US getting one.
>Pollies just got another wage-rise
>We're paying for the diplomatic/travel expenses and pension for 7 different prime-ministers
>Meanwhile I'm unemployed because they cut funding to scientific research, they castrated the NBN by cheaping out on the infrastructure, and my meds just got scratched from the PBS as a cost-cutting measure
Australian politics used to just be a joke but I'm not laughing any more. Those rich-boy cunts in parliament can't fall off the perch soon enough.
Impeachment legislation when?
>>336448231
proberbly never knowing how fucking awful Australia's government is
>>336448041
That's ridiculous.
International shipping is prone to fuckups so I kinda expect that even if I pay for fastest shipping.
That deliberately doubles the maximum expected time so perhaps you could complain for a future discount or something.
What's ridiculous is the price. Unless they're packaged inside massive boxes you should not be paying more than $30 AUD for international priority shipping at that(what I assume) size and weight designation.
You need ID to buy plastic knives there
>>336448812
Stop lying, britbong.
>>336448812
No you don't. You're thinking of england.
>>336448812
That's england, not aus.
>>336448668
I'm hoping its just a bad estimation and that it actually will come within 5 days, but yeah the price is crazy
I'm impatient though
>>336448843
>>336448849
He isn't lying. I was going through Self Serve, and I couldn't pay until someone came over, entered a code and verified shit.
>>336448843
>>336448849
>>336448893
at woolies at least the staff get a prompt to check for id, but its not actually a legal requirement, its just to encourage them to have a look at the person and see whether they're dangerous or not
>Australians are infamous for their banter and violence
>Government treats everyone like children, banning videogames, water guns, and "hate speech".
Can someone explain this shit to me. Do Aussies simply lie about their culture?
high impact sexual violence
>>336448987
The government wants to make Australia into America v2.0 and the traditionally Aussie culture doesn't fit into the new PC world.
who /centrelink/ here?
>>336448987
nah it's just paranoid old cunts that run the government pushing soccer mom's agenda's to get EZ votes.
>>336440580
Australians are pussy made, in a general sense. Glad they keep to their shitty island for the most part.
>>336449081
Me. Although, about to move off it since I just got a job
>>336448987
The government has clashed with the general culture for years. Basically we are waiting for them all to fucking up and die.
Aussies confuse me. It's like one the one hand they're hardcore motherfuckers and on the other they can't stand to see a little blood.
>>336449335
Do you really think Johnno from down the street who downs a six pack of shit beer every day and gets into fights in the city on the weekend is the old cunt on the OFLC board deciding what should be censored?
>Kids can play violent games! We need to stop them!
Alright, fair enough. Ratings make sense.
>Since we left out an R18+ for video games, games above MA have to be banned
A dumb decision but one that probably made marginally more sense when ratings were brought in for the SNES/Mega Drive, but let's have an R18+ so adults can buy what they want
>You there, person old enough to be allowed to die for Australia, pay taxes, feel the full force of the law and everything else that comes with being an adult? You aren't allowed to play this. Does it contain cp or something? No, it contains things a board of people in charge of rating all things for all media decided they didn't like
I lose them on the last bit there.
>>336448987
Strayan gov ≠Strayan people
they're so out of touch its fucking rediculous
All they do is have petty squabbles in session and nothing ever gets voted through because no side wants to concede that any party other than them might have put forth a good plan.
they fucked up the national broadband network, that shits inexcusable. Its fucking retarded what that plan has turned into
>>336440580
Because it's a meme-county.
>>336446006
Do work in Vic anon? Could you explain why governments keep hiring so many police if the crime statistics don't justify it? There's so many here applying that they just chuck the ones that couldn't make it into a PSO role instead.
>>336449491
One will have your back in a fight, the other will stab it.
Hard to decide which of the two is actually the greatest threat.
CIVIL WAR WHEN
TAKE BACK THE GUBMENT
actually nah cant be fucked
just run the country into the ground ill be dead by next century anyway
>Risen
>Banned because of sexual activity and drug use related to incentives and rewards.
Really?
>>336449953
Such a tame game as well, that's so weird.
>>336441959
this 100% true i was playing some witcher killing drowners and next thing I know Im glassing a leb
>>336449953
>>336449998
It's just the berks who are on the board of our certification body, the fuckers
>>336449668
everyone having a foxtel subscription is way more important then a useless "national broadband network"
>>336450124
Why can't this withered old cunt just die already. Owning 70% of our fucking MEDIA just isn't right.
>>336450039
>>336449998
for whatever reason the board is extremely strict when it comes to drug use, it's the reason for half of the bans post-introduction of the R18+ rating
>>336450283
>Chopsticks
Don't get me fucking started on chopsticks
>>336450283
Fucken oath ease up cunt, nah sokay we love self deprecation in straya
>>336443478
Labor, unfortunately. I want better internet and my neetbux.
>>336445731
Wasn't even an actual rape what the hell
>>336450283
Fuck Immigrant, they have no respect
I swear to god if I have another chinese shit shouting at another chinese person across the room in Mandarin, while they're in my fucking face
They're just thinking "ahahaha Silly white boy dont understand what I say so I can shout as loud as I want"
>>336445575
>Want a housing market crash?
How is this a bad thing? Australia's housing market is expensive as fuck
>>336451292
>some chinese are speaking english to each other
>walk near them
>suddenly start speaking mandarin
FUCK YOU
I hate this shit country. ADSL1 speeds of 4mbps in 2016.
Everything is expensive.
You'll NEVER EVER get a job anywhere unless you know people.
Liberal middle class voter scum everywhere.
Media runs everything,
I wish I was dead. Do not become an Auscuck.
>>336449491
But you live in a democratic based society. Why do you keep handing the keys back to these people?
>>336451882
We don't vote for who is on the OFLC board.
>>336451881
Im considering moving to Americlap just for better internet
SERIOUSLY ITS 2016 WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT
>>336445842
You mean he had Rupert Murdoch's interests first.
>>336451881
I'm a slavcuck and I've been thinking about migrating to Australia for a few years now. Is it hard to immigrate for a male?
Also, tell me if it's worth the money/effort.
Thanks in advance, ausbro.
>>336452369
Wow Anon stop being so entitled. 4mbps is almost half the speed of the NBN!
>>336452548
I suggest getting a foxtel package for your entertainment needs
Germany here. We got violence banned everywhere because america is actively cucking us after WW2. They released Duke Nukem 3D on vita a couple of years ago and I couldn't buy it because the fucking game is banned here.
>>336450278
>Owning 70% of our media
It's more than that mate.
>>336450385
Thanks doc
>>336452649
Now Foxtel is doing streaming services which it can't do well because they personally stymied what would have given it better service and coverage.
>>336440580
Because it wants to get along with its northern sharia neighbors.
Just going down to the servo, do you guys want anything?
>>336453108
Chiko roll, cunt.
>>336443478
Shorten.
Well not for him but for the party.
Better than Leftist SJW LGBTIQ++++- Greens party
>>336453108
Eggflip Big M m8
>>336453108
Get us a bag of chips and a pie, will ya
>>336445842
>Last good PM
That's not Kevin "The Chinese Ratfucked us" Rudd.
>>336453108
Vanilla coke you cunt.
And a bottle of dead horse, we're out.
>>336447686
I'd fuck the thing on the right
>>336450679
If you cry loud enough you can make our cuckold government bow to you on unimportant issues.
>>336454016
>Due to the efforts of pissing and moaning angry beavers, GTA was successfully removed from one (1) retail outlet
>Muh feelings
I still like the censored version of Stick of Truth though
>>336452547
shouldnt be too hard to immigrate since fucking everyone is doing it apparently
not sure if its worth it money wise unless you're good at customer service or have a trade/certificate under your belt.
jobs aren't scarce per se but you kind of need to know people or have to be a great conversationalist to be able to get a good comfy job. If you aren't able to do that you can still make $20 an hour at most jobs but while that sounds like heaps the aussie dollar is kind of weak now and the cost of living is pretty high compared to the rest of the world.
Fucking great place to live though, especially if you can get out of the cities (unless you like that, personally hate the city)
pic related my back yard
>>336452547
Despite the government's best efforts since about 2000, the country itself is still a ripper place to live.
>>336443478
Wimble bomble mc flooglestein the third.
Until I'm given an actual fucking choice fuck voting for oligarchal assfuckery #3978 canditate or Big Money oligarchal shitter #6592 candidate.
>>336443629
No point. Our bullshit 'prefetential' system renders your vote entirely meaningless since your preference only counts as backroom, behind closed doors vote trading. So that either liberals (nationalist conservatives) or labour (statist conservatives) can form govt. anyway.
Just like murrka, our votes don't mean anything.
>>336446216
Australia doesn't HAVE a left. We have centrists and centre-right.
Political dichotomy that is not.
>>336454448
>>336454372
Thanks friends
>>336455386
What a shitshow.
>people stop giving a shit about the 2 big parties
>they make it so voting for smaller ones means even fewer of them can make the bench
>greens and big X backed this because they got big enough not to be shafted by it
Fucking cockheads.
>>336451882
Hahaha. I bet you think you too have a democracy that is representative.
Australia by the nature of its preferential two party system cannot be representative democracy.
Just like a republic cannot be.
The west calls itself 'democratic' in exactly the same fucking way the east call/s/ed itself 'communist'.
>>336441340
Hotline Miami 2 was before Australia getting IARC. If they had delayed the release for like 2 months we would have gotten it.
We basically have the same system as the US and most of Europe now for online releases at least, I'm not entirely sure how IARC works for physical distribution and if what is left of the OFLC still has dibs on that.
>>336451881
so,basically is Brazil with dust everywhere and kangaroos ?
>>336456108
No, nowhere's that bad.
>>336446180
>I bet it was because you get to see Alexandre's penis but they couldn't put it in the report since the concept of genitalia is probably banned too.
LOL.
Our Govt is rediculously spartan and puritanical its really out of touch.
>>336453108
Get me a V m8
>>336453108
Choc oak please
And s&v pringles
>>336451881
Same with Canada. Can't even buy games anymore due to being so expensive.
Women. Women control the ratings board
>>336453108
Frozen coke with the Sour flavor mixed in
Who /ldp/ here?
>>336454372
Woah that is a beautiful backyard mate.
>>336458038
But Australian censorship is mostly to violence
As far as I know we get our Video games just as sexy as Japan
The main offender I was glad we didnt get was Tharjas Ass
>>336458237
Doesn't matter. It's still the same old soccer mum mentality.
>video games are for kids and therefore can't have violence or drugs in video games
>>336455993
>IARC
whats the iarc? all i get when i look it up is immigration counselling and cancer research.
>>336451881
>mfw have 16 permanent contacts for work and my network just keeps expanding
Maybe leave the house and talk to people once in a while m8e
I earn 75k a year while being technically unemployed
>>336458385
International Age Rating Coalition
The only things banned at this point are garbage anyway. In fact, the only thing i can think of is 1 mission in saints row 4 and night trap on sega cd?
Both can be pirated and are single player only. Meh. R18 fixed all the bullshit. And if there's anything else, pirate it and get the game free guilt free. It wont be an online game anyway.
>>336458482
ah thank you.
>>336458107
>>336454372
>mfw I used to have a backyard with an old wooden fence
>behind the fence was just a collection of trees and stuff
>We got all the awesome birds
>A Kookaburra would frequent my yard and I fed him the crust off my sandwhiches
>One day people cut the trees down and put more houses there
>the kookaburra kept coming around for about 2 months, then one day leavesor dies
>Family moves from that house once the neighbors started moving in
>Go back and visit my childhood house just to see
>Every tree in the yard was gone, the house's Bricked exteriour was covered over with what looked like some WHITE concrete, and a big ugly yellow fence
>The Garden beds and a birdbath shaped like a well my mum made were taken down
Not video games but fuck this just made me sad...
>>336443478
Doesn't matter
My electorate has literally voted in the same party for its entire history
>>336458539
Hotline Miami 2 is banned
But the developer is such a cool dude he just said to Australians to pirate it
Who /gong/ here?
>>336459305
tfw can't play games like that anyway, that topdown view makes me feel sick just like gta 2
>>336443478
I dont know, Maybe Lord Farquaad this year.
Im not voting because I dont follow polotics and Im not going to be part of the reason why the country is going to be getting fucked up because of some stupid bias opinion
>>336440748
THIS!
>>336459416
One of the reasons why compulsory voting's retarded
There are fuckwits who know nothing about politics, listen to bullshit political ads on the radio on the way to work and vote on dumb reasons and/or lies
>>336459634
>bullshit political ads
God that gets real embarrassing when big changes or elections come in.
>the mining tax gets deliberated
>suddenly the tv is full of weepy ads backed by mining companies about the poor miners and MUH LIVELYHOOD. MUH FAMILIY. MUH COMMUNITY
Like holy shit, I could barely watch the tv at all.
It was never difficult to circumvent and no-one actually made any attempt to police the "ban" outside of brick and mortar stores.
Now we have r18+ and nothing gets banned.
Why are we having this worthless discussion?
>>336446502
Don't bother with using actual logic and facts with these people their to retarded to see what's actually good for them. They have eaten up to many liberal propaganda media adds and their minds have turned to shit.
>>336459897
I've legitimately had conversations with people who believed those ads at face value. It's fucking ridiculous
>>336459946
Steam does.
Which is pretty much the only place it still matters.
>>336460128
>>336450283
>glassing ethnics
>fuck immigrants
Sounds like a good person to me.
Japanese rating board is dislike gore
But hotline miami is no censored for japan
>>336460128
It's sad isn't it most our a fellow countrymen eat that shit up because its on the tv and why would they lie to me.
Barely anyone in this country thinks for their fucking selves that's why the out of touch baby boomers that currently run this country always get their way.
>>336457415
>drinking a V while reading this thread
fuckin good on ya mate fuckin delicious 2nd one today
>>336460562
cos its fucking pixelated shit, but dont let the kids get their hands on it or else they'll go straight to port arthur!
>>336446248
Exactly this. The R rating is a fucking joke, might as well call it the MK rating since it's the only game it helped. I bet any amount of money that the next South Park game will get butchered just like SoT.
>>336445575
There is literally nothing wrong with socialism.
>>336445842
>howard
>a good PM
If there's one meme I want to end it's this one
>>336440580
>Witcher 2
>Banned because of sex related to incentive and rewards.
Wait what?
So it doesn't get censored in the USA where prostitution is illegal, but it does get censored in Australia where prostitution is legal.
What the flying fuck
Videogames are banned in Australia thanks to right-wing conservatives. So it's funny to see people in America thinking they'll "save" videogames by being as right-wing as possible.
There are even delusional shitstains who swallowed too many red pills and actually try to spin that the issues in Australia are not the fault of the conservative government who enforce these laws that lead to the banned games, but it's ACTUALLY the fault of SJW bloggers with no power whatsoever.
>>336440580
because ausfags can't handle banter directed against them
>>336464190
It is part of natural progression, however i dont condone how this government works, when single income family get tax as individuals, when their partner is a fulltime parent.
The government itself is awkwardly implementing socialism
>>336459401
me
are you still awake
