From someone who lives here, here's the deal with what gets banned (as in games), and the GTA oddities: GTA 3 was released here, uncut. Then they found out about the prostitutes, and revoked classification- forcing a recall
After this, the game was edited to remove the prostitute functionality and re-released, conforming to Aus standards. The reason the prostitutes were removed was NOT because of the sexual content, rather, it was because of the very strict rules we have here about sex and violence. It was the fact you could kill hookers after sex that had the game censored.
Vice city was pre-edited by the developers and had NO sex (the Candy Suxx FMV's were fucked up) Pardon the pun.
GTA:SA came out WITH hookers, unedited. I have no idea how/why this happened.
Generally games are censored here when sex and violence is mixed, IN ANY WAY. Duke Nukem 3D was censored because you could shoot the strippers.
I dont understand the logic of this banning though
It wasn't a "Police ban" or "restriction".
Some cops just warned them against it. They can photograph all they want and theres not a damn thing the police can do about it.
I'm sure some of the members here are trying to escape the slashdotter stereotype, and then someone goes and posts an article about a new DOA game being released:)
"Yay! Boobs!"
What happens when the zombies trying to get you are trampled by 1000's of other corpses? they will pile up you know! Don't worry. Just use an unpatched windows box as a decoy!
Telstra (Internet division: Bigpond) has a reputation here as a cumbersome, inneffectual and generally crappy ISP. The service is shoddy & slow, the tech support takes hours to connect and technicians are worse than monkeys
(one told me that 384Mb ram wasnt enough for cable and that 30 metres of pristine cat5 could lose ~60mbit in throughput, despite the fact that the theoretical limit of my cable was 10mbit)
Anyway, a good british comparison would be BT and an american one could be AOL (maybe comcast)
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From someone who lives here, here's the deal with what gets banned (as in games), and the GTA oddities: GTA 3 was released here, uncut. Then they found out about the prostitutes, and revoked classification- forcing a recall
After this, the game was edited to remove the prostitute functionality and re-released, conforming to Aus standards. The reason the prostitutes were removed was NOT because of the sexual content, rather, it was because of the very strict rules we have here about sex and violence. It was the fact you could kill hookers after sex that had the game censored.
Vice city was pre-edited by the developers and had NO sex (the Candy Suxx FMV's were fucked up) Pardon the pun.
GTA:SA came out WITH hookers, unedited. I have no idea how/why this happened.
Generally games are censored here when sex and violence is mixed, IN ANY WAY. Duke Nukem 3D was censored because you could shoot the strippers.
I dont understand the logic of this banning though
It wasn't a "Police ban" or "restriction".
Some cops just warned them against it. They can photograph all they want and theres not a damn thing the police can do about it.
I knew within 50 nanoseconds that this was a dupe..
I'm sure some of the members here are trying to escape the slashdotter stereotype, and then someone goes and posts an article about a new DOA game being released :)
"Yay! Boobs!"
Newness != Quality
but, in Soviet Russia, topic moderates YOU!!
KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!
I'll be the first to say "Thanks sony!" wow.. they really do innovate in new areas!
Lucky no one asked you, then :)
What happens when the zombies trying to get you are trampled by 1000's of other corpses? they will pile up you know! Don't worry. Just use an unpatched windows box as a decoy!
the 360's communicate via airborn chair transmission. Some stray chairs are bound to hit the odd bystander.
SCO claims humans have stolen their genetic codes. Comparisons between SCO CEO and human were inconclusive.
RIAA steals christmas, kills the easter bunny, bombs a hospital, poisons a river and makes a general ass of itself.
"reconstruct any virus you like guys.. NO NOT THAT ONE!!! ARGH!"
International incident, here I come!!
In Soviet Russia, climate freezes YOU!
Build a better mousetrap, and you get a better mouse.
2)Find marketing company
3)PROFIT!!
The crowed was not surprised by this.
"In soviet russia.." someone shouted ".. football bans YOU!"
Why? So he can hold the world to ransom with his stolen evil floating nuclear power plant!!
BANNED!!! OLOLO
Capital contributions.
In soviet russia, telephone finds YOU!
Telstra (Internet division: Bigpond) has a reputation here as a cumbersome, inneffectual and generally crappy ISP. The service is shoddy & slow, the tech support takes hours to connect and technicians are worse than monkeys
(one told me that 384Mb ram wasnt enough for cable and that 30 metres of pristine cat5 could lose ~60mbit in throughput, despite the fact that the theoretical limit of my cable was 10mbit)
Anyway, a good british comparison would be BT and an american one could be AOL (maybe comcast)
[i]Did Microsoft Invent The iPod?[/i]
No.