Fallout 3 refused classification in Australia

by Ross Miller { Jul 9th 2008 at 8:30AM }

We didn't think Fallout 3 was close enough to completion for a rating, but the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification has already refused to classify the title, effectively banning it from sale in the country. The game be resubmitted, with edits, in the hopes it meets the gudelines for MA15+ rating. If Grand Theft Auto IV could do it, we have no doubt that Bethesda will find a way to edit the game for sales in the Land Down Under. So much for the Bloody Mess perk.

(Alternate captions: "Was it something I said?", "I can has rating now plees?")

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Tags: australia, bethesda, censorship, fallout, fallout-3, oflc

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CanadianZero @ Jul 9th 2008 8:35AM

i feel sorry for my Aussie cousins.

by the way, fall has two L's. not one.

Brodie-san @ Jul 9th 2008 8:45AM

Wow, what's up with gaming in Oz? Even when they allow the games into the country they cost an arm and a leg. (No pun intended).

What's it like importing games in Australia to get around the bans / exorbitant costs? Do customs crack down on that sort of thing?

Acidic @ Jul 9th 2008 9:39AM

Quite easy actually, as importing games it's easy. To date I have not had a problem with importing games, and I import abroad (USA, EU, ASIA).

rickytickytavy @ Jul 9th 2008 9:41AM

Why you ask:

Socialism in Australia

Both democratic and revolutionary schools of socialism have influenced Australian national politics.

The main source of democratic socialist ideas within the Commonwealth Parliament have been the policies of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Labor 's program has been democratic in:

acknowledging the authority of existing constitutional arrangements even when disapproving of them
aiming to redress specific circumstances, rather than attempting to implement an all-encompassing vision, and
operating within a political culture that, for the most part, has viewed government activity as properly providing a substantial range of services.
In a society that accepts and even expects government activity, Labor's democratic socialism can be difficult to distinguish from the welfare brand of liberalism that has dominated non-Labor politics.(2) However, Labor's platforms may be said to have been 'socialist' in so far as many of its members have:

seen society as consisting of classes rather than individuals

tended to argue for constitutional arrangements that enhance, rather than inhibit, national executive power, and
set a wider scope, and have resorted with greater readiness, to government activity, than members of other parliamentary parties.
Revolutionary socialism has exerted a more indirect influence upon national politics than its democratic counterpart. Revolutionary socialism has operated chiefly through unions under the control of organisations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, which was active through the 1910s, and the Communist Party of Australia, which influenced federal politics from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Radical socialism has been seen in activities by the Seamen's Union in the mid 1920s and the coal miners strike immediately before the 1949 election. Radical socialism has tended to undermine the success of its reformist counterpart rather than achieve its own stated objectives.

Cal @ Jul 9th 2008 9:41AM

Our customs is quite strict, but that mainly pertains to natural objects for a fear of the OMGZ DIZEASEZZZZ. In any case, many just import from NZ. Games that are refused OFLC classification usually find their way over there under a R18+ rating there. I think GTA4 was the only game that was refused classification that didn't make its way to NZ uncut.

Poisoned Al @ Jul 9th 2008 8:47AM

RULE 1: NO POOFTERS!
RULE 2: NO VIDEO GAMES!
RULE 3: NO POOFTERS!
RULE 4: THERE IS NO RULE NUMBER 4!
RULE 5: NO POOFTERS!

dark_inchworm @ Jul 9th 2008 8:48AM

My head would asplode too if I knew Fallout 3 was coming soon.

Hey... guys?... aaarruuruuguauuhuahauuahu

Jakka @ Jul 9th 2008 8:50AM

That dumb.They're not making a difference.

If you can't buy, torrent it.

AzaMcWazza @ Jul 9th 2008 9:25AM

Oh no. Will this mean NZ'ers get en edited version down the line the same as they did for GTA IV

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Jul 9th 2008 9:20AM

To anyone who thinks there's too much censorship in America, just remember:

It gets worse.

To anyone who thinks there's too little censorship in America, just remember:

Go f*** yourself.

Nigeria @ Jul 9th 2008 9:28AM

No need to censor yourself, except if that was the point.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Jul 9th 2008 9:56AM

I never got that. Why do people feel the need to censor themselves here?

animeman_59 @ Jul 9th 2008 7:06PM

This is why I'm not a liberal.

They're way too conservative minded for me.

Mike-453 @ Jul 9th 2008 10:30AM

Because replacing a couple letters with stars apparantly maks it.....wait, no, it still has the same meaning, so why isn't frigging as taboo as fucking? Both have the same damn meaning.

GenBanks @ Jul 9th 2008 12:17PM

If you're naked and you cover yourself with your hands you're still naked.
If you say fuck and you put bleep out some of the letters you're still saying 'fuck'.

But does that mean if we were naked in the streets we shouldn't bother trying to cover ourselves with our hands? Perhaps we should do so for the sake of other people...

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Jul 9th 2008 12:17PM

You fools, I censored it as a joke regarding censorship. How the h*** could you not know that?

Poisoned Al @ Jul 9th 2008 1:41PM

When posting, you have to remember that some people here are dumber then a sack of spanners and wouldn't get the point if you rammed an icepick in their eye.

dark_inchworm @ Jul 9th 2008 2:14PM

+1 for Poisoned Al

Acidic @ Jul 9th 2008 9:41AM

Quite easy actually (Importing games in Australia), as importing games it's easy. To date I have not had a problem with importing games, and I import abroad (USA, EU, ASIA).

anduz @ Jul 9th 2008 9:48AM

They should do this in Europe aswell, because it sure as hell isn't going to be a Fallout game.

Fuck you bethesda.

twilightlynk.com @ Jul 9th 2008 9:49AM

Yeah, they also make it easy for us Australian's to import stuff since our media isn't meant to be region locked.

I wish every Australian would just say "up yours" to the government and import all of their games and other media but that's just not gonna happen.