Australia's classification board

[vadsamoht]

Shrimps + Barbys = OK


Simulated Violence = Not OK

don't forget guns and cheap beer, those are fine too

At least Australia isn't as lax with guns as places like the US, though.

 

[Nintendo]

Huh? Guns haven't been fine in Australia since Bryant's Port Arthur massacre...as for beer, they're not that cheap.

 

[darfgarf]

Huh? Guns haven't been fine in Australia since Bryant's Port Arthur massacre...as for beer, they're not that cheap.

Cheap in taste, not price easier to get weapons than england, read through our firearm laws, can't even legally have a waterbomb rifle

 

[Jourdy288]

I updated my opening post for you, Jourdy.

Oh thanks.. Man, I remember reading about Australia's classification system years ago and wondering who was running it. Just yipes.


On another note, the BBFC rated Halo 2 for ages 12+. That's the most accurate rating I've seen for that game.

 

[Prometheus]

^ As far as I'm aware, the BBFC hasn't rated Halo 2 at all - and it has a PEGI rating of 16+ (Halo 3, meanwhile, does have a BBFC rating - a "15" - slapped on it, for some reason). I'm no fan of PEGI (as I'm sure you might have guessed by now ), but by their standards, that's actually a bit high, I think. The Halo games seem to be more comic-book-like with their violence, to me, and I agree that a ~12 rating would probably be appropriate for them.

 

[Jourdy288]

Agreed, they're not very.. Realistic, haha. I still don't get why the ESRB rated it 'M'.

 

[Nintendo]

It's because it has guns and several swear words in it.

 

[Jourdy288]

So does Mirror's Edge, which was rated 'T'.

 

[Nintendo]

Were there profanities in Mirror's Edge?

 

[Jourdy288]

Well, just the "S" word mostly, but it was about on par with Halo.

 

[Stradian]

At least Australia isn't as lax with guns as places like the US, though.

Take your political theory elsewhere.

 

[vadsamoht]

At least Australia isn't as lax with guns as places like the US, though.

Take your political theory elsewhere.

Care to elaborate?

 

[vadsamoht]

Sorry for the gravedig, but this may be of interest to people in Australia. Looks like we'll finally be getting an R18+ rating after all.

 

[moz]

Sorry for the gravedig, but this may be of interest to people in Australia. Looks like we'll finally be getting an R18+ rating after all.

Awesome news, but it is 'proposed' therefor it will probably take a year for the to fill out paperwork and work out their political shit.

 

[Nintendo]

Sorry for the gravedig, but this may be of interest to people in Australia. Looks like we'll finally be getting an R18+ rating after all.

Australia still sucks, because:

South Australia has previously indicated it will also scrap the current MA15+ , meaning all violent games will be restricted to adults.

Little did they know that we still need MA15+


They should just scrap PG.

A national telephone survey conducted by Galaxy last year showed that 80 per cent of the 2,226 people contacted said they supported the introduction of an adult only category for games.

Wonder who the other 20% are?

games containing extreme violence will continue to be refused classification and banned from sale altogether.

*facepalm*

 

[moz]

Australia still sucks, because:

games containing extreme violence will continue to be refused classification and banned from sale altogether.

*facepalm*

I could deal with all that other crap... but this? Seriously, whats the point?

 

[darfgarf]

I could deal with all that other crap... but this? Seriously, whats the point?

forces the violent game makers to give them away free

 

[Nintendo]

Once again..Nanny State.