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I was just reading an interview with David Cage where he talks about heavy rain. In this interview he repeatedly mentioned that this game is for adults. Which is great the world needs more games that have adults in mind (as opposed to teenage boys). The only thing I am worried about is that the more I read about this game the less and less I think it is going to be refused classification here in Australia due to it's adult oriented material.
The censorship laws regarding video games in this country are draconian at best. The kids who used to crack the BIOS passwords on their parents PCs so they could use the computer whenever they liked are now the parents, so it surprises me that a country like Australia refuses classification on a game like Fallout 3.
Fallout 3 was not refused classification because of the hilarious over the top exploding heads, but because of the original names of the drugs. The Med-X we all know and love was supposed to be called morphine, but due to the fact that the Australian Office Film Literature Classification refused Fallout 3 classification all the drugs were renamed. If those drugs hadn't been renamed Fallout 3 would never have seen the shores of Australia.
The violent content in Heavy Rain probably won't be a problem with the censors what will be is any sexual content it is going to contain. How long is it going to take before Australian censors get it right, when the average age of gamers world wide is a tech savvy over 35 it is time for a change.
The censorship rules here are totally effed up! if you don't believe me have a look at this junk:
http://www.refused-classification.com/Games_A-Z.htm
The games at the other end of that link were or nearly were refused classification in Australia.
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Just wondering what the rest of the world thinks.
Heavy Rain and censorship in Australia
The Silence Of The Lambs didn't have much gore but was frightening as fuck. Heavy Rain is aiming for something like that.
I'm not sure how you're linking trophies to the delay. It's been pushed back for commercial reasons. Heavy Rain is going to get murdered in any sales climate, but certainly against the likes of Modern Warfare 2 it'd get crushed. It's sad to see the narrow mindedness of some gamers, but hey, this is the industry.
We sound like we're both excited about Heavy Rain for the same reasons. It's sweet that there are a few of us on here.
Man that's a real shame. I feel for Australian gamers when stuff like this happens, you have to wait even longer than we do in Europe, you get more censorship (except possibly Germany) than almost anyone else, and you pay a ton.
The people in charge really need to implement an 18 or 21 rating, it's not to much the 15 system that's at fault, but the inability for the current system to recognise anything above a 15. Which in this day an age is nothing short of insane to be honest, i'm amazed such a draconian measure is still in effect and has not been overturned. This generation alone it seems that something like 40+ games have been refused, all of which were ones a large amount of people were interested in, such as riddick etc.
The one single good thing to come out of it imo, would be the Fallout 3 med renames, if only because it persuaded Bethesda to go with the original (where applicable) names (and create new ones that suited the world for new drugs) but on principal I stand against it as a form of censorship. I would have liked the game a lot less if the drugs had real world names, but that doesn't give me the right to support censorship.
Heavy Rain is looking like one of the few games that might finally persuade me to stop buying cheap 360 games, and save for a PS3. The combined allure of playing MGS4, Heavy Rain and inFamous might just give me reason to make the jump. I'll have to find somewhere to put the thing though, room is sparse here.
" @KaosAngel: Cage has already said it won't go supernatural, although they've already fluffed that with those Alternative Reality Glasses one of the characters has. Apparently that is the limit however. I'm not sure how you're linking trophies to the delay. It's been pushed back for commercial reasons. Heavy Rain is going to get murdered in any sales climate, but certainly against the likes of Modern Warfare 2 it'd get crushed. It's sad to see the narrow mindedness of some gamers, but hey, this is the industry. We sound like we're both excited about Heavy Rain for the same reasons. It's sweet that there are a few of us on here. "I've been waiting for Heavy Rain since back in 2005. It was going to be the only game I buy for 2009 due to the insane story promise...now I can't. :(
" @get2sammyb said:Heavy Rain and God of War 3 are the two reasons I got my PS3 for." @KaosAngel: Cage has already said it won't go supernatural, although they've already fluffed that with those Alternative Reality Glasses one of the characters has. Apparently that is the limit however. I'm not sure how you're linking trophies to the delay. It's been pushed back for commercial reasons. Heavy Rain is going to get murdered in any sales climate, but certainly against the likes of Modern Warfare 2 it'd get crushed. It's sad to see the narrow mindedness of some gamers, but hey, this is the industry. We sound like we're both excited about Heavy Rain for the same reasons. It's sweet that there are a few of us on here. "I've been waiting for Heavy Rain since back in 2005. It was going to be the only game I buy for 2009 due to the insane story promise...now I can't. :( "
The issue here isn't so much that heavy rain wont be coming here it's that there isn't a proper ratings system for video games here. Unfortunately this probably has a lot to do with some parents who buy any old game for their kids." PS3 is region free..import it. It'll cost the same for you regardless. "
@EdIsCool said:
It's a mixed blessing here in Australia that it is illegal not to vote, the down side of this is that idiots have to vote too." Sadly gamers dont vote. If they did this stuff would get overturned. And Jack Thompson's head would be on a plate..god bless the Florida bar though. "
@Mordukai: Thanks :D That Michael Atkinson is not a cool guy at all. He's probably never even played Pac-man.
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