Australian gamers planning to import their copies of Fallout 3 to avoid playing the version censored to appease the Aussie Classifications Board no longer have to bother as Bethesda have now revealed that the same game will be shipping worldwide.
In a Q&A with
Edge Online, Bethesda's Peter Hines confirmed that "there will be no differences between the version that releases in Australia and the versions that will release in other territories, including Europe and the US."
"An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid
confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories"
The important thing to take away from this is that Bethesda don't seem to be concerned that the alterations will negatively impact on the quality of the game. It is still disappointing however, that developers have to waste time conforming to the censorship standards of various countries - this decision perhaps being a reactionary measure to avoid having to work on multiple builds of the game.
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Posted 11:31am 10/9/08
not before generating maximum publicity for the game beforehand by battling censorship, are you nuts?
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Posted 01:02pm 10/9/08
makes more sense to just have imaginary drug use to have the same penalties as real drug use in the same way that e-stalking and stalking do.
"sir, can you empty your inventory please? yes the horadric cube and bag of carrying +1 too."
Posted 01:09pm 10/9/08
It will still work out cheaper to import it anyway.
So, any bets on that the first mod (if it can be modded) will be renaming the drugs to real world references, just to stick it to the man!?
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Posted 04:59pm 10/9/08
Though with a fair few games coming out in october I may bulk it and save.
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Posted 08:01pm 11/9/08
Maybe he could crawl back under his parliamentary rock from whence he came and stop screwing with things that are above and beyond his comprehension.
Video games don't make people violent, aggressive and obnoxious and we have alcohol to do that for us already ^_^.
Posted 08:10pm 11/9/08
http://www.ebgames.com.au/PC/product.cfm?ID=11566 - $99.95
Slightly more cheaper here: (But free delivery)
http://www.aussiegamer.com.au/catalog/fallout-3-p-25401.html - $84.00
(inc. GST)DELIVERED
But holy crap 70 AUD here. I'm so importing it.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-7s-77-4-49-en-15-%22Fallout+3%22-70-2tfh.html - Price: US$ 54.90 (~68.58 AUD) but then again... Shipping at US$ 3.40
Talk about gaming being ripped off in Australia.
Posted 08:15pm 11/9/08
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Source.
Posted 11:02pm 11/9/08
Posted 09:54am 12/9/08
Issh
Posted 12:42pm 12/9/08
An Australian game dev company has absolutely no disadvantage over a foreign one. Take a look at some of the big games of the last few years, Stalker was f*****g ukrainian. Serious Sam, etc was made by Croatians. Farcry/Crysis is German. Mafia was Czech. And heaps of other canadian, french, english, korean, japanese and whatever else companies.
If aussie companies can't compete its because they are s***. That said, aussie films are complete balls. (in general.)
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