AtomicMPC have a comprehensive overview article looking at the current state of play with the much-desired R rating for video games in Australia, looking at several aspects of the rating process.

Please list 10 games that have been refused classification and are even worth playing.

http://www.refused-classification.com/Games_A-Z.htm

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rofl...Duke 3D

All those games on the ban list except for Duke Nukem, GTA and Hitman are all rubbish. Although there was a funny part in Postal where you get to burn a marching band with a flame thrower...very funny indeed.

8-)

dont forget pissing on them to put them out

That was Postal 2.

8-)

^^ Postal 2...

The original Postal was a top down 3rd person (like Diablo) an I don't recall ever pissing on someone to put em out (that was Postal 2) <- which was IMO just unnecessary anyway

*^^ * Doh!

It's about time that we join the rest of the western world on this issue, We have R18+ ratings for movies, there should be no real reason it's not for games as well.

its because the f***tards who make these decisions think that everyone else thinks exactly the same as them and have the same morals,etc (and that no one can make decisions for themselves)

i dont see the big deal, its not like kids can get exposed to it without an 18+er to expose it to them, they cant borrow the s*** out from the shop or buy it..

and i guess they dont think about how many people they cause to go download the games instead coz they cbf importing.

last edited by Jerry at 14:59:26 28/Jan/05

Interesting, most of the games on that list are classified MA15+ not RC (Refused)

I believe they were RC at first, and then edited for Australian audiences, and then re-classified as MA15+. Don't quote me though.

I believe they were RC at first, and then edited for Australian audiences, and then re-classified as MA15+. Don't quote me though.

lololol quoted lololol

What the f*** has the history of games refused got to do with anything anyway?

Phantasmagoria's on the list. That surprises me - a friend of mine had that in the mid-90s. I remember it clearly, becuase it took 7 CDs (unbelievable for 10 years ago).

And Silent Hill?!?

Edit: In view of the list, how did Doom 3 get through?

last edited by DrFrag at 16:22:39 28/Jan/05

Changing attitudes mainly. If Doom3 had come out a few years back looking as gruesome as it does then it may have failed classification then.

This gets me;

Muehlenberg told Atomic he was concerned at the graphic nature and often sexually explicit material already legally available, and said a focus on the classification system wasn't a total solution.

'We certainly support the concept of guidelines. But so many kids are downloading games from the internet and bypassing the system.'

Parents would probably not approve of the games their kids were playing if they were aware of the content, said Muehlenberg. 'I hate to say it, but probably the majority of parents aren't aware.'

Hmm... so everyone has to suffer because some parents are too lazy to check exactly what their kids are downloading (illegally I might add!) off the net. And frankly how does NOT having an R rating help combat that?

If anything it'd be better to have the game available with a big red R slapped on the box. At least that way when Mum takes little Timmy to EB she sees the big R rating and says "Not on your life". Although, more likely she'll say "Sure Timmy. I can always blame the Govt later for me being a slak parent".

Kingpin was fun.
So was Postal 2.
sif not bash hoes up.

heh Postal2 sounds hilarious

"and if you want to be stealthy, you can pick up a cat, and stick your shotgun into's it rear end to use it as a silencer. Every time you shoot now, fur will go flying. One of the more novelty, and very over the top weapons, is a decapitated cow's head filled with anthrax, which will cause everyone in the immediate area to gag, throw up, then die."

I mean how could you take that seriously?

u could wear S&M gear and ppl would boo at u.
then u chase them around with a shovel and your willy hanging out.

While I agree banning games is stupid - we're smart enough to decide for ourselves what to play, take a moment to be thankful we don't have the ridiculous bans China just implemented - banning games such as The Sims 2 and Battlefield Vietnam just to name two (out of 50 recent titles).

How much more utterly pathetic can the Chinese government possibly become!?

Hmm... so everyone has to suffer because some parents are too lazy to check exactly what their kids are downloading (illegally I might add!) off the net. And frankly how does NOT having an R rating help combat that?

If anything it'd be better to have the game available with a big red R slapped on the box. At least that way when Mum takes little Timmy to EB she sees the big R rating and says "Not on your life".

Exactly. And perhaps mum will notice the big red R on the game box in the shop and think "hey, isn't that the game little Jimmy downloaded?"

How does one purchase the game "Immoral Cumbat?" Is it available?

'Sexual themes are woven into the very fabric of what the Leisure Suit Larry brand is about,' he says. 'VUG feels that, by removing a significant part of the sexual content, the game would be less fun to play.'

It's a big shame that the only Aussies that get to enjoy LSL:MCL are pirates. It's the perfect example of a game requiring an R rating as it's a comedy for adults. No harm is done by it, and women can have as much (or more) fun with it as blokes.

wonder how the new playboy mansion game is getting through the ratings system when games like singles - flirt your life up didnt (just to note - that game was pretty much the sims except u had a small chance of getting to see animated characters get it on etc)

not to mention the "VR" jenna jameson porn game :(

How does one purchase the game "Immoral Cumbat?" Is it available?

ROFL @ game title!

I can't believe we can't have R18+ games when America, the christian-governed crazyland who wouldn't show Benny Hill on TV back when it was prime in Australia because it was too 'risque', have the classification.