Yep.

They're just hyping everyone's expectations for this game way beyond sustainable levels.

Bill Borre wrote on May 2, 2020, 14:56:
They're just hyping everyone's expectations for this game way beyond sustainable levels.

They are releasing information, what you and others do with it is "hype". And this isn't even them hyping anything it's a fucking Classification by the Aussie Gov.

Choose your words wisely

What's all this brouhaha about sax and violins?

Just a few more months to polish the bewb and dong physics. This should be their top priority right now.

TheBigVlad wrote on May 2, 2020, 16:24:
Just a few more months to polish the bewb and dong physics. This should be their top priority right now.

Between this and making my Golden Girls team in Watch Dogs Legion it's gonna be a good year (when this all comes out and hopefully on time)

"High impact themes, sex, violence, and references to sexual violence."

So what i'm reading here is, with the right attachment, you could maybe achieve high impact sex also?

"Sir, there is a reason WHY it is called the jack hammer... and it has nothing to do with road work."

SlimRam wrote on May 2, 2020, 17:47:

"High impact themes, sex, violence, and references to sexual violence."

So what i'm reading here is, with the right attachment, you could maybe achieve high impact sex also?

I laughed out loud xD thank you

Would this have been banned outright in Australia in the past?

So long as they don't "modify" anything in the game because of the censors, they can rate it whatever they want.

Works for me. Probably just means more sales anyway.

Seems fair enough.
Parents will just buy it for their kids if they are under 18 anyway.
That's how these things generally go here.
About 10 or so years ago they tried to bring in legislation to punish parents who purchased 'R' rated games for under age kids after "do gooders" whinged and bitched but, they realized that it was going to be completely unsustainable so dropped it.
I mean under 18s still get alcohol/tobacco with monotonous ease so.......

jdreyer wrote on May 2, 2020, 18:41:
Would this have been banned outright in Australia in the past?

Possibly. Australia's always been fairly lenient with straightforward violence in the past. The main reason why stuff gets banned is if there's sexual violence or drug use related to "rewards". (E.g GTA3 was banned back in the day because you could have sex with a hooker, then run her over and collect money (a "reward") from her body after.)

So there could be drug use and sexual violence, or "references to" it, in this game, but if the player doesn't get rewarded for doing those things it might still have been OK in the past. And even today, if the player were rewarded for those things it might have still been banned. That's what's written in the guidelines, i.e. "Implied sexual violence related to incentives and rewards" results in "Refused classification" (banned).

I'm surprised Australia didn't spontaneously re-combust again when they were given the title to review for their rating board. I remember they pissed and moaned about Fallout 3 about chems so Bethesda had to rename them so they weren't reflective of real drugs and initially refused classification for Kingdom Come: Deliverance while using the same "high impact" language.

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Squirmer wrote on May 2, 2020, 21:03:
GTA3 was banned back in the day because you could have sex with a hooker, then run her over and collect money (a "reward") from her body after.

LOL... I never thought of that as being a reward. Heck if you mowed any pedestrian down, or beat them with a bat , or whatever... they'd drop cash for you to "rob", and eventually the cop meter would go up. The only reason it didn't go up sooner is because you didn't use a gun... or specifically with hookers... at night and not a ton of witnesses around. So Rockstar basically got banned for trying to make their cop meter reasonably realistic.