Fallout 3 Censored for AU, and Everywhere Else Too

Censors Force Fallout 3 Changes on Edge Online has a surprising revelation about the news that Fallout 3 was rejected by Australian censors (story) later to be approved for sale down under after the editing of some of the game's drug references (story). It turns out the edited version resubmitted down under will be the version that's released globally, so everyone will be subject to the Australian standards for adult games, which is that there are no such things. They quote Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines on the topic: "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. I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not. There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3."
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What Would Rockstar Do?
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Hmm, You know what Rockstar would do?

They'd offer free downloadable content called "Asstralia" that includes a mission into a small town with gun shops everywhere. Your objective would be to sit in on a meeting in a room of whining people who are arguing over whether or not they should allow kids to play with toy guns because it might make them grow up to use real guns. (Everyone in the room should be packing SERIOUS firepower and they should fire a gun in the air every time they say anything)

Hopefully they could come up with some clever dialogue to make the Assies look as stupid as they do banning fallout 3 for reference to drugs in the first place.

Get some Balls Bethesda.

This comment was edited on Sep 10, 14:58.
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