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By Joe Keiser
September 9, 2008
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“There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3.”
Speaking to Edge, Bethesda has explained what it calls a “misconception” regarding the classification of Fallout 3 in the Australian region. Edge has also learned that due to concerns and issues raised in the process of international classification, Fallout 3 will not contain real world drug references in any territory.
Fallout 3 was originally refused classification by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, citing among other reason the in-game use of “Morphine” in order to ignore limb pain. According to the Office’s guidelines, “material promoting or encouraging proscribed drug use” is refused classification.
In mid-August, the OFLC announced that a revised version of the game had been granted a rating in Australia, thanks to edits that changed the context of the in-game drug use.
While it has been assumed that these changes would only be in place in the Australian release of the game, Edge has been told by Bethesda vice president of PR and marketing Peter Hines 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.
Calling the idea of an Australia-specific version of the game a “misconception,” Hines told us, “We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform.”
He continued, “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.”
Hines stated, “I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not.” Finally, he explained that, “There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3.”
Bethesda has in the past described the landscape of international ratings classification as a challenge. In previous interviews, Hines has referred to the variation of rules and standards across different regions as “frustrating”.
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Australian goverment always seemed a bit picky to me, but i guess its thier job to ensure whats right for their country so i suppose you can acept their decsion in respects.
Don't they have some pretty good buds in Australia?
Fallout 3 has used the "classic" drugs from the earlier games in the series, those were made up names by Interplay/BIS, Bethesda copied all those drugs into Fallout 3 without changing the names. They did however ADD one more drug and named it Morphine. It's now changed to Med-X. Read more on http://www.nma-fallout.com/
Hardly a big deal to be upset about.
I think people know that. That's probably also why Bethesda made the change with little resistance.
It's the principle of the thing. It's not the government's place to decide creative direction.
I don't remember a problem with Max Payne chomping down on pain killers as health potions.
Friggin' Australians. It's all the sun and kangaroos. It's driving them nuts.
The word is prescribed not proscribed.
Don't blame Australian's for this mess. It's our ancient OLFC and the Government's short sightedness for not allowing a 18+ rating on games. They seem to think that games are still only for kids. Personally I'm staring down the barrel of 40 and it frustrates the hell out of me.
Prescribed = your doctor told you to take it.
Proscribed = banned.
They must have meant proscribed in this case... otherwise, I move to Australia ;)
This is just as ridiculous as the US getting upset over every boob they see on tv.
I suddenly feel like playing Circuit's Edge.
No this is WORSE than situations in the US.
The fact is, the Australian Government BANNED Fallout 3 until they changed names of items in the game. I don't remember anyone banning any games in America for this reason or any other. Thanks to our freedoms in a America, developers aren't hindered or stepped on by a ridiculous government to change minor things in a product because they believe people are too stupid to understand that drug use is bad violence is wrong. (Take Postal, for example. And I recommend looking at what the developers "Running With Scissors" think about censorship like this.)
I'm glad I live in a country where faith is placed in its people. Then again, these freedoms are too often threatened by certain people in office - I won't name any names.
The Australian government is censoring products from their citizens because they don't have faith in their Australian people. They're censoring products like this so harshly because they believe their people are idiots who will be swayed into drug use and violence by a mere piece of entertainment. I'm relieved I don't live in Australia for these reasons, and I feel sorry for the people that do live there - and I hope they're able to make a difference in the way that "The Man" is controlling them.
EDIT: Please, don't try to inform me about ESRB. I know what ESRB is, and I don't believe it's much of a hinderance. Although it seems like so many developers care about a "T for Teen" rating rather than an "M for Mature" rating, actually how much of a difference in sales does this make? When I was under 18 I bought M rated games all the time, and they never carded me. And if they DID card me, I just had my dad buy it for me. But then again, I have parents who understand I'M not a psychopath kid who gets inspired by violence in games and movies who then goes off to commit horrors of his own.
The only people who go off killing people and so quickly say "I did it because of GTA 3" are ALREADY insane. They were going to do something insane no matter what. Games, movies, guns, etc., do not make people do violent acts - violent and insane people do violent acts.
Man... I really went on a rant.
Dude, that's mostly bullshit. Australia isn't some third-world muslim country with harsh censorship. The only reason they refuse classification on games is because the government has yet to introduce an 18+ rating. So once it's too much for the 15+ rating (which I might add was enough for Manhunt without any cuts until there were some complaints later down the track) then it has nowhere to go. Our film rating system is far better than the US and you should see what we can show on free-to-air TV. Yeah, our game rating system is a little archaic, but don't make the misconception that we suffer from an oppressive government regime. I've seen enough shitty American TV edits to know that's not the case. You can't judge our whole situation on the games rating debacle.
Totally agree. As I said, this is why I am a reluctant patriot. We may have wardrobe malfunctions, but it's primarily our populace and private industry getting up in arms.
When it's the government itself doing the censoring, well, that's a whole other banana.
I fully agree to your statement that video games do not spawn psychopaths and perhaps I should have used the words "even more ridiculous". With regards to censorship, I do feel that certain people in the US have a weird perception with regards to sex versus violence though. When it comes to drugs, this Aussie decision is just a little silly - as if people would run out to their local drugstore in order to attempt getting their hands on large amounts of morphine after realizing their game character feels better using it. I guess it's no problem that the new unnamed drug can now be viewed as an interesting mix of heroin, LSD and speed - if people use their imagination a little. ;)
i'd prefer morphine over 'pain-ease' or something else made up..
It is a shame the rest of the world is punished by Australia's prudeness about games,
Living in OZ i was planning to import.
Now the only reason to import is 30% price difference :|
"Full version"???
Did you read the article?
All they did was change the name of a drug from "morphine" to something fictional, and it made sense to make that change in all markets to keep similar complaints from being levied in other territories (countries, states, provinces).
As edits go, it's simple and doesn't change the game one iota.
So instead of editing it for one market and releasing the full version in the others, they will be editing it for all markets.
Gotcha.
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