Crosshairs November 19: Left 4 Dead 2, Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers

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Posted Nov 19, 2009

This week on Crosshairs, we show you what's missing in the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 and give you a few tips on how to not to get kicked out of games because you're an Aussie. We also check out some androgynous action in Final Fantasy: Crystal Bearers.

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professorXzaver
Posted Dec 2, 2009 2:36 pm GMT

Laura, please play with my wii!
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midnightsteel
Posted Nov 22, 2009 2:55 pm GMT

Poor Australia. I see the Govt has no faith in its adults to parent responsibly. They are being the parents of the parents.
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Andrew451
Posted Nov 21, 2009 4:05 pm GMT

Well, swift05, Australia doesn't trust its citizens and often confuses the working class with the criminal class. This is evidenced by the massive gun control they have. Yet people (ie: criminals) still possess and use guns. There politicians can only do one thing and that is ban anything, including media that is deemed “too violent.” Cause once you go down the banning road, you really can't go back. You need to keep reinforcing the idea that people are incapable of thinking for themselves and need government intervention to keep them civil and moral.
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swift05
Posted Nov 20, 2009 5:47 am GMT

why is there so much censorship in australia?!
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78thefly
Posted Nov 19, 2009 10:03 pm GMT

sunshine and ponies version lol. bad luck for the aussies, reduced gore no fair
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uberjannie
Posted Nov 19, 2009 5:48 pm GMT

Not awesomesauce with the censorship =/
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dimsey
Posted Nov 19, 2009 5:31 pm GMT

I wouldn't mind having a 'gimped' Left4Dead2 if it were at least as violent as the first Left 4 Dead but the blood splatters are practically non-existant, no corpse piles. I mean I can live without the severed limbs and decapitations but from what I've seen it's actually LESS bloody and violent then the first game. It doesn't look 'MA" violent anymore in my book.

More violent and bloody games have made it through unscathed, I'll throw Ninja Gaiden 2 out there as an example - every confrontation ends with the area being soaked in blood and it's nearly impossible for you to kill a dude without something being cut off.

Honest to god it feels like they just do these bannings at random. As much as it'd suck because if they were I'm sure we'd have a lot more bannings and 'gimped' games but I wish they were at least consistant with their judgements.

Tl;dr? I feel Left 4 Dead 2's censorship is completely unjustifed given some of the other violent content that has made it through unscathed.

I won't be buying Left 4 Dead 2, not out of protest because I'm not naive enough to believe that would actually have any effect - I'm not buying it simply because a zombie game lacking all the blood and decapitations and splatters and gore that Left 4 Dead 2 lacks isn't a zombie game at all in my book - zombie apocalypses are meant to be bloody.
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