Risen banned down under

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More on topic is that in the game they even say that "brugleweed" isn't even a weed, it's probably closer to tobacco than anything else, at least its probably more pure than the chemical death sticks they sell in real life. I'd goes as far to say that the game sets a better example in that if you're gonna smoke, use pure stuff not the poison-laced crap.

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lol @ vonsvin

This is why Andrew Ryan built Rapture.

This game is terrible on 360, but awesome on PC

ahh soccer moms, ignoring their childerns' actions and when they do something blame something else (video games, movies, etc.) i have a feeling that the increase of parents who don't raise their kids right and blame their childern's misbehavior on games and such will make childern overly sheltered and not prepared for the real world, therfore screwing them over. i mean seriously, how hard is it to read a ****ing M or +16 rating on a god damn? "i didn't know this was in the game." dumbass its on the back of the ****ing case! if this keeps up, Australia and any other country who has people who get the government to 'protect' kids will have a generation of confused mommas' boys/girls who will not be able to defend their nation if the need arises. besides, ITS NOT ****ING REAL! god damn...........why are so many people idiots. sorry bout the rant, these kind of people just piss me off to no end.

Holy crap! u can learn worse stuff from movies than games bunch of douches they are !

Let me tell you about the rating system in Australia, they don't have 18+, anything that the rest of the world would rate over 15/16+ gets banned, if you never wanna grow up, go to Australia, you'll be a minor for life :P

The prostitution part they refer to is not even graphic in nature! I thought the UK was bad enough, but Australia is 100 times worse when it comes to being told what you can and can't do... nanny state anyone? If they want to ban anything, they should ban backpacking, now there is a real world risk in Aus :P lol

Do you have to get permission to sleep aswell or is that banned ? lol that country is a joke, well the people that run it anyway.

The ban down under is downright ridiculous.

lol. If anyone actually enjoys the "sex" in this game, they need some serious help. NPCs smoking was fun to see though.

haha

The Australian censorship is run by @$$ hats

@ Bboyjhin It'll still be sold in the US, but not in Australia.

wait so its not going to be release in the usa no more?

im an Aussie and it is total BS, i ended up just downloading the game but i mean come on, its just stupid, as if someones gunna all of a sudden start smoking weed just because of a game.. all i can say is our ratings board is a joke

Agreed as below, I own the Witcher, and that seems far worse.

lol the witcher has a way better sex scene , and that wasnt banned

The prostitution scene is laughable at best, and the woman Olga gives you a Jest Scroll after you pay the 50 gold coin to supposeduly get with her. Nothing ensues and the screen goes black and at the end gives you the scroll like nothing happened. The "weed reefer" is perhaps a name at best, and really does not rival anything at all to cannabis. Censorship in this day and age for selected words of taboo is really absurd, and it is something that should bring the whole Australia rating system down to the ground.

"players gain rewards or advance through the game more easily by engaging in sexual activity with prostitutes" Wow, just like real life :O

I've heard many a horrible thing about Aussie censors, and no I'm not just talking gaming. It's almost like the country isn't truly free.

You got to love the nanny states. Sadly this is the kind of sh*t that the USA is getting closer to... A govt completely out of touch with reality coming in and controlling every aspect of peoples lives...

ahahaha love livin in NZ cuz u go into the stores and some games have a banned in Australia sticker on them, NZ wins again :P

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Damn im happy i dont live in Australia, besides the trillion things that can kill you over there and the beyond abysmal internet connection with the "civilized" world, they probably have a bunch of Amish dudes in charge of their game and movie classification boards. Seriously like some sex and drug references or some violence in a GAME will turn all kids into crazy violent drug dealing pimps...

What about fable2 there were prostitutes in that, and u could also be a bigamist which is also illegal in AUS. Also what about San Andreas, there are lots of drug references, maybe its because you destroy the drugs, hmmmm. Classification Board of AUS = EPIC FAIL

feliscele@ Maybe the next game it will be nicer seeing from Gothic 2 the Sexscene there :P i guess they are getting softer :O.. the rules are getting heavier and heavier for every year.. its abit wierd is it because of the graphics getting better or just more idiotic people getting in charge?

Weed gives us experience points in real life...?

Just heard about it before, but the game looked interesting and something I wouldn't mind playing. Until I get told it's banned. This is f-ing ridiculous, Australian's like to consider themselves as "the lucky country" but I now see us as the unlucky country due to these ridiculous bannings. God dammit >:( When will they learn that not all gamers are 10 year olds who need someone to tell them what they can play and what they can't!

Lol just sent an email to the classification board complaining

im gonna lose it one day.. over protective classification board

I feel sorry for autstralia, all the good stuff gets banned there, they are never able to get anything decent in full.... What will they do to DA:O?

Wow...Risen looks no worse than Oblivion, tamer even. Oblivion had a quest where you almost get seduced and robbed/raped, not to mention the Skooma (drug) dens all over the place...and that had a "T" rating until the stupid nude patch. Australia has their heads somewhere inappropriate, that's all I can say.

someone kill that bastard in south Australia who is stopping the board from implementing an R rating for games, and god dam our stupid laws that say every governor or what not has to say yes for it to pass, what happened to democracy where majority rules, instead we have one person saying no so the law is chucked. I love my country but god i hate our government.

That's actually suprising, I mean it doesn't look like there will be too much of that stuff, and to be illegal to even promote is a little harsh.

We have to get rid of the Victorian-era institutions in this country. Banning millions of Australians from accessing a game because of mature content is undemocratic. Prove that mature content in games is more dangerous than mature content in movies. People should not have their rights to spend their recreation time however they want taken away, because of one politician's problem with games.

I have to say a lot of people bought Age of Conan because of the mature content and awesome graphics. The Mature Rating usually keeps kids from buying it at stores, useless there illiterate parent buys it.... Being in the older gamer crowd I always look for game like these where game play and action doesn't follow the norm. Getting real old with all these MMORPG / RPG are all generally the same. Good for Deep Silver, Piranha Bytes trying to get out of the box

idk...the game doesn't look too good.

It's the principle that's the problem here. Do you need sex and drugs to make a good game? Of course not. In fact either of the two having too prevalent appearance in a game (eg sex appeal in Bayonetta) turn me AGAINST it. That doesn't mean they should be ****ing BANNED. They should be ignored and insulted, sure, but banning them implies either we don't have the good taste required to decide what makes a rubbish game, or that we don't have the responsibility required to stop our kids from playing rubbish games. It's just nannying and it's insulting. Get the hell rid of it.

good ol' aussie government supporting piracy again. cheers michael atkinson, i hope your kids get cancer and you get to see them all die slowly.

Have to agree with Jazz, i barely knew about this game, and now im going to find other means of getting the uncut version. Whole debate has gone on too long, its pathetic. Should have been decided months ago, and the obvious answer is to introduce 18+ classification, all the arguments against it are flawed.

well, classification board to me is a fail, since it only forces me to find other means of getting a game. An sorry to say, the internet opens a way.

They should lay of our games and censor channel 10, you ever watch Good news week- total smut.

im getting sick of this... would a famous painter be asked to painter over parts of his masterpiece? furthermore i dont give a flying f**k about these people who are passing judgment for us. i'll play what i want.

By now, I usual take it as a good omen, when they ban a game down there. It often meens its a good game :D

man every thing gets banned down there

ooohh... never heard of this, but it looks quite good! made by the same devs as gothic by the looks...... gothic games had their shortfalls, but i loved em! Always wished they brought gothic 3 out on 360 so im gonna get this.

Wow, I am kind of shocked that the arguments on this board consist mostly of change the ratings system arguments as opposed to change the gov't argument. Why does the AUS gov't have the power to ban a game in the first place!?