Hotline Miami 2 refused classification in Australia - Polidicks

[url]http://www.gamespot.com/articles/hotline-miami-2-banned-in-australia/1100-6424654/[/url] [quote=GameSpot]Top-down 2D action game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number has been refused classification in Australia, effectively banning it from sale in the country. The Australian Classification Board (via Player Attack) has written that the game was refused classification under the National Classification Code, Computer Games Table, as computer games that "depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified."[/quote]

get fucked classification board cunts

What, are you fucking serious? I thought the reason we got an R18+ rating was so Adults could decide on what they should buy.

How is this different to the first one? That got a MA15+ rating.

[quote]"depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults to the extent that they should not be classified."[/quote] Boo! Get off the stage, old man!

How about this. We make a new rating, R21+. You have to be 21 to play these games, will that make you happy? [editline]15th January 2015[/editline] Jesus christ, why is everyone so sensitive these days.

"It might hurt the feelings of people that won't buy it anyway"

[QUOTE=Xonax;46935795]How about this. We make a new rating, R21+. You have to be 21 to play these games, will that make you happy? [editline]15th January 2015[/editline] Jesus christ, why is everyone so sensitive these days.[/QUOTE] The classification board is full of idiots. Even if there's a 21+ rating, the game will still get refused classification. It's just the state of our classification board.

If you're going to add an R18+ classification, you really need to make sure you actually tell the classifications board about it, because it seems they didn't get the memo.

Fuuuuck, I was really looking foward to this after loving the first game so much. One of my friends who's a huge fan is going to be very, very pissed off. [editline]15th January 2015[/editline] Can't Valve just put it up on Steam for all to buy anyway?

Ugh, I'm suddenly reminded of the fact that news sites kept talking about a "Graphic Rape scene" that was in a trailer that people even up in arms here over it. Even though it was a flat faced lie to gain hits, not one of them bothered to actually watch the trailer which showed the scene, containing literally nothing about what they wrote about, instead featuring what is clearly a movie set with actors ingame, and is cut off by a director after nothing but the male lead pulling down his pants. The game is a fucking scapegoat, sure it deals with seedy themes, but it is far less harmful than any more realistic game.

Man, fuck off

Australia needs to stop banning everything

I feel especially shitty for the devs, this isn't gonna stop people that want to play it from playing it. But it's gonna hurt the devs pretty hard (which are cool guys)

[QUOTE=NapyDaWise;46935816]"It might hurt the feelings of people that won't buy it anyway"[/QUOTE] There'll be a censored version for Australia. "Do you enjoy hurting people's feelings?"

FUCK THIS COUNTRY FUCK THESE CUNTS TO HELL AND BACK IT WAS ONE OF MY MOST AWAITED GAMES OF THE YEAR FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[QUOTE=murple;46935949]FUCK THIS COUNTRY FUCK THESE CUNTS TO HELL AND BACK IT WAS ONE OF MY MOST AWAITED GAMES OF THE YEAR FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK[/QUOTE]dude, calm down im sure you'll be able to get it either way

R18+ rating was introduced so violent games like Hotline Miami would get in with ease Honestly if the government wasn't so incompetent I'd be protesting for a complete overhaul of the commonwealth classification board, it needs to be more independent and needs to remove the line between video games and TV and movies As I said many times, if Hotline Miami was a movie, you'd most likely see it slapped with an MA15+ rating and I'm not fucking joking [editline]15th January 2015[/editline] Actually wait a second this shouldn't even matter as long as its not sold on Steam, Australian authorities have no control of games being disturbed on the web but they always wonder why piracy is sky high here :downs:

I thought there was a part in the game where the player kills a bunch of innocents instead of hostiles. Maybe that's why they're making a big deal of it? Also, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;46936009]I thought there was a part in the game where the player kills a bunch of innocents instead of hostiles. Maybe that's why they're making a big deal of it? Also, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.[/QUOTE] In HLM1 you [sp]do that as Biker in the phonecom building.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;46936009]I thought there was a part in the game where the player kills a bunch of innocents instead of hostiles. Maybe that's why they're making a big deal of it? Also, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.[/QUOTE] There's a part in the first game where you storm a police station and kill a whole bunch of cops. I dunno why this ones any different

^ Spoiler that shit up, bro. I'm slightly overjoyed at this news just because it means HLM2 isn't stepping down at all in terms of bloody massacring.

well I already preordered the vinyl edition so the classification board can suck my dick

I'm not really a fan of the first game but this still pisses me off that they can still ban games here after getting an R18 rating

I swear, if I'm ever a big game developer and some country tries to censor my shit, I will upload a patch to fix it myself. And until then, whatever got replaced will just be the dorkiest-looking photo of whichever politician was responsible, with a drunk voiceactor narrating what should be happening, and telling you to go torrent the fix. I am 100% serious about this.

[QUOTE=gman003-main;46936092]I swear, if I'm ever a big game developer and some country tries to censor my shit, I will upload a patch to fix it myself. And until then, whatever got replaced will just be the dorkiest-looking photo of whichever politician was responsible, with a drunk voiceactor narrating what should be happening, and telling you to go torrent the fix. I am 100% serious about this.[/QUOTE] you'd be fined heavily by the government for breaking the law also for promoting illegal activity (warez) so have fun

People will pay it. They're just going to pirate it. This will only hurt developers sales in australia, it will do nothing to prevent people from playing it

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46936129]you'd be fined heavily by the government for breaking the law also for promoting illegal activity (warez) so have fun[/QUOTE] promoting the illegal downloading of YOUR game? That's like saying giving things away for free is promoting shoplifting.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;46936140]promoting the illegal downloading of YOUR game? That's like saying giving things away for free is promoting shoplifting.[/QUOTE] you're still promoting people to pirate content regardless if its yours or not the law doesn't say "it's fine if its your material" You are not allowed to encourage anyone to do it, it's against the law

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;46936129]you'd be fined heavily by the government for breaking the law also for promoting illegal activity (warez) so have fun[/QUOTE] It's not warez to give something away for free, and I'll bet most of those laws only say "you cannot sell a game with this content", not "you cannot give away a game with this content". If it really mattered, I'd find a way to get plausible deniability. Absolute worst-case, I refuse to sell the game at all in their country, and add a bit to my next game comparing them to Hitler. [editline]14th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=fruxodaily;46936155]you're still promoting people to pirate content regardless if its yours or not the law doesn't say "it's fine if its your material" You are not allowed to encourage anyone to do it, it's against the law[/QUOTE] You're talking absolute bullcrap here. I dare you, find me a law that says anything at all like that, in any country.