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South Park: The Fractured But Whole won't be censored in Australia
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papertoonz
Member
Thank god, i didn't want to deal with stuff again
Chaserjoey
Member
Funnily enough, Ubisoft used the Koala to announce this aha
lol that's great.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Lol this made my dayFunnily enough, Ubisoft used the Koala to announce this aha
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Awesome
Not necessarily. The anal probe and abortion scenes are what did Stick in (anything resembling sexual violence is a guaranteed insta-fail).
Edit: Oh, to answer your other question, Stick's censorship situation is a little weird.
Resident Evil King
Member
I preordered through the US PSN just in case it would be censored, but happy for others that it won't be.
Enjoying the fuck out of replaying The Stick of Truth on PS4 to get me ready for the new game.
That game has more replayability than people give it credit for imo.
Enjoying the fuck out of replaying The Stick of Truth on PS4 to get me ready for the new game.
That game has more replayability than people give it credit for imo.
ScientificPizza
Banned
it was so easy to get around the censorship on the PC version that I wasn't really worried either way
NoKisum
Member
Both questions were actually towards FBW. I'm now starting to wonder if, while writing the jokes for the game, someone stepped in and said, "Alright guys, after the censorship issues in Australia, we really gotta tone it down." I hope this wasn't the cause of the last delay.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
I doubt they'd tone the game down just for Australia. And some of the things they've shown seems way worse than what was in the Stick of Truth.
YoRHa No.2 Type B
Banned
So that means, EU versions are censored..
shit i hope not
-shadow-
Member
I just now understand the uncut part of the title :|
My thought as well. Why make a fuss about it for Australia when it was also censored in the EU.
Sebastiano
Member
We don't know yet but I really hope we will not see that statue in the sequel:
leesmapman
Member
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Maybe not, they may have just not announced it yet either way. We didn't find out about the censorship in SoT until it was about to be released.
I was hoping to learn that from Gamescom, but I couldn't find any new news in the German/Euro games media. The important questions never seem to get asked. All we have right now is the months old news that it probably will be cencored but Ubisoft is trying their best to avoid it.
CielTynave
Member
Considering how ridiculous the ratings board for Australia seems to be sometimes I actually expected the op to say it was banned instead.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
The issue with Australia IIRC is that, until recently, they did not have an 18's rating. Therefore everything was either rated for 15's or not rated at all. I believe things have improved since they introduced the 18 rating.
The problem has always been more with the classification guidelines themselves than the lack of an adult rating, which remain unchanged: depictions of sexual violence and incentivisation of drug use are grounds for refusal. Essentially, while we now have an adult rating, the classification board is still bound by the morality that underpins the MA15+ rating. The R18+ rating does give titles with particularly high levels of violence safe passage, though, so it's not all bad. E.g. Valve resubmitted L4D2 and it's now available in its intended form.
Funnily enough, Ubisoft used the Koala to announce this aha
The South Park happy face is the funniest thing.