Australia Bans Dead or Alive Dimensions
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 15, 2011 17:14 JST
- Tags: Australia, Censorship, Dead or Alive, DS, Nintendo, Sweden
Following the illustrious example set by Sweden, Australia’s game censorship board has revoked the rating of Dead or Alive Dimensions, effectively banning it, accusing the game of containing “content not drawn to the board’s attention.”
The game was “voluntarily” withdrawn from sale in a number of European countries due to fears that it would fall foul of Sweden’s increasingly extreme child porn laws – as it is possible to peer up the skirt of fictional minors in the game’s figure mode.
Australian media brought this to the attention of the authorities, who had already rated the game PG for “mild violence and sexualised gameplay,” causing them to re-examine the title.
The game’s Australian version had already tactfully redacted the age of the “underage” characters to “N/A,” but it seems this was not enough, and the censors revoked its classification (apparently having not bothered to check the content of the game themselves), banning it from sale:
“Information provided to the board last week suggested that the game contained content not drawn to the board’s attention in the original classification application.
Dead Or Alive Dimensions is now unclassified and cannot be sold in Australia unless it is resubmitted for classification.”
Nintendo is apparently resubmitting in the hopes of getting a 15+ rating, the highest rating Australian authorities allow at present.
Australia has some of the most restrictive game censorship in the developed world, with the state absolutely determined to keep adult games out of the hands of adults and ensure they must turn to movies, novels, comics, the Internet and brothels for their fix of debauchery – as long as it does not happen to involve anyone who looks too young, of course.
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looks like austrialia have to less problems.
What the ****, bullshit!
FUCK!!!.....time to go to the brothels for my fix of debauchery.
Well aside from the capital there are only like eight people in Australia so................
probably has something to do with our feminist prime minister juliar lying bitch about carbon tax i can't believe i voted for the greens who gave seat to them
one more reason you shouldnt vote for independants/minor parties.. cos they just sell their votes to labour or liberal depending who kisses ass most.. why can't ppl learn this.. and why di we keep voting labour in when all they do is spend like crazy and we have to spend the next 8-10 years recovering.. WHY, cos the majority of the population are no-longer english speaking and couldnt reallt give a sh(t about politics anyway.. bring back pauline hanson!! (ok not really, but at least put some limit on immigrantion ffs, and sink the damn ppl smugglers while they still on their boats so we dont have to use our taxes to pay for their accomodations)
The Picture is so epic it has overthrown all the sadness that I have felt today!
THAT IS ALL!
Forcefully westernizing everything to make Asia culturally invisible and insignificant, all the easier to bully, mock and exploit.
Jews: Proving Hitler Right Since 1945.
Did the Jews start the Australian silliness?
Is Australia run by Jews or something?
MODERN WESTERN CRAP (aka ALL Western Media) is Jew bastard controlled. Why eat any pig shit at all when we have eastern rice wine to drink?
Oh no wonder they don't eat pork: it would be cannibalism. Not that these Evil Asian-haters have any standards, mind. If they become stupid with mad pig disease, they will lose the deviousness needed to exploit money out of decent human beings.
My eyes were crying now my penis is.
Bloody lazy cunts
I've got a feeling Australia will soon be deserted entirely. That, or we'll see a kangaroo revolution.
True.... people are getting more and more pissed off with this radical "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" bullhockey... children don't need to be protected from sex.
If they did, then guess what? They wouldn't be born with genitals and they would only get genitals at the age of 13-18.
The radical femnazi's are just trying to turn all men into criminals by proxy and have all men looked upon with suspicion simply because 90% of all men would sleep with an underage girl who was willing.
Guess what? Most women would sleep with an underage boy who was willing as well.
I have a feeling that children need to be protected from you.
I don't think he was trying to imply, having sex with children is ok ^^'', I "BELIEVE" (note I said BELIEVE) that has point was children do not need protection because there is really nothing to protect them from, the game is not mean't for kids and shouldn't even be in there possession and rejecting a work of fiction is just plain stupid, if you want to protect children, properly explain the birds and the bees when the time is right, cause hell they are going to find out sooner or later.
But its easier for parents around the world to just bitch the authorities about objectionable content instead of, let's say, do their job as parents and educate, take care, and spend quality time with their kids instead of just shoving them in front of the TV or using whatever game console for them to shut up.
"Guess what? Most women would sleep with an underage boy who was willing as well."
No, that's not how it works... they would most likely view them as kids due to their motherly instincts that men don't have.
You started to speak somewhat correct, but...
Wow dude, you're just proving his point. You have this pre-conceived notion that females are angels and would never rape/hurt/kill/fart(maybe rainbows)/etc. and that all men are guilty by default.
This is why men can't go out in public with children (even if they're their own).
@Darkrockslizer:- You never say the cases with hot teachers did you ?
and no women are capable of being just as bad or worse as men, ever heard the saying "a woman's scorn is worse then hell". and I agree with anonymous.
the saying is.. hell hath no fury like a women scorned.. at least get that much right
Spoken like a true sick pedophile. I hope you drop dead.
We all do, eventually. You first.
Pfft... implying there will be a dancing/singing game featuring kangaroos...
Don't get my hopes up like that man... hurtful.
I've seen women in walking the streets who wore less cloth and far more reveling
even standing in line in a supermarket can be an eye opener
the beach have far more reveling cloth then what these games have
so where is the problem?
oh way.... the jealousy of how good 2D girls look when compared to 3D!
You got to remember that they are all prisoners with different crimes and they dont want sexual offences put on to their rap sheet!
games is seen as "a toy for children to play".
they think its not appropriate for children to have such bikini girls to play with.
or.....
they have nothing to do and decide to follow the latest censor hype of other countries! follow the trend so they wouldn't be left out!
LoL
I hear you brother !
Stefan @ jocuri
I don't get this. If the board thinks the content is offensive, just give it an 18+ tag, and actually make it illegal for kids to buy it, as well as actually holding parents accountable for buying any of those games for their children. The same thing happens with cigarettes and alcohol, so why not with 18+ video games?
Sure, it won't solve the problem, but the attitude would be in the right place: no one is banning cigarettes or alcohol because of the children, right?
Why, because it hurts the adult market. This same principle applies to these video games.
However, as always, a political freak out is better for elections.
Australia does not have +18/+21 rating... Highest they have is +15, anything that would go over that must be censor-raped or banned. But yeah, it's freaking stupid, in that part you were correct...
Australia does not have +18/+21 rating? It's worse than I thought: They're completely crazy!!
Welp... they had a good run... too bad they screwed up.
Well... too bad they got screwed over by the Aussie prudes...
I am embarrassed to be an Australian.
Looks like Aussies will have to continue downloading "adult" games illegally with our pathetically slow internet with download limits.
I seriously feel sorry for you guys...
No really, you guys have it pretty bad.
Its ok mate, I'm embarrassed to be a aussie as well, hopefully they introduce the R18 rating in July and the decision doesn't get knocked back again.
Hopefully that rating will stop all of this banned and modified games shit.
Yeah, our internet service providers need to stop playing with their dicks and get a look at reality. They're the laughing stock of the world for providing slow and limited internet and have not addressed the problem since forever.
Good thing I'm living in another country atm.
Well if they(Characters)were originally 14 or 16 then they should be like 21 now.Just put 21 as their age and have them on the strip pole and drinking beer at the casino,having sex and it will be ok.
> anyone who looks too young
you mean A cup
You know, just the other day I was at the local game store looking at Dead or Alive Dimensions thinking about how I would buy a 3DS just for Zelda (since its epic) and possibly DoA:D for the boobs. Guess thats not happening anymore.
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It must be a must buy then!
It feels like they're banning everything on purpose, so they won't have to import every single game because it's expensive (and in the end might not be worth it), since they live on an island.
Bleh.
again no one gives a fuck about Australia/Sweden just nuke them!!!
How about you nuke yourself to show us how it's done.
Yeah very irrelevant to my life. Though condolonces to my fellow Australian SanCom men who can't enjoy this filthy debauchery which I'm enjoying right now.
It's funny because it also means New Zealand stores have had to pull stock until the NZ OFLC checks it out.
By default any games the AU OFLC rates sub M15+ go through without a check. So with the revoking the game is pull in both countries.
The whole thing is a load of bullshit, even respected news outlets are making crazy claims about players being able to strip the figures and take nude photos from all angles.
Also of note is that Ar Tonelico Qoga is rated PG in Australia.
So, anyone got good hentai of Ayame? What a milf! (Raidou agrees!)
News outlets can be so untrustworthy when it comes to other media(look at what they did to rapelay) seriously, if you could of done that DOA would of been a A rating, I see there retardness has returned.
Speaking of Rapelay, the New Zealand OFLC banned it. I guess no one told them it was never released outside Japan.
Hmm