Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why
Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why
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Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why
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Australia's usually really strict when it comes to violence in video games, but the Silent Hill series isn't really known for intense gore. Though, the trailer looked a bit like it was going to be a bit body horror-focused (I got lots of Junji Ito vibes from it), so maybe SH:F will actually be a bit bloodier than other SH games.
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Japanese schoolgirls is a big NO-NO in Australia 😅 Jokes aside, this is the first time I hear about this game, watching trailer I immediately thought about "When They Cry", and then I read this from article: "Silent Hill f is being developed by Neobards Entertainment (which has previously served as a support studio for Capcom's Resident Evil games), with creature and character design by Kera, and a script by When They Cry writer Ryukishi07." So now I'm hyped!
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Oh wow I rarely find people who know about When They Cry. Now I'm interested in seeing more about the game.
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Probably because it's Australia and their government are incredibly stupid shitheads when it comes to violence in games.
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Didn't even know this existed lol, crazy how decentralised the game industry has become now that e3 is gone. There's no official "time to announce your games" part of the year anymore.
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It was bundled in the announcement of all the silent hill games coming. Which was mostly overshadowed by the SH2 remake.
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Australia is pretty censorship heavy is it not? They banned Cannibal Corpse until 2006. I mean no disrespect to any Aussie's reading this.
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They banned Rim World for a little bit as well, although not banned for now as there was some pushback. Be interesting to see if this games gets the same treatment after awhile.
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They probably thought it was a game about eating ass
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RimjobWorld is a lewd framework for mods for that game, if you didn't know
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Silent Hill Fortissimo?
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Silent Hill [Pay Your Respects]
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They updated the article. Good.
It's just waiting for clarification.
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They're pretty strict about depictions of violence against minors, right?
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If PEGI tried this kind of thing I'm pretty sure the general public would linch them. Fortunately with Steam there can be completely ignored these days anyway.
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Good luck banning torrents you crotchety old fuckers.
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Don't forget to use a VPN so you don't get traced by copyright lawyers! They often seed torrents in the name of gathering IPs to take action against.
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That doesn't really work in Australia.
AFAIK Dallas Buyers Club was the last major case and the conditions the courts placed on any contact caused the rights holders to decide it wasn't worth the bother. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35547045
The court told them they could buy the infringer's contact details as a bulk lot that averaged $127 per person. But only if they invoiced for $127 + whatever they were charging for the film. In addition the court would need to review and approve any draft correspondence and call scripts.
All up it feels like the court was taking the most hostile interpretation of the law to protect individuals from being harassed by the business. Good stuff.
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Nanny state strikes back.
This is the future the USA would have had if ESRB wasn't cobbled together in haste
Edit: it wasn't banned, but Mortal Kombat 10 was and STILL is banned because of violence. This is what happens when you inject "morality" into government policymaking.
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Government regulations are better than companies deciding what's allowed.
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The children are safe.
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I really like Silent Hill, but that is just the stupidest name for a game.
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I don’t think so, it’s the name of the town where it takes place. I’d argue that it’s no better or worse than resident evil, stardew valley, or world of Warcraft.
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It's the "f" that makes it stupid.
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It’s the name of a fictitious town in Maine, where things are deeply wrong. People who are subjected to the town end up accounting for their worst impulses via physical manifestations of terrible things. Interestingly enough, most of the time it’s incredibly bright in Silent Hill, easy to see the individually-exclusive monsters coming… were it not for the overwhelming fog with a character of its own.
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Considering all the warnings Konami has put on the game it's no surprise Australia probably pissed their pants when they saw that.
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Hotline Miami 2, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Saints Row 4 are among dozens of games to have been denied an Australian release [...]
This is only partially true, Saints Row 4 and The Stick of Truth released modified versions in Australia. Hotline Miami 2 remains without and official release in Australia.
As for Silent Hill f? OFLC have pulled the page listing it as RC.
The screenshot of the pulled page indicates it was an IARC classification i.e. it was automatically classified based an Konami's answers to a generic survey distributed to classification boards globally. If Konami contest the automatic classification then it will be looked at by actual humans who may determine that offensive content is contextualized to a degree that it can be released (or failing that give a list of content that needs to be modified).
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And it's been given: MA15+ Strong Horror Violence
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No other choice but to sail the high seas then
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f
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