Saint's Row IV

[Teleku]

Can we ban any games with swords?  With their ability to shove through any part of the human body at will and all.  That's pretty rapey.   

[Lakov_Sanite]

If you ban a game, you've already lost.

Can't emphasize this enough.

[Nevermore]

Can we ban any games with swords?  With their ability to shove through any part of the human body at will and all.  That's pretty rapey.

While I think it's silly for them to ban the game given how tongue-in-cheek it is, that statement is still pretty disingenuous.

[01101010]

Can we ban any games with swords?  With their ability to shove through any part of the human body at will and all.  That's pretty rapier.

FTFY. 

[pants]

The sad fact is that we were cheering here a few months ago, since the first time ever, we had a R 18+ rating for games - which we haven't had previously.  So in theory games which include anal rape guns should be able to at least be classified as 18+, instead of completely banned.

Oh no, banned anyway.  Oh well, may as well book my ticket to piratebay in advance...

[Paelos]

Your country confuses me on what it considers improper, what with being surrounded by unholy death on all sides.

[UnSub]

Eh, if you're going to ban a game for something, rapey weapons isn't really the worst place to start.

I agree with this. I'm not really going to stand on the side of sexualised violence.

Also mentioned in the refusal to classify the game was the inclusion of drug use that gave the player benefits. This also hit State of Decay, which was refused classification on the same grounds.

I expect a tweaked version will be released for official sale, with those things removed. Or at least that was the initial report.

[Sky]

I find it ironic that a prison colony frowns on anal probing.

[Flinky]

Yeah, while we now have an R18+ rating they've just moved the extreme end of the M15+ rating over to the new category and called it a day. Depictions of "drug use related to incentives or rewards" and sexual violence not justified by context in interactive media are still verboten and are refused classification. Its still legal to own the game, its just not legal to sell or advertise it in Australia.

The publisher has confirmed they'll tweak it for release;

Deep Silver can confirm that Saints Row IV was denied an age classification in Australia. Volition, the developer, are reworking some of the code to create a version of the game for this territory by removing the content which could cause offence without reducing the outlandish gameplay that Saints Row fans know and love.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Release the game without anal probe weapon/make it a free DLC/fuck Australia.

[Sky]

That's just begging for the insertion (sorry) of some anti-Oz humor in that version.

[rk47]

I find it ironic that a prison colony frowns on anal probing.

Shh, they're butthurt about it.
Here's an apology cake to Down Under.

[Signe]

Wowsers.  This thread went down the wrong path quickly.   

[Lantyssa]

I hate when that happens!

[Lakov_Sanite]

I'm so sorry, unless we're ok with the thread now...

[Sky]

Wowsers.  This thread went down the wrong path quickly.   

Appropriate.

[Stormwaltz]

(gone)

[luckton]

 

[Lakov_Sanite]

Those poor aliens...

[Bzalthek]

FUckin A. 

[01101010]

Yeah, but he can't even drive a stick.   

[Bzalthek]

The fuck you say?

[rk47]

Can we ban any games with swords?  With their ability to shove through any part of the human body at will and all.  That's pretty rapey.   

Ban any game with fistings involved. 

[pants]

Any other game franchise, we'd be all 'Fucking clowns can't even keep their lore correct without retconning everything.

But because its Saints Row, hell, they can do it!   

[Stormwaltz]

As the one-time lore-master of the Asheron's Call and Mass Effect franchises, I say, "Fuck it, let's roll."

[Trippy]

Did you actually see his dead body in SR3? I think not

[Paelos]

I've always assumed he wasn't dead given that we never saw him "die."

[luckton]

Considering that the story is basically "The Matrix, Saints' style", it's probably just virtual Gat.

[01101010]

I've always assumed he wasn't dead given that we never saw him "die."

So what exactly was in that coffin in the hearse? 

[Segoris]

Did you actually see his dead body in SR3? I think not

Nope, just hung out with his zombie and had Scott Phillips confirm that Gat is dead. For SR4 I simply believed that being the President allowed the protagonist (along with help from The Mayor, Burt fucking Reynolds) to provide more funding to cure the cause for zombies

[Bzalthek]

Probably a weapons stash.

[Lantyssa]

Zombie + Gat Clone + Ms. President = Welcome Back.

[Surlyboi]

Gat's too much of a badass to stay dead.

[Sky]

Saint's Row V:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu5k7HfrYSQ

[cironian]

Well, for the record I do dare them to make something even more ridiculous than SR4.