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ChrisGamer300: i mean it's a fucking game not meant to be taken seriously....
As you can see, you're wrong here. Games are brilliant places to put social commentary. Everybody expects this from books and movies and nowadays even comics, but games are still a very young medium which seems a bit innocent from the outside (to non-gamers who only know Super Mario and Pokemon from TV). And the best thing is: a game can put the player in a certain situation and explore how they would cope with it. This is "show, don't tell" on whole new level.
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ChrisGamer300: i mean it's a fucking game not meant to be taken seriously....
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toxicTom: As you can see, you're wrong here. Games are brilliant places to put social commentary. Everybody expects this from books and movies and nowadays even comics, but games are still a very young medium which seems a bit innocent from the outside (to non-gamers who only know Super Mario and Pokemon from TV). And the best thing is: a game can put the player in a certain situation and explore how they would cope with it. This is "show, don't tell" on whole new level.
INDEED!
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tinyE: INDEED!
Admit it... you made that... thing... You're promoting it all over the forum :-P
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ChrisGamer300: True but do gamers need their goverments claiming moral high ground while policing the entertainent they consume even though you are an adult who can take responsiblity for your own actions or most can atleast, The drug use in We Happy Few isn't worse than the shit you can do in other games anyway, the australian goverment are somehow fixated on drug use for some reason.
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amok: I guess it depends on how the drug use is portrayed, not whether there is or not.

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ChrisGamer300: Fallout 3 was originally banned in australia for drug use until it got censored while shooting body parts of people was fine, enslaving people was fine etc, it smells of double standard to me.
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amok: actually, it is not double standards as these are two different issues. I don't agree with it, but it is not double standards.

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ChrisGamer300: They can have a warning text about drug use on the game if they must but outright forbid people to buy is not the best solution, soon the goverment will decide when you can eat, sleep and shit too.
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amok: I don't know enough about Australian regulations to comment. I imagine there are sort of scales involved, the degree and portrayal and such.
That was a poor choice of word sry, yes it's different but in terms of what's morally correct i'm not seeing much of an difference here but somehow their goverment does.

Well they claim the drug use make the game easier which i guess it does sort of and they say it's glorification but is this is an issue worth banning the game over ? i do think most people understand that drugs are bad without the need for going overboard and ban it in it's entirety but that's just how i see it and maybe you have a different view.
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tinyE: INDEED!
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toxicTom: Admit it... you made that... thing... You're promoting it all over the forum :-P
No but I just noticed they added a story mode. It used to just be the MP jousting thing. Getting good reviews. I might have to grab it.
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ChrisGamer300: i mean it's a fucking game not meant to be taken seriously....
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toxicTom: As you can see, you're wrong here. Games are brilliant places to put social commentary. Everybody expects this from books and movies and nowadays even comics, but games are still a very young medium which seems a bit innocent from the outside (to non-gamers who only know Super Mario and Pokemon from TV). And the best thing is: a game can put the player in a certain situation and explore how they would cope with it. This is "show, don't tell" on whole new level.
Great, now i guess i will just have to wait until the AAA industry resemble modern marvel comics and keeping games as entertainment might be wishing for too much but i guess turning games into social commentaries is a whole lot easier than fixing actual real world issues.

Nothing can't be simple for once it would seem.
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tinyE: No but I just noticed they added a story mode. It used to just be the MP jousting thing. Getting good reviews. I might have to grab it.
Is there a GOG wishlist entry?
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ChrisGamer300: Great, now i guess i will just have to wait until the AAA industry resemble modern marvel comics and keeping games as entertainment might be wishing for too much but i guess turning games into social commentaries is a whole lot easier than fixing actual real world issues.

Nothing can't be simple for once it would seem.
Social commentary can be pretty entertaining. Think GTA, Bioshock, Deus Ex in gaming... Movies have this ever since Modern Times and Metropolis.
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tinyE: No but I just noticed they added a story mode. It used to just be the MP jousting thing. Getting good reviews. I might have to grab it.
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toxicTom: Is there a GOG wishlist entry?
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ChrisGamer300: Great, now i guess i will just have to wait until the AAA industry resemble modern marvel comics and keeping games as entertainment might be wishing for too much but i guess turning games into social commentaries is a whole lot easier than fixing actual real world issues.

Nothing can't be simple for once it would seem.
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toxicTom: Social commentary can be pretty entertaining. Think GTA, Bioshock, Deus Ex in gaming... Movies have this ever since Modern Times and Metropolis.
Sure as long as it's well done but i'm going in expecting the worst as usual.
Crikey mate! Can't they just substitute drugs with beer and then everything would be fair dinkum mate?
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tinyE: I might have to grab it.
Hehehehehehe.
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toxicTom: Admit it... you made that... thing... You're promoting it all over the forum :-P
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tinyE: No but I just noticed they added a story mode. It used to just be the MP jousting thing. Getting good reviews. I might have to grab it.
might not be safe for work...
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*speechless*
Considering that logic you would be forbidden in aussieland to show a documentary about why drugs are bad.
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AlienMind: Considering that logic you would be forbidden in aussieland to show a documentary about why drugs are bad.
It's probably allowed if "Drugs are bad." is every second sentence.
Get the game on GOG when available (I can't imagine GOG not selling it to Aussies) :
https://www.gog.com/game/we_happy_few
Post edited May 26, 2018 by FiatLux