R18+ and Video Games: A History of Violence

[Kakkostili]

2:17 wtf?

[lildecable]

LEGEND

[DarkTenka]

Does anyone else feel challenged by the "lemon covered in vegemite" remark?

[leonnasagawa]

Very entertaining and I really do hope that Australia gets an R18 rating for games. I hate it when things get censored.

[egertaras]

2:17

[Lubieland]

I wish I could give 100 thumbs up for this video! :(

[TGeiger85]

goddamn brits.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Power too you OZZIE GAMERS~

[spo666tty]

Ugh how I feel for you australia.. I just sore the Australian version of left4dead2 being played, it's so censored that there isn't even blood.. I mean comeon australia is a great country don't spoil it with stupid rules!

[TompanX]

way do ugly stupid pepole always hate cool games?!?!?!?!?!?

[Volf99]

lol escapist magazine format rip off hahah

[BrikProductions]

I'm so glad that prick Atkinson resigned.

[Quiczor]

The thing I find funny is that. Aren't we supposed to be in a democracy so how is it that one person can be stopping this R18+ classification.

[hunterkiller432]

LEFT 4 DEAD 2!!!

(pardon the caps but I felt it was needed)

this is what happens with censorship...why have a zombie game without the gore...

[chrissomerry]

And on the flipside, why do we have games with far more violence or gore (like AVP with pulling people's heads off) in bloody MA15+? R18 ftw :)

[clawman109]

What the hell is this guy thinking, he is out voted, gamers hate him because he is the only one keeping R18+ games out of Australia. And what is his main arguement. That in video games the player is accually commiting the violence and rape and there for is influencing the player. Well in that case, why don't we ban Mario cause he is teaching us to eat mushrooms and go around and jump on people.

[funnyguy3D]

@kwibjo123456789 no, I'll be fine, now... where did i put my time watch and short range rockets....

[funnyguy3D]

frigging idiots!

ugh.......

seriously now Australian government! grow the fuck up! can't handle blood, gore and violence? then get the fuck off Earth! *SIGH*

[kwibjo123456789]

@funnyguy3D

im with you on that!

Need a gun?

[kingazzaman]

Thank god the government makes all those difficult decisions for forty year old gamers like me.

Yeah, okay I own my own business and employ 11 people but I'm simply too immature to decide what I can play and whatv i shouldn't. I might do something silly like take a plasma rifle and go postal on some pixelated aliens. And that would mean and prejudiced!

Save Australia from nutcases like me!!!!

[chrissomerry]

Nah I think it's good letting nutcases like you roam free, makes things interesting when you walk past the fried carcass of a pixelated alien.

[kingazzaman]

Nah I have the good manners not to tell noobs and people who suck like you that the guy who's repeatedly killing them is their dad's age - it just depresses people.

Thirty years experience dipshit

[chrissomerry]

@kingazzaman LOL dude sorry I didn't mean that as a payout to you, I was adding to what you wrote because it pointed out how absurdly stupid the govt. can be about this. Sorry bout the misunderstanding.

[parky004]

btw the internets cencored as well.... so.....yea.....

[Lumbargo]

BTW Alex you're linked from the Gamers4Croydon website. FYI.

[OniRecordsNZ]

This is good. Seriously, this should be part of G4C's campaign, seriously well made.

[doonbugie]

sounded like he said sensorshit

[Appolom64]

This guy sort of looks like...bajo. O_O

[aaronobst0140]

That was great man

[BloodyBart888]

OMG this dude is right AND funny. thats the way i like it. instead of old people being pussy about a decapacitated zombie in L4D 2. if i should copy any behaviour of that game it would be to risk my life to safe myself and other people from a massive zombie horde wich is not unusual in Europe

[shaun1788]

Zero Punchuation anyone......and come on with the saw movies and all that horror movies crap going on why do very bad games just get banned? also good video, good info and funny I like but still this vid won win over the jedi couns......uhhh..... I mean Australian....blah..blah

[PsychoJay75]

Logic is what seperates men(sensible people) from morons (politicians). However being a moron comes with power and power in office superscedes logic. It doesn't make them right but this is the reality and there's nothing we can do until this prick is voted out of his seat but if he is voted out, how do we know his replacement wont continue to resist our demands of a new rating?.

[fakeaddressenator]

Wow, we're trying to get our government to realise how mature we are so we can have the R18+ rating, and we make a video like that? One step forward, two steps back!

[GabbottProductions]

This was not intended to show to government officials; rather, it was a way of explaining the R18+ issue to those who dont know about it. Thanks for your feedback.

[moondy11]

its called SATIRE.

moron.

[hunterkiller432]

honestly...the average gamer age is about 30 or so years old now...most people posting on this site are about 10-20... and are you not realising the fact that the people 20+ are not getting any say due to ONE PERSON! This person killed one of the best games in the world (L4D2) by making valve delete the zombies after a few seconds of being there...We should have the rights to an R18+ rating...

[hectichorse]

if he dosent get voted out im goanna get an assassin lol jks but he probs will get assassinated...

[frenzyforester]

i imagine a black market for video games lol

[mchenrinson]

imagine... some way in which people could illegally distribute games amongst each other outside of the realms of the conventional economy. We'd have to come up with some way to 'duplicate' the data on the computer, and then some way to distribute it effectively. Perhaps we could email each other games, or burn cds and mail them to each other!

[QuirkyWolf]

I get what Atkinson is saying, but unfortunately his view on dealing on violent games are as bad as passing prohibition to deal with drunken yobbos who are notorious for starting fights and causing road accidents. Seriously he makes a good point about the debate he partook in. Hostilities and profanity will solve nothing. At the same time his stubborn approach doesn't help either. Easy way to deal with an ass of a politician is to vote them out.

[staplerpirate123]

I can not see the logic in not having an R18+ rating. Many parents (I work as a game store so I have first hand accounts) actually think that there is already an R18+ rating and by buying an MA15+ game, they are protecting their kids. Also the current rating system is flawed. It is based on opinion and not a set points system. For example: "This game has sex, lets ban it!". This is stupid, it should be based on the content and be rated on a score system.

[SpiderMonkeyA69]

lol game with sexual references still get through for instance mass effect, dragon age origins, grand theft auto. They just end up slipping through will a lesser rating which dose more harm then good.

But seriously if you can't figure out a game isn't real then you haven't been taking your meds.....

[st1tcount]

LOL @ the picture for America...HUGE black guy with huge burger.

[theSolarisDragon]

Another problem is that some games are being placed in the MA15+, while they should really be in R18+ classification.

[Spiceman333]

why can't Michael have Atkinson's disease already?

[BananaConcoction]

lemon covered in vegemite. hilarious.

[SparkytheD4rkCl0wn]

I might actually try that.... (its a very compelling video)

[TheShadowXVII]

Lol, reference to Hot Coffee @ 3.37

[jtvalente]

This was AWESOME!

[footballpwnageperson]

wow thats terrible

[waraider1]

oh well at least fallout had its ridiculous real life drug names taken out and not its violence if it was the violence i dont think i would be happy

[Weho2]

that Michael atkinson fuck is pissing me off

[PoketrainerSchmee]

Is there any link to the Good Game interview with Michael Atkinson? I wanted to watch it for a paper I'm writing on Australia's Rating system.

[G1tt7]

Fuck the Christian Lobby

[AquaRing]

@G1tt7 this man speaks truth

[5324er]

every M game gets banned?

[GabbottProductions]

No, every game that's not tame enough for MA does.

[5324er]

they need to just stop. and why night trap?

how controversal was that?

[hectichorse]

nothing type it in on youtube its like vampires it fucking funny

[5324er]

no thanks.

[aithanjames]

@GabbottProductions WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING SHIT that is then. i mean fuck look a saw that is as violent as fuck. the banning of games makes me so pissed because some of the best games are the ones that get banned like Postal 2. which i download for free enyway =).

[VitasVarnas]

Michael Atkinson is one of those crazy christians. That's why it's band.

[Xkingzz]

why don't we have an R18+ for video games

[todderizer2000]

The whole south Australian Labor party needs to be voted out. Mike Rann is a dipshit...as is Michael Atkinson.

On the bright side Atkinson is 95 years old so he'll die soon.

[VideoEditorTwiggy95]

that does make all aussie games pro-death though

[hectichorse]

lol good 1

[nctrls2]

@todderizer2000 hahha

[dubdarel]

very well researched dude hope this got to Atkinson the prick.

[Sopez1]

Fuck Conroy

[DhampirGothic]

that's exactly what I've been talking about in my video about games being banned in australia, it's just pointless to banned the games in the first place, as piracy will kill off the quality of games being sold.

[GrimaceGrunson]

Great video mate! Loved it.

[SlurmsMackenzie]

Great video

[crbb0]

wilhelm scream :)

[bloodswan]

I hope Mr Atkinson has a heart attack so I can play Silent Hill Homecoming

Anyone know a good place where I can order foreign games?

[TBoneTony]

The only way we can get an R18+ rating is to vote out Michael Atkinson.

Remember that name everyone in South Australia.

Vote out Michael Atkinson and it will be the only way we can have an R18+ rating for Videogames.

Also don't get it mixed up with similar names like I recently did on GP.

[PalZer0]

South Australia only needs a change in government to be rid of Michael Atkinson.

This shouldn't stop anyone in South Australia from not voting for him though.

[daedelusdude]

Umm you don't vote for an Attorney-General (which is what Michael Atkinson is)! The Attorney-General of each state is appointed to the position by the state government that is in power! Unfortunately even changing the party that is in power in no way guarantees a change

[GrimaceGrunson]

Plus, as far as I'm aware, South Australia is a pretty safe Labor seat. So I don't think Atkinson is going anywhere for a while. Dammit.

[RustyDK]

its not that the OFLC thinks that its more violent then some movies...they dont have the ABILITY to classify the game as R18+ because it is non-existent...

[ADEdge]

Too right, if you cant legally get it in Aus, or if its a soft version of the game, then everyone just downloads it anyway. To quote - 'No one wins'. Perfectly true.

I wish they'd all stop babying us Australians and just vote for a R18. Jesus...

[Avatar731]

I agree with you. However, if we want this rating, we have to fight for it.

Enough with the e-mails and that crap. We have to become more physical, get protesting. Start some sort of picketing outside the OFLC and all that.

Come on folks, enough of this babying!

[kinokid]

"by sex, i mean hitting a button repeatedly"

greatest pun of all time!!! HAHAHAHHA!!!

[davegorack]

how the hell can night trap be conseder vilent? its tame as hell.

[GabbottProductions]

Well, that's what happens when politicians don't know what they're talking about. Shame it still happens.

[Gamajh]

They felt that the bathroom scene where they remove the bllod via the neck was 'too violent'. Then enters Gears of War xD

[MaxenatorONE]

That was actually kinda funny :P

[B4T1nTheH4t]

This was good, but I think you have stolen some scenes from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw's "Zero Punctuation".

Its ok to say he has inspired you, but you have used exactly the same feet/hands and yellow background he uses.

You really should cite this in your video, especially considering it was produced in an academic context.

[Avatar731]

The OFLC should get their heads out of the ground and start giving the people more choices.

We need an R rating, we are the only liberal country that doesn't have an adult rating for video games.

[soiledlocket]

America has a sub, rofl

[firerel]

Michael Atkinson can go suck a cock

[soiledlocket]

All Australian games are 7 years old

[firerel]

all australian gamers are 7 years old... ??yeeah o....k sure whatever you say man. ill give you a medal saying congratulations your an idiot

[soiledlocket]

did you watch the video? your an idiot i was quoting him

[firerel]

so was i dumb ass...michael atkinson is a fuck wit

[Aeternum967]

thank god there's someone out there that has the means and time to say what i'm thinking.

[schwarzengerman]

fuck censorship violence is awesome.lol gta 4 forever

[JarrodLil]

that was great

[DoohanOK]

That cat was cute. The rest was crap.

[KalElTheGreat]

lemon covered in vegemite? HAHAHAHAHAHA

[jettisoncargo]

If only you weren't preaching to the converted.

What we really need to do is level up enough to jump on the bosses goombas, then hit left, up, down, square, triangle until parliment house listens to reason.

[Anonymous59]

Kinda weird that goombas are in a PS game.

[f0rms]

awesome, you should see if there's an opening for this to be screened at ACMI in Melbourne, there's a exhibition on the history of games, Yahtzee was there a few weeks ago.

Hope you got top marks, great effort.

[rager5]

Nice job, but why are most of the related videos anime?

[GabbottProductions]

Well, funny things happen when you title a video with 'R18'. ahem.

[tiamat1990]

Awesome!

[grimreapa07]

OFLC needs to see this. Great job mate.

[nanolucas]

Very well said, gets the point across in an informative, humorous manner.

[washboardplayer]

mmm.... interesting