It's true, straight from the horses mouth.
Bethesda's PR exec Pete Hines states...
"We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform.
An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names. To avoid confusion among people in different territories, we decided to make those substitutions in all versions of the game, in all territories.
I didn't want people continuing to assume the version in Australia was some altered version when it's not. There are no references to real world drugs in any version of Fallout 3."
So because Australia had to go and have a sad over drug usage in Fallout 3, which has been in the Fallout series before, not to mention Half Life's hazard suit that pumps you full of morphine while screaming it in your ear every time it does, along with Bioshock's jamming of a syringe in to ones arm, which is far more graphic than any of the others listed above, you ALL get to have friendly and fuzzy names for your drugs.
"The drugs depicted are fictional; drugs are depicted as stylised icons on a menu with the drug use itself not depicted. Whilst navigating a post-apocalyptic futuristic landscape, players can invoke the use of a variety of "chems" listed by fictious names which include "Buff", "Rad-X", "Psycho" and "Ultrajet"."
Can't wait to bunt some fucking
BUFF in to my god damn
fucking eyeballs.
FUCK YEAH
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An American company should never give in to foreign censorship.
It took this long for it to come out in Europe, but Australia will never get it.
Thank you, and may LOL have mercy on us all.
Well at least I don't have to import now :P
On a serious note, I think it is unfortunate that it came to this situation at all.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Endstiem/fallout-3-there-is-a-god-99266.phtml
As you can see, unjustified censorship is a topic that really fucking irks me.
"Ohhh its called Buff X, that's so cute, not like that nasty Morphone at all. Well, time to make somebody explode in to a pile of mashed up flesh with my mini-nuke"
Fucking seriously...
2) Morphine is boring. Buff, Rad-X, Psycho, and OMG, ULTRAJET! are FREAKIN AWESOME!
So while its not good for the whole ridiculous censorship issue (i cant imagine anyone thinking they could use morphine like in a game actually being able to get their hands on some), i prefer this. I wish theyd came up with such mega cool names to begin with, so there was no problem.
Using a drug for medicinal purposes, with repercussions for going overboard with it = Not in our country, son
Classification boards are an absolute joke.
Since most of the names were fictional to begin with, it's no great loss but still idiotic.
Seriously grow the fuck up. We don't decide what we want, it's our government. I guess the entire world could be giving all you americans the middle finger salute and yelling at the top of their lungs "FUCK YOU AMERICAN SCUM" purely based on the descisions your fuck head president has made since he has been in office.
It would be great to get the Destructoid admins onto this thread you fucking morons. Oh wait, I better say "FUCK YOU DESTRUCTOID!" because of the idiots in its community.
Pretty annoyed at how you are all treating this name change of a drug in a video game. It has absolutely direct affect on the game so build a fucking bridge and get over it you fucking wankers.
Since when did "Australian" become a race?
Your point is valid though. We should be kinder to the Australian people because you're obviously all so oppressed...
Does this make you feel a little less butthurt?
You seem to be missing the point, though.
The drugs could be called 'Sunshine fuzzyfluff' and we would not give a shit if that's what the developers originally wanted to call it, but it's not, and neither is 'Buff X'.
They wanted to call one of their drugs 'Morphine' to give the game a more serious overtone, but they had to change it because apparently having it called Morphine would incite every single person who plays it to search out morphine from wherever they can, then somehow obtain it, perhaps in floating green bubbles in back alleys, and then figure out how to use it.
It's fucking STUPID and I'm fucking angry about it, and so is everyone else here, and rightfully fucking so. It's a ridiculous censor, it's a ridiculous classification board and a goddamn ridiculous government.
Oh and I think the proper term would be xenophobic..... not racist.
I need a shot of happy fun time for this patient stat...
You really need to think about how big of a deal this is. Is it really going to change how much enjoyment you get out of the game? Is it going to change the quality of the game? I hardly think so. It's not like it's game changing or anything...