Fallout 3 Rating

[The Khajiits of the nine]

Does anyone else think this but is Fallout3's parental rating outrageous?
In NZ it is R18!!! Way too old for me. and the only warning is                graphic violence
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no worse than oblivion...

[Igiss]

I thought that Australia is the land of game rating terrorists.

Read that it's because of Australia they are removing drug usage from the game, in all regious... or, to be precise, they make it look less like taking actual drugs but taking some neutrally futuristic substance instead.

[The Khajiits of the nine]

I thought that Australia is the land of game rating terrorists.

 
Yeah they were but sport has strangely changed all that. Since our current All Blacks (rugbyteam not being racist) coach got our worst ever result at the World Cup and we let our best coach go to Australia we have adopted a bit of Australian culture including game rating terrorism, heck our game rating fallas are aussie owned now!

[Young Dragon]

Well its rated m (meaning you must be well... accualy i just checked and you have to be 17)
wow i never noticed that befor, well tell your parents its not at all that "bad" but just like oblivion, allways worked for me when i was younger.

[rockerdunmer]

yeah...but over here M means anyone can get it really, but R18 means that you HAVE to be 18 to get it-thats what happened with the latest Grand Theft Auto game.
the only way we could get it is if our parents get it....maybe we should try grovelling or sucking up or something.

[The Khajiits of the nine]

Yup...M over here means you can purchase it as long as you don't go aroung killing people with guns and whatnot...
I might wait until is actually released on thursday to see if R18 is the actual rating-or was that just the poster.
They seem to be alot easier in USA when I was there last month GTA4 was only R15 whilst over here its R18.

[DM8954]

Well, we issue every grade school child a 9mm pistol when they graduate to middle school... so, you know, we're used to violence around here. 

[Young Dragon]

hehe i got my .44 last week!, but exactly what does the R in r18 or whatever mean

[rockerdunmer]

Rated or Reccommended i think...either way... we're not allowed to get if we're under 18
haha! they're starting to give dairy owners guns over here now!!!

[The Khajiits of the nine]

R stands for
restricted to persons the age of or over the age of:
So i don't know  for sure but I think thats it coz theyre trying to sound all fancy without going RTPTAOOOTA18
and the reason the dairy owners are gettin guns coz they keep on getting shot-but i think thats coz the dodgier dairy owners refuse to give the gangsters "the good stuff" and what not.
DM is michigan dodgy or som'n cause who in their right mind gives 11 and 12 year olds 9mms!?
and whats happened DM's posts have dropped from 995 to 800?