Postal 2 Banned in North America!

[Lhadatt]

Originally posted by Brisco Bold
Hell, we don't even pixelize the hand of our legislatures when they give the speaker of the house the finger.

Do your legislatures through chairs at your speaker? Or tables? Tomatoes?

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by Werewolf
They have wolves up there, and wolves... did I mention wolves

Yeah, but it takes 3 Canadian wolves to make two American ones.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Yeah, but it takes 3 Canadian wolves to make two American ones.

Canadian wolves have 5% alcohol instead of 3%, so it balances out.

[Cheebs]

Originally posted by Sidez
Well if it deters similar games from being made than i'm all for it. I'm not a fan of censorship but I hate this tasteless garbage even more. As a society we should set standards insteading of tolerating the blatently revolting.

Ummmm.... sounds like you in fact are a fan of censorship. Being against censorship means alowing things to be sold that you don't agree with.

Me, I'm against censorship. Let stores sell the damn thing and just don't buy it.

[Frogacuda]

Originally posted by Diplomatics
We have a Charter of Rights...what do you think we are savages livin in the stone age....we also have automobiles up here too.

Yeah, but yours doesn't keep games, movies, and TV shows from being banned. Ours is better.

[James]

Pro-cencorship at TNL. Well, I guess the problem with freedom of speech is that any damn fool has that right, and we just have to tolerate the spew coming from their mouths as the price we pay. Still, could the lot of you in favor of pulling the game do me a favor and stick your collective tongue in an outlet? Thanks.

Anyway, I can confirm that it isn't banned by anyone with any governmental authority in the USA. It's in stock, it's sold quite well for a PC game, and people are pretty happy with it overall. I'm playing it now and it's fun in small doses, not so fun in multi-hour sessions.

Also, I can confirm that the gas can is possibly one of the most fun toys ever in a video game.

James

[Matt]

Originally posted by Frogacuda
Yeah, but yours doesn't keep games, movies, and TV shows from being banned. Ours is better.

Check again - there have been plenty of TV shows that were shown in Canada but banned in the US. We get all kinds of stuff that would never be shown in America.

I don't care - I'd still be happy if Postal 2 was banned. Sure, it's just a personal, selfish reason, since I hate the game in the first place. I don't think there's anything wrong with society setting standards for itself, and I'm sure the people of the new world will never go as far as Probotector or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

[gamevet]

I don't know if this is old news, but the game is being banned, because the U.S. Postal service has a problem with the name.

[680x0]

That's a damn slippery slope Matt, who decides what are "standards" are and what is and isn't acceptable for general consumption? It's one thing to have regulations on what can be broadcasted as almost every home has a TV and the parents don't always have control of it. A good example would be the difference between a country that had age restrictions on pornography and one that outlawed it completely. I think "protecting people from themselves" is distinctly counter to America's philosophical foundations.

[Matt]

Originally posted by 680x0
That's a damn slippery slope Matt, who decides what are "standards" are and what is and isn't acceptable for general consumption? It's one thing to have regulations on what can be broadcasted as almost every home has a TV and the parents don't always have control of it. A good example would be the difference between a country that had age restrictions on pornography and one that outlawed it completely. I think "protecting people from themselves" is distinctly counter to America's philosophical foundations.

There's plenty of stuff that's prohibited - narcotics, child porn, radioactive material, hate literature (in my country at least). Sure, some of it is for more valid reasons than others, but it still happens and I'm sure that even the most militant anti-censorship people here would be disturbed if certain things were made legal. Why should video games be any different? It's all a matter of perspective. I'm sure that if a game called "Jew Hunter" was released, it wouldn't last long on store shelves.

I'm not American, and I don't particularly agree with the country's philosophies in the first place.