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Subject: Half-Life 2 banned in Australia?
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im not australian but im sure this would intrest (and probably piss off) many forumgoers who live down under

http://www.planethalflife.com/

paranoia about video game violence is starting to go out of control :(

  • 10.25.2004 7:02 AM PDT
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If only I cared....

  • 10.25.2004 8:10 AM PDT

It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.

Poor Reiglinko... (I think its him. One of the mods lives in Austrailia)

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  • 10.25.2004 11:36 AM PDT
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Damn

  • 10.25.2004 12:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Rabid Gnome
If only I cared....


well why did you post? we dont need fanboys like you making pointless comments here

this is a serious issue here, if austrailia bans games for being too violent then other countries may follow and this doesent just go for half life 2...

  • 10.25.2004 11:03 PM PDT
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Well, well try to make an *imaginable underground black market in Australia , that sells the Half Life 2.
*Imaginable

  • 10.25.2004 11:08 PM PDT
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but the wierd thing is that hl2 can still be bought via steam whic is extremly stupid

  • 10.26.2004 3:37 AM PDT
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If it was banned they would take steps so that it couldnt be downloaded via steam. Its unlikely it will be banned though. there was a time when I would have given a -blam!- if it was, but to be honest if it is banned I wont really give two sh-its.

valve had there chance with me. they blew it when they decided to released a vamped up version of a 5 year old mod as the only MP content, and nothing else. thats low, and cheap. a move like that will have me never purchasing a game from them ever again.

I mean, things could have been different, but valve are obviously low, cheap, dirty dogs. why would I bother play HL2 now when I could be playing H2? But the real question is, why would I fork out money for HL2 with NO origional MP content when I could buy battlefield 2 a few months later, there is a real game, not cheap.

A part of me hopes its banned, so that the dogs at valve learn they cant screw over fans. I mean, releasing a 5 yr old mod for MP content, I just cant get my head around it. CS is just Lame, if I wanted to play it, I would have 5 yrs ago.

  • 10.26.2004 4:00 AM PDT

why would I fork out money for HL2 with NO origional MP content when I could buy battlefield 2 a few months later, there is a real game, not cheap.
Because the single-player is, supposedly, brilliant. But I take your point, and find it a bit rich that PC mags have given it 95+% even though multiplayer is such a critical part of modern FPSes. Then again, H-L1's multiplayer sucked.

  • 10.26.2004 4:03 AM PDT
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umm well if you are sick of every 5yr old mod being revamped for hl2 then there are currently about 300 3rd party mods planned for release after hl2 is out for you to choose. many will be cancelled more will never go past beta one but still 300 is the most mods ever seen when the game hasnt even hit shelves and that would mean that at least 50 of them will become high quality and respected projects (like natural selection)

oh and about there being no hl2 deathmatch valve will leave that for the modders to create :)

  • 10.26.2004 4:15 AM PDT
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hahaha australia is turning into a godam police state!!!!

  • 10.26.2004 6:49 AM PDT
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Download it like the rest of the internet does.

(I have never downlaoded a game in my life and I dont plan to.)

  • 10.26.2004 7:16 AM PDT