https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games_in_Australia

why are they like this?

consequence of losing the emu wars

Women.

Australia's history of banning vidya is completely and utterly embarrassing and I say that as a Brit living in an authoritarian police state where you get arrested for thought crime if you don't think muslims should be allowed to form gangs and roam around raping children.

>>715814741 (OP)
this is worse than germany lol

>>715814741 (OP)
>banning a game that has an age rating of 12 in germany
hahahaha
why is australia so cucked?

Part of it was that for a long time Australia had no ESRB M equivalent, games could only be rated up to the ESRB T equivalent because they were shortsighted and never considered games could be for adults when they devised the ratings system, and one Christian boomer senator blocked any changes being made until he was finally voted out of office.
And the other part of it is that the country is a nanny state run by people who don't understand technology and populated by people who are too apathetic to care.

>>715814741 (OP)
>oddly no L.A. Noire, where a child prostitute is casually half naked in bed while the cop talks to the client.

They just trow a dart at wall and see where it lands hum

>>715814741 (OP)
living in ausland and playing vidya sounds painful every time i hear about it

So what? Japan banned a lot of games too.

>>715819685
This is probably the best explanation of it. Our government is unironically always run by people who don't understand technology and culture at all, even the young politicians do not somehow. And our people are far less invested in politics than somewhere like America where they have strict party lines, instead we wear the apathy on the surface instead of pretending to care about policy and whatnot.

At least we generally have a functioning government, I guess. I'd much rather live in this shithole than any other western country, or god forbid a second or third world one. Also you're asking this to us at 5am on a Saturday OP.

Anyway this is the only Australian made game I can think of to care about, honestly.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530620/Soul_Devourer/

>>715820146
Nah, they do have logic. It is retarded and useless, but it is there. They tend to place way more importance on bad things being tied to incentives over simply depicting bad things. In their rating system a child being naked on screen isn't as bad as the player being given a stat boost for rubbing an anime girl in a swimsuit that kinda looks like a child. You can see where the difference is to be fair to them, however it gets a bit ridiculous when Mary Skelter 2 (a game where the absolute worst it ever gets is a light panty shot and a vita rubbing minigame most people ignored, both of which are only minor footnotes at best) and Euphoria (that is a show that outright depicts underaged sex, drug use, vices, hedonism, etc) have the same ratings. And MS Finale is outright refused a classification, to add insult to injury.

>>715814741 (OP)
Emu won