Fallout 3 - ABC Apologizes for poor handling of Q&A

"This has just came to my attention regarding an earlier article we published, and it shows that not all TV stations are the same, and are willing to go back on their reporting if it is proven to be wrong or misleading.

Recently ABC ran a piece on the controversial Fallout 3 on its Q&A Discussion program (which we covered earlier)."

[darkmurder]

Bout bloody time, that whole thing was set up for disaster!

[XboxOZ360]

When you check out the actual video, there were some bench members wiling to take the approach of having a better system, but the majorioty just didn't know.

Now if the audience member had of approached it in the vein that Fallout 3 offers one choices, and based on those choices, ones life changes accordingly.

Muck up growing up, get into gangs, fight, shoot etc, and suffer the consequences. Or on the other hand, do things normally (within societies rules) and see what happens. Which is what Fallout 3 is really about.

Sure many gamers will see it as nothing more than a shot-em-up. But those will be console owners (younger adoptees) who really don't know the storyline behind Fallout and see it as a FPS with some RPG elements.

If that approach was taken, it would have countered the resistance from those saying it corrupts the minds of minors, which the game is not aimed at anyway.

Agt least it shows the ABC is willing to make amends, be really noce if they actually did a proper show based on such things.

[Immortal Kaim]

It is good to see that a TV station is willing to admit when then they got something wrong. I can't help but think how the conversation would have been entirely different if there was a more prominent speaker in the audience to rebuttal the ludicrous notions put forward by these politicians.

[XboxOZ360]

I'd love it if they would consider a debate on the issue (R18+) on the program with some 'sensible' people in the audience that knew about games and some on the panel that had mixed views but had some history about the industry.

It would go a long way to telling the real story behind censorship in Australia and what the general public perceives is bad, when in fact it's not, and no different to any written work or TV show for that matter.

Perhaps it's a Q? that should be asked in light of their apology . .?

[leeeeed]

Sure, it's crap that it happened in the first place, but it's excellent to see ABC has taken the considerate route and made this apology...

The more noise in the mainstream about these issues, the more attention we'll all get :D

[XboxOZ360]

I agree, it's fine for those countries that don't have censorship issues, but for those of us that do, any form of bad press certainly does not help our cause in sending the correct message to the GP (general public) who still see games as kids play . .In the US, the average age of a gamer is now 33yrs old, not 13.