What placed Outlast II on Leyonhjelm’s agenda over Hotline Miami 2 is unclear. Hotline Miami 2 remains banned in Australia today. This is after the 2013 classification hurdles faced by Saints Row IV, State of Decay, and South Park: The Stick of Truth but before the 2015 banning of Hotline Miami 2 for visually depicted sexual violence. Leyonhjelm was elected to the Senate at the 2013 federal election and became the Liberal Democratic Party’s first senator on July 1, 2014. Leyonhjelm’s description of the problematic event in Outlast II differs with that of the Classification Board, which explained in a report provided to IGN that, while “much of the contact between the creature and is obscured, by it taking place below screen, the sexualised surroundings and aggressive behaviour of the creature suggest that it is an assault which is sexual in nature.” When combined with the player's character's objections the Board found the sequence constituted “a depiction of implied sexual violence.” “Yet the internet is now awash with all manner of unpleasant images involving real people – not computer generated images – and violent crime around the world is in decline.” “All of this operates on the false assumption that people who play video games are impressionable children who would play out anything they saw. “The mere suggestion of an out-of-screen encounter between a creature and a human character was enough to get it banned altogether by the Australian Classification Board.” “This video game takes place in a fantasy world involving all kinds of creatures both human and non-human,” said Leyonhjelm.
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