Elder Scrolls Oblivion Mod Makes Girls' Tops Fall Off

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
Censors at the Entertainment Software Rating Board has tweaked the rating of the fantasy game: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, to "Mature".
The censors learned of a mod for the title that renders female characters topless.
The thought of a few pixellated nipples had the worthies on the Board reaching for the marker pen and crossing out the 'teen' rating they’d recommended for the role-playing fantasy romp. In its place they scrawled 'Mature', having decided that you should be at least seventeen before being allowed to see a 3D rendering of a naked breast.
Source: The Inquirer

Comments

  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    That's rediculus. Does that mean if I make a mod for "Noddy and Bigears" or "The Teletubbies" that adds nude women to it they'll have to rerate the game to "Mature" and give it an 18 rating?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I think we should make mods for every game to have topless women, so that the industry and lawmakers would have to decide between calling them all mature, or being rational.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    OK I wanna see this mod... it'd just be funny as hell to play with a bunch of topless women LOL
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I think it's absolutely ridiculous that third-party mods can influence the retail rating.
  • deicistdeicist Manchester, UK
    edited May 2006
    Cutting people down with an axe: Teen
    Setting people on fire: Teen
    Raising the dead: Teen
    Methodically stalking and killing people for money: Teen
    CGI nipples: Mature

    Anyone else see something wrong with this?
    Thrax wrote:
    I think it's absolutely ridiculous that third-party mods can influence the retail rating.

    According to a few threads on the official forums the content that the mod uses was present in the original release, just not actually used in game. Same as with the Hot coffee mod for San andreas.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Who's going to write the editorial? :D
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    deicist wrote:
    According to a few threads on the official forums the content that the mod uses was present in the original release, just not actually used in game. Same as with the Hot coffee mod for San andreas.

    Really? I remember reading on those forums that the model doesn't have anything underneath, i.e. whatever armor you're wearing makes up the body portion of the model, and so without any items there's just underwear (but no textures beneath...) maybe that wasn't acutally the case though?

    I would say that it's not the same as San Andreas... but that was going from a Mature to Adults Only so I guess that accounts for the fact that the San Andreas hidden content was really explicit.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2006
    General Keebler wrote:
    Who's going to write the editorial? :D
    Hmmmm... :cool:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Bethesda Softworks says that the content is not there by default. I'm willing to trust them more than forum trolls.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    Bethesda Softworks says that the content is not there by default. I'm willing to trust them more than forum trolls.

    Yeah, I'm just reading Bethesda's response now... http://pc.ign.com/articles/704/704834p1.html

    Maybe the ESRB is simple-minded? hasty?..
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I'm afraid they're probably sundry old, technology-fearing, narrow-minded morality legislators that are incapable of distinguishing native/unlocked content from distinct, third-party additions.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2006
    The question which must be asked at this point is, why the heck are we playing UT and BF2 at the LAN when there are so many other games available?

    /dirty old man
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    I'm afraid they're probably sundry old, technology-fearing, narrow-minded morality legislators that are incapable of distinguishing native/unlocked content from distinct, third-party additions.
    I think they're terrified that Congress will regulate the video game industry if the industry doesn't (over)regulate itself. And rightfully terrified, because you can bet Hillary Clinton and Joe Liberman have this on their radars.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    The ESRB was doing this sort of garbage before those bandwagon moralists ever turned an ignorant eye on a non-existant problem.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    I think congress just needs to set out. And so do all the moralists, no one is making anyone play a videogame. Bestheda cant control hackers, nor should they try in my mind. Nothing wrong with a good mod, and bestheda isnt making anyone install that mod, people do it of free choice, and if they choose to do so, then it's fine.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    So does playing the mod make the tops fall off...because I know a few girls who I want to play the game, if that is the case.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Oldie but goldie:
    050725.jpg

    -drasnor :fold:
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