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The ESRB has a retort to the criticism leveled against it after rating Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Mature. The move has required Bethesda Softworks to pull all of the current stock of the game to relabel. From the GameDailyBiz article: "When we brought the topless female images to Bethesda Softworks' attention, they confirmed that the art file existed in a fully rendered form in the code on the game disc. The ESRB's investigation found that the mod allowed users to change the filename for the female character mesh in order to access the art file that was created by Bethesda. While true that a modification was required to access this file, the changes we implemented last year - expanding our disclosure rules to include locked-out content - were made to prevent these kinds of situations" Via Cathode Tan, who has his own commentary, an opinion piece by John Romero has yet another view of the complicated situation.
Do you have any idea how cruel it is to include the word "Fallout" in the story title of an article in the Games section?
Zonk, expect rabid RPG fans after you for raising their hopes, albeit by accident!
This is as if Snow White gets an R rating because someone splices in a few frames from a porn movie into one reel...
Sorry Dr Seuss, but we have to rate your new book M for sexual content, seems that some kid can go get a picture if a topless women, tape it in your book, and be exposed to nudity.
If I create a patch that makes Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck naked in a Disney game, will the ESRB re-label that game as "M" and force Disney to pull it off the shelves?
ESRB are morons.
If I use Photoshop to give our our president a giant bare of woho's will they slap GW Bush with a mature rating?
Naked human beings in non-sexual settings in a video game.
Oh no. The end of our civilization is near.
And it won't be because of topless toons in some video game.
pull all of the current stock of the game to relabel
Congratulations. Short of airdropping copies of the game over each major american city, there is no other possible action that would ensure people previously fence-sitting on the original version of the game will go through considerable effort to obtain a "real" copy.
"Today we stike a blow against those who would allow our children to expose themselves to pornography. By requiring labotomys for all children at the age of 2, we can finally prevent them from being victims of the exploitation industry known as Media, not only will this step prevent them from being able to access pornography via brain implants or on the Internet, it will prevent them from content that describes nudity or violence, or comprehending adult language. While the previous eyeball removing and castration programs proved insufficent, we believe this is the ultimate solution to the problem of child exploitation."
"Children, we are not doing this 'to' you, we are doing it 'for' you."
I need horrific violence _and_ exposed nipples to really jerk off properly.
Help me?
In related news, it has recently been discovered by hackers that one is able to play with a "nude skin" for Barbie doll, merely by removing her clothes. While Mattel claims that the nude Barbie is only viewable after alteration by the end user, the Consumer Product Safety Commission insists while hidden, the nude Barbie is contained in the product as shipped.
First you animate. Then you SUSPEND!!!