More Oblivion Re-Rating Fallout

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.

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[SmallFurryCreature]

Can we once and for all get it clear that the nudity IS in the game of oblivion from the start. The NUDE SKIN comes ON the DVD.

Geez, the john remero link gets it wrong as well.

Oblivion characters wear clothing. Far more so then in other games. The mesh of your character has other meshes on top wich form the clothing. Remove those meshes and voila, you got a naked character. Betsheda even included a skin for it.

The mesh is deformed (the tits look weird) because they are meant to be under clothes BUT it is there, naked titties. In the game as you buy it in the store.

It was NOT introduced.

When will people learn to read.