The Boobs, the fanboys, and the videogames

The Grand Theft controversy all over again. Elder Scrolls is getting a new rating because of breasts and blood, two of the best things in the world

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1530179/20060504/index.jhtml?headlines=true

(("Oblivion" was released with a T rating in late March and has been a top seller, shipping more than 1.7 million copies for the Xbox 360, according to a press release issued earlier this week.

The ESRB has taken issue with matters of both sex and violence that it claims to have been unaware of when the game was submitted for a rating. "The content causing the ESRB to change the rating involves more detailed depictions of blood and gore than were considered in the original rating, as well as the presence of a locked-out art file, or 'skin,' that, if accessed through a third-party modification to the PC version of the game, allows the user to play with topless versions of female characters," the board reported in a statement.))

Look for loopy liberals and crazy right-wing religious types to start coming out of the woodwork on this one. Hilary Clinton won’t be far behind.

(("The rating changed for both versions primarily due to the violence in the game," said Bethesda's Hines. "We made a complete and accurate submission and disclosed the violence in detail. Among the things that were pointed out in the original submission: severed heads, bloody rooms, corpses, etc. We made every effort to make them fully aware of the game's content. We filled out their form and checked off the most frequent amounts of blood you can select. We gave them an additional 60-page document that exhaustively listed any content we thought may be deemed objectionable. Basically the same content we disclosed initially is now the basis for deciding it should be rated M due to blood and violence."
The ESRB's most recent high-profile re-rating of a game occurred last year when hidden sex animations unlocked by a modder forced "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" to get slapped with a belated AO (adults only) rating. The game was later re-released without those scenes (see "'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' Gets 'Adults Only' Rating").))

As far as the breasts program goes, come on fanboys! Stop making programs that allow bare breasts to be shown. Nothing can replace real ones plastic or natural. If you can’t get laid, don’t go around watching polygon breasts. Go to a strip club or something…