The Elder Scrolls IV Re-rated

[MM54]

More controversy in the gaming world. The ESRB has re-rated popular XBox 360 RPG "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion". It was originally rated Teen, but after discovering that the game was more violent than described by Bethesda Softworks, the ESRB has re-rated the game "M" for Strong Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Use of Alcohol, Violence, Sexual Themes, Language.

This will probably become the next San Andreas sex hot button issue. Hopefully the ESRB has avoided a potential crisis here. Discuss.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Probably not.

[Meat Load]

Rerating GTA from Mature to AO was "hot button" because there was a hidden part of the game that would have caused the ESRB to rate it AO in the first place, but because they hadn't seen it, it shipped with the Mature rating. Also, very few games get the rating of AO, and even fewer have it changed to AO after the initial release.

This is nowhere near as controversial as the GTA scandal, which really wasn't that big of a deal to begin with.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

That and San Andreas was already a social hot button because... well, it was a GTA game, wasn't it?

[Shaman King]

...it was a GTA game, wasn't it?
it was.

[Meat Load]

There is no way any fantasy game will ever be as controversial as a game that allows you to kill hookers for fun.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Rhetorical question.

[Domo]

What if there were elf hookers, Trogg?

[Meat Load]

They still fall under the category of "fruity fairy crap that only nerds care about", so no.

[Domo]

I'm not a nerd. I'm more of a geek.

[Meat Load]

Same difference.

You are all maggots in my eyes.

[Domo]

That's not a very Christian thing to say.

[Meat Load]

Neither is this:


"suck it"

[Domo]

I thought we were pals. ;_;

...actually, no, I didn't, but I thought you didn't hate me. Now I'm back to square one, and it's a lonely little square...

[Meat Load]

Domo, we don't have time for your nonsense, this is much bigger than you. Can't you see that The Elder Scrolls 4 has been RE-RATED?!

[Domo]

I know! But I still can't play the game, so I don't care.

Wake me up when they find a nude code for Halo or something. THAT'D be an actual shock.

[Micah]

Halo has no female characters that aren't holographs.

[Domo]

Which is why it would be a shock.

PAY ATTENTION.

[Micah]

OK SORRY.

[Dr. Badman]

I've got 105 hours on Oblivion so far, averaging at one quest an hour. That game sucks the life out of you. It's not noteably more violent than any other game, but It does contain drug use (alcohol, SKOOMA) and some sexual themes.

I even made a shitty music video to celebrate 100 hours of my life wasted.

http://badman.bingbangboom.us/Oblivious_lo.wmv

(WARNING: Contains boobs, the jabbing of said boobs and turned out to be more trippy than funny)

[t3]

Even if the sex minigame were included, I don't understand why GTA'd get an AO rating. God of War has about 12 nude scenes in the first 20 minutes, and other M-rated stuff like The Guy Game, Playboy Mansion: the Game and Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is centrally focused on nudity. Oblivion is too hard a game to take out of context to make an easy scapegoat, so politicians and child worshippers alike will have to rely on the GTA series for a few more years to attribute all of society's problems to. So basically, what trogg said:

They still fall under the category of "fruity fairy crap that only nerds care about", so no.

[Micah]

They were just looking for an excuse to ruin our fun.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

Halo has no female characters that aren't holographs.

What about the escape pod pilot at the very beginning of the game? She was a girl and black!

[Young Jeff Bridges]

who would play a game for 105 hours?

[Demon_Ash]

Does it really matter what it's rated people will buy it anyway?

[Micah]

who would play a game for 105 hours?
I heard abut a guy in Asia who died because he played WOW so long that he forgot to eat. HE GOT TO LEVEL 60 THOUGH.

[Adnama]

I want proof.

[Micah]

I don't have proof. I googled "world of warcraft, asia, death" But the only results were a 13 year old boy that died trying to re-enact a scene from it by jumping out of a window. He never found his body as a ghost apparently.

[HOMERCHESTRA]

I heard abut a guy in Asia who died because he played WOW so long that he forgot to eat. HE GOT TO LEVEL 60 THOUGH.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't World of Warcraft, and I'm pretty sure it was from heart failure because of sleep deprivation and caffine overdose. You got "asian" and "dead" right, though.

[Shaman King]

I'm pretty sure it wasn't World of Warcraft, and I'm pretty sure it was from heart failure because of sleep deprivation and caffine overdose. You got "asian" and "dead" right, though.
i heard it was because sitting down for so long caused blood to pool and caused heart problems 'n' shit but no way am I going to look this up.

SOMEONE LOOK THIS GUY UP FOR US

[Meat Load]

www.wikipedia.org

HURRY MAN WE'VE NO TIME TO LOSE

[Chakan]

It's Deep-Vein Thrombosis.


WHAM BAM THANK YOU M'AM.

[Dr. Badman]

who would play a game for 105 hours?I've owned the game since... *checks receipt that happens to be next to the monitor* 25th of March. It's not like I played it 105 hours straight - just half an hour to 3 hour gaming sessions. As to 'who' would play games in general that much - video games are my thing. When I'm not playing them I'm making them or learning new skills that will hopefully get me into the industry one day.

And Chakan's right - that kid died from too much CS and not enough moving around. There was a thread about it eons ago.

[Shaman King]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2120472/second-gamer-dies-massive-binge
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/06/D8D2BBTO2.html