Gábor's blog

• Once upon a time, there was a game development company called Bethesda
• They created a successfull game series called Elder Scrolls.
• The last ‘episode’ from this series is Elder Scrools IV: Oblivion.
• Which was rated by the ESRB (Entertainment Software Ratings Board) as Teen (for people 13 years old or older).
• Which was later re-rated by ESRB to Mature (17 and older) for the following reasons:
• Bethesda failed to provide them with accurate information regarding:
  • partial nudity in the PC version of the game can be created by modders; and
  • the game contains excessive blood and gore that go beyond a Teen rating.

what i want to talk about is the first one (partial nudity…)

it basically means that you can create a modification, that someone can install and it will change the appearance of an in-game character into a more-nude form.

now, the interesting part comes:

this modification does not create any new content, no new nude skins, it just removes the underwear that was placed on the model of the skin of the character. so, some people say this was Bethesda’s fault, because they actually left in the game a nude skin (as i said before, the skin is never visible in the game (unless you use a special program that removes it))

and somehow, for me this seemed as a touch of perfection…

when you create such models, then you simply do not create the things that are not visible in the game. for example, if there is a house in the game, which you can never enter, there’s no need to design the interior of the house (because it will never be visible). the same way, there’s no need to design the skin that is hidden by a bra all the time.

but, someone decided to create that skin… even if it’s not visible. someone took the time to create it.

a piece of greatness :)