Oblivion rating change- the fallout begins......

Told ya (see my previous post). Everyone starts piling on now.

Here's today's press release from Leland Yee's office, without further comment from me (for now):

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Yee Calls on Video Game Maker, Ratings Board to Stop Deceiving Parents

Another Take Two Interactive Game Found to Have Graphic Hidden Content

SACRAMENTO -- Assembly Speaker pro Tem Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/Daly City), child psychologist and legislator who authored California’s law to prohibit the sale of extremely violent video games to minors, today blasted the video game ratings board and publishers of the best-selling video game Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, for once again deceiving the public about a game's content.....

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I ran into this blog post on another blog which has quoted a press release from Leland Yee's office, who is mentioned in the article as "Assembly Speaker pro Tem Leland Yee" who is very much would like to put, from reading the release, as many regulations on video games as possible, again this is what I get from the article. From reading this, also, it appears that the fallout from this is just starting, and video gamers must unite and, basically email, mail there senators, governors, etc, etc, and try to convince them, and help them understand a less weighted and less bias version of this issue, to rectify it, and also mabe thoughts on how to fix this.

Personally I think the ERSB needs to be reevaluated on how its reviews its games, because it is not really reviewing the games; in a sense they are just reading the lines that are said in the games, and seeing footage. I personally think that game developers should, and I'm not that crazy about this, give them early builds like what PC Gamer, and other gaming magazines get, so they can as the development goes on, build up an opinion from them to get a better understanding to come to a better conclusion of a rating, rather than the half-baked way they did. Bethesda did not really do anything wrong, the only way for the nudity to appear, was to modify the code in the game to remove the "cover mesh", to have the nudity appear. Though they did allow it to happen, there has to be user intervention for this to happen. By reviewing it this way, they should understand what is in the game better than just seeing footage from it, and game ratings should be more resonable, and hopefully these issues will start to fade away.