I kinda agree with the OP, but the main problem with nudity in Skyrim is that players would end up choking the wrong dragon. :spotted owl:

What does THAT mean?

Speak for yourself man.

I think it would be refreshing if done tastefully.

What would be refreshing about it exactly? Would pixelated genitalia really increases your enjoyment of the game?

Is there even a way that it CAN be done tastefully in TES? :huh:

Pretty sure I said "tastefully". Not sure how "pixelated genitalia" falls into that category. I was thinking more along the lines a topless bard that had a little too much to drink.

To OP:

There's an underwear option for body mods like HGEC, not that I use it :whistling:



As are skeletons

They would mastrubate.



I personally don't have anything against it, but how do you mean 'tastefully'?

Read my post above.

Do it like Daggerfall.

I think the problems really lies with the US censorship rules. It's ok for our kids to see a man get stabbed close up and watch the life slowly drain from his body while the light fades from his eyes, possibly also while you're on some Skooma, but you CANNOT, and I can't stress that strongly enough, CANNOT, let them see boobies. That would certainly corrupt their fragile little minds. (sarcasm applied where appropriate).

For those of you who keep playing the old 'would it really add anything to your game experience' record: Yeah it would, it would add naked people, which adds just as much fun as seeing people die. Dressing up your character is a huge part of a sandbox game experience, to me at least, and I want to be able to do so right down to the naked skin.

Sorry, I'm just so sick of people on their moral high horses =/

Because when you see somebody get murdered, you're scared. When you see a naked body, look down your trousers. :sweat:
I think it will be inappopriate for a parent to witness his child to get turned on by video game nudity, rather than them murdering somebody non-existent in a video game. Because looking at naked bodies actually creates both physical and emotional bodily reponses.. I don't want to get into that though. :drool:

*everyone laughs as our character walks into the tavern* we scream "its not my fault its cold outside"

i dont care either way

I wonder how many kids downloaded Daggerfall once they read the thread title.

I don't get why so many people seem to care about this? If you look at top rated mods you can be sure that some kind of nudity mod will be way up there.
Seriously, when I play TES I want to kill monsters, loot dungeons and enslave argonians... Not look at highly textured npc boobs.

Colonel Tannanbaum, what you said in this thread in pages 2 and 3 is so true, not just in america, everywhere else too. its what Christianity among with a select few other religions has done to humankind. but... http://satwcomic.com/anything-but-that is also true.

The United States does not have censorship rules for Videogames. The ESRB is not a government entity. There is no federal regulation, law, or statue that prevents video games from having nudity. Understand how things actually work in this country before you say things like that.

The United States is run by Walmart, and when they wont sell your game with nudity because they claim to be the family friendly store it becomes a problem for developers. The US was founded by sixual prudes, and remains that way.
Though they did sell the God of War games so far as I can remember. So it could be a moot point.

This, and I honestly do not see how nudity adds to the game. Grittier? Please. You don't need naked people running around to make it gritty. Even in The Witcher, I felt it didn't really add anything, other than a laugh and that I needed to make sure no one was around. Don't know about you guys, but I'm sure there are parents who play, 17 year old still living with the parents and siblings, or people who just would rather not have it in.

Seriously? I'm getting really [censored] sick of knee-jerk [censored] like this.

Morrowind had strip clubs which i hope Skyrim will.... But for the nutidy thing, you'll have to get a mod for that to ever happen... If anything, they'll just allow woman to have no tops.... Or maybe they could have an option... Which i do hope for... Like in the beginning of the game it'll ask you if Nudity or no Nudity..... :foodndrink:

I've never shopped at walmart.

You can easily buy a game with nudity in it, such games as God of War 3, RDR, and Dante's Inferno (all had nudity) only got M ratings and were sold in U.S stores. You pretty much have to feature porm in your game to get an advlt only rating, and even then, it's still legal to buy and sell Ao games. Developers are not limited by the U.S market in terms of nudity.

edit: Answer the real question, instead of scapegoating America. IS there any POINT to nudity in Skyrim? Any artistic, narrative POINT to visible nipbles at 30 below?

I wasn't referring to the US government, but the US as a nation.

"The rating system is voluntary, although virtually all games that are sold at retail in the U.S. and Canada are rated by the ESRB."

Are you naive enough to think this isn't due to strong lobbyism by (primarily US) government and non-government entities? It's voluntary to the degree where no store will sell and no parent will buy it it unless there's a rating, and I'm fairly confident it's NOT, say Asian or European, entities who are pushing the limits for what's 'acceptable' to expose our youth to.

And are you foolish enough to ignore what's actually happened in the U.S market? God of War 3 featured nudity and it sold over 1.1 million copies in the states. The self-regulation of the video game industry is a limitation for porm makers, not hack and slashers or RPG's.

It's not "illegal" but clearly frowned upon by the government. If an underage child does something bad, like a murder, based on a game that they bought underage, the store that sold it to them could be in trouble. Now if children do something like that but the store has a no-underage policy, then the person who bought the game for them is liable, usually their parents unless they got someone else to buy it for them. It's the same system that governs why kids can't see Rated-R movies without being accompanied by an advlt. As a game store, if you know what's good for you, you'll keep the policy of required ID and such. That's why most do, most national ones at least. There may be some small-business game stores that don't because they aren't under the national radar.

Where are you getting that? Your highly-filtered and overly-biased media in some country 15000 miles away? Bethesda is a US game studio. Are they run by Wal-Mart? You really need to chill out and stop presenting your dogmatic view of the world as if were fact.