The femoral artery. Severance of this artery can lead to death in about 30 seconds. The arm has one too, called the Brachial artery.

As long as it's more classy than Fallout, I'm all for it. Yes... classy dismemberment.

Yes, but as long is doesn't happen very often. Personally, I would be more interested in damaging limbs.

I'd like it, as long as it isn't overdone. I don't want everything I kill to fall into pieces.

Holding critical wounds and pleading for life or fleeing.
A bleed out wound system and a very rare dismemberment happenstance. Healing potions fizzle and seal cuts shut.
By the time you hit lvl 50 your skin looks like a 120 year old highway surface with all the scarring.

It might easily go too over the top.

I would like SOME dismemberment.

Keyword SOME.

Nothing like Fallout. But if I swing a giant friggin' claymore into the face of an unarmored Argonian, then I would expect SOMETHING to come flying off. It would be cool, as long as they pulled it off pretty nicely. No body parts flying off into every direction, leaving just a torso...ala Fallout 3.

You should only be able to dismember zombies, anything else would be a little too much.
However, it would be nice for wounded characters to look wounded, even perhaps leaving a trail of blood.

i bet for it but not too gore like FO3 / NV, only at higher levels you could slash the hell of it and at lower levels only fatal injuries or bone crashing

If the finishing moves end up like those from Dark Messiah: Might and Magic I'll be quite pleased. They weren't excessively violent, but looked pretty brutal. The occasional stab or decapition after a good fight with an enemy.
Leaves you with a feeling of "Yess! Have some!" as you laugh triumphantly over their lifeless corpse. Might have went a bit far into that, but you get the gist.

It fits perfectly, I hope it is included but not too frequent.

I'd like it, but not like in FO3. FO3's was complete crap, I mean, for every body to come apart into 5 neat chunks...... so lame. :sadvaultboy:

Dismemberment and gore? Yes please.

Not just a little blood on my axe that lasted about two seconds like in OB.

I think this is the best decision in that question. :thumbsup: :bowdown:

There should be moar gore with swords and axes (and hammers) then there are with baseball bats, police batons, 9mm pistols, or...razors
Knocking someones body into organs with a baton.....meh.
But slashing someones head with a katana, hey, is more than realistic.

makes more sense in TES than Fallout actually.


Gorey to the max: hell no. But a bandit losing an arm or head would make sense to me if I hit him just right with a 2handed Battle Axe. < that is why I would be carrying the damn thing in the first place. I wouldn't be trying to tickle the guy.

Fallout was a dark comedy at heart. And the dismemberment was cartoony, over used, and the sound effect was hilarious. But shooting off an arm with a pistol happened entirely too often, and a head detaching from the neck and rolling away because you shot it with a pistol was not very well represented. looked stupid.

I want to see an enemy twitching and jerking on the ground after I lop her head off. Blood spurting out with some gurgling sounds would be pretty cool too. I want to see the same thing happen to my PC if she gets killed.
Of course, it shouldn't happen all the time. It should only happen when your hit is hard enough or you hit an already dead body. Heavier/bigger weapon would have better chance at it. Blunt weapons should explode the head. etc etc.. and gore level should be adjustable by the player settings.

:blink: The gaming community is so sadistic.

Agreed!

Dismemberment? Dismemberment!

/Sandal

But yeah, it would be fun as long as it's not over the top like in FO. Dark Messiah's level of dismemberment was OK for me.

For all you people saying that they want to cut off limbs with battle axes... Axes do more crushing and ripping than slicing. It would actually be pretty hard to cut off someones limbs with an axe unless they were pinned against something such as a wall or the ground.

It would be easier to cut off limbs with a sword...but even then, it would have to be a really sharp sword, and the opponent would have to offer no resistance. If the person that you are attacking shifts away slightly...like most people would do if being swung at... Their arm/leg more than likely isn't going to come off.

Also, if they're wearing any sort of armour, dismemberment would be almost, if not entirely impossible.

Dismemberment in combat is NOT realistic, except for in highly specific circumstances. Like if they're already dead and lying on the ground.

Would you really want to dismember a corpse? That would be more than a little bit concerning.

My english is not very good, so forgive me for some gramatical failures:
No, not really. Some people found medieval battlefields and there died not only some light armored guys. Even the heavy armored Knights, with their plate armors. And yes, the have loose some bodyparts. On guy only had his half head on his shoulders. And that was an european medieval battlefield. Swords, if they are right crafted, going through a plate armor.

@topic
i'm from germany, so... we get no dismemberment in games -_-

This. Actually, I would see dismemberment working with a variable, which only invalidate ennemies, and happening VERY rarely, to keep the hype.
Humans would of course fall down, yelling as hell and finaly fall uncounscious (death, to make it simple), But I would to see a Troll still continue to charge you, maybe even regenerate, a zombie crawling on the floor trying to eat your flesh, or even a vampire throwing his arm at you in a rain of swears ^^
Kinda like the "broken member"in Fallout, except that it can actually go off too.

Bad side is, it would be pretty unrealistic to not see the player dismembered too... and THAT would be pretty much lame to have to drag your body without legs for the rest of the game.
But as I said, for "humans", dismemberment leads to death, so I guess it's ok, as your character is going to die anyway.

You are a dragonborn! You are simply too awesome for that to happen to you!