I feel sad that people want gore. It doesn't make you "mature". Why do you want it to be more realistic when you kill someone? Do you actually want to feel more like you're killing someone in real life?

/M'aiq quote:

Sick, sick people. Very sad.

/end M'aiq quote.

Edit: Also, I'm EXTREMELY against nudity. I mean, if I had to choose between nudity/sixuality in Skyrim or "realistic" gore, I would choose the gore.

:D I was thinking the same thing. Posters really need to make up their minds - either starting new threads on old subjects is a bad thing, in which case threads WILL BE necrobumped or necrobumping threads is a bad thing, in which case new threads on old subjects WILL BE started. You can't have it both ways.

To recent posts on the topic - gore is not, in my opinion, a "must have" at all. Story is a must have. Continuity is a must have. Internal cohesiveness is a must have. Gore is secondary - if it's appropriate to the game, it should be in. If it's not, it shouldn't. Some measure of "gore" is obviously appropriate to a game in which one fights with bladed weapons. Over the top gore isn't, and to me would be more distracting and laughable than "realistic."

Agreed story and continuity should never be sacrificed in favor of gore and blood, I play games for their stories and I play the Elder Scrolls because of this and the people I make and then build a story based around the game world so the game world and story in my opinion in any RPG should come first.

I dont really care one way or the other.
I think this is one of those things that falls under graphics, and they are secondary to gameplay to me.
However, I do think that over the top bodily explosions and the like will get annoying after youve seen it for the 1000th time.
Like animations for eating, drinking potions and the like, I think it will quickly become annoying.

Well, there've been a good number of gore threads, at a pretty consistant rate. Searching to find previous ones, there had to have been threads more recent than December.


(Another possibility, is that some of the people who keep saying "use the search" is.... in some cases, like someone asking a question, you can use the search and find the answer. In which case, no need to post, or bump, at all. Thus, no necro. :shrug: But if you're just looking for a thread to add an opinion to, more recent discussion is more useful than older....)

Wise Man Once Said: "Thy Game Is Set In Another Place, In Another Time And In Anotehr Dimension. Why should thee want them combined?"
Not REALLY translated, But what I meant to say was: If you want gore from Fallout, Then go play it. TES is set in another world and it's not Fallout... Unless IT IS! (TES X: The Wastelands Of Future)

I want realism to some extent, sure. Why? because it breaks the illusion when you kill someone in the most barbaric fassion and not a simple drop of blood is visible. That doesn't mean i want to see my enemy's head explode when i shoot him with an arrow but i can't take a game seriously which deals with this kind of things but don't have the guts to show something worse than you could find in a saturday morning cartoon. Try Saints Row if you want an example. The game was never meant for children so why is there no blood?

Don't get me wrong, i am not a fan of unnecessary gore. I don't understand the purpose with movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's not creepy, just disgusting.

But there is a limit to how child friendly you can make a game, movie or book and still be taking deeply serious. Oblivion didn't cross that line but i would definitely have preferred more gore, not necessarily Fallout 3 gore but still. On the other hand a game can also have plenty of gore but at the same time be so ridiculous over the top that i can't take it seriously anyway, Dragon Age II is an example of that.

You think people want gore because they think it makes them mature? :lmao:

And then you say nudity is even worse than realistic gore, which you obviously hate? Seriously? If you ask me you are the one with a skewed world view. :laugh: