I'd like it to be as realistic as possible, obviously it's not easy to chop off someones arm in full out combat, but i'm all for it if they can do it well.

I'd be happy to see lots of deep cuts, maybe bruises and lots and lots of blood.
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I would also like to see the undead thrashing around on the floor with no limbs until the head is removed that would be more realistic to me as a zombie lover lol......... also why does some1 have to fall down dead just because you whacked off their arm or leg why not let them try to run/crawl away instead ??? much more dramatic and appealling to the slasher lovers among us.

*runs downstairs*

*checks Morrowind case*

*runs upstairs*

*asthma attack*

Yup it was rated T.

Like most everybody else, I want it done realistically and not over-the-top like Fallout's. It should also be optional.

I would've voted the "I think a light amount of it is in and I am completely indifferent with it".

I want realistic gore and dismemberment.

I needed a "don't know and don't care" option.

I don't know and I don't care. Gore doesn't impress me, doesn't amuse me, doesn't excite me, doesn't really make any difference to me. I have no particular need for it in the game - I play to create characters and follow their lives through a foreign land - not to watch blood gush out of severed limbs. If it's in, so long as it's not stupidly over-the-top, I won't care. If it's out, I won't miss it at all.

Blood isn't enough.

Same.
Gore I'm fine with I just hope it's not on the same level as Fallout's gore.

I'm a bit envious that your lives are calm. I myself need a good old fallout "bloody mess" level of gore to blow off steam after my job and university.

Dead since December...so this thread's about having Necromancers, right?

Gore needs to be in the game, not to the silly levels like in fallout 3 where you could literally blow someones head of with a pistol which wouldn't happen real life. it should however be included in a real completely genuine style. If for example you have a sword smashed against your arm then the sword would go through your arm should fall off and there should be visible damagae from other weapons such as hammers should visibly leave your enemies head caved in as well as shattered bones and broken arms etc I done want it where your enemies head explodes if you attack them with a dagger though a la Fallout 3. It needs to done in moderation depending on what the weapon is and it's affects on the physical world. I do think decapitation/finishing moves should be included as well how cool would it be to at the end of a fight finish your opponent off by plunging your sword through their heart/neck rather than just aimlessly swinging your sword like in Oblivion

The way I would do it and I know many would not like it because it would slow down gameplay but it would be an option that you wouldn't have to use would be that when your enemies health reaches less than say 10% you are able to target them, the game tempoarilly freezes whilst you select the move you want to use (moves could be learn't from various trainers or when you reach certain levels or from perks), the move then is executed.

I am sure that if Bethesda did this they could make it better than I have described and maybe more fluent so you don't even have to freeze the fight, but hopefully you get the idea

Finishers for spells would also be cool.......
....... Ok I am rambling, to answer the question yes I want gore but I don't think Bethesda are going to include it.

I mean original Fallout series, not the third part or NV.

My personal feel is that gore doesn't NEED to be in anything. (Heck, there are even examples of non-gory "horror" games, that cause scares & suspense without constantly throwing buckets of blood - psychological horror, not gross-out horror.)

Now, there's space for different styles of games for different people. But I'd rather that not all "action" games throw in all this "realistic" gore, and therefore lock whole groups of gamers out of playing their genre.




And see, here's where personal tastes and opinions come in. This is all very subjective. I think that "moderation" is Oblivion-style blood splashes and decals. "Sword going through arm" "visible damage" and "head caved in" all sound extreme and immoderate.

(In fact, if done in a "realistic" and "rational" way, they actually sound worse than Fallout 3 to me - that stuff was so over the top and cartoonish that you couldn't really take it seriously. Make injuries "realistic", and all of a sudden they'll be much more disturbing. )







....and yeah, this topic is super-necroed.


Edit: just some background. I'm 40, and I don't have any issues with "oh, I can't have that blood here because it'll scare the small kids/parents". I've been playing "fantasy" games, from pnp to console to PC, for thirty years. I've never played these games for "blood & guts", but for the Adventure of it. And this is why "but it's unrealistic" and "oh, a sword needs to cut people" and similar things don't really mean a thing to me - that's not why I play these games, and I don't need it. And I'd be sad if some twisted need for "visceral realism & violence" became a standard that drove me from a genre I've participated in for decades. (the "well, maybe you shouldn't play these games" argument.)

I think gore will be in, and will be done tastefully, in spite of the cries of the gore fanatics around here.

i remember reading somewhere they have been messing with dismemberment but not on a fallout 3 ridiculous kind of level if they get it to work they will include it if it doesnt look right they will scrap it. im hoping its in because last time i checked swords and axes dont cause blunt force trauma

Agreed on all points, including super necroed.

pretty sure if they include some level of gore bethesda will add an off option

Love seeing some of the same people that complain about people not using the search button complain about a thread being neroed.

Yes they should definitely raise the bar on violence in Skyrim. I'm always amazed when people say that dismemberment wouldn't fit in a world where you kill people with swords and axes, doesn't get much more fitting than that.

Thats not the point though.
Its an RPG, not a First person shooter. It's not about being in your face, its about the story line. If you're getting hung up on the fact that your sword didn't cut the enemy's arm of you're TOTALLY missing the point of the game.

As for immersion, frankly I don't think thats important either. All of the early RPG's I played on the SNES were far from immersive, simply due to the system constraints. But the depth of the story was fantastic.
I think this is lost on the younger generations.

They will and i want it... now if only they would also add some nudity, profanity and horror. :celebration:

Gore is a MUST HAVE in a game like this. Id love to rip peoples arms off and still see them fighting with the other lol

How is it a MUST HAVE?

I don't see how its needed AT ALL.

I think it's in, and I want it.

I would like to have it in but not over the top like Fallout it was great in Fallout but not Elder Scrolls. I would like to see dismemberments to it would be great to see in game and it could switch things up a bit if you hack off a hand or an arm or leg. It should be a realistic ammount of blood not fountins or buckets of blood.