I disagree. No throat cutting for me. I think one hit kill sneak attacks are good enough for me.

I want realistic gore, but not Fallout gore. Fallout gore = punching someone in the face and their leg gets blown into 7,000,000 fleshy jigsaw puzzles.

I was using Saving Private Ryan as an example to augment my argument that the depiction gore is not "goofy". I was not saying that TES should have that type/extent of gore.





But now that I mention it, yeah, I personally would like to see that type of gore in a TES game. Like I said before though, I wouldn't like that kind of gore occurring every time I kill something. Randomly, preferably. Truth be told, I would just be happy if it was just a bit more gory than Oblivion. For example, if I could just impale someone, I would be quite happy.

typically dismemberment in any form except from bullets is unrealistic especially in one blow in real life that simply would not happen the human body is tougher than it looks. Even a decapitation would take a huge amount of force on the proper spot, i just dont think limbs flying everywhere is realistic sure more blood but only where it should be never gore for gores sake





but thats exactly what the director wanted you to feel! which makes is perfect its horrible and sick but it gets you to realize "holy **** this is what these guys went through" and if a game can do that then more power to it, im not saying it can be done but yeah...

If it's in I want to be able to turn it off.

I thought Oblvion was fine for the gore content.

I really hope there is no gore in Skyrim, because in Australia we have a nasty habit of banning games with gore...and I really want to play this game...

They should add three options for gore, all the ones that are in the poll.

I think that swords should leave gashes in skin, and with a strength over 70 be able to hack limbs off. If the attack is done to the head leave half the head cut in half, and to the stomach make organs visible, like W@W. With Maces allow the head to be bashed in if an attack is made to the head or a limb looking mangled and broken. High powered spells would be able to blow limbs off, and if it is powerful enough (Like 100 destruction and 100 intelligence) make the target have a 1 in 20 chance to be blasted to bits.

That's how I think it should be handled.

I watched an episode of Deadliest Warrior. I believe it was Samurai VS Viking....anyway the Katana sliced through 2 full pig carcasses, at the same time. When I say sliced, I mean completely in half, both of them, through spine and ribcage. I'm sure if I was motivated enough I could find the video. I would however like to point out, that was on bare flesh....when it was tested against the vikings chain mail, it did almost no damage at all. Really a cool episode. Anyways, my point being that if a sword can slice through 2 pigs at the same time, surely it could easily lop off an unprotected arm, or whatever appendage that got hit. Making dismemberment a possible, but unlikely outcome (would happen from time to time).

As far as bullets go, I don't have any experience with military grade ammunition, but I have hunted a lot. I've seen a lot of gunshot wounds made by guns that are larger caliber than most standard military ammunition. I have not one time seen a limb completely blown off, or a head blown off, Even though appendages or headshots are not a common place for a hunter to shoot at, I have seen gunshots in those areas. I do know, however, that most military ammunition has a full metal jacket on the projectile. Which is made more for piercing, unlike hunting ammo, which is more for breaking apart/bullet mushrooming on impact to inflict maximum damage on an unarmored target. I'm not saying it has never happened, but it would seem that it is more likely that bladed weapons probably dismember more often than bullets.

i wouldn't mind seeing some more gore. maybe not as much pieces as fallout, but some more blood on the ground or walls and if done right some loss of limbs would be a good addition.

To expand a little, I'd like the see some extra damage for magical attacks, maybe something like if you kill with a fire spell the body could smoke a little after, like whisps of smoke. For shock a brief little wave of lighting disipating, same idea for frost. I also wouldn't mind seeing evidence of elemental damage on walls, similar to how blood worked in Oblivion.

That would be cool. I'm not big on a bunch of gore I'm fine with a little blood spray or whatever but once in a while if someones head rolls off after an over kill and it's really gruesome bloody squirting all over I'd probably find it entertaining.

I do not mind dismemberment as long as there isn't blood spraying everywhere.... there is nothing realistic about 2 gallons of blood spraying out of a severed limb.

I like the idea of increased realism when it comes to injuries made during battle such as charred skin after a fireball or visible cuts after swinging a sword at them. They don't have to be exact or detailed injuries but enough to increase the realism of the situation. And for the love of God, show some sort of discomfort from having multiple arrows sticking out of you. Let's see some blood seeping out of those holes and perhaps utilize the "cripple" system that Fallout had and have those with arrows in their legs limp a bit. It was always ridiculous seeing my character filled with arrows and running around just fine.

Not quite fallout like gore, but a injury should match up with the weapon used, Like slash marks from swords and massive trauma from heavy weapons. I don't see why they need to go overboard though so i put just a little bit more.

I would love some gore and dismemberment in Skyrim. Although not all severe head-traumas have to lead to decapitation like in FO3.

Gore, Dismemberment..yes please, slap it on..

One of the things I loved about Fallout was the slo-mo gorefest of V.A.T.S

I like my steak bloody, thank you.

This reminds me of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXg_tLeuzUE video. I know it's Halo 3, but it still reminds me of it xD

I found the unrelenting tide of decapitations and bodypart explosions in Fallout 3 to be tedious, dreary and distasteful. For heaven's sake, make the extreme violence rare, so it has some emotional impact! Preferably reserve it for when it actually matters, such as the finishing move in a boss fight (or where the enemy is way above you in strength).

I suspect I'll be waiting for (or making) a mod to disable gore or make it very rare, if Bethesda pull another Fallout 3.

I heard about Australia's strict rules on games and gore. I also heard that Fallout 3 was banned because it showed drugs and gore o.o

This.

Αgreed, like Mortal Kombat fatalities

The seems like a road that could be taken with this topic. I like that idea




I like that idea even more than the previous one




Well obviously youve never seen video and such from the stuff going on in the middle east. after seeing some things, and hearing stories from guys I know who actually got sent over there for a tour, I think Id RATHER get attacked by someone with a sword haha.

I voted for:

as gory as humanly possible, if I slash my enemies neck I want blood to spray out of it while he falls on the ground gasping for air and dieing horribly.

if I slash his abdomen I want his insides to spill out and then he walks for a while screaming in agony then dropping dead, as his friends freak out.

I want.... well you get the picture.

maybe they should ban alcohol, six, internet...etc

you know what maybe they should kill all the people that don't agree with what they think!!

seriously Australia are turning into that country from 1984 novel, how pathetic.

this must have been mentioned. but how about just letting us chose how much gore we want?