thats a good question.

lets say you make a claymore that weighs at least 15 pounds out of folded steel with an edge that was hand ground to a fine pont.

if you can get in a vertical swing down to try and neatly chop his arm off, and you put your back into it, along with the force you can throw into it, gravity will increase the force and you have a good chance to chop through the arm. the only real thing you need to do to sever an arm is completely cut through the bone, aside from that, a fresh claymore will have no problem cutting through skin and muscle.

(don't ask why i know this...)

Oblivion was pretty tame for an M-rated video game. I don't know why you'd be worried about Skyrim. Yes there will be blood, but only a realistic amount I'm sure. As for nudity, sixual themes, etc. That was only there if you modded it in. So I don't see why you should be worried that Skyrim will be too bad.

I think when the question was asked, it was sort of rhetorical. Based on your explanation, you can dismember, decapitate, and nonetheless kill anything in one swipe. Realistic sure. But running around cutting everything in two doesnt leave much in the combat aspect.

In the end, Im all for gore, violence, six, and swearing.....in ANY videogame. Just so long as its tasteful, and doesnt appear to be thrown in just for farts and giggles and for the sake of being advlt. Like said before, the game should feature a advlt content option, so that people offended by this kind of content and children can play with peace of mind.

I put the mild blood, but I didn't agree with NO swearing.
There shouldn't much at all but there should be some.
As long as they keep their imaginary curse words, I'm fine with it.

This poll is kind of bias, so I won't vote.

Skooma is drugs. It's like crystal meth in liquid form.

Ahhh... Refreshing.

I think it's gonna be Oblivion + a little edge in violence, due to finishing moves. Same level of blood and gore. A tad bit bigger underwear beacuse of graphical advancement and that's it.

six will not be there. i don't want it to be in the vanilla game, modders can handle this for all i care, they've done some pretty epic jobs on this like Claudia's Little Secret, i fear if bethesda would do this it would fail and come on in the name of publicity DON'T ADD six, but i would love to see relationships in the vanilla game, and this would also relieve the modders taking care of six of a several headaches.

Drugs and alcohol... got Skooma? we already know you can get drunk, and berserking mushrooms would be nice too. but whats the point of having recreational drugs in a game like this? no, not drugs, yes to funny results form alchemy that can make you hallucinate and stuff like that.

Decapitation and blood and gore, i only want an occasional decapitation since decapitating someone is really hard, even with a battle axe you can need 5 hits to sever someones head off, this is common knowledge, since public executions involving this used to exist, usually it took 2-3 hits. occasionally with a skilled executioner 1 hit. but with a katana, you only need one good slash at the right moment and you'll cut through even the bone. an occasinal decapitation... like 3% chance of decapitating someone when you critically hit their limbs would be nice. blood? medium amount, i just want a reallistic amount. gore? only when you cut someones torso up with the 3% decapitation chance.

Exactly. This is The Elder Scrolls, not GTA, or Soldier of Fortune, or whatever grotesque game you want. It's good fantasy.

Its interesting, the amount of votes is literally identical.

I gasped the first time I heard S'wit in oblivion. I dont know what it means, but it sounded vulgar.

I've come to use it irl also, but most people dont know what im talking about,

God's Blood is another good one.

I dont think TES needs any "real" sware's. The fake, or lore based, are way better imo.

closest poll of all time:

Is Gore, Blood and Violence with Excessive Swearing the Only Reason you will Buy Skyrim?

1. Yes, bring on the Slaughter House: Drugs six Nudity Decapitation....... (106 votes [49.77%])

2. No, i like M Rated Games with Mild Blood and No Swearing at all.......... (107 votes [50.23%])

i really have no interest in computer game six so they can leave that out. I have no interest in the AI dropping the f bomb as it just doesnt fit. Besides i will be dropping enough "f" bombs for both me and the game. Blood, guts and gore isnt a bad thing if not done to the extreme. just keep it real. A little blood spatter lets ya know your doing something.

Blood - Yes
Gore - Yes
Swearing - Occasional not full on all the time
Drugs - If its like skooma then yeah

there is no option for blood is great otherwise don't care, but seriously I dont understand why some people hate swearing so much....for example crysis...someone said they cursed a lot....well what you expect from some military guy HELLO!! its immersion so stop whining and start hyping

I will take the swearing and the nvdes, thank you, and they can keep the decapitations and the extra gore. But maybe that's just me. Warped Being that I am, I actually see far less harm in a vulgar word or a naked butt than I do in seeing someone get their brains knocked out of their skull. Shocking, huh?

Its certianly not the only reason, but it can be nice.

The babies who are against gore are pretty annoying. If you don't like it then turn it off in Options. Jesus, not that hard. Those of us who like it will be enjoying it. Do not take the fun from us.

ALSO, your poll is completely biased. For those who enjoy freedom in their games, vote Yes. Please if you don't like the swearing and blood in a M-rated game then please don't buy it. It will be much better without you. It's an M-rated game, swearing and blood adds to the immersion and makes it more believable. Go buy some E-rated games if you don't like it.

No, but it is the only reason I'll buy Bulletstorm.

Seriously, no one will buy Skyrim for its swearing, gore, or boobies. All that is much more accessible in other games. I don't have a problem with any of it in Skyrim, as long as its not all over the place all the time.

I think the Elder Scrolls has been lasting already long enough for people to understand for what aged audience it will be aiming for. Why to even make such a stupid topic? Elder scrolls has always been a teen game so don't expect them to suddenly turn it to some other level now. The language and gore level in the Elder Scrolls is ridiculously low already. No need to get it even lower.

Grow up.

Swearing: Well, I can say that every single teenager at my 2000+ student high school swears at least once a day, and I personally swear probably several hundred times a day. Along with 99% of the population. Get over it. Not a reason to miss out on an awesome game.

Blood: It's just blood. I mean, seriously. Maybe I'm not a total puss and can handle the sight of blood easily. I mean idk maybe 16 year olds are less squeamish about blood (especially pixelated blood) than a 34 year old.

Gore: Well...what can I say? It's pixelated. Not that big of a deal. Shouldn't bother you that much.

Nudity: Never hurt anybody. I mean I highly doubt there's going to be naked women running around in parades on every street, so that's not a concern. Aside from the fact that nudity is just nudity, and not some horrible sin, God of War, which had an actual six minigame, and dozens of naked chicks, is far off from this game. If I see 2 pairs of boobs in this game I'll be surprised.

I actually read trough bigger part of this most amusing thread, and one returning question piqued my interest: People say that our established swear words would not fit in the lore's game, thus cussing should only appear in the race's native language. With that being said however, and please do correct me if I'm wrong would debilitate all races beside Dunmer folk to express their emotions in such and no other way, since only native swears developed so far are ones in Dunmers language. And while I'm all for S'wits, and N'wahs, I really wouldn't expect an Imperial to call me names in Latin, leave alone other races which dialects we barley have any idea about. As far as human races go then, I think that some cases would be more fitting then not. What do you think?

I think we should instead think how is it that them having slavery in the game will be OK, but strong language is a disgrace. I mean, slicing people's throats, killing people, robbing people, shooting people with arrows, doing skooma (which is heroine), heads on pikes etc are all OK, but blood, damn that blood is satanic and must be removed at once, what a disgrace!

A lot of people in the world are going to want things that you don't want or even necessarily understand. I won't talk about politics because we're not supposed to, but that's the reason why all those hot-button issues are hot-button issues. That's the way the world works.

This doesn't mean that you should go out of your way to deprive everyone else of the things you disagree with. It strikes me as petty. If gore/language/nudity is in the game, then you don't have to buy it.

Actually, most of that just makes me not want to buy the game. A modicum of gore - enough to know that I hit something. A bit of flirting or inuendo - care to look at my wares? A bit of a seedy something else - a thriving underground/back alley culture.

That's all I want. Well, that, and a game that makes me think.