M rated game with no coarse language?
There must be a [censored] load of gore in that game.

How come DNF is that offensive and some how the marketing is better then Dante's inferno.

Thanks for mentioning me in there though I'm not sure how I relate to Half Life . And in serious mode: I'm fine with any of the controversial stuff just as long there isn't so much of it that that becomes the main thing you remember about the game. After I'm done with Skyrim, I want the most memorable things to be the epic scenery, the organic combat, the awesome magic and the captivating story... NOT how many walls I managed to paint red with enemy brains or how many times my character got to score and in how many different poses...

Because that's just Duke's image People wouldn't have him any other way now.

S'wit!
N'wah!
FETCHER!

I think that is as far as swearing will go for Skyrim, maybe they will get us some more special TES Swears! :ahhh:

I don't want swearing to be in the game just for the sake of being in the game. If it's tasteful, and fits the universe, yes, put swearing in.

That said, TES is TES. Fallout is Fallout. As the team has said, what works in one doesn't necessarily work in the other. Just because Fallout is more gory (deliberately, because the old games were that way, from what I understand) doesn't mean they're going to do it with Skyrim. They're making the content they think is appropriate for Skyrim, and not aiming at a specific rating (though I assume that means they're certainly trying to avoid NC-17).

They dont cuss in TES games. But I personally want more gore. Not as much as Fallout 3 or NV but more than Oblivion. I want some dismemberment

Some blood and only TES-ish swearing(like s'wit) that fit the lore. The F-word, S-word etc. don't really fit the lore or the setting. Neither does gore.

They do:


I'm also playing through the Fighters' Guild quest line for the first time (never really played fighter types, but I felt like trying it), and I think I've heard the word "ass" at least three times so far.

if its M rated then i want them to go all the way short of porm

cause for me..

sharp sword + monster neck = lots of gory blood splats

your poll options svck.

well im sure bethesda will keep the people who dont like gore in mind in this games contruction
also i didnt vote because theres no if its in thats fine and if its not thats fine to option

Actually, the F word has been in use for a VERY long time, but it was not used in quite the same way we typically hear it today. It was generally just used as a more vulgar term for six. Over time it became used more widely. However, I'm sure TES isn't going to implement it's usage for any reason, so there's really no point in worrying about it if you dislike curse-words.



I agree here. A little bit of cursing is realistic, for one thing... And besides, as far as I know, they won't use actual curse-words that we would recognize, because they have their own made up words for it...

I didn't vote, because this poll is somewhat too biased. I'm more in the middle...

this poll doesn't really represent my opinion at all, so i won't vote (like anyone would care if i vote or not)

"That was my home! My [GD] HOME!"

That's most everything in OB, and I'm pretty sure MW had none.

blood, gore, etc have really nothing to do with why I love TES. :shrug:

...I'm always amused when people say others need to "grow up" because they reject the immaturity of profanity.

Well said!

The character that says it could be immature. It could be sparse and mild, like in Oblivion. It could fit the setting like in FO's setting full of killers and lunatics. Using swear words it in a video game isn't "immature".

Blood: Yes
Gore: I will not buy if everything's a bloody mess like Fallout 3, fire spells leave ncps blackened sure, but NOTHING like Fallout 3
Profanity: Only like in previous games. Absolutely no "F-bombs". If I meet an npc like Boxcars or raiders/Fiends... :brokencomputer:
sixual content: maybe a little more than Oblivion but not as much as New Vegas

Like in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Blood and Ashes and the such. It would be nice to actually use my 5.1 system and not have to be annoyed with a bunch of FU's much worse if my wife and kids are in the room. If games as old as Gothic II had different blood levels then I think it shouldn't be hard to do that today. Back ground conversations etc could be dubbed a few times to allowing cleaner language to 9th grade back of the bus foul, all with a toggle of a switch. Even the Witcher had different releases some with upper nudity and others with upper skanky. As for me I like how Morrowind and Oblivion were.

If it suites the universe I like it (Fallout). Personally I don't see too many f-bombs being dropped in the Elder scrolls universe, it would just feel... weird.

As for decapitations and blood... Uuuhm, I'm fighting with a sword, if you don't like to deal with the realistic implications of that then you can go play barbie adventure for all I damn well care.

That may seem harsh but seriously swords = blood... Get used to it. Although most games these days have a gore slider to reduce gore and blood if you choose so I wouldn't concern myself with it if I were you.

You need another option "It doesn't bother me but it's not why I'll buy the game."

man im trying really hard to not be a jerk. i usualy think that people are alittle to mean on here but this pool is really biased and not at all needed.

first off the should be just gore some gore no gore options (same for swearing) your options equate to being an alterboy or the devil. and second what has shown that there is even a chance of excesive blood gore or swearing?


and gotta say that i had no idea how new the f word is thats fascinating could you tell me when they did start useing it. must have been when teddy rosevelt was elected

In terms of blood and gore, IMHO, the more realistic the better. I don't like how heads explode from a simple bullet in FO3, or how death blows in FO3 and TESIV send your enemy flying, no matter how large they are.

People don't actually fly through the air when they get hit by a bullet!
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlownAcrossTheRoom

...nor would hitting a person with a sword send them flying backwards. We're talking 170+ pounds of meat here. Can you pick up 170 pounds? No? Then your sword certainly isn't going to send them flying across the room.

In terms of swearing, it depends on the word and how often it is used. Too much profanity just seems childish, like you're intentionally trying to impress the teenage crowd, and as I've gotten older, I've lost a lot of the satisfaction I used to get when cursing. Keep it to OLD swear words, like bastard, damn, etc. TES swear words are nice too, so long as they are consistent with the culture. A nord using "n'wah" would be weird, since n'wah is the Dunmeri word for "slave" or "foreigner." Notice how they use the same word for both meanings? N'wah is an insult to its very core, especially since the Dunmer often used foreigners as (sometimes illegal) slaves before TESIV.