I Hate Swearing and i Hate Decapitating with Blood Spewing everywhere, so why have these to make the Game More Popular.

Look at Crysis, theres not that much Blood and No Gore, but they do say Allot of F.U here and there in witch it sets me Off.

Half Life 2 + Eps. Yea theres the Blood Splatter, but theres No Swearing at all and No Decapitating aswell, now i would go for Skyrim to be like that anyday.

Every talk to some Marines? They curse, a lot. It's realistic.

That said, in TES the curse words aren't really words.

As for blood, I like I want it, sorry.

I expect the game to contain blood. I think over excessive violence would change the tone of the Elderscrolls series. In the more recent games, the use of mature themes has been rather tame, and the game has even gone through the trouble of developing its own slurs and swear words.

It adds a sense of culture and history to the game....you want to know what these words mean...just like a child hearing a bad word for the first time.

I am all for blood and violence but cursing just ruins the whole immersive experience. That is one reason I never could play Red Dead......you really expect me to believe they used the F word way back then........it just really ruins the game if it does not belong.

Droking hell, another pointless poll.

Blood for the Blood God, it would be stupid not to have it.


As for swearing? I can't recall a single instance of real world curse words in previous TES games (please enlighten me ).

This poll is biased. Where's the "I'm fine with swearing but think that the gore is useless" option?

I dont typically like blood splattering all over the place. There are certain games where it fits in, but Elder Scrolls isn't one of those games in my opinion. Keep it in Fallout

I want any kill with a strike to the head to gorily take his head off, even punches. I want brothels with six minigames and failing that half naked Nords and Argonions. I want enemies to scream "die you ****ing ****"," I'm going to ****ing chop your ****ing head off".

TES never had too much swearing. Or any if I recall.
As long as it's in good taste I think its fine. Just not if its in every sentence.

There were a few minor ones in Oblivion, from Modryn Oreyn and Heinrich Oaken-Hull (I think) mostly. For the most part it was extremely tame though.

I like Tes as it is, but I wouldn't mind more violence and swearing in each race's language, not in English.

You are playing a video game where people walk around with swords and axes and maces and hammers with the intent to use them on other people to murder them.

If you don't expect blood, you are playing the wrong game.

Also, swearing has always been rather minimal in the Elder Scrolls series, but if you can't handle it, then I don't know what to tell you. Swearing is just another part of language used to express feelings and ideas just as much as any other word. It's not going to be used in excess where every other word is f-this or f-that, so relax.

EDIT: Also, this poll is TERRIBLY biased and only represents two very minute viewpoints.

TES came up with their own swear words such as n'wah. They also called you a dog or cur. I think this is fine. The gore on the other hand, I think blood is fine, maybe a little blood splatter, but not too excessive.

TES games were never known about the excessive swearing and gore, and Skyrim won't raise the bar by that much.

So I don't see the point of this pool or this thread.

TeS has it's own unique swear words. They already curse, just not in English (or any earthly language for that matter). As for blood, it needs to be there. If I decide to lodge my axe into a bandit's face, there should be a little bit of blood happening there. It doesn't need to be excessive, but it needs to be there.

As for other "mature" themes, TeS has actually toned it down a lot. In daggerfall couldn't you hire your own private prosttute? (can't remember what she was actually called). And in Morrowind there were clubs (or one anyway; it's been a while) with horribly misshapen polygonal women dancing while half-naked. Oblivion didn't really have much of anything as far as sixual themes and even drug use. (Though the modders took care of that...even went a bit overboard with it imo O.o. Have you seen some of those mods?)

Anyway, I think my point is I could actually like it if Bethesda could work more Mature themes into their games like six and drugs so long as they actually handle it in a realistic and mature way.

"Elder Scrolls is Elder Scrolls"
-Bethesda

No six and Drugs please, this isent Grand Theft Auto 4 :flamethrower:

Skooma is good enough

Yes, they cursed a lot way back then. Have you ever been in the south? Lol.

Question by someone here on the forums: Also what are your opinions on full on nudity and realistic gore and brutality, if you had a say in it would it be an option, just for the sake of making a game realistic and deep, kinda like the elderscrolls games have tried to be since the start.

Wise answer by a wise dev on the forums: I fully concur. Sometimes, after playtesting through a quest, I'll sit back and feel...I don't know. A lacuna. Something missing, you know? Like, we were reaching for something great, but just didn't quite make it there. It's times like these that I wonder that maybe, just maybe, if the designer had free rein to add nudity and constant, almost distracting levels of gore to the quest, that they would hit that spark, that fire of a really awesome narrative that would make the game "great" for me. Don't get me wrong. Afterwards, I'll spend hours, sometimes a full work-day, researching all sorts of graphic brutality, just to get my fix, you know? But, it's not the same as being able to do it in-game, to see those corpses and nipbles in real-time. If only, if only...

(Please take the above as a joke. I was laying it on pretty thick, but if it wasn't clear, no, I'm fine with our current level of gore and nudity, thanks. )

Don't know what, exactly, us Texans were cursing at each other back in the day, but I know us Texans were cursing. :celebration:

Skooma is a drug, and that's the kind of thing I was talking about. In Morrowind there were drug smugglers, and plenty of users as well. In Oblivion there wasn't anything even close to that. There's no way that Cyrodill has no criminal organizations outside of the thieve's guild and dark brotherhood. I just don't buy that.

So true. I'm not easily offended and have never been offended due to a video game, so I could care less what makes the cut and what doesn't. It's the Elder Scrolls and they'll portray it as they see fit. I'm sure it won't be over the top though.

Even though I agree, this is a very biased poll. :facepalm:

For me the severity of it goes like this from least serious to most serious:
swearing
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moderate blood
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nudity (both genders) (I don't think TES needs it but it wouldn't bother me.)
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drugs (Drugs are a part of TES and should continue to be.)
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explicit nudity (Isn't needed, anything explicit should be off screen. If people want it they can mod it.)
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explicit gore (I hate this... if they ever do this I hope I can turn it off. For those that like it, to each their own.)

I don't think language, Oblivion style (combat) blood, or the nvde body are a big deal. I think explicit nudity is a big deal and doesn't need to be in the game, and explicit gore outright offends me greatly.

Language is just words. While excessive profanity would get annoying, in Mass Effect for example they do drop the F bomb but not all that often. I can't say it adds anything to the game for me but it doesn't annoy me that bad, and when they use it it comes as a genuine surprise and actually adds another level of emphasis (which is probably what they were going for). I don't swear in real life and often people mistake this for me taking great offense at profanity. I don't like it, but it doesn't particularly offend me. It's just a matter of self control for me that I don't use it.

Skooma is a drug, so if you want "No six and Drugs please," then it has to go. Make up your mind please, s'wit?