skyrim needs gore and dismemberment : V - Skyrim

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:49 am

Also, I want decapitation to be an option. I want my first fight to be a bandit three levels higher than me and I get decapitated during his first swing. Game over.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:39 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgCrDrjaGU

This is the way it's meant to be. Maybe not as much as a lightsaber but blades do cut.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:02 pm

There is so much blood in Skyrim, even the shields bleed. *no kidding, watch the video*

time?

edit: found it, it doesn't really look that bad...

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:15 pm

DUde are you kidding me !? it's lots of blood in the trailer for example: 1:30 it pops a little blood out of the dragon. 1:35 lots of blood out of the guy getting hit 1:46 a little blood out of spider when getting hit 1:50 even a close-up of dovakhiin with blood on him I suspect that you troll though :shakehead:

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:09 pm

No, it doesn't. A teen-rated light-hearted fantasy doesn't need gore.

So many things are wrong with that statement. Oblivion was rerated M and Todd Howard even said in the GI Podcast that the game is almost certainly going to be M. I also don't know where you're getting "light-hearted" from, either. Sure, TES isn't exactly the Schindler's List of video games, but it still has its dark moments like

Spoiler

Lucien Lachance getting skinned, disemboweled, and stripped of his, uh, pee pee.

No. I don't want fallout 3 gore, that was just terrible. The gore was completely unrealistic and it made me want to throw the game at the wall. Its the main thing I hate about fallout 3

Some gore is alright, but dismemberment can be kept out IMO.

Having gore does not mean having Fallout gore. I agree that Fallout's gore was ridiculous, but I still want realistic dismemberment. I'm pretty sure if you chop someone's arm with a battle axe, that arm's coming off.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:39 pm

I want gore, blood, people getting their heads chopped off, and dismemberment.

They should just add a gore/blood slider.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:59 pm

1) as many have mentioned, blood in the trailer. You should watch it a few more times...

Also,

This game needs to have gore and dismemberment like fallout.

2) Why?

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:02 pm

1) as many have mentioned, blood in the trailer. You should watch it a few more times...

Also,

2) Why?

Why? Because it's awesome.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:43 pm

Looks like another one of those "difference of opinion" things.

Yeah, I played FO3, and lived with the splatter.... but I also wouldn't really have noticed too much if it were alot less. I know I avoid splatter in movies (to the point that I skip movies that I otherwise would have been really enthusiastic about. Like Watchmen - huge fan of the book, never seen the movie 'cause it's a bloodfest.)

Splatter and dismemberment at least fit the game style of Fallout 3 (it'd been there since the original game). The Elder Scrolls games I've played (Morrowind & Oblivion) had some blood, but it wasn't like it was a defining thing for them.

/shrug

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:34 pm

So many things are wrong with that statement. Oblivion was rerated M and Todd Howard even said in the GI Podcast that the game is almost certainly going to be M. I also don't know where you're getting "light-hearted" from, either. Sure, TES isn't exactly the Tropic Thunder of video games, but it still has its dark moments like

Spoiler

Lucien Lachance getting skinned, disemboweled, and stripped of his, uh, pee pee.

Fix'd

or

So many things are wrong with that statement. Oblivion was rerated M and Todd Howard even said in the GI Podcast that the game is almost certainly going to be M. I also don't know where you're getting "light-hearted" from, either. Sure, TES isn't exactly the Saving Private Ryan of video games, but it still has its dark moments like

Spoiler

Lucien Lachance getting skinned, disemboweled, and stripped of his, uh, pee pee.

Fix'd.

Though seriously OP. Are you trolling? Fallout 3 gore was ridiculous and I don't need that level. Especially in a game with swords and bows. And there is blood in the trailer, just no dismemberment. Fallout 3 was so unrealistic and World at War is too disturbing. Those are two examples of gore and I didn't really like the amounts.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:49 pm

To be honest, I am easily impressed with the dismemberment in Fallout 3, the heads exploding in Gears of War, and the intense finishers in the new Mortal Kombat. Nothing would satisfy me more than slaughtering NPCs with silent assassinations.

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:44 am

This game needs to have gore and dismemberment like fallout. I'm a bit worried I watched the trailor and looked at the screenshots. I didn't even see a drop of blood this game better not be another final fantasy.

There was tons of blood in this trailer. Not to mention the blood in the screens in the GI mag. Also, there is at least some dismemberment and gore since you lop off a draugr's head in the trailer.

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:50 am

This game needs to have gore and dismemberment like fallout. I'm a bit worried I watched the trailor and looked at the screenshots. I didn't even see a drop of blood this game better not be another final fantasy.

you didnt see blood!?? are you joking? when he slash the dragon several times he was stained with blood

some decapitation and dismemberment will be great but in a realistic level not like fallout, in fallout the violence was extreme and awfull

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:42 pm

i don't think skyrim needs over the top, cartoonish violence. Maybe some of the finishers will let you chop someones head off

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:14 am

Todd Howard already stated that there will not be excessive gore....i cant find where though. Maybe in one of the GI articals/interviews.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:39 pm

Needs to have?

Nope. Well, maybe if it increases sales, then maybe it NEEDS to have it. Otherwise it's just frosting.

I thought Oblivion's level was jsut fine; I don't like hack-n-slashes. To me, that extra stuff just makes the game more like a video game with woohoo coolness stuff, bells, and whistles and is completely unnessecary. :shrug:

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:51 pm

This game needs to have gore and dismemberment like fallout. I'm a bit worried I watched the trailor and looked at the screenshots. I didn't even see a drop of blood this game better not be another final fantasy.

:facepalm:

Fallout wasn't even realistic with its gore. It was ridiculous. Cool for the fallout series, but I don't think exploding limbs has ever fit in well with the elder scrolls series outside of mods.

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:44 am

There IS dismemberment, watch the IGN rewind trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8n1c3hsLZo

Go to the 7:07 mark, you can easily see the guy smashing his axe down onto a skeletons head and it snaps back and off..

Hopefully this applies to humans and creatures as well depending on the weapon you use, location hit, etc.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:51 pm

i see plenty of blood i dont want some fake looking pile of red mush on the ground like fallout

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:47 pm

I will wait for someone to create the Skyrim version of the "Unnecessary Violence" mod.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:26 am

i don't really care about gore, and seriously, you guys keep complaing about how bethesda is ruining skyrim and stuff, look at those ideas, the only one trying to ruin anything here are you guys.. THAT PISSES ME OFF!! :banghead:

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:00 am

Oh don't even start with Fallout 3's gore. Fallout 3's gore was absurd for the sake of being absurd. The originals' gore was absurd for the sake of funny.

And I stand on my statement on calling TES a light-hearted fantasy

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:23 pm

There IS dismemberment, watch the IGN rewind trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8n1c3hsLZo

Go to the 7:07 mark, you can easily see the guy smashing his axe down onto a skeletons head and it snaps back and off..

Hopefully this applies to humans and creatures as well depending on the weapon you use, location hit, etc.

The head actually wasn't dismembered, it was just dislocated from the shoulders. It's still hanging at the back. I wouldn't expect this for live humanoids though. At best finishers could potentially have dismemberment, or just impaling.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:50 pm

No to Fallout gore. I don't want to stab someone in the chest with a dagger and have both their legs and head pop off. But I wouldn't mind some realistic, relatively rare decapitations. But heads should not be flying off every single fight you have, and gallons of blood shouldn't gush out of someone unless you literally stand over their body and just hak and hack at them with an axe.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:14 pm

No, it doesn't. A teen-rated light-hearted fantasy doesn't need gore.

I'm about 99% sure skyrim will be rated M.
Regardless, I agree. Skyrim doesn't need over the top gore. It especially doesn't need dismemberment. Last thing I wanna see are a bunch of monty python black knights after fights. I'm sure it will have adequate gore for the game, but nothing crazy.