Edit: i posted before reading through the whole topic... sorry, but lately topics have been so full of frustrating posts, i wasnt too eager to do so. :shrug:

i just checked through it now, and i see that decapitation was confirmed... well, thats some good news. :nod:

though, its odd that only one-handed weapons get the perk... you'd think a claymore would have no problem slicing through the neck, or a warhammer treating someone's head like a golfball.

^
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1231589-decapitation-definitely-confirmed-as-by-pete/

already in the topic
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1231544-some-news-fron-esrb/page__view__findpost__p__18615923

There will be little to no swearing. Look at the description, it doesn't say anything about language, also when there is strong language they list the words. Take a look at the description of Red Dead Redemption for example: http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=28989&searchkeyword=red%20dead%20redemption

Hard core swearing would be very strange to hear in a TES game. I remember 'ass' and 'damn' in Oblivion but nothing stronger than that. TES tends to use made up curses like fetcher and n'wah, which suits the game much better IMO.

Glad to hear decapitations are really in. Now they just need to put in an option to be able to mount my enemies' severed heads on spikes on the wall of my keep.

^You are talking about the keep you do not possess, am I right?

LOL

It's from a book added by the Oblivion mod Vile Lair:

Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie
by Mabei Aywenil, Scribe
A brief account of Lamae Bal and the Restless Death

Translation by University of Gwylim Press; 3E 105

As brighter grows light, darker becomes shadow. So it passed that the Daedra Molag Bal looked on Arkay and thought the Aedra prideful of his dominion o’er the death of man and mer, and it was sooth.

Bal, whose sphere is the wanton oppression and entrapment of mortal souls, sought to thwart Arkay, who knew that not man, nor mer, nor beastfolk of all Nirn could escape eventual death. The Aedra was doubtless of his sphere, and so Molag Bal set upon Nirn to best death.

Tamriel was still young, and filled with danger and wondrous magick when Bal walked in the aspect of a man and took a virgin, Lamae Beolfag, from the Nedic Peoples. Savage and loveless, Bal profaned her body, and her screams became the Shrieking Winds, which still haunt certain winding fjords of Skyrim. Shedding a lone droplet of blood on her brow, Bal left Nirn, having sown his wrath.

Violated and comatose, Lamae was found by nomads, and cared for. A fortnight hence, the nomad wyrd-woman enshrouded Lamae in pall for she had passed into death. In their way, the nomads built a bonfire to immolate the husk. That night, Lamae rose from her funeral pyre, and set upon the coven, still aflame. She ripped the throats of the women, ate the eyes of the children, and r a p e d their men as cruelly as Bal had ravished her.

And so; Lamae, (who is known to us as blood-matron) imprecated her foul aspect upon the folk of Tamriel, and begat a brood of countless abominations, from which came the vampires, most cunning of the night-horrors. And so was the scourge of undeath wrought upon Tamriel, cruelly mocking Arkay’s rhythm of life and death through all the coming eras of the et'Ada, and for all his sadness, Arkay knew this could not be undone.

Yay! Drinking contests!

:tops: :tops: these are the things that make me love TES so much.thanks

I wonder when the ESRB actually released this information... If Bethesda already knew this a while ago, they should put in more gratuitous violence/violent animations, additional content with mature themes and junk. They should have an option to turn the stuff that people may not like on or off.

And oft times, an M rating will not deter teenagers from purchasing the game, since parents often have no idea what's going on in their children's lives and often don't really care, preferring to find out something they don't like after the fact and blame it on someone else.

Hooray for parents who don't care what I play :celebrate:

Lol they misspelled Dhovakiin in the article.

It would be M any how since there will be nvde mods being made for the PC version.

Mods =/= anything for the rating

No. That would make it AO. Like Gheart said, mods have nothing to do with the rating.

"Remember when you thought [he] was . . . intent on making you . . . into his personal six slave?"


Woah, woah woah...do you think that was in regard to the player character? :blink: We've seen that NPCs can talk to each other, but...

If mods affected ESRB rating then the game would be rated AO.

Bleh ninjad...

Er...guess I was...kinda right???

They shouldn't have to have the option to turn everything on and off in the game. They aren't responsible for parents not having a clue or the ESRB being a bunch of reactionary, uninformed prudes.

Yep, parents should be more involved in their kids' lives, not just stick them in front of the TV to play games and then complain afterwards that video games are too violent. If your teenage child asks you to buy Skyrim (or any game) research the game first, don't just give them money to buy it. If you are okay with your teenager playing M rated games, then that's fine too, but if you are not okay with it, then yeah, research the games first. :goodjob:

Bethesda are not nannies. I say this as one who is also a dad.

so swords and axes no longer cause blunt force trauma ?

I'm a bit iffy on some of this, it doesn't really seem to fit into TES world. The worst oblivion had was either "the lusty argonian maid" or the sirens quest. Then again that game was made a while ago, game devs are getting riskier and riskier when it comes to this stuff. I'm sure that it won't be too common though. :shrug:

Honestly, the drinking contest has me more excited than decapitation. Though decapitation will add a nice touch if its implemented well.

Then you dont know TES Lore...Tiber septim had a child aborted.....