I have seen my husband playing Oblivion and Fallout 3, and both look really cool. I would love to play them, but I hate that nearly all of the games out there are so gory! I know violence is practically the premise of Fallout 3, but I wish they would develop a game where you could adjust gore settings. Not graphics settings, I still want to have good graphics, just get rid of the gore, no blood, no flying body parts. I loved playing the Zelda games as a kid, and these games look so cool, but I can't get into a game with so much gore. And taking away giant insects would make me like it better, too.

Barbie Pony Princess? Failing that, you could actually try taking a look around as theres bloody hundreds of non-gorey free-roam RPGs out there. I'd suggest Morrowind.

well it was the premise of the first 2 games as well. no holds barred, bloody, violent and destitute. it was all about what happens when sociaty breaks down and the common place niceties are forgotten inplace of the basic need to survive.

thats what it is, get past all the gore, and is quite a well thought out and well presented setting.

or you could try to obtain a German version of the game. alot of the gore had to be cut out to comply with their laws

Well I was a soldier and still am a woman, if getting on a bit. I will head shot any super mutant who comes after my kids, or me. I don't glory in it, I don't kill innocents and I avoid pointless fights when possible. You can play mum to kids, pick the child at heart option, build a cool home and shoot Dukov and the slaver pimp too.

Hmmm I'm not helping much am I? Um there should be a Hello Kitty combat vest AT THE VERY LEAST!!

The Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series have always been intented for mature gamers that do not mind the sixual references and its violence. Morrowind is the only exception being not violent at all. (Unless you consider small patches of blood being deeply violent)

You could try Morrowind. Or even Elder Scrolls Adventures : Redguard. An adventure game like many others that is not violent at all. You even get to jump on mushrooms.

Yeah, especially the elder scrolls series are completely full of sixual references :rofl:

Just because Morrowind doesn't add blood to it's fights doesn't mean it's less violent than Oblivion. Oblivion just adds blood, but killing things and people in Morrowind isn't exactly not violent (Unless you consider killing a person not violent).

There are mods that eliminate the gore.

Giant insects? Eh.

That aside, there's plenty of other RPGs out there. As others have mentioned.

I don't think Bethesda games are offensive to anyone.

That's some peoples complaint lol

Untrue, the first 2 games let you turn down or off the gore.

You can eliminate the gore by editing the Fallout.ini file in your My Documents\My Games folder.

Full details can be found in Koroush Ghazi (God's) Fallout tweak guide.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Fallout3_8.html

As for Fallout 3, not for women? Hehe. My sister loves this game, gore and all.

Sorry, but I never understood the concept of sanitized violence. Violence is violence and it comes with gore and all that stuff. If you can not deal with the gore, try to avoid violence altogether. It is like a friend of mine - he likes stakes, as long as does not watch me prepare them, not to mention dress them out of an animal. This to me is hypocritical in some way. You should be ready to get your hands dirty if you want to get the reward..

Ever played or seen Daggerfall, the second chapter? There was full graphic nudity and there were naked prosttutes in taverns and naked priestesses. There was supposed to be a prosttute Guild but they had to cut it off to release the game sooner.

Violence is violence but this is videogame violence. FO is still sanitised. People don't take days or weeks to recover from wounds or have to have limbs amputated etc.

Someone's already posted this, but there are fairly simple mods on at least the PC version to tune down or shut off the gore, although things like Raider camps with all of their hacked apart corpses "glory" (or is it "gorey"?) I assume would still look the same...but I'm not sure of that. If it's just the gore from shooting/attacking people, then again one can probably tweak that pretty easily.

There will be a DLC out soon that is set pre Atomic Wasteland in Alaska too...mind you it's a warzone so still would probably have gore to some degree, but I'm guessing/assuming nothing like the raider camps with a hacked apart body clamped to a matress, or the bags of mutilated body parts in the Super Mutant camps.

I too would like a game "for women". The game can be as violent as it needs to be, but all the young, handsome men in this new game will be mysteriously shirtless, and always just a bit sweaty.


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I LIKE YOUR TASTE MY LADY!!! And you are right - the video games tend to be sixist in on direction only. A lots for the boys, and not much for the ladies..... only if the major publishing houses realize what they are missing by ignoring the women as a buyers!!!

I certainly don't begrudge the boys their eyecandy. I would just like some of my own. :hubbahubba: ....

A bit like http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=104 one? ^_^

And to the OP: http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=197 at least reduces gore (don't know how much, maybe even all of it, I don't use it myself).

Isnt "Turning down the gore" about as condesending as assuming women will buy a PS3 if they paint it pink? (Coming from a feminist male brought up by a single mother in an important government job)

I do think we need to see more female-Orientated, and gender neutral games, but a gore slider is not the solution.

We need to start with accepting that men and women are different. Men tend to want an action experience, Women a more emotional one - we see it in movies, female orientated movies are rom-coms whilst male orientated moves are more action orientated.

Fallout 3, and Oblivion are action games. A non action orientated RPG could work - Investigative journalism, theres a game concept you dont see often, that could be very gender neutral.

Try the Wii

I don't sleep for weeks after this...

go play fluffy WII

Morrowind can be played as designed or on many other levels, the vast array of available mods enhance this to a great degree. Stop by the Mw forums and ask the same question, I'm sure they will help sort something out. For some idea of what the game offerers from a female perpective I pass you over to Arwen

http://amito.freehostia.com/mw/MW.htm

As for other games that may appeal, I'd recomend taking a look at the old style adventure 'The Longest Journey' and the more recent sequal 'Dreamfall The longest Journey', Google is your friend, both available via Steam. Free from gratuitus violence, blood, insects, they are well written, compelling stories. I'm a guy and not ashamed to say I was moved to tears, and laughter. I love April dearly but Zoe from the sequal totally captured my heart.

You don't mean a game for women, you mean a game for people who can't stand violence. Plenty of chicks play Fallout 3 and love the fact you can blow the brains out of people. Don't sterotype your own gender in terms that they all like warm fuzzy games, where people don't die, they just turn into pretty flowers.

Plus, in Fallout 3, there is settings to turn off the gore/violence (for the most part) anyway

You could try Fallout 2, or Neverwinter Nights 2. You can turn the gore completely off and they have more to do with the story and characters and stuff. I hear girls like that.